A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The Phillies continue a bit of a weird trend into the middle of day 2. In the 7th round they go with another reliever, in a spot where teams often go with an arm that has a chance to start. Brett Schulze moved to the bullpen after his freshman year at Minnesota and saw his … Read more
The string of upside and risk continues for the Phillies with RHP Andrew Schultz out of the University of Tennesse. It isn’t often that high upside is used with relief only profiles in the draft, but Schultz has front line closer raw stuff. His fastball sits in the mid to hi 90s, he will touch … Read more
Phillies continue to go with upside in the draft JuCo RHP Gunner Mayer. Mayer is a recent convert to the mound but is already up to 94 (sitting low 90s) and features a pair of breaking balls. His physical profile just screams upside as he is 6’6″ 190lbs and won’t turn 19 until July. There … Read more
The Phillies return to college in the 4th round of the draft taking 6’5″ 240lb LHP Erik Miller out of Stanford. Miller is not like most of the Phillies recent early college picks (control oriented RHPs), and is actually quite the opposite. He is a big bodied power arm, who has shown inconsistent velocity, but … Read more
With the #91 overall pick the Phillies take a high school shortstop in Jamari Baylor out of Benedictine School in Virginia. there are definitely mixed opinions on him with MLBPipeline ranking him #161, Fangraphs ranking him #74, and Baseball America having him in the 300s. If Stott was safe and solid, then Baylor is risky … Read more
I wrote earlier today about the logic of the MLB draft and how someone was going to fall to the Phillies. The answer was nearly everyone with the Phillies having a choice between RHP Jackson Rutledge, OF Corbin Carroll, LHP Zack Thompson, and their eventual pick SS Bryson Stott. Stott is a junior out of … Read more
I will preface all of this by saying I am not a scout and I am very much not an amateur player scout. What is about to follow comes from talking to people, and reading the internet. It is likely to not contain much actual scouting information, and given the misinformation and lack of information … Read more
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