A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
On the surface it has not been the greatest third season in Reading for Jesse Biddle, his 4.60 ERA is ugly and he is posting his lowest strikeout numbers of his career. However, that doesn’t tell the entire story here. Fangraphs has Biddle at a 2.77 FIP thanks to his zero home runs on the … Read more
On the year catcher and 2013 second round pick, Andrew Knapp is hitting .292/.339/.396. On the bad news, is that the line comes with 30 strikeouts in 106 ABs (26.1% K%) and a .403 BABIP that doesn’t look sustainable. Last year in Lakewood it was a similar story with Knapp hitting .290/.354/.438 with a 22.6% … Read more
I noticed that this year Maikel Franco had walked in his first 4 games and only one since, and that he had hit 8 of his 10 doubles in his first 10 games (he has played 25). So I set out to find out why Franco appeared to be low on power and expected to find … Read more
It is hard to make any sweeping judgements on early season stats, so the best question is often “What is this player doing new?”. In the case of shortstop Malquin Canelo he is showing power that he has never shown up this point. Canelo up to this point has been a bit of an after … Read more
This winter Ricardo Pinto turned a few heads with some high rankings on Phillies top prospect lists. He had just made his stateside debut in Williamsport on a team that does not get a ton of eyes. On first glance Pinto is not physically what you would expect from a good starting pitcher prospect … Read more
Ever since he arrived from Seattle for Cliff Lee in winter of 2009, Aumont has been a disappointment. In 2010, the Phillies tried to make him a starter, to the tune of a disastrous 5.68 ERA fueled by a 5.9 BB/9. He returned to relieving in 2011 and was dominant across AA and AAA (2.68 … Read more
Today RHP Severino Gonzalez will make his debut for the Phillies this Spring Training against the Atlanta Braves. The start is little more than a cameo to give the righty a look at the majors while not sending a major league starter on a long bus ride. Severino will likely start the year in AAA, … Read more
Video by Josh Norris – Baseball America Kilome pitched three innings today. Generally 91-93 but I had him touch 95 twice and 97 once. — Josh Norris 🐻 (@jnorris427) March 21, 2015 Post by Baseball America. Kilome probably has the highest ceiling of any pitcher in the org and could be in for a real … Read more
Jesse Biddle made his season debut this Saturday with a rather uninspiring 1 IP 3 H 2 ER 1 BB 1 K line while throwing a large number of pitches. There wasn’t a big enough sample to make any large judgments about how his year will go since he seemed a bit more amped than … Read more
While we wait for the Jimmy Rollins trade to happen, there are still Phillies prospects playing around the world. Here is a quick look at the best and most interesting lines going on in winter ball. Odubel Herrera – 2B/OF – VWL G AB HR SB BB K AVG OBP SLG 48 185 5 7 … Read more