There has been a lot of talk about the talent in the Phillies system and how it stacks up against other teams.  So I decided to take a look at two things, where does the talent come from, and what kind of talent is it.  For this exercise I purely used my Baseball America Prospect Handbook to have the same set of evaluators on each team.  For teams, I have used a sample size of 10, the five teams in the NL East and BA’s Top 5 farm systems.  I have adjusted for trades so these lists are slightly different than how they appear in the handbook.  I looked at the data to see if there were any trends that showed how to build a good farm system that the Phillies might be missing on. Continue reading How we stack up: The Construction of a Farm System →