A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
When you trade a player of Cole Hamels’ caliber you expect to get back premium prospects that will help you build your future core, and Nick Williams, Jake Thompson, and Jorge Alfaro meet that requirement. But, you also get the opportunity to acquire players outside of the general public’s knowledge that you value highly. In … Read more
There is a point in evaluation where you just need to throw away a previous set of opinions and start fresh. This was the case with Aaron Altherr at the plate this year. It wasn’t that his swing was overhauled dramatically, it was that Altherr had taken his swing and other parts of his game … Read more
The Phillies have finally hired a new GM so now we know what the face of the new front office will look like. There is obviously a lot to be done and much of it will happen very slowly. MacPhail has already left a lot in place around the Phillies’ baseball ops and on field personnel … Read more
Per reports out of his Venezuelan team, Tigres de Aragua, Carlos Tocci suffered a broken metacarpal in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch Wednesday night. This is the first year Tocci has played winter ball after spending the last few years working out in Clearwater. He had been the Tigres primary … Read more
Listening to baseball on the radio is something that will never really get old for me, it is the ultimate story time. You never going to scout a player by listening to the radio, but it will help fill in the details you are missing. For those telling the story they need to be on … Read more
In many ways Lakewood was the forgotten affiliate in 2015. It didn’t get much help to start from a 2014 draft devoid of high school players (though it did get 4th round pick Chris Oliver and 5th round pick Rhys Hoskins), and for the most part it was full of under the radar players. Those … Read more
After the 2012 season I ranked Adam Morgan as the 1B prospect in the system, he looked like he was all ready to be a part of a new Phillies pitching staff. He was dominant in Spring Training and looked to be in for a short stint in AAA before coming up as a rotation … Read more
The part of these next moves that will get the most press is the disappointing end to Domonic Brown’s tenure in Philly. But I care more about some of the other players outrighted today. Let’s just move past Brian Bogusevic now because he is not really a part of the Phillies future and never was going … Read more
Catchers are weird and splits are deceptive. That really has been the story of Cameron Rupp’s rookie campaign. Catchers develop in a very non-linear way (as most prospects do anyway) because there is a lot to their job outside of hitting, so it is not rare to see pieces of a profile display later in … Read more
It is always positive for everyone when a local kid signs with his hometown team. The Phillies made someone’s dreams a little closer to reality yesterday when they signed LHP Jeff Singer. Singer went undrafted this past June out of Rutgers-Camden (he previously played for Monmouth), he then signed with the Camden Riversharks of the … Read more