A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman The season could not have started worse for Franklyn Kilome who got lit up for three consecutive starts to begin the year. The Phillies then skipped his turn in an effort to get him back on track. If you were not accounting for that terrible start, his season line of 2-7 with a 4.75 ERA … Read more
Warning, the following article has nothing to do with the Phillies, if you want to bail, I won’t judge you. Last week the Red Sox and Padres swapped Drew Pomeranz and Anderson Espinoza. Espinoza has widely been regarded as a Top 20 prospect in the game, and whenever a prospect of that caliber is moved … Read more
There has been a lot written about Phillies leadership mentioning rebuilding around pitching. Given that they received back a combined 17 pitchers in notable trades in the recent phase of their rebuild it is hard to argue against those comments. Most of those trades have brought back pieces in the high minors, what about rebuilding … Read more
The Phillies just did another round of minor league rotation reshuffling with some injuries and more draft players showing up. This has left a bunch of rotations in flux. This activity is as much for me as it is for all of you, so bear with me while I work through all of this for … Read more
July 2 has come and opened up the new international signing period. The Phillies went ahead and signed six 16 year olds for decent chunks of money. They even added a center fielder whose contract had been voided in MLB’s crackdown on Boston doing what everyone else was already doing. There has been a lot … Read more
Last year the Phillies sent J.P. Crawford and Aaron Nola to the Futures Game (Nola would not go because of his pitching schedule) and the year before the Phillies sent Crawford and Maikel Franco. This year the attendees are much less illustrious as the Phillies will be represented by Reading teammates Dylan Cozens and Ricardo … Read more
Last part of the series on midseason updates after looking at players off the list on Tuesday and hitters on Wednesday. This time it is pitchers, a position that has become and org focus in the past few years. With quantity comes some quality, but also some players that have dropped off. Up: Ben Lively … Read more
Since I am not doing a full prospect list update until August 1 so I wanted to do an update of sorts at the midway part of the minor league season. Yesterday I wrote about players off of the list who will jump on to the list this year. Today is the chance to talk … Read more
Last year I held off until August 1 to a midseason ranking, with the Phillies big trade chips it made sense to wait to integrate them. This year I am going to hold off until August 1 for a different reason, I want time. Right now the Phillies have not signed all of their draft … Read more
The Phillies acquired Joely Rodriguez is the winter of 2014 for the last year of Antonio Bastardo. Rodriguez was coming off a pedestrian trip through the Eastern league, but a very good appearance in the Arizona Fall League. The thought at the time was that Rodriguez might be a back end starter because of his … Read more