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.

With Spring Training approaching its long awaited end, the majority of roster decisions appear to have been made with some, but not many surprises.  The following is an educated (?) guess at how the ‘Pigs will look as the season opens against Scranton, along with each players stats from last year. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Opening Day Roster →

Todd Zolecki is reporting that Rule 5 Draft pick Robert Mosebach has cleared waivers and has been offered back to the Angels. who have accepted Mosebach back into the fold. That leaves three vying for the one bullpen spot remaining in Philadelphia.  RHP Gary Majewski, along with lefties Jack Taschner and JA Happ are the last three standing. It seems likely that the true competition at this point is between Taschner and Happ(as lefties), although Majewski has pitched very well in Spring Training.    One has to feel for Happ who has done everything asked of him over the pasttwo years both for the IronPigs last year, as well as during his stint with the Phillies.  Although I believe he ends up back with the IronPigs as a starter to begin the year, I believe Happ will play a prominent role in Philadelphia before the years end.

Several players who played in the organization were released over the last week (many just today) by the Phils.  The list is as follows, along with where they played last year: Continue reading Releases →

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.

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.

Infielder Jason Donald along with pitchers Jake Woods and Dave Borkowski were all optioned to minor league camp this evening,  Donald had a strong Spring, seeing time at both SS and 3B, hitting .293 in 58 at bats.  He had a homer, 4 RBI’s and 3 stolen bases.  Borkowski was effective this spring, throwing 5.1 innings with a 1.69 ERA.  He walked two and struck out three.  Woods, who had some major league experience had an outside shot at sticking as a lefty out of the pen.  That shot was quickly dimished with a 7.94 ERA in his 5.2 innings this Spring.  Expect all three to have an impact with the IronPigs this year.

These cuts leave Mike Koplove and Gary Majewski fighting for the last spot in the Phillies bullpen if the Phils go North with 12 pitchers.

Minor League rosters continue being filled out with pitcher Kyle Kendrick, catcher Lou Marson and infielder Brad Harmon all being optioned to minor league camp.  Kendrick  was extremely disappointing, unable to bring himself out of his late season funk, which is now leaning more towards our reality.  He was 1-3 with an ERA over 9 in his 4 starts this spring.  His WHIP has hovered right around 2.  Expect to see him as a member of the ‘Pigs rotation in Lehigh Valley.

Harmon spent the majority of the Spring with the Australian team that participated in the World Baseball Classic and played well, before going 0-7 in his Spring Training at-bats with the Phils.  Lou Marson will join the ‘Pigs as well as their everyday catcher after a Spring which saw him struggle from the plate, hitting .125 in 24 Spring at bats (including exhibitions).

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Fortunately for the Phillies, area scout Chip Lawrence stayed on the case. And when Brown was still available late, they decided to take a shot. He eventually signed for about $200,000, extremely high for where he was taken, but not for the second- or third-round pick that he probably would have been if the football option hadn’t clouded the picture.

“I’m going to be honest with you. Baseball is my first love. I told all the scouts that,” he said recently at the Carpenter Complex. “But I guess I was so highly ranked in football that they just wouldn’t believe that a guy with my caliber of skills on the field would choose the baseball route.

Area scouts are the lifeblood of the org.