A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Otto Kemp 7-25 2B 3B 2 HR 4 RBI 2 BB 7 K One of the knocks on Otto Kemp has been whether he can get to his power. He has three home runs already and has a 90th percentile EV of 106.5mph on tracked balls. He is above … Read more
Top Prospects 2B Devin Saltiban – The Phillies moved Saltiban from the outfield to infield after he was drafted in 2023, and he has settled in at second base. He has the tools to make it work, but he does not always look natural. Hopefully another year will help him feel more comfortable there. At … Read more
Gameday / Statcast Spring Breakout Notes Pitcher Velocity Exit Velocity Other Notes Videos
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
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
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
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
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
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
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