A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The Phillies go off all board and take a HS shortstop in Lucas Williams. Williams was a pop up player this spring who is a plus runner who has played all over the diamond but looks like he should play shortstop. As a senior over 32 games Wilaosn hit .315/.454/.521 with 4 HRs 21 BB … Read more
After taking a high school hitter in the first round, the Phillies took Kevin Newman’s (1st round #19) double play partner out of the University of Arizona. Some scouts actually prefer Kingery to Newman and think that he may be able to play shortstop in the majors. It is likely he will play second base … Read more
ith the #10 pick in the draft the Phillies selected Cornelius Randolph out Griffin HS in Georgia. Randolph is currently a shortstop, but the consensus is that he will move off of the position going forward. His lack of speed means that third base is probably the first position he will move to. Randolph is one … Read more
The 2015 MLB Draft Kicks off tonight June 8 with rounds 1 and 2, Day 2 will be rounds 3-10, and Day 3 will be rounds 11-40. This post will be updated as picks come in with details and links as they become available. Draft Page: Draft Reactions: Phillies Minor Thoughts ESPN BP – … Read more
It is finally time for the 2015 draft. Like everything in the process up to now I am going to focus on the 1st round only since it is impossible enough to figure out what is happening in the 9 picks before the Phillies pick at 10. Here is my final ranking if I were … Read more
We are now only a couple of days from the draft and the mock drafts keep coming from everywhere. The best part of mock drafts is getting a feel for who would fall if certain teams make a pick. This year in particular it gives a you a good feel for just how flat the … Read more
In part one of the our preview I looked at the six guys who will be off the board by the time the Phillies pick at #10. Now let’s think about who could be there with the Phillies’ pick. I have broken it up into guys who have a very good chance to fill those … Read more
The last two years we had drafts that appeared to be just as many players deep as the Phillies pick. In 2013, it appeared there was a group of 16 players going at the top of the draft, the Royals then reached for Hunter Dozier allowing shortstops J.P. Crawford and Tim Anderson to fall to … Read more
Both Baseball America and Fangraphs put up their first mock draft. The goal here is more about the players who are expected to go in the range mixed in with some rumors. So without getting into it too much, here are what they have to say about the Phillies at #10: Fangraphs: 10. Phillies – Tyler … Read more
I have resisted writing about the MLB draft for a couple of reasons so far, the first being that I am woefully unqualified to really talk about anything other than pick #10, there are just too many players for me to really track for anything beyond that. The second is that all of the injuries … Read more