A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Preseason Top 50 It has not been a great season for the Phillies system, and it starts at the top. Justin Crawford and Andrew Painter both graduated to the majors where they have struggled to varying degrees. Aidan Miller’s back injury has put a grey cloud over the system, and poor performances by top prospects … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from Preseason Top 50 Stock Up RHP Ramon Marquez (#14) – A minor injury, plus some worries about building workload meant that Marquez didn’t make his official season debut until May. In those 18.2 innings he has walked 6 to 32 strikeouts. He is throwing harder this year with his fastball … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS Romeli Espinosa 5 G 9-22 3 2B 5 RBI 2 BB 1 K .409/.480/.545 The FCL Phillies have been brutal, and Espinosa was a decent part of that with some real struggles to open the season. After striking out 8 times in the first 4 games of the season, … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from preseason rankings Stock Up RHP Gage Wood (#4) – If I were to put out a ranking today, Wood would rank #2 in the system purely on graduations in front of him, but that sort of change in ordinal ranking doesn’t communicate how his outlook has changed over the first … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS Bryan Rincon 7-21 1 2B 2 HR 5 RBI 8 BB 3 K 3 SB .333/.500/.667 After a very good week, Bryan Rincon’s home/road splits are looking more even, though the Yard Goats are not a particularly good team. On the season, Rincon is hitting .256/.387/.477 and has mostly … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Alirio Ferrebus 8-21 2 2B 2 HR 9 RBI 0 BB 1 K 2 HBP .381/.417/.762 Over the first few weeks of the season, Ferrebus has been one of the best hitters in the FSL, with a season line of .308/.395/.538. In his repeat appearance through the league he … Read more
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
Top Prospects OF Dante Nori – Nori played most of the year with Clearwater in 2025, but the Phillies aggressively pushed him to Reading after he spent some time with Italy in the WBC. Nori has worked on being less of a slap hitter, and to drive the ball in optimal counts, but he might … Read more
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