Every year the Paul Owens Award goes to the top hitter and pitcher in the Phillies organization. The award does not go to the best prospect in the organization, but rather to the one that has performed the best during the past season. The hitting award should easily go to Phillies top prospect J.P. Crawford who is not only putting up a great stat line (.286/.376/.401), but he has done it across two levels as a 19-year-old playing good defense at a premium position. On the pitching side the Phillies top prospects have been hindered by being hurt, ineffective, both hurt and ineffective, or having just been drafted this past June. This leads to a very wide open race for the Paul Owens for pitching.
The Paul Owens Award for pitching has not been the site of illustrious and major league successful names, but it does have its share of top prospects. The last 10 pitchers in reverse order to win it are Severino Gonzalez, Tyler Cloyd, Trevor May, Scott Mathieson, Kyle Drabek, J.A. Happ, Mike Zagurski, Carlos Carrasco, Robinson Tejeda, and Scott Mitchinson.
