A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
We are in the season of midseason ranking season. I have already released my Midseason Top 20 and Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus have released their Midseason Top 50s. But now we have another round of Top Prospect Lists. Minor League Ball Top 75 No 2014 draftees included. 28. J.P. Crawford I love the reports on his … Read more
The Phillies had two representatives at the Futures Game this year Maikel Franco and J.P. Crawford. There were a lot of other prospects there, and I will get to them in a later piece. I was able to make the 4.5 hour trek from Madison to Minneapolis to take in the game, which was well … Read more
Both Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus released their Top 50 Midseason Prospect Rankings. The BA list can be found here and the BP list can be found here. Both lists did not include recently drafted players, although the BP list had a quick preview (where it had Aaron Nola as a guy in the Top 101 … Read more
The Phillies’ offense and pitching has been a focal point of discussion from spring training to this point as the club continues to near the trade deadline where the obvious decision to sell should be made by GM Ruben Amaro and team ownership. Philadelphia’s offense ranked eighth worse in the league at 3.86 runs per … Read more
MLB has announced that Clearwater shortstop, and Phillies 2013 1st Round Pick J.P. Crawford and Lehigh Valley 1B/3B Maikel Franco will be representing the Phillies at the Futures Game. Crawford will be joining Dodgers shortstop prospect Corey Seager as the shortstops on the American team. Crawford hit .295/.398/.405 in 60 games for the Lakewood Blueclaws … Read more
Most of the draft picks are signed so it is time to revisit the preseason rankings. It is still a small sample size, and an even smaller one for those newly drafted, so this list may be a bit conservative on any large scale changes. In general the system is heading in the right direction, … Read more
July 2 is coming up quickly, and frankly I can’t tell you who the Phillies are going to sign. I do know they have been linked to 3 players: a bat first catcher, a glove first shortstop, and a hit first SS, who is probably a center fielder. The bonuses should all be under $1 … Read more