Mavis Graves

Phillies 2025 Spring Breakout and Other Notes

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Gameday / Statcast Spring Breakout Notes Pitcher Velocity Exit Velocity Other Notes Videos

Phillies 2025 Top Prospects – The Actual Middle of the System #6-16

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I talk a lot about tiers or groupings of players, and to me there is a distinct drop from 5 to 6 and then from 16 to 17. In a deeper system it would be better if this group started at 10 instead of 6, but this is not a group of bad prospects. What … Read more

The Race for the 2024 Paul Owens Pitching Award

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Each year the Phillies honor one pitcher and one hitter (with some occasional small exceptions) with the Paul Owens Award as the best hitting and pitching performance of the year. It is not always the best prospect, but you can see below that sometimes the best prospect, particularly hitter just also is the best performer. … Read more

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 21 8/13-8/20)

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Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C Kehden Hettiger 5-14 1 2B 1 3B 2 H 4 BB 3 K .357/.500/1.000 Hettiger has had a rough season. This last little stretch has him over .200 for the first time this season, now at a .208/.364/.339 line on the season. He has been kept … Read more

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 19 7/30-8/5)

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Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Jaeden Calderon 9-20 3 2B 1 3B 1 BB 4 K Last year, Jaeden Calderon has a good year as a 17 year old, hitting .276/.414/.463 for DSL Red. He is back on Red this year for a repeat performance, hitting .302/.440/.466 through 38 games. Since … Read more

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 18 7/23-7/29)

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Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Raylin Heredia 16 PA 5-15 1 3B 2 HR 8 RBI 1 BB 3 K 1 SB A year ago I over-ranked Heredia on my midseason list. He was in his age 19 season and had laid waste to the FCL to the tune of .326/.415/.532 … Read more

Phillies 2024 Midseason Prospect Ranking and Trade Deadline Preview

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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

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 16 7/9-7/15)

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Last Week’s Schedule *Part of double header This Week’s Schedule All full season teams are playing 3 game series Friday-Sunday Hitter Spotlight SS Aidan Miller 2-4 2 RBI – Jersey Shore / 0-1 RBI K – Futures Game It is a bit of an out to feature Miller this week when he played in one … Read more

Phillies Minor League Monthly Retrospective – June 2024

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Stock Changes *Rankings are from midseason list / preseason list Stock Up LHP Mavis Graves (#20 / #37) – It isn’t that Graves was bad to start the season, he had a solid April and May with the arrow pointed very up, it is that his June was another leap forward. In 4 starts during … Read more

Phillies Minor League Recap (Week 14 6/25-6/30)

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Last Week’s Schedule This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF/OF Weston Wilson 10-24 4 HR 4 BB 7 K .317/.500/.917 I generally avoid treating Wilson as a prospect because he is 29, but he is still technically a rookie. This week he hit 4 home runs in 6 games, the week before he hit 4 home … Read more