Phillies with 5 in Keith Law’s Top 100

Prospect rankings move ever onward, and today Keith Law follows up his org rankings with his Top 100 prospects in the minors.  Law’s list is always going to have more outliers than any other public list because it is his individual ranking.  This has lead to him being higher on some individual Phillies over the … Read more

Phillies Place 6 In Baseball Prospectus’ Top 101 Prospects

Team prospect list time is starting to wind down, and now we move into global top prospect lists, and Baseball Prospectus kicks things off with their Top 101.  The list itself is a collaborative effort by their entire prospect staff (as opposed the Phillies Top 10 which was Jeff Paternostro‘s list with input from others).  The … Read more

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

Williams, Alfaro, Thompson on BA’s Texas League Top 20 Prospects

Much like Nick Pivetta in the Carolina League, the Phillies acquired some players at the deadline that had some previous pedigree.  Today’s group come from the small (but prospect laden) Texas League and were the core of the deal that sent Cole Hamels to Texas to lead the Rangers to the playoffs (though Jerad Eickhoff … Read more

August Highlights the Phillies Catching Depth

Going into the draft this spring, there was a cry for the Phillies to draft a catcher because the team didn’t have an heir for Carlos Ruiz.  Throwing aside that catchers develop too slow to help that quickly, there was public concern over the state of the Phillies’ catching depth.  Right now after some crazy … Read more

40 Man Implications of Trade Returns

I was asked a couple of times after the trades who was Rule 5 eligible of the prospects the Phillies got back in trades.  I will talk about the full 40 man and who needs spots and who could be gone when we get closer to September, but for now here is just who they … Read more

Phillies-Rangers Hamels Deal Coming Together (Make That Happening)

So it appears a deal sending Cole Hamels and Jake Diekman to the Texas Rangers is coming together quickly.  Right now the critical pieces are OF Nick Williams, C Jorge Alfaro, RHP Alec Asher, RHP Jake Thompson and RHP Jerad Eikoff along with the contract of Matt Harrison.  It appears there are more pieces involved … Read more