A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
First I want to apologize for going a bit nuts last week about the Phillies not protecting Carlos Tocci from minor league free agency. It turns out that Tocci (and Jiandido Tromp and Harold Arauz) are not free agents because baseball’s contract rules are incredibly confusing. Both will be Rule 5 eligible if not added … Read more
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. The Phillies rebuild so far has involved a lot of trades at the top of the system. There have been homegrown players … Read more
It is ranking season. Baseball America kicked things off with their Phillies Top 10 today. Here is Ben Badler’s List: J.P. Crawford Sixto Sanchez Scott Kingery Adonis Medina Adam Haseley JoJo Romero Jhailyn Ortiz Jorge Alfaro Mickey Moniak Franklyn Kilome Before talking order, here is Ben’s midseason list (with the Top 100 rank from BA … Read more
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. If the GCL is where careers begin for the youth, the Williamsport is where the elder statesmen of the draft get their … Read more
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