A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Preseason Outlook Preseason Rank – 3rd Role: Incredibly Frustrating Above Average RegularRisk: Medium – It is true of any player that the role and risk is a sliding scale, but it might be most true with Crawford. The closer he gets to the majors without failing or fixing his issues, the more it looks like … Read more
Preseason Outlook Preseason Rank – 2nd Role: #2/#3 StarterRisk: High – Painter flashed a bunch of promising attributes in his return from injury, especially in his number of innings pitched. However, his pitch shapes and command were a muddled mess, as he combined throwing new pitches and a return to high level competition. This led … Read more
Preseason Outlook Preseason Ranking – 11th Role: Late Inning RelieverRisk: Medium – There isn’t a huge sample size of McFarlane as a full time reliever, but the stuff is there to get outs, you just need to make some leaps of faith about his command. Season Stats Team (LVL) G W-L IP ERA HR/9 BB% … Read more
Coming into the 2026 season, I had buried Bryan Rincon at #44 on my offseason ranking. I had been a fan of his back after the 2023 season, but two years of injuries had led to him rarely being on the field and being pretty bad when he was playing leaving me skeptical he would … Read more
Entering this season Brad Pacheco was viewed as a work in progress, a player who had just one healthy season in 3. When he ranked #32 on the preseason list this is what I had to say about him, and I think it gives a good snapshot in time. At his best, Pacheco will show … Read more
If you were to list the two most important skills for a hitter to have it might start with raw power and contact in the strike zone. Felix Reyes hits the ball very hard. This year he has a max exit velocity of 115.0 mph and a 90th percentile exit velocity of 105.4 mph. Given … Read more
As part of writing the Top 50 I pull a bunch of data and start to dig in to get a deeper look at the players. I can’t put all of the data into the writeups, so it is largely the overview that gets put into the list. When it came to Justin Crawford more … Read more
I said I needed something to write about, but wanted to write and @norseofbroad.bsky.social asked the question that is on many fans’ minds. The answer is very firmly a maybe, which is entirely a coward’s answer and not worthy of writing, but also I have been just short of actually writing about Crawford for a … Read more
No matter how you slice it, Mick Abel has had a terrible season. There are 60 pitches with at least 80 innings pitched in AAA this season. He has the 47th best ERA (5.89), 51st best FIP (5.89), the 58th best walk rate (15.6%), the 43rd best HR/9 (1.43), and compliments that with only the … Read more
Cornelius Randolph, OF 5’11, 205 lb Born 6/2/97 (Age 21) in Brunswick, GA Bats/Throws: L/R Drafted in the 1st Round (10th overall) of the 2015 MLB draft out of Griffin HS (GA) Team Played For: Reading (Eastern League/AA) Eyewitness Stats (7 G, 5 GS): 4/21 , 2 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R, 2 BB, 4 … Read more