Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that Reading Fightin Phils infielder/outfielder Felix Reyes was named the 2025 Eastern League Most Valuable Player.
Reyes’ MVP Award marks the ninth time in franchise history that a Fightin Phil has captured the award.
He is the first Reading Phillie to win Eastern League MVP since Dylan Cozens won in 2016. The nine MVP awards by Fightin Phils are the most of any team in the Eastern League since MVP’s were first given out in 1962.
The 24-year old Reyes appeared in 95 games for the Fightin Phils this season. He posted a league best .335 batting average (123-367), along with a slash line of .335/.365/.572 (.937 OPS).
Reyes added 62 runs, 34 doubles, four triples, 15 home runs, 65 RBI and 13 stolen bases. In addition to capturing the Eastern League batting title, Reyes led the league in slugging percentage (.572), OPS (.937), doubles (34), extra-base hits (53) and total bases (210). His other Eastern League ranks included: Tied for eighh in home runs (15), tied for seventh in RBI (65), fifth in on-base percentage (.365) and tied for second in hits (123). Reyes is the first Fightin Phil since Darick Hall in 2019 to lead the Eastern League in doubles.
Reyes finished the season 29 points ahead of second place in the Eastern League in batting average, marking the widest margin between first and second in the league since former Fightin Phil Matt Kroon led the league in hitting by 34 points in 2023.
His .335 batting average is the highest in the Eastern League since Phillip Evans (Binghamton) and Aneury Tavarez (Portland) both hit .335 in 2016. Reyes also led all of Double-A in batting average and finished the season sixth in all of Minor League Baseball at .331 after spending the final week of the season with Lehigh Valley.
The Phillies signed Reyes as an International Free Agent in 2020 out of the Dominican Republic.
He joins a prestigious list of R-Phils to be named Eastern League MVP: Greg Luzinski (1970), Mark Davis (1980), Jeff Stone (1983), Marlon Byrd (2001), Ryan Howard (2004), Darin Ruf (2012), Brock Stassi (2015) and Dylan Cozens (2016). He was also named an Eastern League All-Star at outfielder.
