Comments on: A major coup; Phillies sign Jiwan James

By: KJones26

KJones26 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:39:41 +0000

well from being his friend and playing against him for a few years i can honestly tell you he has a nasty splitter. rang me up on a full count. of course later he laughed at me about it. modest guy.

By: phuturephillies

phuturephillies — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:10:18 +0000

Well, everything I’ve ever read is that his changeup is far ahead of his curve. He threw a lot more curveballs last year to try and get a feel for the pitch, but his changeup was his best pitch, and was rated the best in the organization by Baseball America.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:23:03 +0000

Jim Salisbury said on his article “Taking stock of Phillies’ farm system” that Carrasco’s best off-speed pitch is his curveball not chnage-up.

“Carrasco features a three-pitch mix – a fastball that can reach 93 m.p.h., a plus curveball and an above-average change-up.”

By: phuturephillies

phuturephillies — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:41:24 +0000

Yeah, it’s definitely encouraging. I’ll re-evaluate the entire draft this offseason.

By: Chapel Hillian

Chapel Hillian — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:31:32 +0000

Now that James has signed (apparently, although it’s not yet listed at the Phillies official site), I wonder how you would rank the second day of the draft. In your initial post you said you’d give the team a “C” if they signed three out of seven picks that you liked. So far, they’ve signed four of those seven, plus James. That seems pretty encouraging.