A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman Last Week’s Schedule All full season teams played 3 game series Friday-Sunday This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Otto Kemp 3-12 1 HR 3 RBI 0 BB 2 K 1 HBP .250/.308/.500 A 3 game series is a good time to highlight a player who has been under the radar for a while. Kemp is … Read more
The Rule 5 draft has largely been rendered obsolete as a talent acquisition tool, but the threat of it and the managing of the 40 man roster spurs other parts of player movement. The Phillies under Dave Dombrowski have largely tried to keep their 40 man roster limited to players who can play in the … Read more
Today, as I start writing this, is Wednesday. There is no baseball game tonight, tomorrow there will also be no baseball game. Last Saturday, 30 major league teams and over 100 minor league teams played baseball. In the middle of that afternoon, MLB played its Futures Game. An event that it hypes only a little, … Read more
The draft ended yesterday afternoon. The Phillies selected 20 players and have a chance, but not guarantee, to sign all 20. They have reportedly already come to deals to with three undrafted free agents and I expect that number will increase some, especially if not all draftees are signed, but not be a huge number … Read more
With roster restrictions the Phillies have signed fewer undrafted free agents than they have in the past, but they still sign a handful each year. The majority will be pitchers, but I expect them to add a catcher, a corner infielder, and maybe another infielder. This isn’t a place with many stars, but the Phillies … Read more
Since it looks like the Phillies don’t have a pile of money to spend, I am going to condense their day 3 picks into a running thread. Round 11: Titan Hayes, RHP, Austin Peay (TN) Hayes is a redshirt junior who has bounced around before landing at Austin Peay where he was ok in relief. … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule *Part of double header This Week’s Schedule All full season teams are playing 3 game series Friday-Sunday Hitter Spotlight SS Aidan Miller 2-4 2 RBI – Jersey Shore / 0-1 RBI K – Futures Game It is a bit of an out to feature Miller this week when he played in one … Read more
After taking two high school outfielders, the Phillies spent much of Day 2 of the draft leaving us asking the question of “Do they know they can take pitchers?”. The thing about the MLB draft is you can have a real dedicated strategy, like the year the Angels only took pitchers or they Yankees this … Read more
To end Day 2 of the draft the Phillies take Brady Day from Kansas State. He was listed as a shortstop, but played exclusively at second this year, but has been all over the diamond in his time. Day was selected in the 12th round by the Braves last year, but didn’t sign. He hit … Read more
The Phillies are now into their take pitchers with problems phase with RHP Marcus Morgan from Iowa in the 9th round. His ERA was good in 2023 (3.72) but it came with 51 walks in 65.1 innings. In 2024, it was a 7.45 ERA in 54.1 innings with 53 walks and 64 strikeouts. He is … Read more