2016 Top 15 Phillies Under 25

Prospect lists are an easy way to take a glimpse into an unknown future.  If any player has made the majors, their stay has been short enough to not give us much.  The problem with prospect lists is that they do not give a complete look into the young talent in an organization, and consequently … Read more

2016 Top 50 Phillies Prospects: 1-10

I could talk for days about how a player on the fringes of this list could contribute to a major league team some day, but the reality is that the future of the Phillies is really built on these ten players.  This year, many of them will join former top prospects like Aaron Nola and … Read more

Phillies Invite Nine Prospects To Big League Camp

The Phillies have been slowly adding non-roster invites to big league camp from outside the organization, and today we get the internal candidates.  Last year the Phillies invited almost no prospects who were not on the 40 man roster to big league camp, though Severino Gonzalez, Aaron Nola, and Zach Eflin all did start big … Read more

J.P. Crawford Pulled out of Arizona Fall League

Simple transaction line, J.P. Crawford has been replaced on the Glendale Desert Dogs roster by IF Drew Stankiewicz.  All the reports have said that Crawford looks like himself, just a really exhausted form of himself.  No reason was given for the switch, Drew is from the Arizona area so the switch to him makes some … Read more

Crawford, Nola, and Knapp on BA Eastern League Top 20

The list everyone was waiting for.  The Reading team was stacked this year, as was the whole Eastern League.  Before jumping into the names from the Phillies, Zach Eflin and Roman Quinn did qualify for this list, but Nick Williams and Jake Thompson did not.  Once again I want to emphasize that this list was … Read more

The Paul Owens Award Race for Hitters is Fun

At their best awards are just fun and meaningless.  When there are a plethora of good candidates for something like the best minor league hitter in your organization, there really is no losers.  In the past few years this has not been the case for the Paul Owens Award, where the winning candidates have been rough … Read more

J.P. Crawford Highlights Arizona Fall League Roster

Each year it seems like the talent in the Arizona Fall League gets even more crazy.  This year the Phillies are adding to the very high end talent present by sending the #2 prospect in baseball to the desert.  It wasn’t clear whether the Phillies would push J.P. Crawford’s season to make up for his … Read more

Fangraphs Did a Midseason Prospect Update

Fangraphs’ Kiley McDaniel did a reevaluation of sorts for the state of the minor leagues right now.  There isn’t a ton new for Phillies fans since it doesn’t go very deep, but it is an interesting look at pop up guys and other things going on. Crawford at #3: Not much new here, J.P. Crawford comes … Read more

The Eye Test – Summer Catch-up

Really? Has it really been six weeks since I sat down to write about what I’m seeing at Coca-Cola Park and First Energy Stadium? It certainly hasn’t been a lack of games we’ve attended. I can count at least eight off of the top of my head. I guess at this point in the season, … Read more