A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Pitching Spotlight: LHP Tom Windle – 7 .0 IP 2 H 1 ER 1 BB 9 K Windle had a rough start in his second start of the year, battling through a 9 run effort. Against the Harrisburg Senators on Sunday, Windle was dominant allowing only 14 balls in play with 11 of them ground … Read more
As reported by all of the beat writers, Phillies top prospect J.P. Crawford will be out 4-6 weeks with an oblique injury. In terms of missing time, Crawford will miss 2-4 weeks of games and will likely start in Clearwater where the weather is warmer and there are plenty of members of the training staff. … Read more
Positional Overviews: C|1B|2B|SS|3B|LF/RF|CF|SP (Upper)|SP (Lower) Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Freddy Galvis 25 MLB Andres Blanco 30 AAA Tyler Greene 31 AAA KC Serna 25 AA Edgar Duran 24 AA J.P. Crawford 20 AA 1 Malquin Canelo 20 A+ 41 Emmanuel Marrero 21 A- Grenny Cumana 19 SS 50 William Cuicas 20 SS … Read more
Kiley McDaniel continues what has been a very informative trip through prospects across the league with his Top 200 prospects. Kiley has divided the list into tiers based on his Future Value (FV) for each prospect. The result is a list that really gives more meaning than the pure numeric ranking in front of each … Read more
Baseball Prospectus continued the stream of rankings with their annual top 101 prospects in baseball. The list was previously released in the BP Annual but they have put it up on the site free to read. The Phillies have 3 prospects in the rankings with shortstop J.P. Crawford at #36, right handed pitcher Aaron Nola … Read more
MLB.com continues their prospect rankings with their Top 100 prospects. On their positional lists J.P. Crawford came in as the #5 SS and Maikel Franco was the #5 3B. The Phillies follow that up with 3 players on the Top 100 with Crawford leading the way at #21, Aaron Nola at #37, and Franco at #55. … Read more
A day after dubbing the Phillies the #25 farm system in baseball, Law ranked their top prospect #7. Keith has always raved about Crawford, and his writeup does not deviate from that. Law mentions his plus defense, his ability to make adjustments, and good swing. Crawford was often mentioned as a toolsy player out of … Read more
The rankings continue, this time it is shortstop prospects. Phillies #1 prospect, J.P. Crawford comes in at #5 on the list. Before you panic, here is the full list: Carlos Correa (Astros) Francisco Lindor (Indians) Addison Russell (Cubs) Corey Seager (Dodgers) J.P. Crawford (Phillies) Nick Gordon (Twins) Raul Adalberto Mondesi (Royals) Trea Turner (Padres Nationals) … Read more
Even before the Phillies started acquiring minor leaguers, Joe Jordan and the Phillies front office have been hinting that they are going to be taking it slow with their prospects. This morning, Jake Kaplan (New Matt Gelb) had an article up with some more quotes and speculations on the subject. Since each of these moves … Read more
The trade of Jimmy Rollins signaled the continued of a Phillies rebuild which many yet had not accepted the team was doing. Philadelphia has been rebuilding longer than just this offseason, their farm has continued to develop and will continue to as they add younger players and their draft position climbs up the board in … Read more