Phillies daycare cornerstones Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm grow up a little bit more at spring training

CLEARWATER, FLA. — Spring training stats don’t mean anything. Unless they’re good.

That’s doubly true if the stats belong to players with sketchy pasts and uncertain futures. Players like Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm.

Stott, a left-handed hitter, hit .225 with a .575 OPS against left-handed pitching last season, his second straight season of regression after managing lefty pitchers well in his first two seasons. As camp broke Monday, Stott was slated to platoon at second base with Edmundo Sosa, and he’ll have to prove he can hit lefties before he becomes an everyday player again.

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Bohm spent the winter on the trade block again as the Phillies tried to sign free-agent infielder Bo Bichette. That deal never materialized.

Bohm not only is back on the club but he’s back hitting cleanup, too, ahead of $10 million free agent Adolis García, who was signed to do that job. He hit .310 with a .928 slugging percentage with three homers and 10 RBIs this spring. Bohm pounded the ball last spring, too, but this spring he cut his strikeouts in half, from 12 to six. His 2025 regular season was fine, but he hit only 11 homers in 120 games and saw his already modest OPS from 2024 dip by 38 points in 2025, to .741.

Stott, meanwhile, led all Phillies hitters this spring with a .366 average and a .438 on-base percentage. His 1.072 OPS ranked second.

“His at-bats have been outstanding,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “Bohm’s at-bats have been good.”

Closer Jhoan Duran’s last pitch of the spring was a 100.9 mph fastball that led to a groundout in a 7-0 loss to Tampa Bay.

Jesús Luzardo struck out six batters in five innings plus two batters, but the first batter crushed a homer and the second one singled, and the relief didn’t help much, so Luzardo exited having surrendered two runs. José Alvarado later gave up a home run, and Brad Keller gave up two runs in the eighth.

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“I’m happy where I am in terms of pitching and I’m physically ready to go for the season.” — Luzardo

The Phillies travel home Monday afternoon. They are off Tuesday, have a private workout Wednesday afternoon, then open the season Thursday at Citizens Bank Park at 4:15 p.m. against the Texas Rangers. Cristopher Sánchez will make his first opening-day start.