A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman As detailed in the Rule 5 draft preview, the Phillies gambled that a handful of interesting prospects would not be the most interesting prospects available in the draft. That gamble paid off as no Phillies were selected in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft. That means Erik Miller, Carlos De La Cruz, … Read more
The Rule 5 draft is the last major event of the Winter Meetings. The Phillies made their lone protection (Johan Rojas) a couple of weeks ago and without the Trea Turner signing official have a 40 man roster at 38 names leaving two spots available. Since the draft last happened, circumstances have changed around it. … Read more
Next Tuesday all teams will need to add any prospects they want to protect from the Rule 5 draft to their 40 man rosters. The Phillies have largely made moves at the deadline (Brown and O’Hoppe) and during the season (Guthrie and Hall) that have decreased the number of players that are in contention for … Read more
Yesterday, I kicked off the offseason by resetting the 40 man roster, and surprise I decided to write two days in a row and break up sort of the offseason moves portion into the obvious and the crazy, and start with the obvious. These are the moves that sort of must happen. Now some have … Read more
Part of making a run to the World Series is that the offseason comes very quickly. No one is complaining, but there is very little time before shifting into offseason mode. I don’t know how many offseason pieces I will end up writing so I won’t number them, but I figured why not actually do … Read more
The Phillies are in the World Series and it has been a long time. Yesterday I tweeted about how Ranger Suarez has been in the organization since signing on April 1, 2012 and it got me thinking about what these players used to be like. So I went digging through the site archives for the … Read more
The Phillies are in the World Series. It feels like each article should and does start with that. It is due to a bunch of factors, the most obvious of which are timely home runs and some masterful pitching by Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler. On the less obvious side, isn’t that the Phillies bullpen … Read more
When the Phillies clinched I tweeted that there was a direct line from Jeremy Hellickson to Jose Alvarado, and that was probably the most improbable rebuild trade working out possible. I didn’t actually do any sort of research at the time, but I can do that now. The exercise is meant to be fun, so … Read more
The Phillies claimed Bradley Zimmer off waivers from the Blue Jays, he takes the active roster spot of Brandon Marsh and 40 man spot of Bryce Harper (who is really only renting out his spot for the next two weeks). Bradley Zimmer is bad. He has been on the Blue Jays all season, and has … Read more
The Phillies are currently in a playoff spot thanks to a variety of factors, one of which is the contributions from their young players. Last January, the Phillies were staring at a long of questions about how they would have a deep enough lineup to outscore their other problems. Part of the problem was that … Read more