A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Everyone ready to be confused? In the 8th round of the draft the Phillies took 19 year old LHP Jhordany Mezquita with no school listed. He is 6’1″ and on the broadcast the Jim Callis said he was 91-94 with a loose arm. Except what about this guy? That birthdate is wrong per Phuture Phillies’ Jim … Read more
The Phillies go with back to back shortstops in the draft, this time going with their first Junior College player of the draft in Nick Maton. Maton started his career at Eastern Illinois State after being drafted by the Athletic’s in 2015. He transferred to Lincoln Land Community College for the 2017 season. He hit … Read more
The Phillies return to the college ranks in the 6th round of the draft with University of Florida shortstop Dalton Guthrie. This is the first pick in a while that is on or above value on the public rankings, and the Phillies may have ended up with a bit of a steal because a down … Read more
For the first time in the 2017 draft the Phillies veer away from the college ranks to take a projectable high school pitcher. Much like 2015, the Phillies take a LHP in the 5th round, this time it is Ethan Lindow out of Georgia (they took Bailey Falter in 2015). Much like Falter, Lindow has … Read more
With their second pick of Day 2 them Phillies continue with the college route with University of Houston third baseman Jake Scheiner. Like their previous two picks, Scheiner is a bit off the board with him not in Baseball America’s Top 500 or any other list. There isn’t much information on him. He came out … Read more
The Phillies kicked off day 2 with the 83rd pick in the draft. There was a run of 7 HS players up to their pick where they doubled up on California college starters, this time in Cal State Fullerton RHP Connor Seabold. Based on pre-draft rankings he is a bit of an overdraft like Howard, … Read more
Yesterday was the appetizer to the draft. Today the real madness begins. Starting at 1pm eastern teams will begin a flurry of picks with a pick per minute for 8 rounds and over 240 players drafted. I could give you a list of best players available, but we already saw yesterday with the second round … Read more
The first day of the draft gets all of the buzz. The first round kicks off on TV in primetime with 5 minutes per pick and commentary by people with no clue what they are talking about. This carries into the second round which gives a small teaser of the lightning round that is Day … Read more
The Phillies had an interesting Day 1 with the way things played out. Beginning with how things shook out in the 1st round, Brendon McKay would turn down the Twins slot saving offer for #1, and they ended up taking the best high school bat in Royce Lewis instead. It would then pretty much go … Read more
The Phillies had mentioned that the draft was strong in pitching and after a run of college arms to end the first and into the comp round, it looked like the board set up for the Phillies to take a high school arm. Instead they went well off the board with RHP Spencer Howard out … Read more