A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The minor league season may have wrapped up two months ago, but it is never too late to take a look around at the events of the 2017 season in the Phillies’ system. First up is the Gulf Coast League Phillies. It would be obvious to say that the Gulf Coast League is the farthest … Read more
Kyle Young, LHP 7’0″, 225 lb Bats/Throws: L/L Played for: Williamsport (Short Season A/New York-Penn League) Date Seen: 7/7 Eyewitness Stats: 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 11 K, 66 pitches (47 strikes) What the Numbers Say 2017 Williamsport: 13 G (all starts), 65 IP, 7-2, 2.77 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, .237 opp AVG, … Read more
The long-winded roller coaster known as the 2017 Phillies has finally come to a close, and with it a ton of optimism. The Phillies started the season at 26-51 through June 28 with pretty much everything going wrong. Then the first offensive weapon arrived in Nick Williams and that slowly started things until Jorge Alfaro … Read more
It’s been a few weeks since the final 2017 edition of my in-game reporting, and I have been sitting on a ton of information and video. And now with the Phillies season drawing to a close, it’s time to get into offseason more. There’s going to be plenty of evaluation over the next few months … Read more
I started writing a piece about J.P. Crawford at third base when I stopped to dig into his defensive metrics, in particular the math behind the positional adjustment. Right now defensive metrics think Crawford is a god at third, but they also are at a sample size that is near useless. This brought me to … Read more
Aaron Altherr, of all people. Aaron Altherr. A career .234 hitting with only 25 home runs in four seasons with the Phillies, 26-year-old Aaron Altherr became the first person ever to hit a grand slam off Dodgers’ ace Clayton Kershaw. … The Dodgers had three home runs themselves but it wasn’t enough to counteract Altherr’s one sweet shot. History is … Read more
The fact that minor leaguers make almost no money for their service rendered is not a secret. It also is not a new topic, but today ESPN reignited that argument with this horrible tweet (and an accompanying Darren Rovell article that I will not link to). Is Tim Tebow the greatest value in minor league … Read more
The Phillies are in no position to pass up free talent. Nor are they in a position to be comfortable with the talent already on the roster. In the spirit of those two statements, this month the Phillies have added the following players to their 40 man roster in September: LHP Kevin Siegrist, SS J.P. … Read more
It is that time of year, the minor league season is over and winter/fall leagues are about to start. Each year the Phillies send their players everywhere and I will keep this post updated as assignments are announced. Winter Stats Arizona Fall League (Glendale Desert Dogs) Elniery Garcia Trevor Bettencourt J.D. Hammer Garret Cleavinger Edgar … Read more
The danger of writing up the AAA playoff preview yesterday was that the Phillies might do something drastic with the roster before the series, and the Phillies did something dramatic with the roster today. In: RHP Mark Appel, SS Malquin Canelo, RHP Victor Arano, LHP Elniery Garcia, RHP Franklyn Kilome, RHP Jacob Waguespack, 3B Mitch Walding … Read more