A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman Yesterday, I kicked off the offseason by resetting the 40 man roster, and surprise I decided to write two days in a row and break up sort of the offseason moves portion into the obvious and the crazy, and start with the obvious. These are the moves that sort of must happen. Now some have … Read more
Part of making a run to the World Series is that the offseason comes very quickly. No one is complaining, but there is very little time before shifting into offseason mode. I don’t know how many offseason pieces I will end up writing so I won’t number them, but I figured why not actually do … Read more
The Phillies are in the World Series and it has been a long time. Yesterday I tweeted about how Ranger Suarez has been in the organization since signing on April 1, 2012 and it got me thinking about what these players used to be like. So I went digging through the site archives for the … Read more
The Phillies are in the World Series. It feels like each article should and does start with that. It is due to a bunch of factors, the most obvious of which are timely home runs and some masterful pitching by Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler. On the less obvious side, isn’t that the Phillies bullpen … Read more
When the Phillies clinched I tweeted that there was a direct line from Jeremy Hellickson to Jose Alvarado, and that was probably the most improbable rebuild trade working out possible. I didn’t actually do any sort of research at the time, but I can do that now. The exercise is meant to be fun, so … Read more
The Phillies claimed Bradley Zimmer off waivers from the Blue Jays, he takes the active roster spot of Brandon Marsh and 40 man spot of Bryce Harper (who is really only renting out his spot for the next two weeks). Bradley Zimmer is bad. He has been on the Blue Jays all season, and has … Read more
The Phillies are currently in a playoff spot thanks to a variety of factors, one of which is the contributions from their young players. Last January, the Phillies were staring at a long of questions about how they would have a deep enough lineup to outscore their other problems. Part of the problem was that … Read more
The Phillies spent the offseason building a team that many joked was made entirely of DHs. It was on top of a team that was already filled with large contracts, and one that after the moves still had some massive holes going forward. To be a sustainable contender going forward, the Phillies were going to … Read more
In: Brandon Marsh, David Robertson, Noah Syndergaard Out: Logan O’Hoppe, Ben Brown, Mickey Moniak, Jadiel Sanchez, Odubel Herrera (DFA), Jeurys Familia (DFA) The Phillies entered the deadline with a gaping hole in the rotation thanks to Zach Eflin’s knee and a real need for an upgrade on Herrera’s spot in center. Like most contenders, bullpen was … Read more
As the Phillies head towards the trade deadline with some holes to fill on the roster and pieces they could use to fill them, it felt appropriate to combine the idea of a midseason ranking and thoughts on the trade deadline. There are no numbers in front of the players, but you can pretend there … Read more