A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
A list of 30 prospects in a system has become standard, and while this list goes to 50, 30 is where it really hits its stride. These 10 players aren’t perfect prospects, but they are players with a chance to make real major league impact. That ranges from back end starting pitchers who could be … Read more
Development is not linear. It is easy to look at many in this group of prospects and see disappointment. It is true that some of the prospects in this range dropped off cover the 2017 season, others jumped forward as they started into their pro careers, and two in Victor Arano and Ben Lively made … Read more
It is list time of year again, or in reality we are reaching the end of the list season. I apologize for the late start to this and the lack of content in general. Before getting into the numbers and names, my hope is that I provide you the resources to create your own order … Read more
It is ranking season. Baseball America kicked things off with their Phillies Top 10 today. Here is Ben Badler’s List: J.P. Crawford Sixto Sanchez Scott Kingery Adonis Medina Adam Haseley JoJo Romero Jhailyn Ortiz Jorge Alfaro Mickey Moniak Franklyn Kilome Before talking order, here is Ben’s midseason list (with the Top 100 rank from BA … Read more
Each year, Mike Drago of the Reading Eagle reaches out to local and national bloggers, broadcasters, and writers for their Phillies’ prospect rankings. Those rankings are then aggregated into a combined Top 30. This was the second year that Mike reached out to me to participate and it gave me a good opportunity to make … Read more
Prospect lists in general are arbitrary things, midseason lists are doubly so. Each evaluator talks to different people, and each person has their own set of biases and values. When it comes to midseason lists, we add in a time factor as games are still going on. I am writing this list nearly a month … Read more
This article was written by Mitch Rupert of the Williamsport Sun Gazette. You can follow Mitch on Twitter here. You can read his work here. For just a moment, can we all take a deep breath? Can we all take a step back from the J.P. Crawford hot takes and just breathe? The knee-jerk reactions … Read more
Things are not going well in the major leagues for the Phillies. This has meant that the state of the Phillies’ rebuild has been cast into doubt. The problem with this assumption is that in the minors that the Phillies rebuild in the minors is going fine (even if it is not going at the … Read more
It is hard during this time of year to interact with prospects without running into a ranking list. This got me thinking about the first ranking I wrote and how results don’t equal the process. I had been writing for Phuture Phillies for a few months and had somehow ended up as the de facto … Read more
One of my favorite parts of doing a Top 50 prospect list is the exercise of statistically breaking down the list. I think it provides a larger snapshot of trends in the system. Because of things like risk, the Top 50 itself slants older and higher level. It also favors starting pitchers to relief pitchers. … Read more