I’m going to try to update the stats for all of the guys on my Top 30 list periodically, maybe once every 3 weeks or so. I figured now was as good a time as any to update. Check below the fold, as its a rather large image.
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Roster notes
Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it, but 2 days ago BA listed a new set of minor league transactions;
Philadelphia Phillies
Signed: RHP Rodrigo Lopez
Released: RHP William Savage, 2B P.J. Antoniato, OF Alberto Cambero, OF Casey Craig, OF Brandon Haislet, OF Jay Miller, OF Javon Moran, OF Wilkin Ruan
Voluntarily retired: 2B Rob Watson
Added to 40-man roster: 2B Miguel Cairo
Placed on 7-day DL: RHP Manny Ayala, RHP Mike Cisco, RHP Scott Mathieson, RHP Sam Walls, LHP Jason Mackintosh, LHP Walter Tejeda, 3B Terry Tiffee, OF Jeremy Slayden
Placed on temporarily inactive list: RHP Francisco Butto, RHP Edgar Garcia
Placed on military list: OF Karl Bolt
So there’s that.
Harry Kalas passes away
Per Todd Zolecki’s twitter account, Harry Kalas has passed away. He apparently collapsed earlier and was taken to the hospital. I grew up listening to his voice, as I’m sure many of you did, and this is a monumental loss for not only the Phillies organization and Harry’s family, but for millions of fans out there who listened to baseball, NFL Films Productions, and everything else he was a part of. You’ll be sorely missed Harry, thanks for the memories.
Link.
Opening day schedule
Here ya go
4/9
7:05 – Lehigh Valley v Scranton-Wilkes Barre (Kendrick)
7:05 – Harrisburg v Reading (Brummett)
7:00 – Dunedin v Clearwater (Drabek)
6:35 – Delmarva v Lakewood (Cloyd)
You can use this post to get yourself all geared up and then discuss tomorrow night’s games.
Clearwater Roster posted
From the official site
No real surprises. Overbeck and Galvis are here, Sampson and Schwimer as well. Mike Cisco, who people were asking about, is here but on the DL, as are Sam Walls and Walter Tejada. The infield looks like
1B: Durant/Rizzotti
2B: Yonderman Rodriguez
3B: Overbeck
SS: Galvis
Two new site features
I added a twitter feed (I guess everyone is doing it) to the right side, and further down I’ve created a flickr account to post pictures. If you have any pictures of Phillies prospects you’d like to submit, you can email them to me at phuturephillies at gmail dot com. Thanks in advance.
A look at college baseball, part 1
This is a pet project I’ve been working on, and after an extensive amount of editing work, I’ve finally finished up part 1 of my project, looking at offense in college baseball. My goal in doing this was to find out exactly how each of the major Division 1 conferences stack up against each other. We kind of know which conferences are traditionally strong (PAC 10, SEC, etc etc), but I wanted to know how strong, and I wanted to have a frame of reference to be able to compare two conferences, and eventually two players from different conferences and see how their offensive numbers differ. The one area that I can’t dig into, simply because I don’t have the resources, is park factors, which I believe plays an important role, one I just won’t be able to investigate at this point. So, check below for my findings…
Lakewood and Reading rosters posted
You can find the Lakewood roster here, and the Reading roster here.
Notes;
* Vance Worley and Mike Stutes were both double jumped to Reading. I really can’t believe it, but it should be interesting.
* Edgar Garcia isn’t on the Reading roster.
* Michael Taylor is on the Reading squad, as is Brad Harman, which I find a bit surprising.
* Jason Knapp made the Lakewood roster, Trevor May isn’t here, and Julian Sampson is absent too, so it looks like he’s FSL bound.
* Gose and Collier are both in the Lakewood outfield, and Mattair is listed at 3B, with Overbeck not on the roster, which to me indicates he’s being jumped to Clearwater. Sebastian Valle is also listed on the Lakewood roster, and he’ll presumably split time with D’Arnaud.
Phillies sign Domingo Santana
Thanks to a commenter for posting the link to this article.
The Phils’ international scouting department signed 16-year-old Domingo Santana from the Dominican Republic. Santana, a 6-foot-5 outfielder with a strong throwing arm, received a $300,000 signing bonus. He had also been pursued by the Yankees.
I’m going to try and find some more info on him, and if I do, I’ll update this post. Stay tuned.
Edit: BA has dug up some information on Santana here.
Santana is a 6-foot-5 righthanded hitter with a plus arm in right field. He’s an average runner with a long, projectable frame and is still learning to adjust to breaking balls.
Random thought
I’m not going to bother with a depth chart for Lakewood, because after we started doing these I realized that everything is still very much in the air, and there isn’t even a whole lot of value in that. But I did see this in today’s scouting notebook by Kevin Goldstein at BP;
Carlos Carrasco, RHP, Phillies: “He has a chance to be special with that changeup.”
Jason Donald, MI, Phillies: “He gets a lot of hype, but I’m just not on that. He’s a bench player at best.”
Remember, this isn’t Goldstein’s opinion, just what scouts have told him.
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