A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The Phillies have 4 hitters with at least 20 home runs this year, two of them (Rhys Hoskins and Dylan Cozens) are obvious power threats and Scott Kingery is having a breakout season, but it is the guy tied for the lead that might be the most interesting. The Phillies selected Mitch Walding in the … Read more
This article was written by Mitch Rupert of the Williamsport Sun Gazette. You can follow Mitch on Twitter here. You can read his work here. For just a moment, can we all take a deep breath? Can we all take a step back from the J.P. Crawford hot takes and just breathe? The knee-jerk reactions … Read more
Really digging Sixto Sanchez and not just because of his game. 91-95 with life, throwing strikes. 8 K's and 1 BB through 5 IP #Phillies — 𝘾hris King (@StatsKing) June 30, 2016 The above tweet by Chris King was the first I had heard about Sixto Sanchez. While I watched the GCL box scores roll … Read more
Yesterday was one of those days where after getting kicked out of my hotel around 10:30 a.m., it was basically a “what do I do now” until the final game of the weekend series between Williamsport and Mahoning Valley at 5:05 p.m.. I decided to explore the beautiful sites of Williamsport and it’s surrounding area, … Read more
Waking up yesterday morning, my plan was to take side angle shots of the hitters all day to get their open side mechanics. And then I remembered the time when I wrote after the fist day of the draft to double check if any video of Spencer Howard reached the internet before I published (sure … Read more
Since I started this adventure to be a scout two years ago I have attended at least one game at all but one facility the Phillies are affiliated with. This weekend, that has changed as I can now scratch Williamsport off the list finally. And when I made the nearly three hour trek to the … Read more
Things are not going well in the major leagues for the Phillies. This has meant that the state of the Phillies’ rebuild has been cast into doubt. The problem with this assumption is that in the minors that the Phillies rebuild in the minors is going fine (even if it is not going at the … Read more
In the last five weeks, we have seen Phillies 2B Cesar Hernandez suffer an oblique injury and AAA 2B Jesmuel Valentin have shoulder surgery, shutting down his season. Meanwhile, down in Reading, Scott Kingery continued to rake. All of Phillies nation has been clamoring for a while now that he should get the call-up to … Read more
The big headline last night was that Scott Kingery was being promoted from Reading to Lehigh Valley. It was just one transaction in a long list of transactions that included the Phillies cutting ties with two veterans. So once the dust all settled, the Phillies made the following moves. To Phillies: Mark Leiter Jr. Cameron … Read more
It is not a deep revelation to say that a major problem for the Phillies has been drafting. Their record of ineptness is of public record, and the result are showing (or not showing) on the field for the Phillies. The worst moment was after the 2013 draft when it came out that the Phillies … Read more