A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
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
Following up his Top 100 yesterday, Keith Law released his Top 10 Phillies prospects. The list actually goes out to 15 as he mentions the rankings of 5 more players in his writeup. Here is the list: J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Roman Quinn Zach Eflin Tom Windle Matt Imhof Franklyn Kilome Ricardo Pinto … Read more
A day after dubbing the Phillies the #25 farm system in baseball, Law ranked their top prospect #7. Keith has always raved about Crawford, and his writeup does not deviate from that. Law mentions his plus defense, his ability to make adjustments, and good swing. Crawford was often mentioned as a toolsy player out of … Read more
The rankings continue, this time it is shortstop prospects. Phillies #1 prospect, J.P. Crawford comes in at #5 on the list. Before you panic, here is the full list: Carlos Correa (Astros) Francisco Lindor (Indians) Addison Russell (Cubs) Corey Seager (Dodgers) J.P. Crawford (Phillies) Nick Gordon (Twins) Raul Adalberto Mondesi (Royals) Trea Turner (Padres Nationals) … Read more
Today Keith Law kicked off his ranking season with his Org Rankings. The Phillies came in at #25 (down from #14), and before giving my thoughts here is Keith Law’s write up (All 30 are here). They might have been 28th or 29th had they not traded Jimmy Rollins to the Dodgers for a pair of … Read more