A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
As I touched on when I wrote up the left handed pitchers in the system last week, not every interesting prospect makes the top 50. Infielders are no exception. Even with 12 of them making the top 50, there is room for a lot to miss. Only 1 of the 12 was not a … Read more
While we are now less than a month away from the start of the baseball season, something has been quietly bothering me for a while now, and that is what do I feel about Mickey Moniak? His 2017 started out well, but ultimately ended poorly where to the point that many people from scouts, analysts, … Read more
Today Jim Salisbury wrote about how former assistant pitching coach, now pitching coach Rick Kranitz has instituted something called the Sensitive Bus in the clubhouse. You can read everything Jim wrote about it here, but I will let Kranitz’s own words describe it. “You know, sometimes guys get a little sensitive about things,” Kranitz said. … Read more
The Phillies system is not just the 50 players that were on the list I wrote earlier this offseason. The difference between players that made the list and those that did not is often not large. My goal is to highlight every player in the system that I found interesting, with an eye towards players … Read more
Spring Training is way too long and has the constant terror of a player getting injured. It does however mean the return of baseball and recently with a resurgent Phillies farm system, a first look at some top prospects. Some of the prospects in camp are here only because they are on the 40 man … Read more
Top prospect lists are not really an accurate representation of the young talent in a farm system. Aaron Nola will be 24 on opening day or the same age as Jorge Alfaro. Rhys Hoskins was one of the biggest breakouts for the Phillies in 2017 and has under 2 months of major league service time. … Read more
Yesterday, Matt released the final portion of his top 50 Phillies prospects with the ten best in the system. Matt’s been doing this for some time now and I think we all should give him a round of applause for the amount of hard and detailed work he puts into it every year. It’s probably … Read more
The format of going 10 by 10 works from a publishing and writing schedule, but it leaves some nuance out. One of those pieces of nuance is the tiers of prospects that emerge. These tiers I think do a better job of showing similarly valued players. Tier 1: J.P. Crawford (1) Sixto Sanchez (2) Scott … Read more
In some ways the the top 10 of the prospect list is anticlimactic. The players on the list are of a surprise to no one and most of these players have been well reported on. That feeling lasts until you start to write about players like Jhailyn Ortiz, Scott Kingery, Sixto Sanchez, and others. It … Read more
Yesterday Matt released 11-20 of the top Phillies prospects. For the most part I agree with the group of ten players. But I do have some of my own thoughts, so let’s dive into it a bit more. Matt and I pretty much agree on most of this list. Where we differ greatly is Roman Quinn. Matt … Read more