A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman In a normal offseason we would firmly in the dead period waiting for the Winter Meetings. This offseason has the meetings replaced by a period of long dark winter, and so we know there will be something we just don’t know what it will be. Without knowing how much 2027 season there will be or … Read more
Preseason Outlook Preseason Rank – 3rd Role: Incredibly Frustrating Above Average RegularRisk: Medium – It is true of any player that the role and risk is a sliding scale, but it might be most true with Crawford. The closer he gets to the majors without failing or fixing his issues, the more it looks like … Read more
Teams have until after the World Series to address their pending minor league free agents. That could include adding them to the 40 man roster or re-signing them to a new minor league deals. Some minor leaguers with enough major league time can elect free agency already, and C Payton Henry has already proceeded in … Read more
Preseason Outlook Preseason Rank – 2nd Role: #2/#3 StarterRisk: High – Painter flashed a bunch of promising attributes in his return from injury, especially in his number of innings pitched. However, his pitch shapes and command were a muddled mess, as he combined throwing new pitches and a return to high level competition. This led … Read more
Preseason Outlook Preseason Ranking – 11th Role: Late Inning RelieverRisk: Medium – There isn’t a huge sample size of McFarlane as a full time reliever, but the stuff is there to get outs, you just need to make some leaps of faith about his command. Season Stats Team (LVL) G W-L IP ERA HR/9 BB% … Read more
Minor League Awards All of these awards are made up. Unless otherwise stated they are not about prospect ranking and evaluation, but are about how a player actually performed. I also posed this question online and have included your winner as well. Hitter of the Year – Bryan Rincon Rincon isn’t the Phillies best hitting … Read more
Season Recap Record: 70-67 (Won Eastern League Championship) Reading spent the first half of the season living up to projections. There were talented prospects, but pitching and inexperience held the team back. Injuries to Dante Nori and Carson DeMartini did not help. A breakout by Bryan Rincon and stabilizing starting pitching from Adam Seminaris, Luke … Read more
Season Recap Record: 68-81 A lot of the potential excitement of an IronPigs season revolved around Aidan Miller and Gabriel Ricones Jr. getting healthy and getting some reinforcements from Reading. Miller ended up missing most of the season and never actually getting to AAA. Rincones had a season plagued by injuries and poor play. Then … Read more
Hitter Spotlight IF Aidan Miller 4 G 4-14 1 2B 3 RBI 6 BB 5 K 2 SB Due to the postseason schedule, Miller never played back to back days in his return, but he was a 9 inning player all through the postseason at third base. He looked rusty at both the plate and … Read more
Two batters into Tuesday night Erie had themselves a 2-0 lead, and for 3 more innings it looked like pitching would once again be the story of the Eastern League championship series. The teams had played a 1-0 game two days early that had seen the only run score on a 9th inning sacrifice fly … Read more