A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
In the last five weeks, we have seen Phillies 2B Cesar Hernandez suffer an oblique injury and AAA 2B Jesmuel Valentin have shoulder surgery, shutting down his season. Meanwhile, down in Reading, Scott Kingery continued to rake. All of Phillies nation has been clamoring for a while now that he should get the call-up to … Read more
The big headline last night was that Scott Kingery was being promoted from Reading to Lehigh Valley. It was just one transaction in a long list of transactions that included the Phillies cutting ties with two veterans. So once the dust all settled, the Phillies made the following moves. To Phillies: Mark Leiter Jr. Cameron … Read more
It is not a deep revelation to say that a major problem for the Phillies has been drafting. Their record of ineptness is of public record, and the result are showing (or not showing) on the field for the Phillies. The worst moment was after the 2013 draft when it came out that the Phillies … Read more
The safe assumption is that major league baseball teams will sign their top 10 round picks. The loss of slot money for not signing a player gives teams strong incentive to agree to deals before drafting a player, and then not pissing off everyone involved for next year’s negotiations helps enforce all of the handshake … Read more
The 48 hour frenzy is complete. It all concluded yesterday, with the final 30 rounds (900 picks) flying by in a short six and a half hours. The Phillies entered the day having picked eight 4-year college/JUCO players in the first ten rounds, which may have given them room to go over slot on some … Read more
Day 3 of the draft is organized chaos. It isn’t all over the place it is one very quick beat of names and draft Ids and mad scramble for all of the rest of us to figure out who that kid is. The Phillies under Almaraz have typically gone pitcher heavy on day 3, and … Read more
The Phillies wrapped up their draft with a strong last 5 picks. No neoptism, just more JuCo and HS players to try and sign. Sorry it is all a bit thin, I will see what I can find. Draft Tracker Round 36: Joe Breaux, OF, McLennan CC “Joe Bro” went only a few picks before … Read more
The Phillies have started to reach into the high school pitching ranks, they are unlikely to sign everyone, but it gives them some options. As always I will update when more info comes in. Draft Tracker Round 31: Danny Mayer, OF, University of the Pacific Mayer became a starter in his junior year and hit … Read more
I don’t have a lot to go on here for these 5 picks so I will give you what I have and update as I learn more. Draft Tracker Round 26: Quincy Nieporte, 1B, Florida St Nieporte was arrested in 2015 for $1000 in vandalism, but otherwise has been 3 years (spent 2014 at JuCo) … Read more
Five more picks off the board as we continue on a pace of about 24 seconds per pick. The Phillies did get a little bit exciting for a couple of picks. Draft Tracker Round 21: Jakob Hernandez, LHP, University of Texas Arlington Hernandez is a big lefty (6’4″ 275lbs) who led all junior college pitchers … Read more