A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Matt Winkelman Top Prospects Mick Abel – Abel is the Phillies top healthy prospect and probably the most impactful prospect still in the minors for the 2024 season. Abel isn’t on the IronPigs Opening Day roster, but is expected to join them very early. He has remade himself a bit over the last year. This offseason he … Read more
There will always be truths to baseball. One of those will be that players should not swing at bad pitches and should swing at good pitches. There is more nuance to that and I encourage you to read Rob Orr’s piece on that and the metric SEAGER that he created to measure it. It is … Read more
As you may have noticed, this place has undergone some changes this offseason. After years of letting it slowly crumble, I put some effort into making it look a little nicer and work a little smoother. The goal was to do it all for myself in an effort to grasp onto motivation when it strikes. … Read more
For those that were not in the weeds of the minor leagues, it may not have been noticed that domestic minor league rosters were cut down to 165 during the season and 175 during the offseason. This change has had impacts on many different groups of players and there are outstanding concerns as the season … Read more
The Phillies prospects faced off against their Tigers counterparts on Thursday afternoon, and after jumping out to the early lead, fell 5-1 behind from some poor defense, bad pitch location, and two Jace Jung home runs. It was however, a one game exhibition featuring an extremely young Phillies lineup. The youth was very apparent on … Read more
A little late coming, but not every prospect can make the list and some weren’t particularly close. However, it is time to dump all of the notes I do have, because some of these guys could surprise because many are still kids and an eternity away or things just click sometimes for players who aren’t … Read more
We are currently 6 games into Spring Training, a time when we are still seeing minor league players get into games and the novelty of the return of major league baseball has not worn off. There are very few actual takeaways one can make from 6 games, and especially 6 games where a starting pitcher … Read more
This year MLB is doing a new thing called the Spring Breakout where a team of prospects from one team will play a team of prospects from another. They are 7 inning games (though teams can agree to make them 9 if they would like)- EDIT: Phillies vs Tigers has been changed to a 9 … Read more
Whit Merrifield used to be a really solid baseball player. He came to the major late as a 9th round pick out of college who spent a bunch of time in the minors. At his peak he was a second baseman who had above average offense due to great contact rates, and great speed (which … Read more
The Major League Baseball offseason has been insanely slow. The Phillies entered the offseason with one big goal and then some modest ones. They needed to bring back Aaron Nola or replace him. They opted to strike early and bring back Nola. They targeted Yoshinobu Yamamoto as a rare young pitcher who could be part … Read more