A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
The Phillies break out of their run of hard throwing pitchers to take a college shortstop. Nate Fasshnacht dominated the Atlantic 10 conference this year. After a down sophomore year (he was good as a freshman) he hit .369/.452/.658 with 30 walks to 22 strikeouts in 261 plate appearances. He was a third team All-American … Read more
The Phillies continue a bit of a weird trend into the middle of day 2. In the 7th round they go with another reliever, in a spot where teams often go with an arm that has a chance to start. Brett Schulze moved to the bullpen after his freshman year at Minnesota and saw his … Read more
The string of upside and risk continues for the Phillies with RHP Andrew Schultz out of the University of Tennesse. It isn’t often that high upside is used with relief only profiles in the draft, but Schultz has front line closer raw stuff. His fastball sits in the mid to hi 90s, he will touch … Read more
Phillies continue to go with upside in the draft JuCo RHP Gunner Mayer. Mayer is a recent convert to the mound but is already up to 94 (sitting low 90s) and features a pair of breaking balls. His physical profile just screams upside as he is 6’6″ 190lbs and won’t turn 19 until July. There … Read more
The Phillies return to college in the 4th round of the draft taking 6’5″ 240lb LHP Erik Miller out of Stanford. Miller is not like most of the Phillies recent early college picks (control oriented RHPs), and is actually quite the opposite. He is a big bodied power arm, who has shown inconsistent velocity, but … Read more
With the #91 overall pick the Phillies take a high school shortstop in Jamari Baylor out of Benedictine School in Virginia. there are definitely mixed opinions on him with MLBPipeline ranking him #161, Fangraphs ranking him #74, and Baseball America having him in the 300s. If Stott was safe and solid, then Baylor is risky … Read more
I wrote earlier today about the logic of the MLB draft and how someone was going to fall to the Phillies. The answer was nearly everyone with the Phillies having a choice between RHP Jackson Rutledge, OF Corbin Carroll, LHP Zack Thompson, and their eventual pick SS Bryson Stott. Stott is a junior out of … Read more
I will preface all of this by saying I am not a scout and I am very much not an amateur player scout. What is about to follow comes from talking to people, and reading the internet. It is likely to not contain much actual scouting information, and given the misinformation and lack of information … Read more
The MLB draft starts today June 3 at 7pm. The Phillies have the #14 overall pick, but will not make a pick in the 2nd round, having surrendered their pick to sign Bryce Harper. This means that over 3 days the Phillies will make 39 picks. Follow along for daily recaps and pick by pick … Read more
The 2018 Phillies were a flawed team, and understandably so. They were young at nearly every position. They ran their rotation pretty ragged when all of their young arms stayed healthy all year. Their bullpen had some injuries, but ultimately could not get everyone healthy and effective at the same time. It was frustrating, but … Read more