A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Everyone is playing now, so here is your June stat wrap J.P. Crawford (REA) – .273/.371/.421 8 2Bs 2 3Bs 2 HR 2 SB 19 BB 14 K Aaron Nola (LHV) – 2 GS 2.25 ERA 12.0 IP 10 H 2 BB 9 K (REA) /3 GS 1.53 ERA 17.2 IP 15 H 5 BB … Read more
Each month we are going to do a quick recap of stats for the month to give a snapshot in time of the system. I will start with the Top 50 prospects from the offseason with some additional players of note at the bottom. J.P. Crawford (REA) – 21 G .392/.489/.443 1 2B 1 HR … Read more
I am going to try and do this every month with just a quick roundup of the monthly stats (and yearly) as well as injury updates if available. J.P. Crawford (CLW) – Oblique Injury, playing in Extended Spring Training Aaron Nola (REA) – 4 GS 2.55 ERA 24.2 IP 2 BB 18 K Maikel Franco … Read more
As I alluded to in the comments of the Top 50 and in the numbers breakdown, relief pitchers were undervalued in the ranking process. On a singular level, relievers are extremely volatile. They can have good value (both Chapman and Kimbrel have eclipsed 3 wins in a season), but their value is limited to a … Read more
Not every prospect is a future star, but that doesn’t mean they should be ignored. Many useful prospects can fly under the radar because they lack the flash of better prospects. By capping the rankings at 50 I had to leave many of these players off of my list. This is not the best prospects … Read more
Creating any prospect list is a ton of work behind the scenes, but along the way there are many neat little facts and discoveries. One of my favorite is the list itself. The names involved in it can tell you a lot about the organization and how it acquires talent. There is not a lot of … Read more
The past year has seen a lot of changes in the Phillies system; as the major league club transitions into a rebuilding phase, more and more emphasis is being put on the farm system. A criticism often levied against the Phillies system is that it lacks impact and near term help. As for the impact, I … Read more
As we get closer to the top 10, the players in the system start to separate themselves into specific tiers of talent and profile. In the last three groups of 10 the players could arguably have been slotted in many different orders. Here those groups become smaller and the order starts to become more important. I am making … Read more
The Top 30 seems to be the standard for long prospect lists, and so it becomes the standard of comparison across multiple lists. Given that we started at 50 we can see the transition into the Top 30 is fairly gradual, but as we start to really climb up the list we see real quality … Read more
This group from 31-40 is full of the players I was excited to put in my Top 30, but the Phillies went ahead and, since August, acquired 7 players that are in the Top 30 of this list. This leaves a group of 10 players with some real talent and major league upside. Traditionally, because of the … Read more