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Into the Vault: The Phillies and Sabermetrics

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While digging around the internet to find Amaro quotes I came across this article by Bob Brookover in March of 2012.  From the title “Inside the Phillies: Who needs sabermetrics?” you know that this should be a treasure trove of bad Amaro opinions.  The author gets his opinions on the table very early in the … Read more

Revisiting Pre-Season Minor League Predictions

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It took everyone recapping their major league predictions yesterday for me to remember that I made minor league predictions at the beginning of the year.  So before I forget again, lets see how wrong I was about things.  The original list was published on Phuture Phillies, feel free to peruse the comments for others predictions and opinions as well.

1. Both Maikel Franco and Jesse Biddle do not exhaust their prospect eligibility.  Both are not called up until rosters expand.  Biddle puts up good numbers but is blocked in the major league level and left to make adjustments in AAA.

The first part was right, neither Biddle or Franco exhausted their eligibility this year, and Franco did not come up until rosters expanded.  As for Biddle, he neither put up good numbers, nor was he blocked at the major league level.  I want to give myself partial credit, but I really blew the Biddle prediction.

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Phillies All-Org Team

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We will be spending all offseason talking about prospects, so this is the moment to honor those that put up the best statistical years for the organization.  This list was put together with input from the staff here.

Catcher:
Andrew Knapp (.290/.354/.438 5 HR LKW)

It was a rough start for Knapp in his comeback from Tommy John surgery, but the former second round pick bounced back with a very good season in the South Atlantic League.

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The Hunt for the Paul Owens Award (Pitcher)

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Every year the Paul Owens Award goes to the top hitter and pitcher in the Phillies organization.  The award does not go to the best prospect in the organization, but rather to the one that has performed the best during the past season.  The hitting award should easily go to Phillies top prospect J.P. Crawford who is not only putting up a great stat line (.286/.376/.401), but he has done it across two levels as a 19-year-old playing good defense at a premium position.  On the pitching side the Phillies top prospects have been hindered by being hurt, ineffective, both hurt and ineffective, or having just been drafted this past June.  This leads to a very wide open race for the Paul Owens for pitching.

The Paul Owens Award for pitching has not been the site of illustrious and major league successful names, but it does have its share of top prospects.  The last 10 pitchers in reverse order to win it are Severino Gonzalez, Tyler Cloyd, Trevor May, Scott Mathieson, Kyle Drabek, J.A. Happ, Mike Zagurski, Carlos Carrasco, Robinson Tejeda, and Scott Mitchinson.

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Trading Away the Phillies

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Much has been said on Twitter about Jim Bowden and the trade scenarios he throws out there, much of it insults his work as a General Manager before going on to work at ESPN (though if you bash the trades, acknowledge that he has nailed FA contracts the last few years).  His newest article looks … Read more