A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Last night’s mission took me to Reading as the Phillies took on Baltimore’s affiliate from Bowie. The misson: Adam Haseley’s debut in AA. While Haseley was the headliner, a couple of other recent promotions were of interest as well in first basemen Austin Listi and Darick Hall. The position players were the one’s I was … Read more
I am not an amateur, and I am very not an international amateur scout. Almost all of what I am about to say about players has come from various public sources. That said, much of the international signing deadline, like the draft is about process and philosophy. The Phillies philosophy in Latin America has been … Read more
On Friday night, I made my fourth trip to Lakewood this year to watch Spencer Howard for a second time. This would also be coincidentally the third time I’ve gotten to see the Nationals low A affiliate Hagerstown. The mission for the evening was to see two things: to see if Howard could have a … Read more
It’s June 19th, and at least one Phillies affiliate will have it’s season extend past September 3rd, when most of the minor league regular ends. On Sunday, Lakewood played it’s final game of the first half of the season. In the South Atlantic League, the schedule is truly split into two seasons. To reach the … Read more
The draft is over and the short season games are about to begin. The Phillies have two GCL teams, of which we likely won’t know the rosters until the first games. What we do have is a preliminary Williamsport roster. Here’s the preliminary roster for the Williamsport @crosscutters … Reminder that this will change a … Read more
The MLB draft is extremely hard to judge in the immediate aftermath. Some of the college players we may know about their careers in a couple of years, but as we saw with Mitch Walding recently, it can take 7 years before we actually know what the Phillies have in some of their draft picks. … Read more
The Phillies clearly didn’t have the money to take some flyers on someone deciding to not go to school at the last minute, opting to take a bunch more guys that should be able to sign, with the exception of a few guys. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 31st Round – Tyler … Read more
The Phillies took their first college seniors in the 25th and 26th rounds, but also a bunch of maybe signable high schoolers. It will be interesting to see who they can sign. Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 21st Round – Jake Smith, RHP, Chapel Hill Sr HS (NC) Smith is another skinny … Read more
Pick information will updated as information becomes available. 16th Round – Tyler McKay, RHP, Howard College (TX) A big (6’6″) righty out of junior college, McKay is up to 94 with a slider and looks like a reliever all the way. 17th Round – Keylan Killgore, LHP, Wichita State A college teammate of Alec Bohm, … Read more
As I mentioned yesterday, we would know very quickly on Day 3 of the draft how much money the Phillies had available to go overslot on later picks. If they had money left than it was likely they would go with a big name high school player in the 11th round, if not it was … Read more