Jose Pujols

Weekend Recap: Eflin, Lively, Morgan, Biddle, and the kids

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It was a big weekend for the Phillies prospects both at the major league level and the minor league level.  This weekend saw the start of minor league games, including games against Canada and Puerto Rico.  Lets jump into the reports by many sources. Friday: The first two pitchers for the major league club were LHPs … Read more

Positional Overview: Corner Outfield

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Depth Chart: Age Likely 2015 Level Top 50 Domonic Brown 27 MLB Grady Sizemore 32 MLB Odubel Herrera 23 MLB 28 Kelly Dugan 24 AAA 8 Brian Bugosevic 30 AAA Jeff Francoeur 31 AAA Darin Mastroinni 29 AAA Xavier Paul 30 AAA Cameron Perkins 24 AAA 32 Brian Pointer 23 AA Aaron Brown 22 A+ … Read more

2015 Top 50 Phillies Prospects: 11-20

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As we get closer to the top 10, the players in the system start to separate themselves into specific tiers of talent and profile.  In the last three groups of 10 the players could arguably have been slotted in many different orders.  Here those groups become smaller and the order starts to become more important.  I am making … Read more

Offseason Phillies Prospect Mailbag #1

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The World Series over, free agency starts soon, and prospect rankings are upon us.  So what better time than now to answer your questions about the Phillies minor leagues.

Jason Polinsky (@Jay_Poozle) If you could trade Dom for a hypothetical top 100 prospect, would you?

Yes and not even close.  I like Brown’s potential, but even if he turns it around you only have 3 arb years of control left.  I will take my chances on a player with less upside for those 3 years of pre-arb control.  If I thought Brown could guarantee me close to average regular production (~2 WAR) it is a different story, he just has too much risk.

Adam Dembowitz (@adamd243) Gimme all you got on Tommy Joseph.

Joseph has plus raw power and a plus arm and a lot of fringy other things.  I was really encouraged by his brief healthy time in AA this year where he hit .282/.345/.551 over 21 games.  There is a non-zero chance he could be a regular behind the plate, but on top of the much talked about concussions he has missed dev time to other injuries.  His attitude was apparently very poor in the GCL as he dealt with the frustration from the injured wrist.  In a perfect world, Joseph provide fringe average defense behind the plate, hits 15-20 HRs with a half decent walk rate and a .240 batting average, that is a really solid player.  I wouldn’t give him up for nothing, but you can’t really count on anything either.

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2014 Williamsport Crosscutters Recap: Interview with Mitch Rupert

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Yesterday I wrote my recap of the Williamsport Crosscutters, today here is our interview with Mitch Rupert about his impressions of the Crosscutters’ 2014 season. Before we jump into talking about players why don’t you introduce yourself and where people can find your writing? My name is Mitch Rupert and I’m a sports writer with the Williamsport … Read more

2014 GCL Phillies Recap: Interview with Baseball Betsy

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We kicked off our recap season yesterday, here is part 2 of the GCL recap an interview with Baseball Betsy.

Before we jump into talking about the players on the field, introduce yourself and how you came to be covering the GCL Phillies and where people can find your work?

I’m Baseball Betsy, I live in Clearwater and am a follower of the Phillies at all levels. I have my own site www.baseballbetsy.com and a blog at http://baseballbetsy.wordpress.com.  My husband Baseball Ross and I have lived here full time for three years and have spent a good deal of time here for the last eight years.

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2014 GCL Phillies Recap

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Given the amount of time and effort that goes into covering the season while it occurs, we want to give it equal attention after it is all over.  This year we will be featuring wrap-ups such as this one, done by the writers here at Phillies Minor Thoughts, and then an interview with someone has gotten to see the team a lot in person.  We are very excited to start rolling these out, especially for the insights by those we talked to.

Team: GCL Phillies
Record: 36-23
Standing: Missed Playoffs, Second Place in Northwest Division

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Jose Pujols to be Promoted to Williamsport

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According to Ian Catherine, GCL right fielder Jose Pujols will be promoted to Williamsport.

Pujols will be rejoining the other big signing of the Phillies 2012 International FA class, Deivi Grullon.  Pujols signed for $540,000 out of the Dominican Republic after showing impressive raw power that had one scout invoke the name of a certain Marlin slugger.  At the time Pujols’ swing showed incredible bat speed but a lot of uppercut and natural miss to it.  Last year the Phillies worked to retool his swing to be more level, the end result was a more contact oriented swing that did not sacrifice any of what may be 80 grade raw power.  Pujols has made large strides in pitch recognition, but he still has approach and aggression issues at the plate that have lead to high strikeout totals, but he has also shown a willingness at times to work deep counts.  Last year Pujols tied for the GCL lead in home runs, but most of his power was to the pull side, this year he has shown the ability to hit the ball hard to the opposite field as seen in his spray chart.

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