A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
I wrote up brief highlights on the Phillies two picks at #27 and #63, but I wanted to combine some thoughts about how things stand so far. When I went back and looked at the Phillies previous drafts, it was littered with not so great hitters. Aidan Miller looks like a steal, but he also … Read more
The Phillies decided to double up on high school outfielders taking Griffin Burkholder from Freedom HS in Virginia. Burkholder was rated higher on many boards than Nori and brings a similar, but not identical profile to the Phillies 1st round pick. Burkholder is big and projectable, and most sites have him rated with at least … Read more
With the 27th pick in the draft Phillies draft HS OF Dante Nori. Nori is already 19 years old and will turn 20 in October, that means he was born in 2004 the same year as Justin Crawford and Aidan Miller. He is athletic with at least plus plus speed, and supposed to have a … Read more
Draft Tracker Draft Tracker Spreadsheet Day 1 (7/14): Day 1 Thoughts Day 2: (7/15): Day 2 Thoughts Day 3 (7/16): Day 3 and Overall Thoughts UDFAs: Mock Drafts: Draft Rankings:
For very good reasons, the Phillies have drafted late the last 3 years now. Even prior to that, their mediocrity left them in the middle of the first round. It was easy to have opinions on 10 players that might go in the top 5, more difficult to have opinions on 20+ guys that might … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule *Part of a double header This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Justin Crawford 11-26 1 2B 2 HR 1 BB 4 K 2 SB .423/.444/.692 I wanted to talk about Crawford because of this swing. I am certainly hard on Crawford, but that is a beautiful swing. Most of his pulled home … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from midseason list / preseason list Stock Up LHP Mavis Graves (#20 / #37) – It isn’t that Graves was bad to start the season, he had a solid April and May with the arrow pointed very up, it is that his June was another leap forward. In 4 starts during … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF/OF Weston Wilson 10-24 4 HR 4 BB 7 K .317/.500/.917 I generally avoid treating Wilson as a prospect because he is 29, but he is still technically a rookie. This week he hit 4 home runs in 6 games, the week before he hit 4 home … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule *Part of double header #completion of previous game This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Eduardo Tait 8-22 2 2B 2 HR 8 RBI 2 K 2 HBP 1 SB Not as good a week as last for Eduardo Tait who only hit .364/.417/.727 on the week. No walks, but 2 hit by … Read more
For the second straight season the Clearwater Threshers won the 1st half division title and clinched a postseason berth. It got a little tight at the end as they had gone 4-10 over the last 2.5 series before last week’s game with Tampa, but then they won 7 in a row to clinch on the … Read more