What is the story about?
Baseball America is one of the game’s trusted prospect evaluators that offer public scouting reports for us to consume. When they give a ranking of prospects, we tend to listen. Today, they released their top ten prospects from the Phillies’ system, as well as a ranking of tools in the system.
Here is that top ten:
- Aidan Miller
- Andrew Painter
- Justin Crawford
- Aroon Escobar
- Gage Wood
- Dante Nori
- Gabriel Rincones, Jr.
- Matthew Fisher
- Moises Chace
- Cade Obermueller
For the most part, no real surprises. The top three will remain the top three, in some kind of order, across all publications this spring, so there isn’t anything groundbreaking.
Couple of
observations by me:
- Were I the Phillies, I’d be making Chace a reliever as soon as possible. I know they want to preserve him as starter to help with depth as much as possible, but now is probably the time with his recovery.
- Escobar would probably be the first one I’d put on the trade market for something of impact. There are reports that a position that is his future home has yet to be determined, but the bat should be real. Will he have a place to play though? I’d probably sell while the value is high.
- Nori seems to be climbing rankings. Is this an indication of where his development or a weakness of the team’s system? He’s had good numbers this season and in Arizona this fall, so maybe it’s starting to click for him.
Once the full thirty names comes out, we’ll have more from this list.
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