JFLNYC wrote:
His weakness is a seeming inability to create a scouting and farm system with the ability to spot and develop young players on a consistent and competitive level.

phorever wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:
His weakness is a seeming inability to create a scouting and farm system with the ability to spot and develop young players on a consistent and competitive level.

how much of the disappointing progress of the best of our recent set young players to make the majors is due the players themselves being overrated by phillies phans who are comparing our best players to their peers in a farm system that was pretty poor when klentak took over. i feel like it can be argued that kingery and haseley and hoskins and eflin and seranthony and neris have exceeded expections, nola and alfaro mostly expectations them in a good way, while eickhoff and franco and williams and altherr ended up meeting the generally low expectations for them. crawford and velasquez are the most notable flops relative to general expectations.
w.r.t to players who haven''t yet made the majors, the moniak choice still looks pretty bad, medina is now a concern, and the young latin american hitters from the international drafts have almost all been busts so far, ... but ...
sixto was turned into realmuto, bohm has risen far and fast, the reading rotation outside of medina was pretty darn awesome in a hitters park (with some continuing to look good in the afl). it is worth noting that sixto and the reading bunch all seem to be encouraging examples of the successful application of caution in shutting down young hitters with arm issues soon enough to yield relatively quick and successful recoveries. if (yes, very, very big if) the reading guys keep it up, this might be enough to offset the setback caused by the disastrous choice of young as big league pitching coach.

Across baseball, the Phillies are viewed as a franchise either overthinking it, or practicing a thorough decision-making approach, or totally dysfunctional.

The Phillies, according to two sources, will not bring back longtime head athletic trainer Scott Sheridan and one of his assistants, Chris Mudd. Sheridan has spent the last 13 seasons as the team’s top athletic trainer. The Phillies were beset by bullpen injuries in 2019 and, within the organization, there were disputes about how some of those pitchers were used and how their rehab programs were structured. Over the years, Sheridan developed a strong reputation among players for his meticulous work.

So, now, there is a growing narrative the Phillies can deploy to justify Kapler’s return while still claiming change. John Mallee and Chris Young, along with the trainers, were the victims of an 81-81 season. Club officials have cited injuries as the main reason why the 2019 Phillies fell short.

Grotewold wrote:Why is MacPhail here if Middleton can't trust his and/or his GM's judgment on Kapler?

Shore wrote:After the first draft (2016), I think I kind of like what he's done since...

I don't think it's fair to say he got a "running start" on a rebuild. He inherited a poor system, with JP Crawford as the prize, and the young (under 26) talent on the major league team - aside from Nola - sucked, with Maikel Franco, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Cesar Hernandez, and Freddy Galvis, with Nola and Adam Morgan on the moun

thephan wrote:Don't let the Phillies become the Redskins of baseball.

thephan wrote:Don't let the Phillies become the Redskins of baseball.

rolex wrote:

thephan wrote:Don't let the Phillies become the Redskins of baseball.

I don't get where Middleton is becoming "Meddleton". He saw a team that underperformed expectations at the plate and on the mound after spending some serious cash to not have that happen. He intervened and had both the hitting and pitching coaches fired. If that's meddling, good for that. If the owner of a recently acquired corporation had two sectors of it that were seriously underperforming after investing heavily in them, they'd be remiss if they didn't check into that and probably roll some heads. Middleton is doing the same thing with the Phillies. That's not meddling; its sound management.

rolex wrote:

thephan wrote:Don't let the Phillies become the Redskins of baseball.

I don't get where Middleton is becoming "Meddleton". He saw a team that underperformed expectations at the plate and on the mound after spending some serious cash to not have that happen. He intervened and had both the hitting and pitching coaches fired. If that's meddling, good for that. If the owner of a recently acquired corporation had two sectors of it that were seriously underperforming after investing heavily in them, they'd be remiss if they didn't check into that and probably roll some heads. Middleton is doing the same thing with the Phillies. That's not meddling; its sound management.