A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman I want to do something fun and interesting (at least to me) with rankings this year and walking through my process. However, that requires doing some ranked choice voting, and I didn’t want to go down that full path without trialing it, so I wanted a test run with something a bit more light. So … Read more
Schedule How We Got Here For the second year in a row the Phillies loaded up their Florida State League team with members of their newest draft class. The Threshers went 43-23 in the first half to just edge the Flying Tigers. Hitting wise, Aidan Miller, Jordan Viars, Keaton Anthony, and Trent Farquhar were particularly … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B Keaton Anthony 11-23 1 2B 1 HR 1 BB 2 K .478/.520/.652 Keaton Anthony got the rare midweek promotion of an actual prospect. The Phillies had to strongly thinking about bumping him to Reading anyway for the extra week of games, but the rash of injuries … Read more
The Phillies have not had many call ups this year and none of real note, but… It isn’t that Seth Johnson is a top top prospect, I suspect he will be in the 11-20 range on the offseason list, but he is a prospect of note. Unlike most of his peers both new and old … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from midseason list / Statcast stats from Robert Orr’s website Stock Up RHP Eiberson Castellano (#24) – Last month was focused on Eiberson breaking into the prospect ranks, but he followed up his solid season with a dominant August where he posted a 1.64 ERA in AA with 5 walks and … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Hendry Mendez 8-17 1 2B 1 3B 2 RBI 4 BB 1 K .471/.571/.647 Since the start of July, Mendez is hitting .338/.424/.507 with 14 doubles, 2 triples, and 2 home runs. After hitting just 6 extra base hits in the first half, it is a … Read more
After his terrible start on Wednesday afternoon, the calls from fans to release Taijuan Walker have only gotten louder. The Phillies have justifiably dragging their feet up to this point on making the most final of decisions they can make. There are scenarios flying around about how the Phillies could delay that decision. They could … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Emaarion Boyd 5 G 8-24 1 2B 2 3B 1 HR 6 RBI 2 SB 0 BB 5 K Boyd had 2 hit games in the last 4 games of the series, and is now batting .295/.349/.459 in August, far and away his best month of … Read more
Each year the Phillies honor one pitcher and one hitter (with some occasional small exceptions) with the Paul Owens Award as the best hitting and pitching performance of the year. It is not always the best prospect, but you can see below that sometimes the best prospect, particularly hitter just also is the best performer. … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Kehden Hettiger 5-14 1 2B 1 3B 2 H 4 BB 3 K .357/.500/1.000 Hettiger has had a rough season. This last little stretch has him over .200 for the first time this season, now at a .208/.364/.339 line on the season. He has been kept … Read more