A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule *All full season teams playing 3 game series Hitter Spotlight 3B Francisco Loreto 4 G 6-13 1 2B 2 HR 5 RBI 2 BB 1 K .462/.533/1.000 Francisco Loreto might be having the most fascinating season in the Phillies org this season. In 2024, he played 30 games in the DSL and … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Griffin Burkholder 4-13 2 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 0 BB 3 K The draft is next week, and it probably isn’t ideal we haven’t talked about the player thought to be the Phillies best selection in last year’s draft. It doesn’t help that Burkholder started the year hurt, … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Hendry Mendez 7-17 1 2B 1 3B 1 HR 4 RBI 1 BB 2 K 1 SB I try to avoid writing up the same player twice, but if you hit for the cycle you get to break the mold. On Friday, Mendez pulled off the feat in 8-5 … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Dante Nori 6-21 4 2B 7 RBI 4 BB 4 K 2 SB .286/.385/.476 The Phillies 2024 first round pick is now hitting .240/.328/.332 on the season. In June he is hitting .277/.386/.404 with more walks than strikeouts. Nori has a 26.6% line drive rate and a very reasonable … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B Keaton Anthony 12 G 48 PA 16-46 5 2B 2 HR 2 BB 7 K .348/.375/.587 This is really a celebration of a strong month for Anthony who has hit .368/.417/.604 since the start of May. He is a bit of an odd first baseman with just 4 home … Read more
This Week’s Schedule * Season begins Monday June 2 Hitter Spotlight OF Hendry Mendez 7 G 7-22 1 HR 5 RBI 5 BB 5 K .318/.444/.455 If you liked Justin Crawford’s penchant for hitting hard ground balls, but wish it game with more plate discipline and a worse defensive profile, then Hendry Mendez was the … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Alirio Ferrebus 4 G 19 PA 3-14 2 HB 4 BB 1 K 1 HBP It was mostly a quiet week for Ferrebus outside of a two home run game (two opposite field shots on fastballs). He is only hitting .238 on season, mostly due to a high ground … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Avery Owusu-Asiedu 7-17 1 2B 1 HR 6 BB 2 K 4 SB .412/.583/.647 The Phillies selected Owusu-Asiedu in the 9th round of the 2023 draft as a junior in college, but he still is only 22. Last year he posted a 36.1% strikeout rate thanks to very low … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS/3B Carson DeMartini 5 G 9-21 1 2B 1 RBI 2 BB 3 K 1 SB .429/.500/.476 As a junior at Virginia Tech, DeMartini looked like a power forward third baseman with big swing and miss. Last year he struck out just 13.5% of the time, and while he currently … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 2B Aroon Escobar 11-23 2 2B 2 HR 4 RBI 1 BB 5 K .478/.500/.826 What Aroon Escobar has done so far this year isn’t completely shocking. He was very very good in a small sample size last year and he has long had the physical tools to be a … Read more