Prospect Lists - Phillies and Overall - 2022-2025

andyb 2025-01-29 17:59:01 UTC #804

ESPN Top 100 out today also:

Miller 13
Painter 21
Chace 90
No Crawford or Tait.
Caba 66
Klassen 88

andyb 2025-01-30 16:56:47 UTC #805

Keith Law ranks the system 11th surprisingly. Comment is about the depth (which to me really does not look that great beyond our top 5. Hope he is right. Most organizations may be having trouble developing obvious pitching prospects in the low minors.

Philsmania 2025-01-30 18:06:22 UTC #806

That kind of reminds me of what was said of the Phillies farm system during the Klentak years--lots of depth but few stars.

Austinfan 2025-01-30 19:19:11 UTC #807

11th after trading Caba is pretty impressive.

But it comes down to developing that "depth," while Middleton is willing to spend, developing 5th SPs, RPs, bench players can spare you $8M for bad utility players and Walker contracts.

fish 2025-01-31 02:25:16 UTC #808

He said “ I always value depth in these rankings, so this is an unusually high ranking for a farm system that has a lot of high-risk, high-reward guys in the top 20”…which I took to mean the system doesn’t have the depth he’d typically value to rank this high.

phillychuck 2025-01-31 03:26:45 UTC #809

Not as much as we'd like to think...

I thought I posted this, but it must have been elsewhere...the system right now is artificially buoyed by Painter's injury. He is still a prospect, but if he hadn't been hurt he would have graduated. If Painter were not in the system, but on the MLB roster, the system would still be in the bottom half of the league.

andyb 2025-01-31 17:47:54 UTC #810

ESPN has the system 17th.

And throws in a second 100 ranking with Crawford (113) and Tait (188) added to Miller (13), Painter (21), and Chace (90).

allentown 2025-02-02 17:48:06 UTC #811

Seems more realistic than the 11th ranking. I'd say 15th.

andyb 2025-02-04 14:52:20 UTC #812

ESPN top 10. We already knew the first 5 in the top 100. Another fan of Aroon Escobar. I think he and Griffin Burkholder are the low minors guys I am most excited about this season. In the comments Kiley McDaniel mentions Nori in the same breath too though I am less high on him.