A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Just because the Phillies did not have an affiliate in the Carolina League did not mean they were not represented. Their trading spree at the trade deadline gained the Phillies’ prospects from across baseball and in this case a hot head closer brought the Phillies back a very interesting arm. 8. Nick Pivetta (RHP) Pivetta … Read more
After a short break the Top 20s continue with the South Atlantic League. The league is how to 14 teams so getting just one or two players on the list can be quite the accomplishment. Lakewood had two prospects made the Top 20, however the two chosen leaves some puzzlement with shortstop Malquin Canelo and … Read more
The League Top 20s march on with the New York Penn League. In general the list tends to be a bit weak outside the top few names. This is because the top HS picks tend to skip over the league, which leaves it with some college draftees who qualify for the innings and PA thresholds, … Read more
Baseball America is starting their league Top 20 prospects. Up today was the GCL, where the Phillies fielded a very competitive team full of high upside prospects lead by #10 overall pick Cornelius Randolph. The Phillies placed 3 players on BA’s list and probably would have had quite a few more had the list gone … Read more
Each year Mike Drago polls people involved with covering the Phillies’ minor league system for their Top 20 prospects and publishes a compiled list with his thoughts for the Reading Eagle. This year he asked if I would like to participate and so I updated my midseason list and sent it in. First lets look at … Read more
Fangraphs’ Kiley McDaniel did a reevaluation of sorts for the state of the minor leagues right now. There isn’t a ton new for Phillies fans since it doesn’t go very deep, but it is an interesting look at pop up guys and other things going on. Crawford at #3: Not much new here, J.P. Crawford comes … Read more
The minor leagues are not a static thing and there is little more challenging than writing anything definitive about prospects while games are going on. Players are constantly changing and adjusting, and the key is to try and stay current during the constantly changing evaluations. This list is just a snapshot in time, and frankly … Read more
I try not to make light of other people’s work on this site, I leave that to Twitter. But I feel obligated to be outraged at the newest MLB Pipeline rankings because they are prominent and highly quoted. I don’t think sites should do deep rankings if they don’t know systems, and it is very clear whoever … Read more
Today BA put out their midseason Top 10 Phillies prospects. I won’t comment too much about the list as I will have my own list out in about two weeks other than to say Kilome is ranked exactly where he should be. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Franklyn Kilome Zach Eflin Ben Lively Roman Quinn Carlos Tocci … Read more
Keith Law put out his mideason Top 50 prospect list today. No surprise that J.P. Crawford was #2 on the list. However, Aaron Nola came in at #38 on the list. I ranted about this on Twitter so I won’t rant here and instead will just leave this. Nola has straight up better stuff … Read more