A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
The Rule 5 draft is the highlight (or really in reality, last) thing of the Winter Meetings, occurring on Wednesday, December 11. Teams must set their 40 man and AAA protection rosters by 6pm EDT on Tuesday, November 19. This makes it a movement day for 40 man rosters across the sport, so it will … Read more
The Glendale Desert Dogs and the Phillies on the roster have now played 17 games. RHP Wen Hui Pan has yet to appear in a game and IF Otto Kemp is currently second in the league in OPS. All of that really sort of pales in relation to the return of Andrew Painter to the … Read more
The minor league season is over, but there was some news and notes over the last week plus. Arizona Fall League The Phillies are sending 9 players to the Arizona Fall League this year. None of them are Andrew Painter, which is disappointing to some, but is not unsurprising given where he is in his … 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
Last Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B Darick Hall It wasn’t a good last two weeks of the season for Hall, who finished up his worst minor league season as the most prolific home run hitter in the history of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Hall hit 76 home runs in 410 games with the Phillies AAA … 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
The Rule 5 draft has largely been rendered obsolete as a talent acquisition tool, but the threat of it and the managing of the 40 man roster spurs other parts of player movement. The Phillies under Dave Dombrowski have largely tried to keep their 40 man roster limited to players who can play in the … 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
Last Week’s Schedule Lehigh Valley (3-3) vs Durham (3-6): L 10-28, W 3-2, L 6-10, W 9-4, W 6-1, L 9-12 Reading (1-2) vs Portland (0-1): W 9-8, W 5-1, L 0-11, L 2-9*, L 4-5*, L 5-9 Jersey Shore (2-1) @ Hickory (0-3): W 8-1, L 0-1, W 4-0*, L 0-5*, W 13-0, L … Read more
Last Week’s Schedule Lehigh Valley (1-2) @ Rochester (2-1): (Tuesday-Friday postponed, DH Sunday) W 5-4, W 4-3, L 4-7 Reading (0-0) @ Bowie (0-0): W 5-2, L 1-19, L 3-4 Jersey Shore (0-0) vs Aberdeen (0-0): W 3-2, W 7-6, L 1-4 Clearwater (0-0) @ Bradenton (0-0): W 5-2, W 13-2, L 0-4 *All teams … Read more