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About Matt Winkelman

Matt is originally from Mt. Holly, NJ, but after a 4 year side track to Cleveland for college he now resides in Madison, WI. His work has previously appeared on Phuture Phillies and The Good Phight. You can read his work at Phillies Minor Thoughts

Baseball America Top 30 and Prospect Handbook

Top Prospect Lists

Yesterday in the mail I received my Baseball America Prospect Handbook, adorned with a picture of Twins third baseman Miguel Sano, the book contains 900 scouting reports for prospects across baseball.  The list was compiled by Josh Norris (who you can follow Twitter here), and went to publishing before all of the surgery news on Morgan and Watson was out, but after Roman Quinn news and he has had his ranking adjusted accordingly.  If you would like to read all of the scouting reports you can order from Baseball America right here, subscribe to read them when they are up attached to the profiles on the BA site, or order the book from Amazon where it is cheaper but doesn’t ship until the end of February.  Now on to lists. Continue reading Baseball America Top 30 and Prospect Handbook →

Reader Top 30 #21 – Luis Encarnacion

2014 Reader Top 30

On to Week #5 and a bunch of names added. Continue reading Reader Top 30 #21 – Luis Encarnacion →

Philly.com Prospect Mailbag

Other Stuff

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)

Top Prospect Lists

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) →

Fangraphs Top 15 Phillies Prospects

Top Prospect Lists

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

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

Prospect Rankings

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