A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman 
Another weekend of action ahead of us with 8 teams going per day. No matchup really stood out, but I can always highlight days that Franklyn Kilome starts. Lehigh Valley: (vs Louisville) Friday: Chad Billingsley Saturday: Jason Berken Sunday: Severino Gonzalez After Maikel Franco got his promotion the IronPigs were rather bare. Since then they … Read more
You guys asked a lot of questions and I answered them and had a ton of fun doing it. Dash Treyhorn: What’s Aaron Altherr‘s ceiling? At one point we regarded players of Altherr’s athleticism as having near infinite upside, but we know better than that. Aaron Altherr presents a paradox that Eric Longenhagen once laid … Read more
The transactions keep flying in. Andrew Knapp was the Phillies 2nd round pick in the 2013 draft. He injured his elbow that summer and had to have Tommy John surgery in the offseason. This caused him to miss the start of 2014 and not catch full time until mid-summer. This year he is hitting .262/.356/.369 … Read more
More news of the unsurprising variety this morning (though not all teams let their top pitchers go), but J.P. Crawford and Aaron Nola will be representing the Phillies in the Futures Game at All-Star weekend. Both are far and away the Phillies best prospects. This will be Crawford’s second trip to the game after going … Read more
This transaction has been the worst kept secret in the organization as Malquin Canelo and Rhys Hoskins waited to play in the SAL All-Star game on Wednesday. Second round pick Scott Kingery and fourth round pick Kyle Martin have been waiting in Clearwater for the BlueClaws to get back from break before joining the team. … Read more
I was going to wait for BP to publish these all in one place, but they haven’t so I thought I would consolidate these reports in a single spot because I think they are very good and important to read. Baseball Prospectus’ Tucker Blair made the journey to Hagerstown where he caught most of a series … Read more
Clearwater technically has not wrapped up the first half of its season (it has two more games with Daytona before that), but the All-Star break gives as good a time as any to check in on the Threshers to see how things are going in Florida. Crawford Rampages: For a month J.P. Crawford used the … Read more
The GCL roster is always full of hope, but the current version could be one of the best in recent memory. The infield should feature 3 Top July 2 prospects who signed for a combined $2.5 million, all are 17 or younger. Unlike last year, the GCL roster will be bolstered by some additions from … Read more
Hitter Spotlight: Jose Pujols 8-13 4 2B 3B SB K It is hard for someone to have a better start than Pujols did for Williamsport. It is a big start for the lanky right fielder, who might have the best raw tools in the system. Pujols has really struggled with the mental aspects of the … Read more
Often short season ball is the place where the current crop of college draftees go to get their feet wet. However, in recent years, the rise of the Phillies’ Latin Program has made it a place of breakouts for unknown players both from the Caribbean complexes and from the GCL. That trend should continue in … Read more