A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Matthew Ferrara 5 G 9-20 2 2B 2 3B 2 HR 8 RBI 2 BB 6 K If you have two games with 4 hits your line is going to look pretty good. Ferrara missed on a cycle by hitting two doubles instead of picking up a single. One … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Dante Nori 9-22 2 2B 1 3B 1 HR 0 BB 5 K 0 SB 3 CS .409/.435/.727 Nori not playing the field due to an arm injury and going 0 for 3 on stolen base attempts this week are out of the normal things for him, but aren’t … Read more
Not every interesting player makes the list, and I have notes and thoughts on many more players than will be represented in this additional list. I have grouped this by type of player, starting with the new international signees that I don’t rank as part of the major list. This is also not the “honorable … Read more
Ever since the Phillies brought in Dave Dombrowski to run their baseball operations, they have been looking to overhaul the farm system and develop a sustaining long term pipeline. The process involved throwing aside large pieces of the previous framework, many of which have gone on to have success in other organizations, in order to … Read more
The Rule 5 draft is the highlight (or really in reality, last) thing of the Winter Meetings, occurring on Wednesday, December 11. Teams must set their 40 man and AAA protection rosters by 6pm EDT on Tuesday, November 19. This makes it a movement day for 40 man rosters across the sport, so it will … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule *Game played as part of a doubleheader This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Gabriel Rincones Jr. 9-24 3 2B 3 HR 8 RBI 2 BB 8 K 1 SB Rincones had opened the season by hitting .300/.417/.600 with Reading, but since starting his rehab he had hit only .221/.315/.325 in 21 games … Read more
The draft picks have all signed and the trade deadline is next week, so like last year I am going to combine the two into a rankings update and thoughts on the trade deadline. Like always I have divided the list up into tiers. Within a tier the order is my preference. It isn’t 100% … Read more
The Rule 5 draft has largely been rendered obsolete as a talent acquisition tool, but the threat of it and the managing of the 40 man roster spurs other parts of player movement. The Phillies under Dave Dombrowski have largely tried to keep their 40 man roster limited to players who can play in the … 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
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C/1B Guillermo Rosario 7-18 3 2B 1 3B 1 HR 2 BB 5 K – .389/.409/.833 On Friday, Guillermo Rosario might have had the best game any Phillies prospect will have all season, going 4 for 4 with 3 doubles, a home run, and a sac fly, … Read more