A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
After taking first place back from the Atlanta Braves the Phillies find themselves a game back heading into a 2 game series with the Red Sox and a 5 game tilt with the Mets. Their month still contains 6 games against the Nationals and a trip north to Toronto. It isn’t a slog like their … Read more
The Phillies are holding a tenuous lead the NL East heading down the stretch in large part to graduations from their farm system. This year J.P. Crawford (1), Scott Kingery (3), Jorge Alfaro (4), Ramon Quinn (13), Seranthony Dominguez (14), Victor Arano (30), and Jesmuel Valentin (32) all have or will have graduated off of … Read more
When I sat down to write the pre-season Top 50 there were two glaring positional weaknesses in the system catcher and third base. Only one third baseman (Jake Holmes) made the list, and that position has seen some natural improvement with bounce backs by Zach Green and Luke Williams and the drafting of Alec Bohm. … Read more
I am not an amateur, and I am very not an international amateur scout. Almost all of what I am about to say about players has come from various public sources. That said, much of the international signing deadline, like the draft is about process and philosophy. The Phillies philosophy in Latin America has been … Read more
The draft is over and the short season games are about to begin. The Phillies have two GCL teams, of which we likely won’t know the rosters until the first games. What we do have is a preliminary Williamsport roster. Here’s the preliminary roster for the Williamsport @crosscutters … Reminder that this will change a … Read more
The MLB draft is extremely hard to judge in the immediate aftermath. Some of the college players we may know about their careers in a couple of years, but as we saw with Mitch Walding recently, it can take 7 years before we actually know what the Phillies have in some of their draft picks. … Read more
The Phillies clearly didn’t have the money to take some flyers on someone deciding to not go to school at the last minute, opting to take a bunch more guys that should be able to sign, with the exception of a few guys. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 31st Round – Tyler … Read more
The Phillies took their first college seniors in the 25th and 26th rounds, but also a bunch of maybe signable high schoolers. It will be interesting to see who they can sign. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 21st Round – Jake Smith, RHP, Chapel Hill Sr HS (NC) Smith is another skinny … Read more
Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 16th Round – Tyler McKay, RHP, Howard College (TX) A big (6’6″) righty out of junior college, McKay is up to 94 with a slider and looks like a reliever all the way. 17th Round – Keylan Killgore, LHP, Wichita State A college teammate of Alec Bohm, … Read more
As I mentioned yesterday, we would know very quickly on Day 3 of the draft how much money the Phillies had available to go overslot on later picks. If they had money left than it was likely they would go with a big name high school player in the 11th round, if not it was … Read more