Amaro: 'Last Chance' For Domonic Brown
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- In 2010, he was ranked the 14th best prospect in the minor leagues. In 2011, he began the season as the number four prospect in baseball.
Now, Domonic Brown's tenure with the Philadelphia Phillies is hanging by a thread.
"It's about whether or not he can take the bull by the horns and show us he can be a productive major league player. If he can't, this may very well be his last chance," Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. told Angelo Cataldi and the 94WIP Morning Show on Tuesday. "I think he understands that, I think he knows that and hopefully we can see some semblance of what we've seen in the past of him. And if we don't, then we're going to have to move on."
Listen: Ruben Amaro Jr. on the 94WIP Morning Show
Brown, 27, was called up from Triple-A over the weekend, despite hitting just .257 with a mere two home runs and 26 RBI's in 52 games with the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.
"It was not necessarily about him hitting homers, it's about him hitting the ball hard consistently," Amaro said. "He started doing that over the last couple weeks. It was time for him to get the opportunity, we'll see what he does with that opportunity, and we'll kind of go from there. Again, this is a year that we're doing a lot of assessing and figuring out who we should move forward with and who we shouldn't. And we'll find out some more about Dom Brown over the next several weeks."
The under-achieving outfielder is two years removed from an eye-opening power surge with the Phils, where Brown hit 12 home runs in May of 2013 en route to a National League player of the month award. Brown finished that season as a .272 hitter with 27 home runs, 22 doubles, and 83 RBI's.
However, in 2014 Brown struggled hitting just .235/.285/.349 in 144 games, with 10 home runs and 65 RBI's.
