A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
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
Baseball America put out their annual farm system rankings and the Phillies come in at a disappoint 21st overall. As I have said many times this offseason, I do think the industry underrates the Phillies system and Phillies prospects in general so I do think this is a bit low. The ranking has them between … Read more
John Sickels has released a list of his top 175 prospects in baseball. The full list is here. There are 5 Phillies on the list with J.P. Crawford #24, Maikel Franco #32, Aaron Nola #45, Ben Lively #142, and Jesse Biddle #146. There aren’t any writeups here, but you can find John’s thoughts on the … Read more
The last major list of Phillies prospects is now up with MLB Pipeline publishing their Phillies Top 30 prospects. The full list is here. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Roman Quinn Zach Eflin Tom Windle Ben Lively Matt Imhof Jesse Biddle Franklyn Kilome Ricardo Pinto Deivi Grullon Andrew Knapp Cord Sandberg Severino Gonzalez Odubel … Read more
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