AFL Update: Donald Continues Hot Hitting
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sat, October 18, 2008 12:30 PM | Comments: 6
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The Phillies sent players to the Mesa Solar Sox for this season’s Arizona Fall League. The Sox are currently 5-5.
Here’s a look at how Phillie prospects are performing:
Tyson Brummett
Position: RHP
Level: AA Reading
Age: 23
Phuture Phillies 30: 19th
Stats: 3 IP / 0-2 / 15.00 ERA / 3 K / 2 BB
Andrew Carpenter
Position: RHP
Level: AA Reading
Age: 23
Phuture Phillies 30: 23rd
Stats: 5 IP / 0-1 / 10.80 ERA / 4 K / 1 BB
Sergio Escalona
Position: LHP
Level: AA Reading
Age: 24
Phuture Phillies 30: NR
Stats: 3.1 IP / 0-0 / 2.70 ERA / 5 K / 2 BB
Pat Overholt
Position: RHP
Level: AA Reading
Age: 24
Phuture Phillies 30: NR
Stats: 5 IP / 0-0 / 1.80 ERA / 4 K / 2 BB
Jason Donald
Position: SS
Level: AA Reading
Age: 24
Phuture Phillies 30: 3rd
Stats: 27 AB / .407 AVG / .467 OBP / .667 SLG / 4 RBI / 7 R / 6 SO / 3 BB / 1 SB
Quintin Berry
Position: CF
Level: A+ Clearwater
Age: 23
Phuture Phillies 30: NR
Stats: 9 AB / .111 AVG / .111 OBP / .222 SLG / 1 RBI / 1 R / 3 SO / 0 BB / 2 SB
Jeremy Slayden
Position: RF
Level: AA Reading
Age: 26
Phuture Phillies 30: 29th
Stats: 28 AB / .286 AVG / .267 OBP / .571 SLG / 11 RBI / 4 R / 8 SO / 0 BB / 0 SB
The name to keep track on, obviously, is Donald, who is flat raking down in Mesa. He’s also been playing some third base down there, as the Phils are hoping to get him acclimated to that position. It’s possible Donald could take over the position as early as late 2009. I wouldn’t be surprised if Donald was with the Phils as a backup infielder by midseason.
Slayden has pop, hitting two homers so far. He’s an outside chance at being a fifth outfielder. Brummett and Carpenter are the other ranked prospects, and both had shaky 2008 seasons, with Carpenter even seeing an inning in Philadelphia. Both would likely start 2009 in Lehigh Valley with Overholt and Escalona, looking for a chance to contribute to the big league club.
Posts: 0 Jim
It’s obvious that they are going to use Donald to replace Feliz at 3rd. They had the deal done with KC at the deadline and it never happened. I think that is a good idea, because we’re seeing how well the internal talent from the Phillies has been working out for them so far.
Posted: 01:17 PM on October 18, 2008
Posts: 0 T
I am beyond ecstatic with the way our farm system is changing for the better. I’m no expert but feel like it’s a pretty simple process: Draft well and don’t trade away. Our big league club has been good enough to make it so that we don’t have to trade away, and our farm system feels like its stocked for the first time in a while. Let’s keep this pattern up.
Posted: 01:39 PM on October 18, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
Yea i was looking a Donalds stats the other day and was like man i wonder if we can convert this guy to 3rd base because he looks about major league ready and Pedro’s hitting been killing us,like when he had 2 bases load at bats in the game 5 of the NLCS and couldn’t do anything.
Posted: 03:53 PM on October 18, 2008
Posts: 0 Sean P.
Its funny how in the last year everyone was saying how the farm system is depleted (specifically after the Garcia trade). Now, our farm system is stocked. Seems funny how quickly things can turn around.
Posted: 05:28 PM on October 18, 2008
Posts: 0 T
Sean, I think this most recent draft really changed peoples minds, and the emergence of guys like Donald, Marson, Carrasco, Golson, etc. really gave us some faces and names to associate with the farm system. Not to mention the fact that we’ve kept everyone!
Success breeds success, even in pro sports.
Posted: 05:34 PM on October 18, 2008
Posts: 0 mike
It’s still lacks a true superstar prospect. the farm system is better mostly in lower level. remember there farm system is rated twenty ninth in baseball.
Posted: 10:02 PM on October 18, 2008