A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight SS Tyler Spangler 4 G 3-16 1 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 4 BB 4 K .188/.350/.438 With the regular season over it is worth checking in on the Phillies 2026 first round pick. He hit .176/.310/.294 in his 9 games with the Threshers, which isn’t a meaningful sample size, … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Carson DeMartini 6 G 8-17 3 2B 1 HR 3 RBI 5 BB 2 K 2 SB .471/.591/.824 DeMartini entered the year in need of health and redemption from a poor end to the year with Reading. He had a fine first month plus of the season, with his … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight OF Caden Bogenpohl 10 G 11-38 3 2B 1 HR 9 RBI 1 BB 10 K Against Ft Myers Bogenpohl hit the hardest ball by a Phillies player of any level in the Statcast era at 117.1 mph. On his 42 batted balls as a pro he has a 90th … Read more
Deadline Recap and Other Notes I wrote about the major trades of the deadline on Monday when they happened, but now we have two smaller trades and some settled dust to get through. First was the RHP Nolan Hoffman for RHP Manuel Colon. Colon is a small 19 year old right handed reliever with a … Read more
My recap of Day 1 of the Phillies draft was on the harsh side, and no real amount of things they could do on Day 2 was really going to change that. It was clear they had allocated a large amount of their draft resources towards signing Tyler Spangler away from Stanford, and that they … Read more
Some events proceed as a series of compounding foreseeable disasters. The first day of the 2026 draft was one of them. Sandwiched be other programming it began on NBC for 10 picks before beginning an odyssey of digital channels. Meanwhile those in person described it as loud and disjointed, and then suddenly over as the … Read more
It was probably a safe bet that the Phillies would go high risk and high school with their first pick. In SS Tyler Spangler they managed to get both. On the surface he has good size (6’3″) with a projectable frame and chance to stick at shortstop. IT seems that he might end up moving … Read more