Over the last couple of seasons, especially over the last calendar year, a concerted effort final began to completely rebuild the Phillies minor league system.
The results have been dramatic. Nearly every respected prospect evaluation resource places the Phils organization near the top of their rankings.
Those changes to the young talent flowing through the organization has already begun to yield results at the big league level, as inconsistent as some of those youngsters may still be at this time.
Pitchers Aaron Nola, Jerad Eickhoff, Zach Eflin, Vincent Velasquez, and now Jake Thompson all entered the organization in the last two years, and all have debuted with the Phillies rotation.