A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
With his rehab appearance on Sunday, Taijuan Walker is coming back to the majors. The Phillies appear to have been able to negotiate that Walker make another appearance to work up to 100 pitches. It wasn’t pretty or inspiring, but he did accomplish that task. Meanwhile, his replacement, Spencer Turnbull carried a no-hitter into the … Read more
The Phillies are at the time of writing this 2-4 (though winning vs the Yankees), with some major bullpen problems. The Phillies cannot afford bullpen problems, they also cannot afford a bullpen. The Phillies are theoretically built to compete in the short and long term. A lot of that rotates around Aaron Nola and Bryce … Read more
The 2018 Phillies were a flawed team, and understandably so. They were young at nearly every position. They ran their rotation pretty ragged when all of their young arms stayed healthy all year. Their bullpen had some injuries, but ultimately could not get everyone healthy and effective at the same time. It was frustrating, but … Read more
I just wrote 20,000 words about 50 prospects, I put a number in front of each of them. It was a prospect list, and it was my prospect list, and that is an important point here. As an evaluator of baseball players, I am highly biased. I am working with a limited information set, and … Read more
We are starting to enter the season of ordered lists of prospects. I have started on mine and have had a few run past me, and there is something very evident, the Phillies system is kind of dull. It isn’t surprising that they will likely be in the middle 10 of prospect lists this offseason. … Read more
Last night, headline came across that Phillies top prospect Sixto Sanchez had a setback and would miss the Arizona Fall League. This largely sent everyone into a panic. Sanchez is a divisive player in Phillies fans circles. To some he is untouchable, the kind of elite prospect that teams shouldn’t trade. To others he is … Read more
So far the Phillies have made 5 trades in and around the deadline bringing in IF Asdrubel Cabrera, C Wilson Ramos, LHP Aaron Loup, 1B Justin Bour, and LHP Luis Avilan while shipping out Franklyn Kilome, McKenzie Mills, Jacob Waguespack, Jake Thompson, Zach Curtis, and now Felix Paulino and potentially Jose Taveras (Taveras was designated … Read more
After taking first place back from the Atlanta Braves the Phillies find themselves a game back heading into a 2 game series with the Red Sox and a 5 game tilt with the Mets. Their month still contains 6 games against the Nationals and a trip north to Toronto. It isn’t a slog like their … Read more
The last week has given us a lot of baseball stories revolving around baseball outside of the United States and it has led me to some thoughts on the whole things. So pardon the rambling. Yesterday the Phillies added 4 Latin American pitchers to their 40 man roster (3 Dominican RHPs and a Venezuelan LHP). … Read more
I started writing a piece about J.P. Crawford at third base when I stopped to dig into his defensive metrics, in particular the math behind the positional adjustment. Right now defensive metrics think Crawford is a god at third, but they also are at a sample size that is near useless. This brought me to … Read more