A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
July 2 is just about two months away and the Phillies have the largest bonus pool. The fan expectation the last few years has been for the Phillies to spend a lot of money, especially on Cubans, and just blow their whole pol out. Those fans are going to be disappointed again as the Phillies … Read more
I have been wanting to write about the Phillies’ run differential, its predictive value, and the overall construction of a team that combines the truly awful and the dominant, for a while now. The grander discussions of Pythagorean record will have to wait for another day because I want to talk about the amazing and … Read more
Coming into the season it looked like the #1 pick was coming to come down to pitchers with Jason Groome and Riley Pint from the HS side and A.J. Puk and Alec Hanson from the college side. Right now it seems the Phillies have focused in on Puk, but Groome remains the top player on … Read more
Start by some injuries and some returns from injuries there has been some shuffling on the minor league level this week. I am going to quickly run through all of the transactions and then talk about the impact. Adam Morgan recalled by the Phillies Luis Garcia optioned to AAA Alec Asher promoted to AAA Severino … Read more
Adam Morgan is not a prospect, at least not by the arbitrary requirements that govern the Rookie of the Year race. He has 84.1 innings of major league baseball under his belt, during that time he was a #5ish starting pitcher who showed some good and some bad. This spring Morgan had almost a perfect … Read more
So we can’t let tanking go. If the Phillies are bad, they are tanking because they are bad. If they are good, they are tanking because they did not try hard enough to win. The newest champion for the Phillies are Tanking Front is Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors who took on the subject in … Read more
Today Ben Badler of Baseball America posted a list of 10 players that could be in need of a quick promotion. There were 3 Phillies on the list, which got me thinking about other players I thought could use a challenge. The Phillies then immediately promoted one of those players in RHP Miguel Nunez. There … Read more
I love small sample size observations. As long as you are not counting on them being predictive and you do your best to understand why the change has occurred. In this case I was intrigued by Hector Neris’ early start to the season where he has not allowed a run, while walking only 2 and … Read more
With the Phillies’ major league starting rotation having success it has taken some pressure off of the minor leagues to produce, but it has also has accelerated the perceived timeline of the Phillies. This has then focused the spotlight on the Phillies’ top prospects to perform. The top level of the system has been less … Read more
If you follow me on Twitter you may have noticed that I have started to contribute minor league coverage to The Good Phight. I will still be writing here so it won’t be as much a drop in coverage and more just a diversification. Part of that means that my affiliates previews for this season … Read more