Monthly Archives: August 2008

2008 Draft Picks

2008 Draft

Here is the main 2008 Draft Picks resource. If you had more college stats or info on any of these players, please post it.

I’ll put the player’s name in BOLD after he’s signed. If you come across anything interesting on any of these guys, articles and the like, feel free to post them in the comments so I can eventually add the articles to the player’s respective Profile.

24. Anthony Hewitt, SS (Salisbury School, CT)
34. Zach Collier, OF (Chino Hills HS, CA)
51. Anthony Gose, LHP/OF
71. Jason Knapp, RHP (North Hunterdon HS, NJ)
102. Vance Worley, RHP (Long Beach State)
109. Jonathon Pettibone, RHP (Esperanza HS, CA)
136. Trevor May, RHP (Kelso HS, WA)
166. Jeremy Hamilton, 1B (Wright State)
196. Colby Shreve, RHP (CC of Southern Nevada)
226. Johnny Coy, 3B (Benson HS, MO)
256. Julio Rodriguez, RHP (Puerto Rico BB Academy HS)
286. Cody Overbeck, 3B (Mississippi)
316. Jean Rodriguez, C (George Washington HS, NY)
346. Michael Stutes, RHP (Oregon State)
376. Ryan (James) Weber, RHP (Central Clearwater Catholic HS, FL)
406. Brian Rosenberg, RHP (Louisville)
436. Michael Schwimer, RHP (UVA)
466. Damarii Saunderson, OF (Northville HS, MI)
496. Troy Hanzawa, SS (San Diego State)
526. James Murphy, 1B (Washington State)
556. Tyler Cloyd, RHP (No School)
586. Stephen Susdorf, OF (Fresno State)
616. Eryk McConnell, RHP (NC State)
646. Sean Grieve, LHP (William and Mary)
676. Daniel Hargrave, 2B (UNC Wilmington)
706. Brandon Haislet, OF (Hawaii)
736. David Noles, LHP (Columbus State)
766. Daniel Edwards, RHP (Kansas State)
796. Ryan Bergh, RHP (Old Dominion)
826. Chad Poe, RHP (Bossier Parish CC)
856. Jordan Ellis, RHP (Villanova)
886. Keon Broxton, 3B (Lakeland High School, FL)
916. DJ Henderson, SS (Southeastern HS, MI)
946. Spencer Arroyo, LHP (Modesto JuCo, CA)
976. Shaun Ellis, RHP (Polk CC, FL)
1006. James Simpson, 1B (Dowagiac Union HS, MI)
1036. Blaine O’Brien, RHP (Scituate HS, MA)
1066. Ruddy Rio-Nunez, OF (Edouard Montpetit HS)
1096. Michael Cisco, RHP (South Carolina)
1126. Matthew Johnson, OF (John W North HS, CA)
1156. Jarred Cosart, RHP (Clear Creek HS, TX)
1186. Joseph Pond, RHP (Judge Memorial Catholic HS, UT)
1216. Daniel Marrs, RHP (James River HS, VA)
1246. Michael Petello, OF (Scottsdale CC, AZ)
1276. Mike Bolsenbroek, RHP (No School)
1306. Bryan Frew, OF (Nebraska-Omaha)
1335. Charles Law, RHP (Mainland Regional HS, NJ)
1363. Justin Zumwalde, 1B (Sabino HS, AZ)
1390. Giovany Soto, LHP (Advanced Central College HS)
1417. Nathan Fike, LHP (Potomac State College, WV)
1444. Mark Ginther, SS (Jenks HS, OK)
1471. Michael Russo, RHP (Hun School, NJ)
1498. Josh Hake, RHP (Park University, AZ)

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College statistics

Michael Schwimer, RHP

2008: 26 G, 31.1 IP – 1.72 ERA – 19 H – 10 BB – 35 K – 1 HR – .178 OPP AVG
2007: 23 G, 39.0 IP – 2.77 ERA – 32 H – 12 BB – 38 K – 3 HR – .229 OPP AVG

Mike Cisco, RHP

2008: 16 G (11 GS) – 71.0 IP – 4.82 ERA – 93 H – 14 BB – 40 K – 7 HR – .314 OPP AVG
2007: 16 G (14 GS) – 86.2 IP – 3.84 ERA – 88 H – 18 BB – 74 K – 7 HR – .261 OPP AVG

Brandon Haislet, OF

2008: 229 AB – .389/.482/.585 – 22 2B – 1 3B – 7 HR – 50 RBI – 11/19 SB
2007: 215 AB – .335/.424/.493 – 18 2B – 2 3B – 4 HR – 39 RBI – 13/14 SB

Spencer Arroyo, RHP

2008: 14 G (13 GS) – 77.0 IP – 2.22 ERA – 81 H – 21 BB – 48 K – 1 HR – .270 OPP AVG

First batch of roster moves; Golson and Marson

Other Stuff

Per the Phillies official site.

