A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
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
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
After taking two high school outfielders, the Phillies spent much of Day 2 of the draft leaving us asking the question of “Do they know they can take pitchers?”. The thing about the MLB draft is you can have a real dedicated strategy, like the year the Angels only took pitchers or they Yankees this … Read more
For a brief second it looked like the Phillies had taken their third straight plus plus speed center fielder when they selected John Spikerman from the Oklahoma. However, despite not playing infield since high school they announced him as a shortstop. Spikermen hit .368/.429/.542 this year, despite breaking his hamate this spring. His only three … Read more