Monthly Archives: January 2014

Philly.com Prospect Mailbag

So this week David Murphy posted an article yesterday with the Top 10 prospects posted by Baseball America and Fangraphs.  I decided to descend into the comment section (big mistake).  But the good commenters of philly.com have some questions adn comments that they need answered so lets take an opportunity to delve in. Continue reading Philly.com Prospect Mailbag

Keith Law Ranks Phillies Prospects (Org Rank, Top 100, Top 10)

This week Keith Law released all of his various prospect rankings, overall they were very optimistic and should give Phillies fans a lot of hope.

Org Rank: 14

Keith ranked the Phillies as his 14th org in all of baseball.  The ranking was driven by a strong 2013 draft topped by J.P. Crawford.  This puts the Phillies 2nd among NL East teams, and is overall very optimistic.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10354393/houston-astros-top-farm-system-rankings-mlb Continue reading Keith Law Ranks Phillies Prospects (Org Rank, Top 100, Top 10)

Reader Top 30 #20 – Adam Morgan

Andrew Knapp at #19 Continue reading Reader Top 30 #20 – Adam Morgan

Fangraphs Top 15 Phillies Prospects

Marc Hulet of Fangraphs released his Top 15 Phillies prospects today.  The full article is here, http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2014-top-10-prospects-philadelphia-phillies/.  Here is the list of prospects:

  1. Maikel Franco
  2. Jesse Biddle
  3. J.P. Crawford
  4. Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez
  5. Severino Gonzalez
  6. Carlos Tocci
  7. Aaron Altherr
  8. Roman Quinn
  9. Cesar Hernandez
  10. Tommy Joseph
  11. Andrew Knapp
  12. Dylan Cozens
  13. Cord Sandberg
  14. Shane Watson
  15. Adam Morgan

Reader Top 30 #19 – Andrew Knapp

Cord Sandberg come in at #18 Continue reading Reader Top 30 #19 – Andrew Knapp

General Discussion – Week of 1-27-2014

Hey, it’s Wednesday. I forgot to post this all week so far. Blame my employer for wanting me to, you know, work for the hours they pay me to work. Pfft.

Discuss.

Keith Law Ranks Crawford #46 Franco #63 Biddle #77 in Top 100 Prospects

After ranking the farm #14 in baseball yesterday Keith Law rankeds Crawford the #1 prospect in the system and the #46 prospect in baseball.  On Friday Keith will release his Top 10 Phillies prospects and I will have a full recap up at that time.

Full Top 100 – http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10166140/byron-buxton-tops-2014-ranking-top-100-prospects-mlb

Reader Top 30 #18 – Cord Sandberg

Deivi Grullon comes in at #17 Continue reading Reader Top 30 #18 – Cord Sandberg

MLB Draft Insider Phillies Top 14

Chris Crawford is go to source for all sorts of news and reports on the draft.  This year he has launched his own site and is putting out minor league rankings as well.  The list is free   http://mlbdraftinsider.com/2014/01/top-14-in-14-philadelphia-phillies/.  He also has stated that the Top 3 guys all make his Top 75 overall prospects.

Top 14:

  1. J.P. Crawford
  2. Maikel Franco
  3. Jesse Biddle
  4. Roman Quinn
  5. Cord Sandberg
  6. Adam Morgan
  7. Andrew Knapp
  8. Ken Giles
  9. Carlos Tocci
  10. Shane Watson
  11. Jan Hernandez
  12. Jake Sweaney
  13. Aaron Altherr
  14. Ethan Martin

Keith Law Ranks Phillies System #14 in Baseball

Here is a link to the article http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10354393/houston-astros-top-farm-system-rankings-mlb.

There will be a full recap and reaction to all of Keith Law’s rankings at the end of the week when all of his work as been released.