A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Phillies continue to go with upside in the draft JuCo RHP Gunner Mayer. Mayer is a recent convert to the mound but is already up to 94 (sitting low 90s) and features a pair of breaking balls. His physical profile just screams upside as he is 6’6″ 190lbs and won’t turn 19 until July. There … Read more
The Phillies return to college in the 4th round of the draft taking 6’5″ 240lb LHP Erik Miller out of Stanford. Miller is not like most of the Phillies recent early college picks (control oriented RHPs), and is actually quite the opposite. He is a big bodied power arm, who has shown inconsistent velocity, but … Read more
With the #91 overall pick the Phillies take a high school shortstop in Jamari Baylor out of Benedictine School in Virginia. there are definitely mixed opinions on him with MLBPipeline ranking him #161, Fangraphs ranking him #74, and Baseball America having him in the 300s. If Stott was safe and solid, then Baylor is risky … Read more
I wrote earlier today about the logic of the MLB draft and how someone was going to fall to the Phillies. The answer was nearly everyone with the Phillies having a choice between RHP Jackson Rutledge, OF Corbin Carroll, LHP Zack Thompson, and their eventual pick SS Bryson Stott. Stott is a junior out of … Read more
I will preface all of this by saying I am not a scout and I am very much not an amateur player scout. What is about to follow comes from talking to people, and reading the internet. It is likely to not contain much actual scouting information, and given the misinformation and lack of information … Read more
The MLB draft starts today June 3 at 7pm. The Phillies have the #14 overall pick, but will not make a pick in the 2nd round, having surrendered their pick to sign Bryce Harper. This means that over 3 days the Phillies will make 39 picks. Follow along for daily recaps and pick by pick … Read more
The 2018 Phillies were a flawed team, and understandably so. They were young at nearly every position. They ran their rotation pretty ragged when all of their young arms stayed healthy all year. Their bullpen had some injuries, but ultimately could not get everyone healthy and effective at the same time. It was frustrating, but … Read more
The modern major league roster construction has bullpens made up of players with minor league options remaining. This means some of the young pitchers in camp such as Austin Davis and Yacksel Rios are functionally prospects, but not by service time and innings. There are no open competitions for the majors involving pitching prospects, but … Read more
Much of Spring Training excitement has been converted to Bryce Harper watch, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t games that are about to occur. Much of the Phillies roster is locked in place, but that doesn’t mean we won’t get a look at some prospects in games this spring. With the lack of camp … Read more
The Phillies continue an offseason of ok value moves by shipping their top prospect and one of their top young hitters to the Marlins for arguably the best catcher in baseball. Before going into what the Phillies gave up, it is important to acknowledge that J.T. Realmuto is very good. He is a well above … Read more