Right-hander Adam Eaton and left-hander J.A. Happ were recalled from triple-A Lehigh Valley and outfielder Greg Golson and catcher Lou Marson had their contracts purchased from double-A Reading.

Somewhat surprising that they brought up Marson and not Jaramillo. Gordon and Rosario were moved to the 60 day DL to make room.

Phillies win the GCL crown

Other Stuff

Much rejoicing!

More on the team here. (thanks to “Rickey Branch” for the link)

Phillies trade Fabio Castro for Matt Stairs

Other Stuff

per Ken Rosenthal. Should be a marginal prospect. Stairs has been on the decline after a hot start, and he’s like 50 years old, but he’s better than Taguchi, the guy he should be replacing. We’ll see. More info in this space when its available.

Update: Its the model dictator

Iron Pigs Report

7. Lehigh Valley

Just a horrible week for the ‘Pigs as they went 1-7, and now stand at 54-86, in last place of the Northern Division of the International League, 33 games behind division leading Scranton.  Look for an in depth review of the Lehigh Valley season, including a look at the performance of each player, including my opinion of where they go from here,  during each of the next several editions of the Lehigh Valley report. Continue reading Iron Pigs Report →

Reading Phillies Weekly Report (8/20 – 8/26)

6. Reading

Even though the Phils stretched their losing streak to 9 games this week, they also managed to win 3 of 7, making this week much better than last week.  The season is winding down, which is a good thing for the ’08 Reading Phillies.  They are still playing rather poorly, and they just lost another excellent performer in Carpenter to the big league team.  For Reading, the season cannot end soon enough.

Lets start off with some good news.  Antonio Bastardo continued his impressive comeback this week by pitching very well in 2 starts.  His first start against Bowie lasted 4.2 innings, and he gave up just 2 hits, 2 walks, and 1 earned while striking out 2.  While this start was excellent, his following start was even better.  Bastardo lasted 4.1 innings, giving up 2 earned on 4 hits and 3 walks, but Bastardo struck out a very impressive 8 batters.  Good stuff.  Bastardo is in line for one more appearance on the season.

Continue reading Reading Phillies Weekly Report (8/20 – 8/26) →

Andrew Carpenter called up

Other Stuff

There ya go.

First baseman Andy Tracy’s stay with the Phillies was short-lived.

The Phillies designated him for assignment today and purchased the contract of pitcher Andrew Carpenter from Double A Reading.

Carpenter is being called up largely because the length of last night’s game leaves the bullpen thin. It seems unlikely that Clay Condrey would be available and the Phillies used everyone else. Tonight’s starter, Kyle Kendrick, ended up warming up in the 13th inning and threw about 40 pitches in the bullpen.

Carpenter is 6-8, with a 5.67 ERA in 16 games for Reading.

Prospect Matrix

2008 Reader Top 30, Top Prospect Lists

As the season is coming to a close, I thought it would be entertaining to take a look back at predictions heading into the 2008 season. I compiled my Top 30, the consensus Top 30 done by you guys, the Top 30 from Baseball America, and Kevin Goldstein’s Top 11 plus honorable mentions (in yellow) to see who looks smart and who doesn’t look so smart. Or who got lucky. Note, I instructed everyone to ignore Mathieson and Zagurski in their rankings, I think maybe because of the amount of MLB time they had and that I didn’t consider them pure prospects or whatever. Well, that was probably dumb, but it looks like both guys have dropped off the radar, for similar/different reasons. Anyway, here is the chart.

If that image doesn’t properly fit your screen, click here.

Talk amongst yourselves. I gave you a topic.

Phillies sending 8 players to the AFL

9. Winter Leagues

Per Todd Zolecki

Arizona Fall League. The Phillies will send eight players to the Arizona Fall League to play for the Mesa Solar Sox: righthanders Joe Bisenius, Andrew Carpenter and Pat Overholt; lefthander Sergio Escalona; catcher Lou Marson; infielder Jason Donald; and outfielders Quintin Berry and Jeremy Slayden.

No real surprises, with the possible exception of sending Berry instead of Taylor as the one below AA representative. This also tells me Slayden and Overholt will be protected on the 40 man roster, as you wouldn’t really want these guys in the limelight if you didn’t plan on protecting them.

Callups, option years, service time, etc

Other Stuff

As we get close to September 1st, the issue of callups becomes a popular topic, as seen in the Lou Marson article. The rules governing the management of the 25 and 40 man rosters are somewhat confusing. I plan on putting something like this on the wiki site for future reference, but I haven’t had a whole lot of time to devote to that project of late, so I figured I’d just do a writeup here, try and cover all the bases, and I’ll add it over there at a later date. If there is anything related to roster management I don’t cover, post in the comments and I’ll try and add it, and if there are any errors in my post, let me know. I feel like I have a good handle on this, but shocking as it may seem, I’m wrong from time to time.

Continue reading Callups, option years, service time, etc →