A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight C/2B/3B/SS/CF/LF/RP Jose Tovar 5 G 7-18 2 2B 7 R 3 RBI 2 BB 5 K 5 SB .389/.476/.500 Not every prospect is a mega prospect, sometimes they are just utterly fascinating. This week Jose Tovar started two games at third, one each at second, short, and center, and caught … Read more
Preseason Top 50 It has not been a great season for the Phillies system, and it starts at the top. Justin Crawford and Andrew Painter both graduated to the majors where they have struggled to varying degrees. Aidan Miller’s back injury has put a grey cloud over the system, and poor performances by top prospects … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight 1B Keaton Anthony 6 G 5-20 3 HR 3 BB 5 K .250/.385/.700 Keaton Anthony has 5 home runs in 22 games this year and hit a home run in 3 games in a row. Given that the knock on him has been power output, it was worth looking at … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Francisco Renteria 5 G 8-17 2 3B 2 RBI 3 BB 5 K 3 SB .471/.571/.706 The Phillies top international signing hasn’t done anything in 6 games that makes your jaw drop. He has a hit in every game, and Monday was the first time he didn’t reach base … Read more
Stock Changes *Rankings are from Preseason Top 50 Stock Up RHP Ramon Marquez (#14) – A minor injury, plus some worries about building workload meant that Marquez didn’t make his official season debut until May. In those 18.2 innings he has walked 6 to 32 strikeouts. He is throwing harder this year with his fastball … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Juan Villavicencio 5 G 6-20 2 HR 3 RBI 1 BB 3 K 1 SB Villavicencio has made the fringes of prospect lists in the past, notably Fangraphs, but he has never been a real prospect of note. Injuries and ineffectiveness have largely limited Villavicencio the last two seasons … Read more
Not every interesting player makes the list, and I have notes and thoughts on many more players than will be represented in this additional list. I have grouped this by type of player, starting with the new international signees that I don’t rank as part of the major list. This is also not the “honorable … Read more