A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Franklyn Kilome, RHP 6’6″, 175 lb Bats/Throws: R/R Played for: Clearwater (A+/FSL) and Reading (AA/Eastern) Signed as an international amateur in June 2013 Dates Seen: 8/16, 8/31 Eyewitness Stats: Two starts, 10.2 IP, 13 H, 9 R, 7 ER, 6 BB, 5 K, 2 HR allowed What the Numbers Say Clearwater (A+): 19 G (all starts), … Read more
Last year the Lakewood BlueClaws rode a rotation of Dominican RHPs to the South Atlantic League championship game. This year that core group (Franklyn Kilome, Jose Taveras, Alberto Tirado, and Seranthony Dominguez) was supposed to be the center of the Clearwater rotation. They were joined by 2016 5th round pick, Cole Irvin, a polished 22 … Read more
The Phillies entered the season loaded with starting pitching at every level of the minor leagues. Unfortunately injuries to Vince Velasquez, Clay Buchholz, Zach Eflin, Sixto Sanchez, and Seranthony Dominguez, and Elniery Garcia’s suspension left the Phillies rotations thin at every level. The Phillies prospect depth meant that most levels of the system were also … Read more
Last night the Mets lineup in the 6th began Bruce/Walker/Duda, so LH/switch/LH. So Joely Rodriguez, as the only LHP on the active roster, was obviously the choice. But in his brief career he hasn’t been reliable at getting LH hitting. Entering last night, LH hitters: 11/30 (2 XBH), 3/6 K/BB; RH hitters: 8/33 (5 XBH), … Read more
The ranking season continues with the Eastern League and Florida State League Top 20s. Florida State League: #14 – Scott Kingery Eastern League: #6 J.P. Crawford #12 Jorge Alfaro #13 Dylan Cozens Thoughts: Before jumping into my normal bullet points of thoughts, I wanted to talk about Cozens at #13 on this list. It is … Read more
There was a time when some worried that the Phillies had too much left handed starting pitching. Their rotation was headlined by Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels, and their top prospects were Jesse Biddle and Adam Morgan. This year the only left handed starting pitcher the Phillies used was Adam Morgan. The top pitching prospects … Read more
It has been a good year for low minors pitching and it also has been a bounceback year for the Phillies much maligned 2012 draft class. The player that sits at the intersection of both is RHP Drew Anderson. Anderson currently has a 2.80 ERA across two levels and 13 starts to go with a … Read more
If you follow me on Twitter you may have noticed that I have started to contribute minor league coverage to The Good Phight. I will still be writing here so it won’t be as much a drop in coverage and more just a diversification. Part of that means that my affiliates previews for this season … Read more
Jim Peyton of Phuture Phillies has posted a picture of minor league rosters. Overall the assignments are very conservative so we will see how everything shakes out early in the season. These rosters are unofficial, and if they end up being the official rosters they are subject to constant change because this is the nature … Read more
The first half version of the 2014 Clearwater Threshers was one of the worst teams assembled in affiliated baseball. They improved in the second half playing host to J.P. Crawford, Roman Quinn, and Aaron Nola. The 2015 squad was a much better team from day 1. The starting pitching had big promise early, but stumbled … Read more