Live Play-by-play of Phillies Minor Leaguers vs Puerto Rico
Chris King is live scoring the game. You can follow here and follow Chris (@Statsking). So far Gregori Rivero and Jose Pujols have gone back to back
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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
Breaking down Jesse Biddle’s inning
Jesse Biddle made his season debut this Saturday with a rather uninspiring 1 IP 3 H 2 ER 1 BB 1 K line while throwing a large number of pitches. There wasn’t a big enough sample to make any large judgments about how his year will go since he seemed a bit more amped than … Read more
2011 1st round pick Larry Greene Jr has retired from baseball
Per Jay Floyd of Phoulballz and Phillies Nation, former first round pick in the 2011 draft, Larry Greene Jr has retired from baseball. Greene was the #39 pick in the draft (the first selection for the Phillies) out of Berrien County HS in Nashville, Georgia. Greene was billed as having some of the best raw … 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
Phillies to maintain academy in Venezuela despite political turmoil
Over the past few years the political situation in Venezuela and its relations with the US have deteriorated. This has had a dramatic influence on baseball in the country as teams have pulled out one by one from the country both for convenience (most top players are appearing at showcases in Dominican Republic) and safety. … 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