A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The MLB draft is extremely hard to judge in the immediate aftermath. Some of the college players we may know about their careers in a couple of years, but as we saw with Mitch Walding recently, it can take 7 years before we actually know what the Phillies have in some of their draft picks. … Read more
The Phillies clearly didn’t have the money to take some flyers on someone deciding to not go to school at the last minute, opting to take a bunch more guys that should be able to sign, with the exception of a few guys. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 31st Round – Tyler … Read more
The Phillies took their first college seniors in the 25th and 26th rounds, but also a bunch of maybe signable high schoolers. It will be interesting to see who they can sign. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 21st Round – Jake Smith, RHP, Chapel Hill Sr HS (NC) Smith is another skinny … Read more
Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 16th Round – Tyler McKay, RHP, Howard College (TX) A big (6’6″) righty out of junior college, McKay is up to 94 with a slider and looks like a reliever all the way. 17th Round – Keylan Killgore, LHP, Wichita State A college teammate of Alec Bohm, … Read more
As I mentioned yesterday, we would know very quickly on Day 3 of the draft how much money the Phillies had available to go overslot on later picks. If they had money left than it was likely they would go with a big name high school player in the 11th round, if not it was … Read more
For all pick analysis, visit the draft tracker which links to instant reactions for all picks. Day 2 of the draft is always a bit crazy, the order of players coming off the board doesn’t make a ton of sense at times, but the players are good. It is really the meat of the draft … Read more
As expected, the Phillies went with a college senior in round 10 in South Carolina 3B Madison Stokes. Stokes had a very pedestrian first 3 years of college, struggling both to hit and stay healthy. He did break out big time in 2018, hitting .342/.424/.609 for the Gamecocks with 11 doubles and 10 home runs. … Read more
As mentioned in the 8th round, the Phillies looked to be saving slot money for something, the best bet at the time was their 11th round pick (more on how this all works in the day’s recap). Instead the Phillies take their overslot guy now in HS RHP Dominic Pipkin. Pipkin has good size at … Read more
The nature of the major league baseball draft is that draft slots force picks for money saved and not necessarily talent. The caveat is college seniors with no leverage, but high performance will sign for below slot while giving a team a chance at a player with actual tools (the moral part of all of … Read more
Sometimes during the draft the guys on the broadcast don’t have anything on a player, and the Phillies 8th round pick of LHP Gabriel Cotto out of the Puerto Rico BB Academy left them stumped. It is easy to see why the Phillies like him. Jonathan Mayo eventually got a report that Cotto is a … Read more