A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Season Recap Record: 68-81 A lot of the potential excitement of an IronPigs season revolved around Aidan Miller and Gabriel Ricones Jr. getting healthy and getting some reinforcements from Reading. Miller ended up missing most of the season and never actually getting to AAA. Rincones had a season plagued by injuries and poor play. Then … Read more
Hitter Spotlight IF Aidan Miller 4 G 4-14 1 2B 3 RBI 6 BB 5 K 2 SB Due to the postseason schedule, Miller never played back to back days in his return, but he was a 9 inning player all through the postseason at third base. He looked rusty at both the plate and … Read more
Two batters into Tuesday night Erie had themselves a 2-0 lead, and for 3 more innings it looked like pitching would once again be the story of the Eastern League championship series. The teams had played a 1-0 game two days early that had seen the only run score on a 9th inning sacrifice fly … Read more
Season Recap Record: 74-55 (Lost in FSL Division Series) The Phillies once again sent their draft class to Clearwater, which once again led to a dominant first have from the Threshers including qualifying for the postseason. The wrinkle this season was that the Phillies 2025 draft class was full of pitching which meant the hitting … Read more
Season Recap Record: 47-83 It was not a good season for the BlueClaws, in fact the team spent most of the season mostly talentless and struggling through games. Some of that is the Phillies drafting and developing, coupled with some aggressive promotions that left the initial team highly lacking. Then it got skipped over by … Read more
Regular Season Record: 70-67 It wasn’t that Reading was a black hole like Jersey Shore to open the year, they were mostly mediocre, but there were some bright spots and some hits to their team. They had injuries to Dante Nori and Carson DeMartini, lost Dylan Campbell to trade, Chuck King to promotion, and had … Read more
Coming into the 2026 season, I had buried Bryan Rincon at #44 on my offseason ranking. I had been a fan of his back after the 2023 season, but two years of injuries had led to him rarely being on the field and being pretty bad when he was playing leaving me skeptical he would … Read more
Regular Season Record: 74-55 (40-26 first half / 34-29 second half) The Phillies once again sent the majority of their draft class to open the year with the Threshers, and once again they won the first half to send the team to the postseason. That also means that Gage Wood, Cade Obermueller, Cody Bowker, Gabe … Read more
Season Recap Record: 36-20 (2-1 in DSL Cup, did not advance) The Phillies made the decision this spring to reduce their DSL footprint from 2 teams to just 1. They were coming off of disappointing seasons for both teams and were adding a relatively shallow signing class due to the signing bonus for Francisco Renteria. … Read more
Regular Season Recap The Phillies wrapped up their season on Tuesday, finishing 36-20 with a +46 run differential. Their record was tied for 7th in the 45 team league, and they won the East division by 2 games over the NYY Yankees and Tigers 2, both of whom also advanced to the postseason. They were … Read more