A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
The Phillies go for some possible money saving in the 5th round in Virginia RHP Griff McGarry. McGarry is a 6’2″ 190 senior who pitched 4 years at Virginia as a starting pitcher. The 2021 season was a bit of a disaster until the playoffs. He has big time control issues, walking 42 in 43 … Read more
The Phillies continued with both the HS theme and the off the board theme in the 4th round with HS RHP Micah Ottenbreit. Ottenbreit is a 6’4″ projectable right hander (175lbs). He reportedly is 90-94 with good spin on his curveball and feel for a changeup. It is less present stuff then you want to … Read more
The Phillies return to the HS ranks in the 3rd round, going off of most boards for OF Jordan Viars. Viars is one of the youngest players in the draft (turns 18 next week). He is a big (6’4″) slugger with big left handed power. He is currently a corner outfielder, but there is a … Read more
https://twitter.com/ewils5/status/1414695421058895881?s=20After going HS OFer in the first round the Phillies turned to the college ranks with South Alabama OFer Ethan Wilson. Wilson was one of the best remaining players on the board. He had terrific freshman season in 2019m, hitting 17 HRs in 56 games, but his strikeout rate was just a disaster in 2020, … Read more
With the 13th overall pick the Phillies take HS RHP Andrew Painter. Painter is a 6’7″ 18 year old who was considered to be the top HS pitcher in the draft coming into the spring. Painter has been mocked to the Phillies by multiple sources, and with the other names linked to them off the … Read more
After a 5 round draft last year, we get 20 rounds this year. Phillies pick 13th, have no extra picks, but they do have their 2nd round pick for the first time in a while. Draft Tracker Draft Recap Day 1: Round 1 (13) – RHP Andrew Painter, Calvary Christian (FL) Day 2: Draft Day … Read more
I said I would try to do this and I am going to try and stick to that. System Summary: The minor leagues have been extremely poor this year. It isn’t just a Phillies problem, though they have certainly been greatly impacted. Baseball America wrote about the weirdness that is low-A Southeast where an automated … Read more
I am not sure how this is going to go, but I am going to try writing things again and doing that with a recap of the last week of 6 game series. The goal is to highlight the most interesting hitter and pitcher, give an overall feel, and then some quick notes. We will … Read more
The Phillies system is not a good system. Trades, bad drafting, poor international classes, mediocre at best development, and an entire year missing due to a pandemic has set it back. There are still a lot of prospects to be excited about, and the missed year means there are some breakouts in here we just … Read more
Tomorrow is the deadline for teams to add players to their 40 man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft. Thanks to a deep college class in the 2017 draft, the Phillies had a lot of decisions to make coming into the year. They traded Addison Russ and then added Connor Brogdon, Mickey … Read more