A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The MLB draft starts today June 3 at 7pm. The Phillies have the #14 overall pick, but will not make a pick in the 2nd round, having surrendered their pick to sign Bryce Harper. This means that over 3 days the Phillies will make 39 picks. Follow along for daily recaps and pick by pick … Read more
We are starting to enter the season of ordered lists of prospects. I have started on mine and have had a few run past me, and there is something very evident, the Phillies system is kind of dull. It isn’t surprising that they will likely be in the middle 10 of prospect lists this offseason. … Read more
Every draft pick matters. It is a concept that makes sense on paper, but when you start to see picks come off the board on Day 3 of the draft, it is much easier to see the low minors roster depth than actual talent. While teams can give any player picked after the 10th round … Read more
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
On Monday night the Phillies took Alec Bohm with the third overall pick. It would then feel like an eternity before we would see them pick another player. In fact they would watch 103 draft picks go by, before they would make their first selection on day two of the MLB Draft. But as Almaraz … 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