A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This piece assumes that you have read Robert Orr’s piece on Baseball Prospectus on Corey Seager and how Seager’s swing decisions are elite, so if you have not read that click the link and then come back here. From there Rob walks through various more traditional swing decision metrics before creating a new metric dubbed … Read more
I kicked off this series of musings with some thoughts about money and how it affects the decisions the Phillies can and should make this offseason. Next on the list of thoughts is laying out a general plan or sort of a framework of what they have and what they need to do. A framework … Read more
I am going to blame Destiny Lugardo who got me to actually start writing some offseason stuff with this tweet. Friendly Phillies offseason reminder: It’s not your money! — Destiny Lugardo (@destiny_lugardo) October 30, 2023 She is 100% correct, fans shouldn’t care about efficiency in spending or spending in general, for the most part. However, … Read more
There are many ways to win in the postseason, but in the last few years the trend has emerged that with the way rest days are in the postseason a team can rely on 2 starting pitchers and 2-3 shutdown relievers and ride them through the postseason. It is the model the Phillies took in … Read more
Alec Bohm, Bryson Stott, Brandon Marsh, Jake Cave, Garrett Stubbs, Rodolfo Castro, Johan Rojas, Cristopher Sánchez, Gregory Soto, Seranthony Dominguez, and Andrew Bellatti (now Yunior Marte). That is the complete list of players on the Phillies 28 man roster than can be sent to AAA without their permission or being subject to waivers. You can … Read more
The Phillies were a flawed team entering yesterday’s trade deadline and there wasn’t really a way out of it for the Phillies front office. The main problem that has plagued the team all season has been the lack of performance from their well paid players, particularly hitters. The Phillies weren’t going to solve that at … Read more
News broke on Wednesday that RHP Noah Song’s time in active service was ending and that he would be reporting to Phillies Spring Training. The Phillies acquired Song in the Rule 5 draft, selecting him off of Boston’s AAA roster. Song was a 4th round pick in the 2019 draft, but would have been a … Read more
Next Tuesday all teams will need to add any prospects they want to protect from the Rule 5 draft to their 40 man rosters. The Phillies have largely made moves at the deadline (Brown and O’Hoppe) and during the season (Guthrie and Hall) that have decreased the number of players that are in contention for … Read more
Yesterday, I kicked off the offseason by resetting the 40 man roster, and surprise I decided to write two days in a row and break up sort of the offseason moves portion into the obvious and the crazy, and start with the obvious. These are the moves that sort of must happen. Now some have … Read more
Part of making a run to the World Series is that the offseason comes very quickly. No one is complaining, but there is very little time before shifting into offseason mode. I don’t know how many offseason pieces I will end up writing so I won’t number them, but I figured why not actually do … Read more