A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The long-winded roller coaster known as the 2017 Phillies has finally come to a close, and with it a ton of optimism. The Phillies started the season at 26-51 through June 28 with pretty much everything going wrong. Then the first offensive weapon arrived in Nick Williams and that slowly started things until Jorge Alfaro … Read more
It is not a deep revelation to say that a major problem for the Phillies has been drafting. Their record of ineptness is of public record, and the result are showing (or not showing) on the field for the Phillies. The worst moment was after the 2013 draft when it came out that the Phillies … Read more
The safe assumption is that major league baseball teams will sign their top 10 round picks. The loss of slot money for not signing a player gives teams strong incentive to agree to deals before drafting a player, and then not pissing off everyone involved for next year’s negotiations helps enforce all of the handshake … Read more
The 48 hour frenzy is complete. It all concluded yesterday, with the final 30 rounds (900 picks) flying by in a short six and a half hours. The Phillies entered the day having picked eight 4-year college/JUCO players in the first ten rounds, which may have given them room to go over slot on some … Read more
Day 3 of the draft is organized chaos. It isn’t all over the place it is one very quick beat of names and draft Ids and mad scramble for all of the rest of us to figure out who that kid is. The Phillies under Almaraz have typically gone pitcher heavy on day 3, and … Read more
The Phillies wrapped up their draft with a strong last 5 picks. No neoptism, just more JuCo and HS players to try and sign. Sorry it is all a bit thin, I will see what I can find. Draft Tracker Round 36: Joe Breaux, OF, McLennan CC “Joe Bro” went only a few picks before … Read more
The Phillies have started to reach into the high school pitching ranks, they are unlikely to sign everyone, but it gives them some options. As always I will update when more info comes in. Draft Tracker Round 31: Danny Mayer, OF, University of the Pacific Mayer became a starter in his junior year and hit … Read more
I don’t have a lot to go on here for these 5 picks so I will give you what I have and update as I learn more. Draft Tracker Round 26: Quincy Nieporte, 1B, Florida St Nieporte was arrested in 2015 for $1000 in vandalism, but otherwise has been 3 years (spent 2014 at JuCo) … Read more
Five more picks off the board as we continue on a pace of about 24 seconds per pick. The Phillies did get a little bit exciting for a couple of picks. Draft Tracker Round 21: Jakob Hernandez, LHP, University of Texas Arlington Hernandez is a big lefty (6’4″ 275lbs) who led all junior college pitchers … Read more
I mentioned earlier in the day that from about round 14 or 15 the Phillies would go on a run of mostly college arms. That run started in round 14 and only had a one player deviation along the way. The Phillies took some arm strength and projection guys, and some college performers along the … Read more