A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
After finishing up their major league coaching staff last week, the Phillies announced their 2018 minor league coaches and player development staff. The other bit of news is that the Phillies are adding a second GCL team. This move will weaken the talent level of the single GCL team, but will allow the Phillies to … Read more
Scott Kingery, 2B 5’10”, 180 lb Bats/Throws: R/R Drafted in 2nd round of 2015 MLB Draft Teams Played for: Reading (AA/Eastern League), Lehigh Valley (AAA/International League) Dates Seen (all w/LHV): 6/26, 7/24, 7/28, 9/1 Eyewitness Stats: 5/19, 3 K, SB What the Numbers Say Reading (AA): 69 G, 317 PA, .313/.379/.608, 87 H, 18 2B, … Read more
The minor league season may have wrapped up three 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 loaded up the upper minors of the system with top prospects, and for the past two seasons Reading has … Read more
Ever since J.P. Crawford broke onto the scene Freddy Galvis’ days at shortstop were numbered. After the Phillies traded Jimmy Rollins in the winter of 2014, Galvis held down the Phillies’ shortstop job. His reputation was for a good glove and not much bat. Galvis’ glove was inconsistent in 2015, but in 2016 and 2017 … Read more
Sixto Sanchez 6’0″, 185 lb Bats/Throws: R/R Signed as an International Amateur free agent in 2014 Teams Played for: Lakewood (Low A/South Atlantic League)/Clearwater (High A/Florida State League) Dates Seen: 4/13, 4/30, 7/12, 7/30 Eyewitness Stats: 4 G (all starts), 22 IP, 12 H, 2 R (2 ER), BB, 18 K (22.8%), HBP, 79 BF … Read more
This morning was the Rule 5 draft. As was indicated all week after the Phillies waived Cam Perkins and Engelb Vielma, the Phillies made their selection at #3. They selected Twins former 1st round pick, RHP Nick Burdi. Burdi is a hard throwing reliever with high upside. However, after missing most of 2016 to injury, … Read more
The Winter Meetings end with the Rule 5 draft. The draft is rarely impactful, with probably the best recent player being the Phillies own Odubel Herrera. The next year the Phillies took Tyler Goeddel with the first pick and he completely flamed out. Meanwhile, the Phillies have protected a high percentage of players leading to … 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 2016 Lakewood BlueClaws went on a late season run fueled by elite pitching to reach the South Atlantic League championship series. … Read more
Jhailyn Ortiz, RF/1B 6’3″, 215 lb Bats/Throws: R/R Signed as an international amateur in July 2015 Teams Played For: Williamsport (NY-Penn League/Short Season A) Dates Seen: 7/7-7/9 Eyewitness Stats: 4/11, 2 2B, HR, 5 RBI, 2 R, 2 SB, BB, 3 K, HBP What the Numbers Say Williamsport (Short Season A): 47 G, 187 PA, … Read more
The last week has given us a lot of baseball stories revolving around baseball outside of the United States and it has led me to some thoughts on the whole things. So pardon the rambling. Yesterday the Phillies added 4 Latin American pitchers to their 40 man roster (3 Dominican RHPs and a Venezuelan LHP). … Read more