Part of the problem is expecting the FCL to be good or have good players before the draft. The FCL right now is populated by players that you can afford to bring stateside roster wise and you don't want to go to full season ball and only play half a season. That by definition is really going to be HS arms (you may get 1-2 a draft with the new rules) and LA arms. There is no 2020 LA class, they are the Jan 2021 class. I don't have a single signing bonus for a pitcher in that class. In 2022, I have a real bonus for two arms. One is Enrique Segura ($80,000) and one is Jeffrey German ($60,000). You aren't going to know the arm if they were good (I generally think Saul Teran is interesting). They have missed badly 2-3 hitters (Garcia, Flores, and TBD on Perez) and they jumped Bergolla and Pan and that takes a lot of juice out. They sent all the HSers but Graves to Clearwater, and that has been a damn good team. Overall though, the quality of the FCL, not just the Phillies, is relative garbage and lacking in players you know.
I will say a valid criticism is that they signed 4 arms for decent money in 2018, traded one, one is restricted (Angulo), one is bad (Ortega), and one has talent, is confusing, and might also be bad (Castillo).
