A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman This Week’s Schedule *Last game of FCL season is Thursday July 24 Hitter Spotlight C Paul McIntosh 7-12 4 2B 1 HR 4 RBI 1BB 0 K .583/.615/1.167 McIntosh came over to the Phillies in the Jesus Luzardo deal, but has only played in 40 games due to missing a month to an injury and … Read more
This Week’s Schedule *All full season teams playing 3 game series Hitter Spotlight 3B Francisco Loreto 4 G 6-13 1 2B 2 HR 5 RBI 2 BB 1 K .462/.533/1.000 Francisco Loreto might be having the most fascinating season in the Phillies org this season. In 2024, he played 30 games in the DSL and … Read more
Entering the draft I wrote the Phillies had an obvious need for pitching. It wasn’t a new or novel concept, and saying they needed both depth and talent was obvious to anyone who started to put together a ranking or tried to figure out who the Phillies had to give up in trade. We may … Read more
I will update this post as picks are made with any information I can find. Round 11: Will Vierling, C, Murray State Will is a cousin of Matt and is a left handed hitting catcher. He played sparingly over two seasons at Louisville before transferring to Murray State and making it to MCWS where they … Read more
After selecting Matthew Fisher in the 7th round, the Phillies were going to need save the rest of the money in order to make that signing possible. That was true for the first player they took in Miami RHP Brian Walters. However in the 9th round they selected a local kid in SS Matthew Ferrera … Read more
After the last few picks it seemed like the Phillies were saving up money for someone, and in HS RHP Matthew Fisher, we have that someone. Fisher was a player that had been linked in various mock drafts to the Phillies as either an under slot first round pick or as an over slot target, … Read more
Make that 6 college arms in a row for the Phillies and a second reliever prospect in LHP James Tallon from Duke. Tallon made 3 starts, but has a junior had a 3.96 ERA in 36.1 innings with 19 walks and 50 strikeouts. Tallon, like Craig is a big lanky guy at 6’5″ 195lbs. Like … Read more
The Phillies continued their college streak in the 5th round with Baylor RHP Gabe Craig. Craig is different than their first 4 picks in that he is a 6th year grad student who just turned 24 and is a pure reliever. This would indicate that this is a under slot deal on Craig’s $422,700 slot … Read more
The Phillies picked up on Day 2 where they left off on Day 1, taking college pitchers. This time it is RHP Sean Youngerman out of Oklahoma St. Youngerman is young for a college junior (turned 21 last week), and spent his first two seasons at Westmont, first as a reliever and then a starter. … Read more
In past drafts there has been smoke both before the draft and afterwards that the Phillies intended to select college pitchers, but the board didn’t fall that way. Drafting three college pitchers with their first 3 picks doesn’t necessarily mean the Phillies set out to rejuvenate a pitching starved organization, but it does mean they … Read more