A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B/OF Felix Reyes 5-14 2 2B 1 RBI 0 BB 2 K It was really just the one game for Reyes, where he went 4-5 with two doubles on opening day while hitting the ball hard. He only end up driving in one run and scoring once himself. He swung … Read more
Top Prospects SS Aidan Miller – Miller’s end to the 2025 season put him among the best prospects in the game. He has been sidelined all spring with back soreness that the Phillies don’t really want to talk about. When on the field, he makes great swing decisions, with a good ability to make contact, … Read more
Game Logs Breakout Notes and Thoughts Pitching Hitting Spring Training Notes and Thoughts Injuries and Transactions Links and Things Minor Thoughts Around the Web Videos and Posts
Not every interesting player makes the list, and I have notes and thoughts on many more players than will be represented in this additional list. I have grouped this by type of player, starting with the new international signees that I don’t rank as part of the major list. This is also not the “honorable … Read more
Another season, and a Spring Training full of small sample sizes. Here are just some thoughts over the first half of Spring Training and WBC. Notes and Thoughts Injuries and Transactions
The Spring Breakout is back this year, with the Phillies playing two games (@ MIN 3/19 and v TOR 3/21). New this year is that teams had submit a 40 player pool now, that will then be cut down to 25-27 in two weeks. What is unknown about the Phillies (at least two me) is … Read more
The WBC rosters came out last night for the competition that kicks off in a month. The tournament sort of divides itself into the top teams and then the rest of the field. With an influx of MLB players to teams of distant ancestry, some of the middle of the pack teams are more interesting … Read more
As part of writing the Top 50 I pull a bunch of data and start to dig in to get a deeper look at the players. I can’t put all of the data into the writeups, so it is largely the overview that gets put into the list. When it came to Justin Crawford more … Read more
Jump to Rankings When I sat down to the yearly exercise of putting together this list, I was under no delusion that I was writing up a strong farm system. The Phillies are a competitive team that has struggled with development while not having the depth to cycle out players for influxes of talent like … Read more
When we talk about the shallowness of the Phillies system, that shouldn’t really extend into the very top of it. Painter’s regression and Crawford’s continued inconsistencies make it not an elite top of the system, but it is at least average. Miller is not one of the very top prospects in baseball, but for me … Read more