CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Adam Haseley crushed a fly ball toward center field in the fifth inning Monday at Spectrum Field, but the ball died near the wall. It might have been a home run on any other day, except a strong wind from right had been killing balls throughout the afternoon.

“Oh, my gosh,” Phillies manager Gabe Kapler said. “That ball was blistered.”

Haseley is the team’s first-round pick in the 2017 Draft and the organization’s No. 3 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. He hit a combined .305 with 11 home runs, 55 RBIs and a .795 OPS last season with Class A Advanced Clearwater and Double-A Reading. The Phillies have six outfielders on the 40-man roster and they might add a seventh in the next couple of days, if they agree to terms with Bryce Harper. But if Haseley continues to produce this season, it is not a stretch to think he could get a big league opportunity at some point before the end of the year, if some of that outfield depth is traded.

“I don’t have any goals, really,” Haseley said. “I want to build on what I did last year. Keep the same approach and give myself an opportunity to be successful and keep trying to climb the ladder.”

Kapler made a point to mention how Haseley handled himself in the eighth inning of a 12-7 victory over the split-squad Tigers. Haseley ran hard out of the box on a ground ball and reached on an error. He stole second base, tagged up and advanced to third on a fly ball to center field and scored on a sacrifice fly to left field.

“He generated a run basically entirely on his own,” Kapler said.

And in a launch-angle world, Haseley also has an old-school, hit-down-on-the-ball swing.

“He gets a lot of backspin; you see a lot of crisp, hard ground balls,” Kapler said. “You see a lot of line drives back through the middle. So much so that we’ve joked that when he’s going up against our pitchers in live BP, we’re, like, careful about it because we know he hits low line drives through the middle.”

“I’m certainly not trying to go opposite of how baseball is going,” Haseley said. “I just think different players can get to the same result with different ways. I think for me, it looks different than other players.”

Herrera has Grade 1 hamstring strain

Phillies outfielder Odúbel Herrera strained his left hamstring during workouts last week at Carpenter Complex. The Phillies thought at the time it would not linger, but they are calling it a Grade 1 strain. It is unclear when he will play in his first Grapefruit League game.

JoJo’s debut

Phillies prospect JoJo Romero allowed two hits and one run in two innings in his Grapefruit League debut. He allowed a home run to Christin Stewart in the first inning.

Romero is the organization’s No. 7 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. He went 7-6 with a 3.80 ERA in 18 starts with Double-A Reading.

“It’s awesome,” Romero said about his camp experience. “We have a former NL MVP [Andrew McCutchen] in the locker room. I was probably in high school around that time. Growing up, watching those guys and then having the opportunity to learn from them, to see their work ethic and see how they carry themselves on and off the field, it’s an awesome opportunity.”

Up next

Phillies left-hander Ranger Suarez is scheduled to start Tuesday afternoon’s 1:05 p.m. ET Grapefruit League game against the Yankees at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Suarez went 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in four appearances (three starts) last season. He is expected to open the season in Triple-A Lehigh Valley.