A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
For most fans, Florida remains a blind spot for prospects and development. It makes us reliant on people based out of Florida to really carry a large burden of reporting, and they do incredibly well. Today we have interviews with two of those people. The first is the voice of the Clearwater Threshers Kirsten Karbach, … Read more
Simple transaction line, J.P. Crawford has been replaced on the Glendale Desert Dogs roster by IF Drew Stankiewicz. All the reports have said that Crawford looks like himself, just a really exhausted form of himself. No reason was given for the switch, Drew is from the Arizona area so the switch to him makes some … Read more
Listening to baseball on the radio is something that will never really get old for me, it is the ultimate story time. You never going to scout a player by listening to the radio, but it will help fill in the details you are missing. For those telling the story they need to be on … Read more
In many ways Lakewood was the forgotten affiliate in 2015. It didn’t get much help to start from a 2014 draft devoid of high school players (though it did get 4th round pick Chris Oliver and 5th round pick Rhys Hoskins), and for the most part it was full of under the radar players. Those … Read more
No reason was given but the Phillies have replaced Dylan Cozens on the AFL roster with Aaron Brown. Cozens finished the year strong with Reading and was playing in the Florida Instructional League as recently as a few days ago. Like Cozens, Brown also missed time in the middle of the year while playing for … Read more
Throughout the season I am interacting with many people watching Phillies’ prospects everyday and this series was my way of bringing that to all of you. Mitch Rupert and Ian Catherine have been my go to people on the Williamsport Crosscutters everyone of the three years I have covered the system. They combine a near … Read more
The lack of high school players selected in the 2014 draft gave the Williamsport Crosscutters a strange base, then they didn’t get any of the top 5 round players the Phillies selected in the 2015 draft leaving the team as a bit of a mutt in terms of team construction. The result however, was a highly … Read more
Minor league relievers get a bad rap. They rank on lists behind starting pitchers who will likely end up in the bullpen eventually, leading them to fly under the radar until they show up in a major league bullpen. Like many spots on minor league teams, bullpens are home to many players who won’t go … Read more
The League Top 20s come to an end with the strongest AAA list I have ever seen come out. The only players on the list to not play in the majors were Jose Berrios, Robert Stephenson, and Josh Bell. Overall the #1 player on the list should win the AL Rookie of the year and … Read more
The season has come to an end so it is time to recap everything that happened. We will have wrap ups on all the affiliates complete with interviews with individuals covering the teams. Additionally, all the players who graduated from offseason lists will get a send off. Any other content from recaps will go where … Read more