A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
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
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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Jump to Rankings When I sat down to the yearly exercise of putting together this list, I was under no delusion that I was writing up a strong farm system. The Phillies are a competitive team that has struggled with development while not having the depth to cycle out players for influxes of talent like … Read more
Jump to Rankings When I sat down to the yearly exercise of putting together this list, I was under no delusion that I was writing up a strong farm system. The Phillies are a competitive team that has struggled with development while not having the depth to cycle out players for influxes of talent like … Read more
If the bottom of the system started (or starts, depending on the order you are reading this) to make you question what a prospect is, this part of the list gets into real prospects with MLB upside. That said, the shallowness of the system is clear, as is some of the work the Phillies have … Read more
There is no game today so we can live in blissful ignorance for a little bit of time. Apologies for the site being down for a week. I still am not sure of root cause, but it is back up and I definitely fiddled with enough things to have changed some things I probably did … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Devin Saltiban 10-23 3 2B 2 3B 1 HR 4 RBI 3 BB 4 K 3 SB .435/.519/.870 Saltiban has exclusively played center field since the beginning of July, and unsurprisingly has looked fine at the position. The BlueClaws returned home last week, and Saltiban put his terrible week … Read more
The MLB trade deadline is July 31 6pm EDT. The Phillies have a need in their bullpen and in left field or on their bench. By all accounts they are motivated to make a deal, however the market is in flux and that means there could be a lot available, little available, or even only … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from preseason rankings / Statcast stats from Robert Orr’s website and Baseball Savant Stock Up OF Avery Owusu-Asiedu (UR) – It is hard to overstate just how poor 2024 was for Owusu-Asiedu. He struck out at a 36.1% rate and had a zone contact rate of 72.6%. He just did not … Read more