A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Matthew Ferrara 5 G 9-20 2 2B 2 3B 2 HR 8 RBI 2 BB 6 K If you have two games with 4 hits your line is going to look pretty good. Ferrara missed on a cycle by hitting two doubles instead of picking up a single. One … Read more
Top Prospects OF Devin Saltiban – Saltiban moved back to center field after returning from injury last year. Things didn’t immediately pick up, but they did in the Australian Baseball League this winter. Saltiban shows good power and speed, but so far it has come with a susceptibility to spin and a lot of swing … Read more
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Jump to Rankings When I sat down to the yearly exercise of putting together this list, I was under no delusion that I was writing up a strong farm system. The Phillies are a competitive team that has struggled with development while not having the depth to cycle out players for influxes of talent like … Read more
Jump to Rankings When I sat down to the yearly exercise of putting together this list, I was under no delusion that I was writing up a strong farm system. The Phillies are a competitive team that has struggled with development while not having the depth to cycle out players for influxes of talent like … Read more
If the bottom of the system started (or starts, depending on the order you are reading this) to make you question what a prospect is, this part of the list gets into real prospects with MLB upside. That said, the shallowness of the system is clear, as is some of the work the Phillies have … Read more
This Week’s Schedule *All full season teams playing 3 game series Hitter Spotlight 3B Francisco Loreto 4 G 6-13 1 2B 2 HR 5 RBI 2 BB 1 K .462/.533/1.000 Francisco Loreto might be having the most fascinating season in the Phillies org this season. In 2024, he played 30 games in the DSL and … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Griffin Burkholder 4-13 2 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 0 BB 3 K The draft is next week, and it probably isn’t ideal we haven’t talked about the player thought to be the Phillies best selection in last year’s draft. It doesn’t help that Burkholder started the year hurt, … Read more
Ever since the Phillies brought in Dave Dombrowski to run their baseball operations, they have been looking to overhaul the farm system and develop a sustaining long term pipeline. The process involved throwing aside large pieces of the previous framework, many of which have gone on to have success in other organizations, in order to … Read more
Name: John SpikermanPosition: OFBorn: April 2, 2003 Country: USBats/Throws: S/RHeight/Weight: 6’0″ 190lbsHow Acquired: Drafted in the 3rd round of the 2024 Draft by the PhilliesSigned: July 24, 2024Bonus: $672,5000Options Remaining: 3Rule 5 Eligible: 2027MiLB Free Agency: 2028 Articles Stats Rankings Reports Video Stats Prospect Rankings Season Reports/Highlights Tab #1 Tab #1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, … Read more