It wasn’t too long ago that the club’s minor league system was barren of young talent to cultivate into formidable big league players. But over the last year, the Phillies’ front office has made the necessary moves to transform their farm from one of baseball’s bleakest, to one of the sport’s’ strongest and most promising.
On Wednesday, MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo published an articlebreaking down the most improved farm systems in MLB. While the piece doesn’t specifically rank the systems, the Phillies were the second team mentioned, just behind the NL East division rival Atlanta Braves.
Here is an excerpt from that Mayo piece:
“When Hamels was sent to the Texas Rangers, the Phillies were able to add Jake Thompson, Nick Williams and Jorge Alfaro, all in the current Top 100 list, along with Alec Asher, who made his big league debut in 2015.