A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
You can find all of the rankings and other material for this year here. 40. Casey Martin, SS Age: 22 Acquired: Drafted in the 3rd Round of the 2020 Draft by the Phillies B/T: R/R H/W: 5’11” 175lbs 2021 Stats: Team (LVL) G PA HR SB BB% K% AVG OBP SLG CLW (A-) 69 301 6 … Read more
Into the list we go. You can find all of the rankings and other material for this year here. A couple of small programming notes. The first is my definition for eligibility on the list was that the player is rookie eligible, the second is I did not rank any new international signees, and lastly … Read more
As it was for everyone in everything, it was another strange year in minor league baseball. The missed 2020 season, COVID outbreaks, smaller org roster, and rules changes made for a year with a lot of variables. The nice thing is this year people did play baseball, and in the Florida complex we were able … Read more
Top 50 Prospects 1. Mick Abel, RHP Age: 20 Acquired: Drafted in the 1st Round of the 2020 Draft by the Phillies B/T: R/R H/W: 6’5” 190lbs 2021 Stats: Team (LVL) G GS W-L IP ERA H/9 HR/9 BB% K% CLW (A-) 14 14 1-3 44.2 4.43 5.4 1.0 14.3% 34.9% Role: #2 Starting Pitcher … Read more
For those that have followed the minors over the last half decade or so would recognize Mike Drago’s Phillies writers composite rankings. A group of writers about the Phillies and about prospects in general send in their top 20 Phillies prospects and those are all compiled into a composite ranking. This year, Mitch Rupert took … Read more
For the last few years I have maintained a private monthly prospect ranking because it gives a good continuation and snap in time. It helps prevent snap judgements and makes the ebbs and flows of the season come into focus. For the most part there isn’t a point in publishing them because they are an … Read more
Prospect rankings are kind of useless without context. What is the actual difference between Matt Vierling (19) and Bailey Falter (10) and is it as big a gap as there is from Mick Abel (1) to Falter? (The answer is the gap between Falter and Vierling is incredibly tiny while there is a giant gap … Read more
When writing the preseason list there was a bunch of information missing on a lot of players in the system. We now have a bunch of new information, and after a really rough May for a lot people who didn’t play baseball for a year, things are mostly returning to normal. We also have a … Read more
The Phillies system is not a good system. Trades, bad drafting, poor international classes, mediocre at best development, and an entire year missing due to a pandemic has set it back. There are still a lot of prospects to be excited about, and the missed year means there are some breakouts in here we just … Read more
I keep my own running rankings of the course of the season and make minor adjustments to try and account for changing information and my own opinion. The end result is that ranking changes feel for gradual and less reactionary. Obviously this season the amount of information coming out is next to nothing, so these … Read more