A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
What a Father’s Day. All week long, my family and I looked forward to this game and all week long it looked like it was going to be a wash out. But much to our surprise, the skies cleared up and the sun came out and baseball was played. Attending this game would mean that … Read more
My wife, by nature, is a planner. When we decide to go to a game, tickets are ordered well in advance. Very rarely, if ever, will we decide to go to a game at the last minute. Fortunately, for the purposes of this blog, she wasn’t feeling well enough to attend our son’s baseball game … Read more
The GCL roster is always full of hope, but the current version could be one of the best in recent memory. The infield should feature 3 Top July 2 prospects who signed for a combined $2.5 million, all are 17 or younger. Unlike last year, the GCL roster will be bolstered by some additions from … Read more
Often short season ball is the place where the current crop of college draftees go to get their feet wet. However, in recent years, the rise of the Phillies’ Latin Program has made it a place of breakouts for unknown players both from the Caribbean complexes and from the GCL. That trend should continue in … Read more
Is it possible that I haven’t attended a game in over 3 weeks? Nothing at all since my last post? Of course not. I’ve been fortunate to see a few recent Iron Pigs games and even a Fightins game since the time I wrote but either had nothing to write about paid so little attention … Read more
Time to return from our draft high to talk about existing prospects and their ailments. Kelly Dugan Dugan has been sidelined since spring due to a stress fracture in his foot. He has been playing in Extended Spring Training for a couple of weeks now. Today the Phillies activated Dugan from the Reading DL and … Read more
Gabriel Lino has been a pleasant surprise in the early going this year. The 22 year old catcher was acquired in 2012 along with RHP Kyle Simon for 1B Jim Thome. At the time Lino was very raw with plus power and a plus arm, to go along with some swing and defensive issues. He … Read more
After a delay due to rain on Saturday, the DSL Phillies season started yesterday with a split in a double header vs the DSL Royals. In many years the VSL and DSL are places we look over as a fan, because the Phillies have brought all of their top prospects stateside immediately. This doesn’t seem … Read more
The announcement of Philadelphia Phillies pitching prospect Jesse Biddle skipping his previous start before he returned to Reading’s rotation against New Hampshire Tuesday night surely worried a good amount of Phillies’ fans. A majority of the fan base has seemed to give up on Biddle over the last calendar year but they shouldn’t. Jesse Biddle's … Read more
Phillies’ top ten prospects Aaron Nola, Zach Eflin and Jesse Biddle are the top starting pitchers with the Reading Fightin Phils. While Reading boasts five potential major league starters, the Fightin Phils final two starters, Ben Lively and Tom Windle, are bigger question marks and lack the upside like Reading’s front three. Lively, 22, was … Read more