A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
Team: Williamsport Crosscutters
Record: 33-44
Standing: 6th in Pinckney Division
Top Hitter Stat Lines:
Drew Stankiewicz – 23 G – 1 HR – 3 SB – .329/.485/.418
Jiandido Tromp – 69 G – 14 HR – 16 SB – .273/.325/.498
Rhys Hoskins – 70 G – 9 HR – 3 SB – .237/.311/.408
Top Pitching Lines:
David Whitehead – 74.0 IP – 2.19 ERA – 8 BB – 43 K
Ricardo Pinto – 47.0 IP – 2.11 ERA – 15 BB – 48 K
Brandon Leibrandt – 41.0 IP – 2.20 ERA – 8 BB – 45 K
Edubray Ramos – 22.2 IP – 0.79 ERA – 2 BB – 24 K
This week we kicked off the affiliates recap with the GCL Phillies. Here is the upcoming schedule and I will keep this post. A big thanks to all that have added their input to the series both with their opinions this year and with the interviews. GCL Phillies: Top Hitting Prospect: Jose Pujols Top Pitching Prospect: … Read more
We kicked off our recap season yesterday, here is part 2 of the GCL recap an interview with Baseball Betsy.
Before we jump into talking about the players on the field, introduce yourself and how you came to be covering the GCL Phillies and where people can find your work?
I’m Baseball Betsy, I live in Clearwater and am a follower of the Phillies at all levels. I have my own site www.baseballbetsy.com and a blog at http://baseballbetsy.
Given the amount of time and effort that goes into covering the season while it occurs, we want to give it equal attention after it is all over. This year we will be featuring wrap-ups such as this one, done by the writers here at Phillies Minor Thoughts, and then an interview with someone has gotten to see the team a lot in person. We are very excited to start rolling these out, especially for the insights by those we talked to.
Team: GCL Phillies
Record: 36-23
Standing: Missed Playoffs, Second Place in Northwest Division
The Phillies have released the rosters for the Florida Instructional League. This list was originally posted by Jim Peyton of Phuture Phillies.
Since it gets kind of quiet here this winter, I am going to be putting up a weekly recap of articles from here and around the internet, as well as the bigger picture long term projects going on behind the scenes.
The Past Week:
Originally this spot was going to be filled by a mailbag, but the overall lack of questions coupled with one intriguing question has taken this in a different direction. Here is the question:
@Matt_Winkelman your projected phillies starting outfield for 2016.
— Jason Polinsky (@Jay_Poozle) September 2, 2014
In itself it is a very simple question that I can give an answer that will likely prove to be false anyway. What makes this question intriguing is that I have started the very early stages of the offseason ranking project. Right now penciled into the Top 20 prospects are 10 outfield prospects, which was very surprising at first, but once you go over the names it makes a good amount of sense of why they are all there. So with that, lets expand the question to what does the projected outfield look like going forward. Since we don’t quite know what free agents will be available, I will touch on the top names that we know of, but I won’t pencil them into the projections, rather I assume you, the reader, will take weaknesses in this projection and dream whatever big name out there you like, that could fill that spot.
Ever since Roy Halladay‘s injury in 2012 the Phillies have been in a downward spiral of competitiveness. That summer they traded Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence to bolster a very poor farm system. The Phillies finished that year with the 15th worst record in baseball and followed that up with a 7th worst record in baseball the following year. This year they are 67-77 and Ruben Amaro is once again talking about being competitive in 2015, much like he did a year ago. This has caused some outrage among fans who believe everything that Amaro says to be a show of his incompetence. But are the Phillies really harming their potential future by not bottoming out?
Not much to be said about Crawford other than he didn’t put up the best statistical year in the system, but it was an incredible year for the Phillies top prospect and he is near the top prospects in the game. As for Luis Garcia it is certainly an incredible year as his 0.96 ERA … Read more
