A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
After taking first place back from the Atlanta Braves the Phillies find themselves a game back heading into a 2 game series with the Red Sox and a 5 game tilt with the Mets. Their month still contains 6 games against the Nationals and a trip north to Toronto. It isn’t a slog like their … Read more
Aaron Altherr, of all people. Aaron Altherr. A career .234 hitting with only 25 home runs in four seasons with the Phillies, 26-year-old Aaron Altherr became the first person ever to hit a grand slam off Dodgers’ ace Clayton Kershaw. … The Dodgers had three home runs themselves but it wasn’t enough to counteract Altherr’s one sweet shot. History is … Read more
Trade Deadline Day can be such a stressful time for a number of executives as they try to make the right move for the team’s future or it’s present. On a day we have seen the Dodgers and Yankees beef up their rotations with Yu Darvish and Sonny Gray respectively, and a whole other bevy … Read more
I usually dislike doing trade speculation, and this is not really about making up trades. Instead what I wanted to do was explore the archetype of the player the Phillies are looking for in trade. What has been reported by a few sources now is that the Phillies are reportedly looking for a package similar … Read more
Warning, the following article has nothing to do with the Phillies, if you want to bail, I won’t judge you. Last week the Red Sox and Padres swapped Drew Pomeranz and Anderson Espinoza. Espinoza has widely been regarded as a Top 20 prospect in the game, and whenever a prospect of that caliber is moved … Read more
In the last few seasons, the Phillies bullpen has cycled through plenty of pitchers whose time in the pinstripes were limited. As the plethora of Latin pitching prospects start to reach the majors, we are starting to see more and more players who will last in the big leagues. Edubray Ramos has shown the potential to be a … Read more
If you made me bet before the year on which of the Phillies major prospects would get to the majors first, I would not have bet on it being Zach Eflin. But with the injuries to Charlie Morton and Vincent Velasquez the Phillies needed a pitcher first. This year Eflin surpassed Jake Thompson in terms … Read more
Much has been made of the Phillies’ record in 1 run games. The 11-3 mark has been pointed to as a mark for why the Phillies are sure to regress. But what if this is not a fluke, because 1 run games are an inherently narrow construct that fails to account for the circumstances that … Read more
From 2008 to 2012, blockbuster trades stripped the Phillies of a lot of their prospects, making the ones they had all the more invaluable to them. However, as the system now looks to be one of the best in baseball, there is excess at certain positions in the organization. While of course the team would love to keep … Read more
I have been wanting to write about the Phillies’ run differential, its predictive value, and the overall construction of a team that combines the truly awful and the dominant, for a while now. The grander discussions of Pythagorean record will have to wait for another day because I want to talk about the amazing and … Read more