A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
So on February 19 Baseball Prospectus released their post-trade updates for National League Teams. I missed this update for 2 weeks because I am apparently blind. Their original list was released in November. This update was only putting in the trade additions into the original list. This puts the Phillies list now as: J.P. Crawford … Read more
Baseball America released their Top 100 prospects tonight. Three Phillies made the list as well suspected, though they did place a bit higher than expected. The full list can be found here. J.P. Crawford (SS) Aaron Nola (RHP) Maikel Franco (3B)
Kiley McDaniel continues what has been a very informative trip through prospects across the league with his Top 200 prospects. Kiley has divided the list into tiers based on his Future Value (FV) for each prospect. The result is a list that really gives more meaning than the pure numeric ranking in front of each … Read more
Baseball Prospectus published their organization rankings today. The Phillies came in at #20 overall up from #25 a year ago. I feel like it is a bit low, but a lot of that has to do with Baseball Prospectus ranking J.P. Crawford at #36 overall, which is considerably lower in talent than where I think … 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
Baseball Prospectus continued the stream of rankings with their annual top 101 prospects in baseball. The list was previously released in the BP Annual but they have put it up on the site free to read. The Phillies have 3 prospects in the rankings with shortstop J.P. Crawford at #36, right handed pitcher Aaron Nola … Read more
Now that they are done ranking all teams, Baseball America has gone back and updated their Top 10s for all teams with their new acquisitions. They did not update the writeups, but all prospects should appear in the book under some team. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Zach Eflin Tom Windle Ben Lively Roman … 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
MLB.com continues their prospect rankings with their Top 100 prospects. On their positional lists J.P. Crawford came in as the #5 SS and Maikel Franco was the #5 3B. The Phillies follow that up with 3 players on the Top 100 with Crawford leading the way at #21, Aaron Nola at #37, and Franco at #55. … Read more
John Sickels has put his Phillies Top 20 list up in Minor League Ball. John is consistently higher on established players than low minors players. I will highly recommend his writeup on Jesse Biddle and the effects of a concussion. The piece is free to read so I won’t summarize the paragraphs, if you want … Read more