Obviously still time for some of the recent trades to evolve, but what blue chip prospect we traded away this century has come back to haunt us? I agree don’t trade him for nothing, but former “untouchables” like Sixto, Kyle Drabek, Michael Taylor, Jared Cosart, etc etc were busts. As was the one we didn’t ship out: Dominic Brown
Slightly above average and we had 2 that were in the top 100 last year play the entire season in the bigs and did fairly well overall. My god it would be great if we started developing talent in the minors.
What's funny about these things is the prospect huggers revile any trade that ever exists and the WIP go for it neanderthals want the impulsively go all in every year.
The truth lies in the middle. Marquez is not projected to be much more than a mid rotation starter. They got a high level player back, it didn't work, and so it goes.
If you’re referring to Abel, he only pitched 4 games this year, then went out with elbow surgery. Liked the kid a lot, but we may have dodged a missile
I’ve never understood the hype around Wood. He feels more like a reliever to me and none of his stat lines in the minors really jump out at you. He’s young but he did go through college so he isn’t 18/19 playing against guys much old than him. I just don’t get it but I hope I’m wrong on the kid.
Current list of former Phillies on other major or minor league rosters. Very thorough. We could have used Jeff Hoffman this year and Gregory Soto and seranthony domingoes. Ben Brown, Anthony Gose
If prospects were evenly distributed, wouldn't it be 3.33 per team? So 4 is slightly above average I guess, but only 1 in the top 50 would be below average, no?
I disagree with Garnett. He’s a 28 (going to be 29 next year) year old reliever who’s got okay stuff and has struggled in AAA. He screams career minor leaguer, but again, we could see him up if he does very well next year.
I think of all the relief pitchers in the Phillies’ system, three stick out to me as potential studs - Mavis Graves, Wen-Hui Pan, and Estibenzon Jimenez. Graves, a former starter, was very solid when he was called up to Reading and switched to the pen. Pan was outstanding, considering it was his first full season after missing time in the previous two due to injury. And Jimenez filled in the closer spot nicely for Reading once Alex McFarlane was called up to the majors. I think those three have the potential to make an impact in the majors next year. Be on the lookout for the 2026 draftees - Ruger Riojas, Jaxon Jelkin and Deven Sheerin stand out the most to me (I have a personal connection with Sheerin; me and him went to the same high school)
I’d also add that (1) Renteria and Rincon were not on this list a few months ago, (2) Miller’s stock rebounded a bit by returning to the field and (3) some of the 2026 draft picks have been received well. So the system is perceived as stronger today than it was earlier this year.
Everybody is convinced that we have one of the worst farms in history, yet we had 4 top 100 prospects last year, traded 1 and brought 2 of them up this year, still had 3 top 100 entering the season, traded 1, and now have 4 top 100 at the end of the season. All while never being limited in trade talks by a lack of prospect capital, according to Dombrowski.
Nobody is going to mistake the Phillies farm for the brewers or dodgers, but things are not as dire as people write in their fan fiction either.
I don't understand the sunken cost fallacy with Trea Turner. Put him 9th, bench him, whatever, get him tf out of any responsibility. 7 more years of him
What? You don’t have to do anything just let time take care of itself. None of these guys are ready for the start of next season unless it’s in 2028. Bohm will be gone and probably replaced by a FA. They can evaluate Stott/Marsh next year and see if any of these kids look ready to take their spot when the daycare’s contracts are up. They can do the same with Hill the year after. The timeline will take care of itself nobody is blocked here except Wood and they can find him starts in a 6 man rotation if Wood is good enough to force the issue.
Marsh will probably be traded or they’ll let him walk in 2028. Stott, they better sign him to an extension. He had the highest fWAR on the team this year.
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u/Not-a-bot-10 Roy Halladay 2d ago
Rentería up that high already? Damn nice