Phillies Invite Nine Prospects To Big League Camp

The Phillies have been slowly adding non-roster invites to big league camp from outside the organization, and today we get the internal candidates.  Last year the Phillies invited almost no prospects who were not on the 40 man roster to big league camp, though Severino Gonzalez, Aaron Nola, and Zach Eflin all did start big … Read more

A Holiday Phillies Prospect Mailbag

With the holidays and the Top 50, writing time is getting scarce, so rather than find topics, I am letting you all do the job.  So I asked for your questions, and here are my answers. Corrine (@Ut26) – Who is Harold Arauz? I see we are starting off hard here.  The truth is that … Read more

The Ken Giles Trade Changed for the Strange

Yesterday we thought that Ken Giles was going to Houston for Vincent Velasquez, Derek Fisher, Brett Oberholtzer, and Thomas Eshelman.  Now take out Derek Fisher, send Jonathan Arauz to Houston, and now send former #1 overall pick Mark Appel and short season arm Harold Arauz to Philadelphia.  Overall you have a very complicated trade now. … Read more