The Phillies announced Wednesday that they’ve designated infielder/outfielder Kody Clemens for assignment. Fellow infielder/outfielder Weston Wilson has been reinstated from the 10-day injured list and will take Clemens’ spot on the active roster. Clemens is out of minor league options and thus couldn’t simply be sent down to Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Philadelphia now has 39 players on its 40-man roster.
Clemens, 28, came to the Phillies in the 2022-23 offseason alongside Gregory Soto in a trade that sent Matt Vierling, Nick Maton and Donny Sands back to the Tigers. He’s been an up-and-down utilityman for two-plus seasons but lost some of that flexibility in 2025 due to that lack of minor league options. He’s hitless through seven plate appearances in a limited role this year and carries a .220/.265/.394 batting line over the course of 275 plate appearances with the Phils.
The son of legendary pitcher Roger Clemens, Kody hasn’t yet put it together in the majors but does possess a nice minor league track record. In parts of four Triple-A seasons, he’s a .259/.331/.507 hitter with 63 homers, 50 doubles, 19 triples and 22 steals through 287 games. He’s a left-handed hitter and versatile defender who has ample experience at every infield position other than shortstop and in both outfield corners.
The Phillies can trade Clemens or place him on outright waivers at any point in the next five days. Waivers take 48 hours to process, meaning he can be in DFA limbo for a maximum of one week. Any club that swings a trade for Clemens or claims him would have to plug him directly onto the big league roster.
Wilson, 30, has been a productive, late-blooming bench piece for the Phillies over the past two seasons. He debuted in 2023 at 28 years old and has turned in a stout .288/.375/.490 slash in his first 120 major league plate appearances. Nearly all of his production has come against left-handed pitching; he’s tattooed southpaws at a .241/.412/.614 pace in the majors but has limped to a .227/.277/.364 line against fellow righties.
That should fix everything. Phillies have been holding onto Wilson like he is some super player. Just do not get it…..
I mean according to the article he’s hitting .241 against lefties, .227 against righties, but .288 overall. Dude’s so super human he breaks the laws of math, deal with it.
Yeah he sure is tattooing those southpaws! Hyperbole alert!
The term hasn’t been used yet for Wilson, but the death knell for any righty-hitting player is “mashes lefties”. Most recent example is AJ Pollock.
Maybe he’s using trump logic.
No such thing.
Kind of like military intelligence!!
Let me guess, you missed the bottom of the market again. That’s right, you need to have assets to invest in market drops. My bad!
Not sure where the article is getting Wilson’s splits from but the real splits are .250/.300/.357/.657 against RHP and .333/.450/.646/1.096 against LHP.
Dayyim, these algorithms.
Because he is pretty darn good for a bench guy?
Dad won’t be happy
Will he go into a roid-induced rage?
He’s already turning green and his shirt and pants are ripping. Better call Jack MaGee.
He’s gonna walk into the Phillies’ front office with a bag of baseballs and start throwing up and in on executives
Where’s Mike Piazza when you need him?
Lmao “I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BALL!”
Most people obviously would confuse a broken bat shard with a baseball
Clemens isn’t half bad…he is pretty useful and can have a hot bat…someone might pick him up
Kody wasn’t getting any AB’s.. still it stinks to lose him. The right handed Wilson should get enough AB’s up here….
But hopefully DD addresses the bullpen soon , now that roster spot 26 is taken care of..
Thank goodness Clemens is gone. He sucks and if last name wasn’t Clemens he’d be in AA. Wilson good replacement since bats rh but until they fix the crap bullpen nothing getting better. Looks like time to focus on 2026 and trade JT.
Totally agree. Phils need to get younger at multiple positions starting behind the plate. Extending Realmuto would be madness.
Give him a QO. Who’s replacing him?
He’s not eligible for a QO
On one hand, it has to suck to grow up with a famous parent. The taunts, the lack of independence, being used, the constant comparison etc, but at the same time being given and having opportunities that others will never have.
Nothing funnier than folks that are ready to give up on a season – in later April – while you still hold a winning record. Sure, they are in a slump and have some issues, but fans are funny.
I wouldn’t say the Phillies are in danger but the offensive struggles and Sanchez possibly heading for TJS definitely raise some concerns
DD isn’t doing a thing. If he were, he would have made changes in the offseason. They are what they are and I would suspect a payroll purge in the offseason. (reset time) DD failed to add the pieces needed to get this team to the promise land. The bullpen is a joke…. The outfield is a joke. I will give Topper credit this season for finally changing the line up and making it more functional but the players themselves have not performed.
DD’s refusal to address the bullpen has been the downfall time and time again. His insane obsession with home-grown players who stink like Kerkering and his delusional thoughts on finding bullpen pieces in the rough (any guy can get 3 outs on any given night) have completely kneecapped the Phillies bullpen. Letting Hoffman and Estevez walk while only bringing back a recently unsteady Romano was clearly a huge misstep.
Mr Stearns is providing Dapper Dave D some lessons on bullpen construction. Dave was at CitiField last night, taking copious notes.
Refusal to address the bullpen? How many relievers are signed or traded for every year? The problem is too many people want to think there is another Mariano Rivera out there somewhere and the Phillies are supposed to run right out and get him. Relievers are up and down, come and go. A ‘good’ season does not automatically guarantee a good following season. Unrealistic expectations from too many who claim to know baseball
Crawford and Rincones should be on deck…
They need a righty bat on the bench so this makes sense.
Kody Clemons is a likeable teammate and scrappy guy who does the right things on the diamond. Unfortunately, he just doesn’t have the talent level for MLB.
The Phillies have tons of issues right now, led by so many $20 million a year players who aren’t worth half that. The Turner contract looks historically bad. Castellanos reverting to form already. And of course no energy from their zombie manager.
How is Turner’s contract historically bad? He’s paid a lot of money and his production isn’t as high as it was in previous seasons, but it’s a far better RTI than those of Rendon, Stanton, Correa, Chris Davis, etc.
And many many others.
He’s vastly underachieving now at 32, and we have him for 8 more years of decline. His batting average, ops and fielding metrics are nowhere near Star status. I guarantee you no team will touch him. That’s why. It’s an historically bad Phillies contract. Full stop.
Turner is hitting .244 with a .684 ops. But he offsets that by playing below average defense. If you think that’s acceptable for $27 million a year, and for eight more years, I have high mileage used car to sell you. For $200,000.
I’m not arguing it’s a good contract; it’s not. But there’s a big difference between bad and historically bad. There are a lot of contracts out there that are worse than Turner’s, and at $27mm per year, it’s not a contract that should impede a team like the Phillies.
Kody could make a decent living in Japan or Korea for baseball, he seems a prime candidate for that.
Someone should pick him up. If he plays regularly he would be a huge asset.
Agreed, I’m not writing off someone who gets 1 at bat per week. I’d love to see him on a struggling cardinals team and get some consistent ABs to see how he does.
Flip him to the Guardians for Tristan McKenzie or Angels for Ian Anderson in a DFA swap? At least the Phils would be getting a fresh, healthy arm with some upside – with the Guards or Halos getting a versatile LH INF bat.
Nepo baby
.131 BABIP in ‘25 sealed his fate.
Kody Clemens is a major league caliber player who needs regular playing time to show what he can do in the bigs. He’s been riding the pine in 2025 and rarely used. In 2024, he had some timely clutch hits for the Phils, and never hurt the team when given any chance to play. He could be a starter for another team, especially since he can play anywhere in the infield or outfield.