Scheduling update

Other Stuff

I’m in the process of preparing to move, and with that obviously comes a lot of other stuff. I was planning on writing the in depth draft recap starting next week, but I will be out of town from Tuesday through Saturday. I think the better course of action is to devote the following week to the draft. On Monday I’m going to roll out the “Phuture Phillies Player of the Year” feature, which is kind of what it sounds like, just my answer to the Phillies Paul Owens Award. I’ll give you my winner, and then 2 runners up for both position players and pitchers. Then I will be out of town, and when I get back, the draft is of prime focus. For today, in preparation for the PPPoY special, I thought I’d allow you to weigh in with your selections. Simply list them like

Winner
Runner Up
Second Runner Up

One for position players, One for pitchers.

Have a nice weekend.

Iron Pigs Report

7. Lehigh Valley

Lehigh Valley finished the season at 55-89, in last place in the Northern Division of the International League, 33 games behind division leading Scranton. Taking a last look at Iron Pigs among International League leaders, Brandon Watson was 3rd in at bats (514), 2nd in hits (157), and 10th in batting average (.305).  Mike Cervenak was 5th in the league in batting average (.310), and 7th in the league in doubles (30). Andy Tracy was 2nd in the league in doubles (34), 8th in the league in homers (22), 5th in the league in RBI’s (85), 4th in the league in walks (64), 5th in the league in OBP (.383), and 7th in the league in slugging % (.525). Jon Knott was 8th in the IL with 30 doubles. Continue reading Iron Pigs Report →

Reading Phillies Weekly Report (8/27-9/1)

6. Reading

The Reading Phillies have played their final game, thankfully.  The Phils finished the season by losing 5 of 6, to drop their Eastern League Southern Division worst record to 53-89, 12 games behind 5th place Altoona.  The season isn’t over for all of the Reading Phils, however, as both Golson and Marson have already been summoned to the big leagues.  Hopefully, those two can help the actual Phils more than they helped the Reading Phils.  Onto some player profiles…

Continue reading Reading Phillies Weekly Report (8/27-9/1) →

Keith Law’s Top 60 for the 2009 Draft

2009 Draft

Hey, its never too early to start talking about the 2009 draft, right? Law’s prelim Top 60, which I’m sure will change quite a bit over the next 10 months, features Phillies draft pick Kyle Gibson at #4. Kind of wish we’ed signed him. But anyway, you can check out the list here.

Site change; commenting policy

Other Stuff

So I did some thinking on this after the discussions yesterday. And I think I’ve come up with the solution. Eliminating this site would definitely not be the way to go. I have lots of big plans still in the works. But my goal is to basically eliminate the trolling/disrespectful posts in the comments section. So for now, I have a solution. I’ve changed the commenting policy here to require you to be a registered wordpress user. Basically, going to wordpress and signing up for a free wordpress account takes like 60 seconds. You don’t have to write a blog of your own, you just need to sign up at wordpress for a wordpress account. After you do this, you’ll be able to log into wordpress and then post here in the comments sections. My thought is, if you want to participate in the discussion here and be a part of the site, you can take 60 seconds to sign up for an account. Everyone is still free to read the site, that won’t change, and I won’t ever place ads on the page. My goal is to create a better environment to discuss this stuff. The original intention of this place was just for it to resemble a website, with information. It has evolved into a great (for the most part) place for discussion as well. I guess its just time to take a hard line with this stuff and try to root out the problem before it gets any bigger. If you have any questions, send me an email.

Quick schedule update. I believe Gregg is working on season recaps for the Lehigh Valley affiliate. I’m beginning to work on the draft recap feature, which I think I’ll roll out next week. It will be quite in depth and will take up multiple posts. I’ll also work on a recap of my Top 30 and Top 100 in the next week or so, and might even go with the Top 30 recap tomorrow or Friday. Thanks again for everyone who visits daily, for the nice feedback left in the comments yesterday, and for the emails I receive almost daily.

