A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Minor League Awards All of these awards are made up. Unless otherwise stated they are not about prospect ranking and evaluation, but are about how a player actually performed. I also posed this question online and have included your winner as well. Hitter of the Year – Bryan Rincon Rincon isn’t the Phillies best hitting … Read more
Season Recap Record: 70-67 (Won Eastern League Championship) Reading spent the first half of the season living up to projections. There were talented prospects, but pitching and inexperience held the team back. Injuries to Dante Nori and Carson DeMartini did not help. A breakout by Bryan Rincon and stabilizing starting pitching from Adam Seminaris, Luke … Read more
Hitter Spotlight IF Aidan Miller 4 G 4-14 1 2B 3 RBI 6 BB 5 K 2 SB Due to the postseason schedule, Miller never played back to back days in his return, but he was a 9 inning player all through the postseason at third base. He looked rusty at both the plate and … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Hitter Spotlight IF Aroon Escobar 6 G 9-22 4 2B 3 HR 6 RBI 1 BB 2 K 2 HBP 1 SB .409/.480/1.000 There is something to be said about Escobar’s wild hacks not leading to the best contact quality, but it was getting downright bizarre that he wasn’t hitting for power … Read more
The trade deadline gives another good snapshot of the season to add in the new draft picks, take a larger view of the DSL season, see some prospects deal with the dog days of the season, and then really make some assessments of how players might be viewed outside the system. The Phillies are a … Read more
This Week’s Schedule Full season teams play a 3-game week Hitter Spotlight SS Juan Parra 8-20 2 2B 3 RBI 9 BB 3 K 1 SB .400/.586/.500 While largely being overshadowed by Francisco Renteria, Juan Parra is hitting .313/.470/.417 on the season with 31 walks to 23 strikeouts, in July that is .353/.551/.500 with 15 … 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 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