A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The different tiers of prospects unsurprisingly look like a pyramid, with a large number of interesting players in the organization narrowing to a very few elite prospects at the top. Even here in this group of five there are three distinct tiers. At the top, Painter is an elite prospect, talent wise one of the … Read more
Some Awards I Made Up Hitter of the Year: Otto Kemp, IF This could easily be Keaton Anthony, Justin Crawford, Aidan Miller, or Eduardo Tait, but I went Kemp and his .285/.392/.489 line. Kemp played at 3 different levels (4 if you include rehabbing in Clearwater) and was often the best hitter on each team. … Read more
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 Hendry Mendez 8-17 1 2B 1 3B 2 RBI 4 BB 1 K .471/.571/.647 Since the start of July, Mendez is hitting .338/.424/.507 with 14 doubles, 2 triples, and 2 home runs. After hitting just 6 extra base hits in the first half, it is a … 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
Stock Changes *Rankings are from midseason list Stock Up C Eduardo Tait (#5) – June looked like a breakout for Tait as he put up a 1.011 OPS, and then he followed it up with a 1.031 OPS in July, complete with a promotion to Clearwater. The major concern of the month he is walked … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Jaeden Calderon 9-20 3 2B 1 3B 1 BB 4 K Last year, Jaeden Calderon has a good year as a 17 year old, hitting .276/.414/.463 for DSL Red. He is back on Red this year for a repeat performance, hitting .302/.440/.466 through 38 games. Since … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Raylin Heredia 16 PA 5-15 1 3B 2 HR 8 RBI 1 BB 3 K 1 SB A year ago I over-ranked Heredia on my midseason list. He was in his age 19 season and had laid waste to the FCL to the tune of .326/.415/.532 … 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
Last Week’s Schedule *Part of double header This Week’s Schedule All full season teams are playing 3 game series Friday-Sunday Hitter Spotlight SS Aidan Miller 2-4 2 RBI – Jersey Shore / 0-1 RBI K – Futures Game It is a bit of an out to feature Miller this week when he played in one … Read more