A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
It was a big weekend for the Phillies prospects both at the major league level and the minor league level. This weekend saw the start of minor league games, including games against Canada and Puerto Rico. Lets jump into the reports by many sources. Friday: The first two pitchers for the major league club were LHPs … Read more
John Sickels has released a list of his top 175 prospects in baseball. The full list is here. There are 5 Phillies on the list with J.P. Crawford #24, Maikel Franco #32, Aaron Nola #45, Ben Lively #142, and Jesse Biddle #146. There aren’t any writeups here, but you can find John’s thoughts on the … Read more
Chris King is live scoring the game. You can follow here and follow Chris (@Statsking). So far Gregori Rivero and Jose Pujols have gone back to back
Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Domonic Brown 27 MLB Grady Sizemore 32 MLB Odubel Herrera 23 MLB 28 Kelly Dugan 24 AAA 8 Brian Bugosevic 30 AAA Jeff Francoeur 31 AAA Darin Mastroinni 29 AAA Xavier Paul 30 AAA Cameron Perkins 24 AAA 32 Brian Pointer 23 AA Aaron Brown 22 A+ … Read more
The last major list of Phillies prospects is now up with MLB Pipeline publishing their Phillies Top 30 prospects. The full list is here. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Roman Quinn Zach Eflin Tom Windle Ben Lively Matt Imhof Jesse Biddle Franklyn Kilome Ricardo Pinto Deivi Grullon Andrew Knapp Cord Sandberg Severino Gonzalez Odubel … 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
Per Jay Floyd of Phoulballz and Phillies Nation, former first round pick in the 2011 draft, Larry Greene Jr has retired from baseball. Greene was the #39 pick in the draft (the first selection for the Phillies) out of Berrien County HS in Nashville, Georgia. Greene was billed as having some of the best raw … Read more
The first set of minor league workout groups have been put up by the Phillies. Here are the first set of groups (first posted by Jim Peyton) There is not a lot to read into future placement here, but there are some early thoughts here. The pitching groups seem far from solidified with levels. Elniery … Read more
Week one of Grapefruit League play is in the books so it is a good time to take a first pass at the roster battles. Locks: Hitters: Carlos Ruiz, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Freddy Galvis, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Ben Revere, Domonic Brown Pitchers: Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, Aaron Harang, Jonathan Papelbon, Ken Giles, Jake … Read more
Over the past few years the political situation in Venezuela and its relations with the US have deteriorated. This has had a dramatic influence on baseball in the country as teams have pulled out one by one from the country both for convenience (most top players are appearing at showcases in Dominican Republic) and safety. … Read more