A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Stock Changes *Rankings are from midseason list / Statcast stats from Robert Orr’s website Stock Up RHP Eiberson Castellano (#24) – Last month was focused on Eiberson breaking into the prospect ranks, but he followed up his solid season with a dominant August where he posted a 1.64 ERA in AA with 5 walks and … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Emaarion Boyd 5 G 8-24 1 2B 2 3B 1 HR 6 RBI 2 SB 0 BB 5 K Boyd had 2 hit games in the last 4 games of the series, and is now batting .295/.349/.459 in August, far and away his best month of … 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
After taking two high school outfielders, the Phillies spent much of Day 2 of the draft leaving us asking the question of “Do they know they can take pitchers?”. The thing about the MLB draft is you can have a real dedicated strategy, like the year the Angels only took pitchers or they Yankees this … Read more
After prioritizing speed, and some power questions, in the first 3 rounds, the Phillies go for power in the 4th round with Virginia Tech third baseman Carson DeMartini. DeMartini struck out a ton this year and in 2022, but had it under control in 2023. There is some speculation about his shoulder injury messing with … Read more