Since it gets kind of quiet here this winter, I am going to be putting up a weekly recap of articles from here and around the internet, as well as the bigger picture long term projects going on behind the scenes.
The Past Week:
- J.P. Crawford and Luis Garcia win Paul Owens Award
- The Future in the Outfield – Phillies Minor Thoughts
- 2015 MLB Draft Rankings, Way-Too-Early Edition – Kiley McDaniel (Fangraphs)
- Rebuilding and Competing Not Mutually Exclusive – Phillies Minor Thoughts
- Scouting Explained: The Mysterious Hit Tool, Pt1 , Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4 – Kiley McDaniel (Fangraphs)
- Crawford Stamps Himself As Phillies’ Future – Jim Salisbury (Baseball America)
Top Prospect List:
In the past at Phuture Phillies I wrote up the Top 30 prospects in the system. This year, since I think the system is so deep and I will be writing up and researching nearly every player in the system anyway, I will be releasing a Top 50 prospect list. The list will be late winter/early spring. As always, the numerical ranking is the least important part of the list, however it provides a great vehicle for talking about and highlighting some of the systems best players.
Player Pages:
Outside the Top 50 prospect list, the other big offseason project is updating the player pages. The goal has been to update 1-2 pages a day. Some of the big name updates will appear in the sidebar, otherwise I will keep it updated in the weekly update posts.
Aaron Nola
Bryan Sova
Jose Pujols
Arquimedes Gamboa
Jason Zgardowski
Preston Packrall
Tim Zier
Tanner Kiest