A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Lets be honest, its been a rough month to be a Phillies fan. We built a delusion of getting a big payoff at the deadline in the form of prospects with names we didn’t recognize that we could dream on. Cliff Lee has been a shell of himself with an injured elbow that makes us … Read more
Keith Law has released his midseason Top 50 prospect list. Shortstop J.P. Crawford comes in at #15 on the list, after coming in at #46 in the preseason list. Keith ranked the Phillies system #14 coming into the season and was a big fan of their 2013 draft. Crawford is the #5 shortstop on the … Read more
It was no surprise that J.P. Crawford was named to the US roster for the Futures Game this past Sunday. Crawford has become the Phillies consensus top prospect after his continued success in 2014 following being the #16 overall pick of the 2013 draft. Crawford stormed through the South Atlantic League and is now settling … Read more
We are in the season of midseason ranking season. I have already released my Midseason Top 20 and Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus have released their Midseason Top 50s. But now we have another round of Top Prospect Lists. Minor League Ball Top 75 No 2014 draftees included. 28. J.P. Crawford I love the reports on his … Read more
Both Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus released their Top 50 Midseason Prospect Rankings. The BA list can be found here and the BP list can be found here. Both lists did not include recently drafted players, although the BP list had a quick preview (where it had Aaron Nola as a guy in the Top 101 … Read more
The Phillies’ offense and pitching has been a focal point of discussion from spring training to this point as the club continues to near the trade deadline where the obvious decision to sell should be made by GM Ruben Amaro and team ownership. Philadelphia’s offense ranked eighth worse in the league at 3.86 runs per … Read more
MLB has announced that Clearwater shortstop, and Phillies 2013 1st Round Pick J.P. Crawford and Lehigh Valley 1B/3B Maikel Franco will be representing the Phillies at the Futures Game. Crawford will be joining Dodgers shortstop prospect Corey Seager as the shortstops on the American team. Crawford hit .295/.398/.405 in 60 games for the Lakewood Blueclaws … Read more
Most of the draft picks are signed so it is time to revisit the preseason rankings. It is still a small sample size, and an even smaller one for those newly drafted, so this list may be a bit conservative on any large scale changes. In general the system is heading in the right direction, … Read more
On any other team Malquin Canelo starts for their Low-A affiliate in 2014. However, most organizations don’t have J.P. Crawford, and so Canelo stayed in Florida this spring. He made a brief cameo in the Florida State League, where he didn’t completely embarrass himself. Canelo isn’t going to replace Crawford for the Blueclaws. However, his … Read more
In finishing up the move of Roman Quinn from SS to CF, the Phillies have promoted J.P. Crawford to Clearwater where he will play everyday starting Wednesday. Crawford has cemented himself as the #1 prospect in the system and is on the edge of the top tier of SS prospects. There is still plenty for … Read more