Carrasco makes the Ten Pack

Ten Pack/Hot Sheet

Now I guess Goldstein is full of crap too because he doesn’t view Carrasco’s season as an overwhelming success….

Carlos Carrasco, RHP, Triple-A Lehigh Valley (Phillies)
Carrasco entered the year as the Phillies’ top prospect, but his performance had been disappointing right up until the end of the season when he finished with a flourish. The 21-year-old Venezuelan put up a 4.32 ERA at Double-A Reading in 20 appearances, and while his ratios had been solid, he was hit hard far too often for a top prospect. Sent to Triple-A at the beginning of August, he made six starts for the Iron Pigs, and pitched very well in five of them, including 6 2/3 shutout innings with nine strikeouts in his final outing of the year—giving him a 1.72 ERA in the International League with 46 strikeouts in 36 2/3 innings. The fact that he’s not on the 40-man roster yet makes his chances for a big-league debut this month dicey, but he’s lined up to compete for a job in the rotation next spring.

Second batch of callups

Other Stuff

The Phillies added the “real” prospects with this callup, bringing back Andy Tracy, Mike Cervanek, and Les Walrond. The most interesting aspect of the callups is the lack of Carrasco and Jason Jaramillo. Carrasco, who made his debut in 2004, needs to be protected on the 40 man after this season, so it was a matter of not starting his service time clock. Jaramillo is already on the 40 man roster. Gillick had this to say

In Marson, Phillies fans may well be getting a look at the catcher of the future — and that future could be next season. He hit .314 at Reading, was the starting catcher for the U.S. Team in the Futures Game in July and caught for the U.S. Olympic team in Beijing, China. Marson hit .308 in the Olympics as the U.S. earned a bronze medal.

“He might get some action, he might not,” Gillick said. “We don’t have any hesitancy of putting him into a game. He’s a good receiver, he makes good contact. I’d say he’s pretty close.

“We still like Jason (Jaramillo, the Phillies’ Triple-A catcher). He’s got a chance to catch in the big leagues. But Lou has forged ahead a little bit right now. We’re more confident at this point with Lou.”

This is interesting to me. Jaramillo is older and was already on the 40 man roster before they added Marson. Does this mean that Jaramillo gets traded this winter? Hard to see the Phillies moving Ruiz.

Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (8/25-8/31)

2. GCL, 3. Williamsport

Williamsport

The Crosscutters went 4-3 this week to move to 35-33 on the season. That leaves them in fourth place in the NYP Pinckney division, 7 GB of first place Batavia and 1/2 GB of third place Auburn. They have one more week left on their schedule.

Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (8/25-8/31) →

2008 Draft Picks

2008 Draft

Here is the main 2008 Draft Picks resource. If you had more college stats or info on any of these players, please post it.

I’ll put the player’s name in BOLD after he’s signed. If you come across anything interesting on any of these guys, articles and the like, feel free to post them in the comments so I can eventually add the articles to the player’s respective Profile.

