A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Yesterday we thought that Ken Giles was going to Houston for Vincent Velasquez, Derek Fisher, Brett Oberholtzer, and Thomas Eshelman. Now take out Derek Fisher, send Jonathan Arauz to Houston, and now send former #1 overall pick Mark Appel and short season arm Harold Arauz to Philadelphia. Overall you have a very complicated trade now. … Read more
Baseball America is starting their league Top 20 prospects. Up today was the GCL, where the Phillies fielded a very competitive team full of high upside prospects lead by #10 overall pick Cornelius Randolph. The Phillies placed 3 players on BA’s list and probably would have had quite a few more had the list gone … Read more
In 2014 the GCL Phillies had a nice pitching staff and some interesting players, but the lack of HS players limited the prospect power of the team. This season has been much different. The lineup has a premium prospect at every position and while the rotation isn’t full of household names, it has carried the … Read more
Positional Overviews: C|1B|2B|SS|3B|LF/RF|CF|SP (Upper)|SP (Lower) Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Freddy Galvis 25 MLB Andres Blanco 30 AAA Tyler Greene 31 AAA KC Serna 25 AA Edgar Duran 24 AA J.P. Crawford 20 AA 1 Malquin Canelo 20 A+ 41 Emmanuel Marrero 21 A- Grenny Cumana 19 SS 50 William Cuicas 20 SS … Read more
The Top 50 starts at the very bottom, where the differences in rankings are very slight compared to the differences between players towards the top of the list. That does not mean it lacks for talent, but these ten players still have a lot growth in front of them before we can consider them among the … Read more
This morning at 9am the July 2 signing period opened. The Phillies have been linked to 3 SSs and a catcher, all should get mid-six figure bonuses. I will update this thread as signings come in. Bonus Pool: $3,221,800 Confirmed Signings: $2,540,000 The Phillies Sign SS Arquimedes Gamboa for $900,000 Gamboa was Baseball America’s #8 … Read more