A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
I want to jump to the rankings Ever since the Phillies brought in Dave Dombrowski to run their baseball operations, they have been looking to overhaul the farm system and develop a sustaining long term pipeline. The process involved throwing aside large pieces of the previous framework, many of which have gone on to have … Read more
Alec Bohm, Bryson Stott, Brandon Marsh, Jake Cave, Garrett Stubbs, Rodolfo Castro, Johan Rojas, Cristopher Sánchez, Gregory Soto, Seranthony Dominguez, and Andrew Bellatti (now Yunior Marte). That is the complete list of players on the Phillies 28 man roster than can be sent to AAA without their permission or being subject to waivers. You can … Read more
Yesterday, I kicked off the offseason by resetting the 40 man roster, and surprise I decided to write two days in a row and break up sort of the offseason moves portion into the obvious and the crazy, and start with the obvious. These are the moves that sort of must happen. Now some have … Read more
When the Phillies clinched I tweeted that there was a direct line from Jeremy Hellickson to Jose Alvarado, and that was probably the most improbable rebuild trade working out possible. I didn’t actually do any sort of research at the time, but I can do that now. The exercise is meant to be fun, so … Read more
When the Phillies couldn’t land Manny Machado, the market for position players looked pretty bare. The Phillies were in the market for infield help, particularly players who could play on the left side of the infield and make their bench deeper. Unfortunately the only infielders that fit the Phillies positional need were either players who … Read more
It certainly is a thrilling atmosphere right now with the Phillies being the talk of the town (that is until the reigning Super Bowl champions kick off their title defense). To be 11 games over .500, and being tied a top the division on the morning of July 24th was probably not what anybody was … Read more
The buzz around the Phillies in most mock drafts is that they have been intently looking at hitters. And based on what kind of hitter they have looked for the last three drafts, they like the prospect with a safe floor in the hit tool department. Nick Madrigal fits that profile probably better than any … Read more
As I touched on when I wrote up the left handed pitchers in the system last week, not every interesting prospect makes the top 50. Infielders are no exception. Even with 12 of them making the top 50, there is room for a lot to miss. Only 1 of the 12 was not a … Read more
Today Jim Salisbury wrote about how former assistant pitching coach, now pitching coach Rick Kranitz has instituted something called the Sensitive Bus in the clubhouse. You can read everything Jim wrote about it here, but I will let Kranitz’s own words describe it. “You know, sometimes guys get a little sensitive about things,” Kranitz said. … Read more
Yesterday, Matt released the final portion of his top 50 Phillies prospects with the ten best in the system. Matt’s been doing this for some time now and I think we all should give him a round of applause for the amount of hard and detailed work he puts into it every year. It’s probably … Read more