Source: http://ift.tt/1kdBjJC --- Friday, November 03, 2017
On Monday Baseball America released their top 10 Phillies prospect list (Subscription required for writeups). There’s a lot to digest, but probably the best place to start is the actual list. J.P. Crawford, SS Sixto Sanchez, RHP Scott Kingery, 2B Adonis Medina, RHP Adam Haseley, OF Jojo Romero, LHP Jhailyn Ortiz, OF Jorge Alfaro, C Mickey Moniak, OF Franklyn Kilome, RHP Just in case you forgot, here’s a link to the midseason edition. The first note to make is that Hoskins and Williams graduated off the list (Alfaro is 7 At Bats shy of graduating), so some guys likely moved up in large part because of those 2 openings (Haseley, despite a mediocre debut). Still, aside from Sixto, Kingery and Kilome, people lept all over the damned place. Seven weeks of Baseball was apparently enough to vault Crawford 6th back to 1st, while 5 weeks of very bad Baseball was enough to drop Mickey Mo from 1st to 9th. It’s not really worth getting too hung up over the number in front of the name. Mid-season lists are reliably unreliable and, aside from keeping writers busy, fairly useless. All that said the writeups for the postseason list are often pretty insightful. Here are some highlights: Crawford : Crawford’s swing was a bit of a mess before he took a 9 day break in mid-June. IT was fixed when he returned and he pulled his hands in tighter to his body and kept his hip closed. He should eventually become an above average Shortstop Sixto : His Chan ...
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