A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The BlueClaws have announced that they will going with a 6 man rotation to start the season. Right now their rotation will be RHP Ricardo Pinto, LHP Josh Taylor, RHP Tyler Viza, RHP Ranfi Casimiro, RHP Chris Oliver, and LHP Elniery Garcia. Viza and Casimiro return to Lakewood after up and down years (both probably … Read more
As we get closer to the top 10, the players in the system start to separate themselves into specific tiers of talent and profile. In the last three groups of 10 the players could arguably have been slotted in many different orders. Here those groups become smaller and the order starts to become more important. I am making … Read more
We kicked off our recap season yesterday, here is part 2 of the GCL recap an interview with Baseball Betsy.
Before we jump into talking about the players on the field, introduce yourself and how you came to be covering the GCL Phillies and where people can find your work?
I’m Baseball Betsy, I live in Clearwater and am a follower of the Phillies at all levels. I have my own site www.baseballbetsy.com and a blog at http://baseballbetsy.
Given the amount of time and effort that goes into covering the season while it occurs, we want to give it equal attention after it is all over. This year we will be featuring wrap-ups such as this one, done by the writers here at Phillies Minor Thoughts, and then an interview with someone has gotten to see the team a lot in person. We are very excited to start rolling these out, especially for the insights by those we talked to.
Team: GCL Phillies
Record: 36-23
Standing: Missed Playoffs, Second Place in Northwest Division
The Phillies entered the season with one of the thinnest systems in terms of starting pitching in major leagues. Through the draft, international development, and trades the Phillies have turned this weakness into a strength. The result has been starting rotations in the low minors that ended the year in 6 and 7 man rotations … Read more
The GCL Phillies spent much of the early season being the rehab point for many rehabbing and drafted pitchers as Yoel Mecias, Nic Hanson, Brandon Leibrandt, Matt Imhof, Jesse Biddle, and Drew Anderson all made starts this year. But since the GCL Phillies have begun to settle into a 6-7 man rotation (double headers and … Read more