24. Anthony Hewitt, SS (Salisbury School, CT)
34. Zach Collier, OF (Chino Hills HS, CA)
51. Anthony Gose, LHP/OF
71. Jason Knapp, RHP (North Hunterdon HS, NJ)
102. Vance Worley, RHP (Long Beach State)
109. Jonathon Pettibone, RHP (Esperanza HS, CA)
136. Trevor May, RHP (Kelso HS, WA)
166. Jeremy Hamilton, 1B (Wright State)
196. Colby Shreve, RHP (CC of Southern Nevada)
226. Johnny Coy, 3B (Benson HS, MO)
256. Julio Rodriguez, RHP (Puerto Rico BB Academy HS)
286. Cody Overbeck, 3B (Mississippi)
316. Jean Rodriguez, C (George Washington HS, NY)
346. Michael Stutes, RHP (Oregon State)
376. Ryan (James) Weber, RHP (Central Clearwater Catholic HS, FL)
406. Brian Rosenberg, RHP (Louisville)
436. Michael Schwimer, RHP (UVA)
466. Damarii Saunderson, OF (Northville HS, MI)
496. Troy Hanzawa, SS (San Diego State)
526. James Murphy, 1B (Washington State)
556. Tyler Cloyd, RHP (No School)
586. Stephen Susdorf, OF (Fresno State)
616. Eryk McConnell, RHP (NC State)
646. Sean Grieve, LHP (William and Mary)
676. Daniel Hargrave, 2B (UNC Wilmington)
706. Brandon Haislet, OF (Hawaii)
736. David Noles, LHP (Columbus State)
766. Daniel Edwards, RHP (Kansas State)
796. Ryan Bergh, RHP (Old Dominion)
826. Chad Poe, RHP (Bossier Parish CC)
856. Jordan Ellis, RHP (Villanova)
886. Keon Broxton, 3B (Lakeland High School, FL)
916. DJ Henderson, SS (Southeastern HS, MI)
946. Spencer Arroyo, LHP (Modesto JuCo, CA)
976. Shaun Ellis, RHP (Polk CC, FL)
1006. James Simpson, 1B (Dowagiac Union HS, MI)
1036. Blaine O’Brien, RHP (Scituate HS, MA)
1066. Ruddy Rio-Nunez, OF (Edouard Montpetit HS)
1096. Michael Cisco, RHP (South Carolina)
1126. Matthew Johnson, OF (John W North HS, CA)
1156. Jarred Cosart, RHP (Clear Creek HS, TX)
1186. Joseph Pond, RHP (Judge Memorial Catholic HS, UT)
1216. Daniel Marrs, RHP (James River HS, VA)
1246. Michael Petello, OF (Scottsdale CC, AZ)
1276. Mike Bolsenbroek, RHP (No School)
1306. Bryan Frew, OF (Nebraska-Omaha)
1335. Charles Law, RHP (Mainland Regional HS, NJ)
1363. Justin Zumwalde, 1B (Sabino HS, AZ)
1390. Giovany Soto, LHP (Advanced Central College HS)
1417. Nathan Fike, LHP (Potomac State College, WV)
1444. Mark Ginther, SS (Jenks HS, OK)
1471. Michael Russo, RHP (Hun School, NJ)
1498. Josh Hake, RHP (Park University, AZ)

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College statistics

Michael Schwimer, RHP

2008: 26 G, 31.1 IP – 1.72 ERA – 19 H – 10 BB – 35 K – 1 HR – .178 OPP AVG
2007: 23 G, 39.0 IP – 2.77 ERA – 32 H – 12 BB – 38 K – 3 HR – .229 OPP AVG

Mike Cisco, RHP

2008: 16 G (11 GS) – 71.0 IP – 4.82 ERA – 93 H – 14 BB – 40 K – 7 HR – .314 OPP AVG
2007: 16 G (14 GS) – 86.2 IP – 3.84 ERA – 88 H – 18 BB – 74 K – 7 HR – .261 OPP AVG

Brandon Haislet, OF

2008: 229 AB – .389/.482/.585 – 22 2B – 1 3B – 7 HR – 50 RBI – 11/19 SB
2007: 215 AB – .335/.424/.493 – 18 2B – 2 3B – 4 HR – 39 RBI – 13/14 SB

Spencer Arroyo, RHP

2008: 14 G (13 GS) – 77.0 IP – 2.22 ERA – 81 H – 21 BB – 48 K – 1 HR – .270 OPP AVG

First batch of roster moves; Golson and Marson

Other Stuff

Per the Phillies official site.

Right-hander Adam Eaton and left-hander J.A. Happ were recalled from triple-A Lehigh Valley and outfielder Greg Golson and catcher Lou Marson had their contracts purchased from double-A Reading.

Somewhat surprising that they brought up Marson and not Jaramillo. Gordon and Rosario were moved to the 60 day DL to make room.