A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
There has been much made of the Phillies farm system based on this graph. This graph shows the Phillies as the worst minor league system in baseball based on W-L percentage. It has been used to rank the farm system, bash the front office, and destroy all hope of a better tomorrow. Here are … Read more
We are now in trade speculation season, and everyone has become a prospect expert based on the names floated around in the media. The problem is that all prospects are treated fairly equally unless they have name recognition. What this does is erase the large differences in ceiling and profile among the group. In reality, … Read more
MLB.com has released their new team Top 20s and Top 100 prospects. They have included players in the majors (with prospect eligibility) and 2014 draftees. The ranking is compiled by Jonathan Mayo and Jim Callis. The full list can be found here. J.P. Crawford (Overall #36, Shortstop #6) Aaron Nola (Overall #48) Maikel Franco (Overall … Read more
Lets start off by saying the trade by the Phillies to acquire Hunter Pence from Houston was horrible, there is no way around it, but it has no bearing on any further deal. With that being said let’s go to the summer of 2012, the Phillies were struggling, in no small part due to varying … Read more
The Phillies 2014 trade deadline must be entirely different than their 2013 deadline for the sake of the rebuild. General Manager Ruben Amaro and company made minor moves last season and refused to shakeup the core. One player they did move was veteran infielder John McDonald, who was dealt for minor league pitcher Nefi Ogando … Read more
Cord Sandberg was the Phillies 3rd Round pick in the 2013 draft, many scouts had him as a late first, early second round talent, but he fell due to a college scholarship to play quarterback. After a hot start in the GCL last year he hit .207/.313/.272 on the season with poor contact. In 2014 … Read more
Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reported on Monday that Oakland A’s left handed starting pitcher Tommy Milone had requested a trade from the AL East leading Athletics. With Billy Beane’s additions of starting pitchers Jason Hammel and Jeff Samardzija from the Chicago Cubs, Milone was sent to Triple A to stay ready in case of injury … Read more
Much has been said on Twitter about Jim Bowden and the trade scenarios he throws out there, much of it insults his work as a General Manager before going on to work at ESPN (though if you bash the trades, acknowledge that he has nailed FA contracts the last few years). His newest article looks … Read more
Thanks to everyone that has stopped by as we get going here, the positive feedback has been great. I just wanted to take a minute to welcome the other people who are contributing here. Matthew Speck has already contributed some pieces for the site. This is his first time writing about baseball but he has written … Read more
Ruben Amaro Jr. recently met with CSN reporter Jim Salisbury for a one on one interview in which the status of Jesse Biddle was discussed. Biddle, 22, had been recently placed on the temporarily inactive list to clear his head of some growing frustrations. Having grown up in Philadelphia, the young pitcher was placing a … Read more