Phillies Writers Prospect Rankings

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For those that have followed the minors over the last half decade or so would recognize Mike Drago’s Phillies writers composite rankings. A group of writers about the Phillies and about prospects in general send in their top 20 Phillies prospects and those are all compiled into a composite ranking. This year, Mitch Rupert took up the mantle and 18 writers submitted ballots. Here are those rankings and some statistical minutia that Mitch compiled

  1. Bryson Stott (8 first-place votes)
  2. Mick Abel (10 first-place votes)
  3. Andrew Painter
  4. Johan Rojas
  5. Logan O’Hoppe
  6. Francisco Morales
  7. Hans Crouse
  8. Erik Miller
  9. Matt Vierling
  10. Jhailyn Ortiz
  11. Ethan Wilson
  12. Luis Garcia
  13. Mickey Moniak
  14. Simon Muzziotti
  15. Yhoswar Garcia
  16. Griff McGarry
  17. Casey Martin
  18. Rickardo Perez
  19. Jordan Viars
  20. Jamari Baylor
  21. JoJo Romero
  22. Christopher Sanchez
  23. Adonis Medina
  24. Cristian Hernandez
  25. Micah Ottenbreit
  • 48 players received votes
  • Only Bryson Stott and Mick Abel received first-place votes
  • Johan Rojas, Andrew Painter and JoJo Romero each received a second-place vote
  • Bryson Stott was ranked first or second on 17 of 18 ballots
  • Mick Abel was ranked first or seond on 16 of 18 ballots
  • Only Bryson Stott, Mick Abel, Andrew Painter, Johan Rojas and Logan O’Hoppe appeared on all 18 ballots
  • Francisco Morales, Hans Crouse, Erik Miller, Matt Vierling, Jhailyn Ortiz, Ethan Wilson and Mickey Moniak appeared on 17 of the 18 ballots
  • The biggest discrepancy in voting was for JoJo Romero, who twice appeared in the Top 5, but was left off of 13 ballots.
  • Jean Cabrera, who won the Paul Owens Award as the system’s top pitcher, appeared on only three ballots, coming in as high as 15th.
I am still in the thick of the ranking process for the offseason list, but I put together a top 20 to send in that was an updated version of the one I published here in the middle of September. So first the list and then what changed and why it changed.
  1. Mick Abel
  2. Bryson Stott
  3. Andrew Painter
  4. Johan Rojas
  5. Luis Garcia
  6. Logan O’Hoppe
  7. Ethan Wilson
  8. Griff McGarry
  9. Hans Crouse
  10. Francisco Morales
  11. Matt Vierling
  12. Yhoswar Garcia
  13. Erik Miller
  14. Mickey Moniak
  15. Jhailyn Ortiz
  16. Micah Ottenbreit
  17. Jordan Viars
  18. Simon Muzziotti
  19. Casey Martin
  20. Christian McGowan

The top 9 are the same and there is a decent chance those are the top 9 on the offseason list and in that order. Morales is still at 10, but is a tier down from those first 9 and could easily drop. Matt Vierling spent the last bit of September showing the exit velocity numbers were not a fluke so he went up. Erik Miller showed rust while Yhoswar Garcia did not, hence some flipping. One part of Instructs is seeing some of the draftees rise and some others fall. The biggest movers aren’t actually on the top 20 as Alexeis Azuaje and Hao Yu Lee had great Instructs. Cristian Herandez just missed this list, but it is clear he is firmly in this range. It is funny that a lot of the status change of sorts has been at the top, but everyone rising together. Stott and O’Hoppe have been very good in the Arizona Fall League, but Mick Abel was healthy and 97-99 in Instructs and Andrew Painter had a velocity jump to be sitting over 97 and touching 100. Meanwhile Rojas and Garcia had good ends of the year at Jersey Shore and did what you expect hi-A players to do in Instructs, as did Ethan Wilson.

 

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