A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Baseball America is starting their league Top 20 prospects. Up today was the GCL, where the Phillies fielded a very competitive team full of high upside prospects lead by #10 overall pick Cornelius Randolph. The Phillies placed 3 players on BA’s list and probably would have had quite a few more had the list gone … Read more
It is always cautioned that the first Arizona Fall League rosters are preliminary. The first casualty was right handed starter Nick Pivetta who experienced an oblique injury in his final start for Reading. Given normal injury recovery, Pivetta likely would have been healthy to pitch in the AFL but by the time he ramped up … Read more
The Fightin Phils dispatched the Binghamton Mets with ease in the first round of the Eastern League playoffs, setting them up for a 5 game series with the Bowie Baysox (Orioles) for the championship. Starting Pitching: Game 1 (@Reading): Zach Eflin Game 2 (@Reading): Ethan Martin Game 3 (@Bowie): Jake Thompson Game 4 (@Bowie): Ben Lively … Read more
Outside those that follow the minor leagues closely, Ken Giles was a relative unknown before he showed up to camp in 2014. It was with good reason, because while Giles was a known quantity out of JuCo in the 2011 draft (he touched 100 with an average to above average slider), he missed most of … Read more
The best team in the Phillies’ system both on the field and for prospects all season has been the Reading Fightin Phils. The rotation has gone from vaunted to fringy, to vaunted again. The team received a big boost this July as it was bolstered with trade acquisitions and the explosion of Andrew Knapp. Based … Read more
The Williamsport Crosscutters lead the Pinckney division from poll to poll with a team that may have lacked in some prospect fire power, but made up for it with a very solid 2015 draft. Much like the Threshers the Crosscutters will play a three game series, however the following series will be a three game series … Read more
Today starts the first of three playoff series for the Phillies’ affiliates. The Threshers open up a three game series with the Daytona Tortugas, if they win they will play a five game series with the winner of the South Division best of three series. Pitching Matchups: Game 1 (@Daytona): Ricardo Pinto vs Amir Garrett … Read more
Baseball Betsy posted the first roster and final schedule for instructional leagues up on her site. I want to talk about the roster so you are going to have to actually click the link if you want to when and where they are playing games. So without further delay here is the roster (the roster … Read more
The Phillies have done an incredible job rebuilding their minor league system in the past 12 months. They have built up incredible depth and acquired some real cornerstone pieces to put around their existing pieces like J.P. Crawford, Aaron Nola, and Maikel Franco. The hitting side of the system has some real impact talent, but … Read more
Each year it seems like the talent in the Arizona Fall League gets even more crazy. This year the Phillies are adding to the very high end talent present by sending the #2 prospect in baseball to the desert. It wasn’t clear whether the Phillies would push J.P. Crawford’s season to make up for his … Read more