A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Franklyn Kilome has been on my radar for a few years now and has been the one prospect that has eluded my scouting eye I’ve wanted to see in the system. Kilome was promoted last week from Clearwater to Reading and had a bit of a shaky AA debut last Thursday. Wednesday night, he would … Read more
The Phillies have a grand tradition of trying to make the slowest plodding players on the field play in the outfield. It started with an attempt to put Ryan Howard in left field to not have him be blocked by Jim Thome, and has continued to this day. Now some of this has been in … Read more
Trade Deadline Day can be such a stressful time for a number of executives as they try to make the right move for the team’s future or it’s present. On a day we have seen the Dodgers and Yankees beef up their rotations with Yu Darvish and Sonny Gray respectively, and a whole other bevy … Read more
Back on July 12th, I went to my third Sixto Sanchez start. There was nothing going on in the sports industry that night other than the ESPYs. There were dozens of scouts and writers on hand to watch Sixto roll through six innings allowing just one run. That night I also provided video, and the … Read more
Last night I made my third trip to Lehigh Valley this year to watch the Phillies top bats take on the Rays’ top prospect Brent Honeywell of Durham, who is considered one of the best pitching prospects in the baseball right now. Honeywell had his way last night after scuffling through the 1st five batters … Read more
If you guys follow me on Twitter (@JPhils90), you would know last night I went to Reading for the second time in four days. And unlike Saturday where Drew Anderson got knocked around and got ejected seven batters into the 1st inning and the game was called after five innings due to rain. This one … Read more
JP Crawford since the day he was drafted 16th overall in 2013, has been labeled as the start of the next generation of Phillies baseball. He was considered the top overall shortstop in his draft class despite the lack of power due to his tremendous plate discipline, barrel control and his overall feel at shortstop. … Read more
Last year the Lakewood BlueClaws rode a rotation of Dominican RHPs to the South Atlantic League championship game. This year that core group (Franklyn Kilome, Jose Taveras, Alberto Tirado, and Seranthony Dominguez) was supposed to be the center of the Clearwater rotation. They were joined by 2016 5th round pick, Cole Irvin, a polished 22 … 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
Really digging Sixto Sanchez and not just because of his game. 91-95 with life, throwing strikes. 8 K's and 1 BB through 5 IP #Phillies — ๐พhris King (@StatsKing) June 30, 2016 The above tweet by Chris King was the first I had heard about Sixto Sanchez. While I watched the GCL box scores roll … Read more