A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF/OF Felix Reyes 5 G 6-15 2 2B 1 HR 0 BB 1 K 1 HBP .400/.412/.733 Reyes is a prospect that has always fascinated me. He began the season on the Development List playing games in Extended Spring Training, was then activated by Reading and was hitting cleanup at … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from preseason list / Statcast stats from Robert Orr’s website or Baseball Savant Stock Up 2B Aroon Escobar (#11) – Escobar entered the year as a popular sleeper because his underlying numbers were very good, and he just had not stayed healthy or consistent. In April, Escobar hit .360/.461/.627 in 19 … Read more
Top Prospects C Alirio Ferrebus – Ferrebus was limited to 24 games due to an injury after he came stateside. He is an athletic catcher with good size. He has great looking swing from the right side that generates plus exit velocities while getting the ball on a line or in the air. He has … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS/3B Carson DeMartini 5 G 9-21 1 2B 1 RBI 2 BB 3 K 1 SB .429/.500/.476 As a junior at Virginia Tech, DeMartini looked like a power forward third baseman with big swing and miss. Last year he struck out just 13.5% of the time, and while he currently … Read more
In 2024, the Phillies went 55-29 (.654, a 106 win pace) over the first 3+ months of the season and went 40-38 (.513, a 83 win pace) over the last 3 months of the season. This has been seen by fans as the portent of doom that affected the Phillies through the 2024 postseason and … Read more
I was contemplating this week writing about the Phillies overall bullpen and pitching situation, and one of those topics was going to be about how I thought the Phillies should start moving starters to the bullpen, particular IronPigs RHP Seth Johnson. On Tuesday evening, Johnson came out of the bullpen for only two innings. Notably … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 2B Aroon Escobar 11-23 2 2B 2 HR 4 RBI 1 BB 5 K .478/.500/.826 What Aroon Escobar has done so far this year isn’t completely shocking. He was very very good in a small sample size last year and he has long had the physical tools to be a … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Eduardo Tait 5 G 23 PA 4 H 1 2B 3 HR 3 BB 6 K 2 HBP .222/.391/.778 It wasn’t quite the dramatic week that Escobar had, but it was a good week for the big catcher, who also got to catch Andrew Painter on Friday night. He … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Otto Kemp 7-25 2B 3B 2 HR 4 RBI 2 BB 7 K One of the knocks on Otto Kemp has been whether he can get to his power. He has three home runs already and has a 90th percentile EV of 106.5mph on tracked balls. He is above … Read more
Top Prospects C Eduardo Tait – At age 17, Tait was one of the best players in the complex and even got 28 games with the Threshers to end the season. In that small sample of low-A, he swung and missed much more and will need to show more patience to not see his contact … Read more