A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
As expected the GCL Phillies were loaded with talent in 2015. The team featured a premium prospect at nearly every position at the lineup, and until the stretch run their rotation could match anyone in the league. Despite their talent, they failed to reach the playoffs losing out on the division race to the GCL … Read more
Much like Nick Pivetta in the Carolina League, the Phillies acquired some players at the deadline that had some previous pedigree. Today’s group come from the small (but prospect laden) Texas League and were the core of the deal that sent Cole Hamels to Texas to lead the Rangers to the playoffs (though Jerad Eickhoff … Read more
The list everyone was waiting for. The Reading team was stacked this year, as was the whole Eastern League. Before jumping into the names from the Phillies, Zach Eflin and Roman Quinn did qualify for this list, but Nick Williams and Jake Thompson did not. Once again I want to emphasize that this list was … Read more
Just because the Phillies did not have an affiliate in the Carolina League did not mean they were not represented. Their trading spree at the trade deadline gained the Phillies’ prospects from across baseball and in this case a hot head closer brought the Phillies back a very interesting arm. 8. Nick Pivetta (RHP) Pivetta … Read more
So I am going to be brief here because Eickhoff has now qualified for my offseason series on graduated prospects so I want to save a lot of the big picture stuff for that. What I really want to do is react to the development of his curveball. Eickhoff mentioned recently that it took him … Read more
After a short break the Top 20s continue with the South Atlantic League. The league is how to 14 teams so getting just one or two players on the list can be quite the accomplishment. Lakewood had two prospects made the Top 20, however the two chosen leaves some puzzlement with shortstop Malquin Canelo and … Read more
In general once a player graduates from their rookie status their time being covered on this site comes to an end as I hand them off to Phillies’ fans to hold and to treasure. The purpose of this series is to give them one last send off. Elvis Araujo was a bit of an unknown … Read more
It has been a slow news day for positive news, so here is some at least fun news. Congrats @sandberg_cord on being named the @RawlingsSports Gold Glove Award winner in LF! @BlueClaws @Phillies pic.twitter.com/mJYumBBjhS — MiLB Communications (@MiLB_PR) September 28, 2015 Congrats @AAltherr! @RawlingsSports Gold Glove Award winner in RF. @ReadingFightins @IronPigs@Phillies pic.twitter.com/glPXFZAbZn — MiLB … Read more
Earlier this week news came out that there is mutual interest between the Phillies and Jeff Francoeur on a return for the 2016 season. There is nothing definite here, it is more that the Phillies like Frenchy and Frenchy likes the Phillies. But this got me thinking about the makeup of the team next year. … Read more
The League Top 20s march on with the New York Penn League. In general the list tends to be a bit weak outside the top few names. This is because the top HS picks tend to skip over the league, which leaves it with some college draftees who qualify for the innings and PA thresholds, … Read more