A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Video by Josh Norris – Baseball America Kilome pitched three innings today. Generally 91-93 but I had him touch 95 twice and 97 once. — Josh Norris 🐻 (@jnorris427) March 21, 2015 Post by Baseball America. Kilome probably has the highest ceiling of any pitcher in the org and could be in for a real … Read more
Every time someone talks about the Phillies moving on in their rebuild, they bring up the Phillies $13 million closer, Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon looks good this spring; his fastball is close to its velocity from last year (91-93), and his secondaries look sharp (and sequenced). Yet it appears the trade talk has calmed down, and while the … Read more
It is just over two weeks until opening day so it is time once again to look at the spring training roster battles. The first version from two weeks ago is here. Locks: Hitters: Carlos Ruiz, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Freddy Galvis, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Ben Revere, Domonic Brown, Grady Sizemore, Darin Ruf, Cameron … Read more
Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Victor Arano 20 A+ 14 Miguel Nunez 22 A+ 46 Mark Leiter Jr 24 A+ Matt Imhof 21 A+ 13 Yoel Mecias 21 A+ 4 Brandon Leibrandt 22 A+ 48 Yacksel Rios 21 A+ Alejandro Arteaga 20 A- Drew Anderson 21 A- 49 Ranfi Casimiro 22 A- … Read more
Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Cole Hamels 31 MLB Cliff Lee 36 MLB (60 Day DL) Aaron Harang 36 MLB Chad Billingsley 30 MLB (DL) Jerome Williams 33 MLB David Buchanan 25 MLB Kevin Slowey 30 MLB Adam Morgan 25 AAA 45 Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez 28 AAA 33 Jonathan Pettibone 24 AAA … Read more
It was a big weekend for the Phillies prospects both at the major league level and the minor league level. This weekend saw the start of minor league games, including games against Canada and Puerto Rico. Lets jump into the reports by many sources. Friday: The first two pitchers for the major league club were LHPs … Read more
John Sickels has released a list of his top 175 prospects in baseball. The full list is here. There are 5 Phillies on the list with J.P. Crawford #24, Maikel Franco #32, Aaron Nola #45, Ben Lively #142, and Jesse Biddle #146. There aren’t any writeups here, but you can find John’s thoughts on the … Read more
Chris King is live scoring the game. You can follow here and follow Chris (@Statsking). So far Gregori Rivero and Jose Pujols have gone back to back
Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Domonic Brown 27 MLB Grady Sizemore 32 MLB Odubel Herrera 23 MLB 28 Kelly Dugan 24 AAA 8 Brian Bugosevic 30 AAA Jeff Francoeur 31 AAA Darin Mastroinni 29 AAA Xavier Paul 30 AAA Cameron Perkins 24 AAA 32 Brian Pointer 23 AA Aaron Brown 22 A+ … Read more
The last major list of Phillies prospects is now up with MLB Pipeline publishing their Phillies Top 30 prospects. The full list is here. J.P. Crawford Aaron Nola Maikel Franco Roman Quinn Zach Eflin Tom Windle Ben Lively Matt Imhof Jesse Biddle Franklyn Kilome Ricardo Pinto Deivi Grullon Andrew Knapp Cord Sandberg Severino Gonzalez Odubel … Read more