Asked last week how he felt he had performed during the first month, Brown changed the subject.
"I'm not worried about that," he said. "I just want to win. The numbers and stuff, that's going to come. I don't really worry about the numbers. As long as we're winning ball games, I'm fine."
For the record, Reading lost that night and slipped to 8-12.
"I think we'll bounce back strong, but right now things are a little tough around here," Brown said.
Brown had a difficult stretch in mid-April after suffering a concussion when he collided with second baseman Ozzie Chavez during an April 16 game at Richmond. Brown was accidentally kneed in the head by Chavez as both players converged on a fly ball.
"It wasn't that bad, actually," Brown said. "I was a little woozy getting up, but I was fine 30 minutes to an hour after that. I had to get a CAT scan back in Philly. It just took a couple of days, and I ended up sitting out five or six days. It was a little bit longer than I wanted."
The main thing the Phillies wanted Brown to improve upon this season was his defense and assistant general manager Chuck LaMar is pleased with the rightfielder's progress.
"He definitely has improved his defense from what we saw last year," LaMar said. "He has always had a good work ethic, and he has really played a good right field so far. The other thing we've seen so far this year is that he's putting the bat on the ball against righthanders and lefthanders."
Brown, 22, knows a trip to the big leagues is unlikely this season, but he said patience isn't a problem because he knows how long it took guys like Jayson Werth and Ryan Howard to reach the big leagues.
