Positional Overview: Corner Outfield

Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Domonic Brown 27 MLB Grady Sizemore 32 MLB Odubel Herrera 23 MLB 28 Kelly Dugan 24 AAA 8 Brian Bugosevic 30 AAA Jeff Francoeur 31 AAA Darin Mastroinni 29 AAA Xavier Paul 30 AAA Cameron Perkins 24 AAA 32 Brian Pointer 23 AA Aaron Brown 22 A+ … Read more

MLB Pipeline’s Top 30 Phillies Prospects

The last major list of Phillies prospects is now up with MLB Pipeline publishing their Phillies Top 30 prospects.  The full list is here. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Roman Quinn Zach Eflin Tom Windle Ben Lively Matt Imhof Jesse Biddle Franklyn Kilome Ricardo Pinto Deivi Grullon Andrew Knapp Cord Sandberg Severino Gonzalez Odubel … Read more

First Minor League Workout Groups

The first set of minor league workout groups have been put up by the Phillies.  Here are the first set of groups (first posted by Jim Peyton) There is not a lot to read into future placement here, but there are some early thoughts here. The pitching groups seem far from solidified with levels.  Elniery … Read more

Spring Training Roster Battles: 3/6/15

Week one of Grapefruit League play is in the books so it is a good time to take a first pass at the roster battles. Locks: Hitters: Carlos Ruiz, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Freddy Galvis, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Ben Revere, Domonic Brown Pitchers: Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, Aaron Harang, Jonathan Papelbon, Ken Giles, Jake … Read more

Catching Up On Minor League Transactions

Often minor league signings just go under the radar, whether a player just appears on a roster, on a BA transaction page, or just silently onto the official transactions page.  These signings are not reported by beat writers, there is no press conference to announce.  These players may never be impactful, but given that many … Read more

Positional Overview: Center Fielders

Positional Overviews: C|1B|2B|SS|3B|LF/RF|CF|SP (Upper)|SP (Lower) Depth Chart Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Ben Revere 26 MLB Odubel Herrera 23 MLB 28 Jordan Danks 28 AAA Aaron Altherr 24 AAA 25 Roman Quinn 21 AA 7 Carlos Tocci 19 A+ 10 Herlis Rodriguez 20 A- Jiandido Tromp 21 A- 34 Venn Biter 20 SS Carlos Duran … Read more

BP Updates Phillies Top 10 (or rather they did 2 weeks ago)

So on February 19 Baseball Prospectus released their post-trade updates for National League Teams.  I missed this update for 2 weeks because I am apparently blind.  Their original list was released in November.  This update was only putting in the trade additions into the original list.  This puts the Phillies list now as: J.P. Crawford … Read more