A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman The Phillies picked up on Day 2 where they left off on Day 1, taking college pitchers. This time it is RHP Sean Youngerman out of Oklahoma St. Youngerman is young for a college junior (turned 21 last week), and spent his first two seasons at Westmont, first as a reliever and then a starter. … Read more
In past drafts there has been smoke both before the draft and afterwards that the Phillies intended to select college pitchers, but the board didn’t fall that way. Drafting three college pitchers with their first 3 picks doesn’t necessarily mean the Phillies set out to rejuvenate a pitching starved organization, but it does mean they … Read more
In the third round the Phillies continued with their college arms taking RHP Cody Bowker from Vanderbilt. This season was Bowker’s first at Vanderbilt after transferring from Georgetown. He was good in the Cape Cod League in between before having an ok year for the Commodores (4.38 ERA 72 IP 28 BB 99 K). He … Read more
In the second round of the 2025 draft the Phillies took a second college arm in LHP Cade Obermueller from Iowa. Obermueller was drafted in the 19th round by the Rangers last year, but declined to sign. Obermueller is another short pitcher, but not as sturdily built as Wood, which does bring some questions about … Read more
With the 26th pick of the 2025 draft the Phillies select RHP Gage Wood out of Arkanas. Wood popped onto popular radars when he threw a no-hitter in the College World Series, and he has some of the best stuff in the draft. He is short, but solidly built, which allows him to release his … Read more
The MLB draft is this upcoming Sunday (Rounds 1-3) and Monday (Rounds 4-20). The Phillies are picking 26th this year after picking 27th the last two years. Like last year they have all of their picks, but due to the nature of picking late in each of the rounds they have the 5th smallest bonus … Read more
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Stock Changes *Rankings are from preseason rankings / Statcast stats from Robert Orr’s website and Baseball Savant Stock Up OF Avery Owusu-Asiedu (UR) – It is hard to overstate just how poor 2024 was for Owusu-Asiedu. He struck out at a 36.1% rate and had a zone contact rate of 72.6%. He just did not … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Griffin Burkholder 4-13 2 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 0 BB 3 K The draft is next week, and it probably isn’t ideal we haven’t talked about the player thought to be the Phillies best selection in last year’s draft. It doesn’t help that Burkholder started the year hurt, … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF/2B Dylan Campbell 5-16 1 2B 1 RBI 4 BB 0 K 2 SB .313/.450/.375 Campbell had a couple of nice games early in the season, but overall hit .173 and .184 in the first two months of the season, and overall through May 23 was hitting .160/.240/.328. He then … Read more