Back in August, I was contacted by Mike Drago (Twitter: @mldrago) of the Reading Eagle to participate in the publication’s annual survey regarding the Phillies’ top prospects.
The task was to provide my own personal Top 20 prospects list from the team’s minor league system. Those were then pooled with the results of lists provided by twenty or so others who also closely monitor the team, and a Top 10 Phillies Prospects feature was released on August 30th.
One thing that became apparent from this effort was the obvious improvement in the number of serious prospects among the top players in the Phils’ system.