A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B Keaton Anthony 6 G 5-20 3 HR 3 BB 5 K .250/.385/.700 Keaton Anthony has 5 home runs in 22 games this year and hit a home run in 3 games in a row. Given that the knock on him has been power output, it was worth looking at … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Francisco Renteria 5 G 8-17 2 3B 2 RBI 3 BB 5 K 3 SB .471/.571/.706 The Phillies top international signing hasn’t done anything in 6 games that makes your jaw drop. He has a hit in every game, and Monday was the first time he didn’t reach base … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Robert Phelps 6 G 11-27 2 2B 2 HR 7 RBI 3 SB 2 CS 3 BB 0 K .407/.467/.704 After putting up a very quiet .646 OPS in April, the Phillies 19th round pick from last year’s draft had a monster May hitting .333/.424/.551 on the months with … Read more
The DSL season begins on Monday. Due to a smaller signing class and the pressures of the league for teams to shrink their systems the Phillies have gone with a single team this year. That leaves the roster a bit more concentrated in talent than previous years. Since the Phillies gave most of their bonus … Read more
Not every interesting player makes the list, and I have notes and thoughts on many more players than will be represented in this additional list. I have grouped this by type of player, starting with the new international signees that I don’t rank as part of the major list. This is also not the “honorable … Read more
Starting tomorrow (January 15, 2026) teams can make official signings for international players using their 2026 bonus pool if they turned 16 before the end of August 2025. Typically the players getting notable amounts of signing bonus will be those newly eligible, but the Phillies will typically sign a handful of older players, typically pitchers. … Read more