A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman Preseason Outlook Preseason Ranking – 11th Role: Late Inning RelieverRisk: Medium – There isn’t a huge sample size of McFarlane as a full time reliever, but the stuff is there to get outs, you just need to make some leaps of faith about his command. Season Stats Team (LVL) G W-L IP ERA HR/9 BB% … Read more
Minor League Awards All of these awards are made up. Unless otherwise stated they are not about prospect ranking and evaluation, but are about how a player actually performed. I also posed this question online and have included your winner as well. Hitter of the Year – Bryan Rincon Rincon isn’t the Phillies best hitting … Read more
Season Recap Record: 70-67 (Won Eastern League Championship) Reading spent the first half of the season living up to projections. There were talented prospects, but pitching and inexperience held the team back. Injuries to Dante Nori and Carson DeMartini did not help. A breakout by Bryan Rincon and stabilizing starting pitching from Adam Seminaris, Luke … Read more
Season Recap Record: 68-81 A lot of the potential excitement of an IronPigs season revolved around Aidan Miller and Gabriel Ricones Jr. getting healthy and getting some reinforcements from Reading. Miller ended up missing most of the season and never actually getting to AAA. Rincones had a season plagued by injuries and poor play. Then … Read more
Hitter Spotlight IF Aidan Miller 4 G 4-14 1 2B 3 RBI 6 BB 5 K 2 SB Due to the postseason schedule, Miller never played back to back days in his return, but he was a 9 inning player all through the postseason at third base. He looked rusty at both the plate and … Read more
Two batters into Tuesday night Erie had themselves a 2-0 lead, and for 3 more innings it looked like pitching would once again be the story of the Eastern League championship series. The teams had played a 1-0 game two days early that had seen the only run score on a 9th inning sacrifice fly … Read more
Season Recap Record: 74-55 (Lost in FSL Division Series) The Phillies once again sent their draft class to Clearwater, which once again led to a dominant first have from the Threshers including qualifying for the postseason. The wrinkle this season was that the Phillies 2025 draft class was full of pitching which meant the hitting … Read more
Season Recap Record: 47-83 It was not a good season for the BlueClaws, in fact the team spent most of the season mostly talentless and struggling through games. Some of that is the Phillies drafting and developing, coupled with some aggressive promotions that left the initial team highly lacking. Then it got skipped over by … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Aroon Escobar 6 G 9-22 4 2B 3 HR 6 RBI 1 BB 2 K 2 HBP 1 SB .409/.480/1.000 There is something to be said about Escobar’s wild hacks not leading to the best contact quality, but it was getting downright bizarre that he wasn’t hitting for power … Read more
Regular Season Record: 70-67 It wasn’t that Reading was a black hole like Jersey Shore to open the year, they were mostly mediocre, but there were some bright spots and some hits to their team. They had injuries to Dante Nori and Carson DeMartini, lost Dylan Campbell to trade, Chuck King to promotion, and had … Read more