Midseason Ratings: Who Will Be Here In 2019?

Back in February I asked you to make a snap judgment.

The prompt: “How confident are you, on a scale of 1-10, that current players in the Phillies organization would be on the major league roster on opening day 2019?”

I received a couple dozen responses, revealing only minor nuggets of mostly noise. But a few nuggets seemed louder than others. For one, fans overwhelmingly thought J.P. Crawford, Maikel Franco and Aaron Nola would be contributors in 2019. Also, nobody had any idea what to expect at places like first base and catcher, with numerous players earning high confidence ratings.

Now that we’re past the midseason mark, I’m calling out once again for your confidence ratings. I’ve added some names (some draft picks and a couple previously unknown quantities [hello, Tommy Joseph]) but like last time, the task is simple:

If you’re overwhelmingly, over-the-moon confident that someone will be on the big-league roster in April 2019, give him a 10. From there, weigh your confidence to 1. If you haven’t heard of a player, or don’t feel confident about assigning him a rating, leave it blank. Otherwise, rate everyone with at least a 1.

And either paste your responses in the comments, or email them to me at tsmalcolm@gmail.com.

Thanks!

HITTERS

C / Cameron Rupp
C / Carlos Ruiz
C / Andrew Knapp
C / Jorge Alfaro
C / Deivi Grullon
1B / Tommy Joseph
1B / Brock Stassi
1B / Rhys Hoskins
2B / Cesar Hernandez
2B / Darnell Sweeney
2B / Jesmuel Valentin
2B / Scott Kingery
3B / Maikel Franco
SS / J.P. Crawford
SS / Malquin Canelo
OF / Cody Asche
OF / Tyler Goeddel
OF / Aaron Altherr
OF / Nick Williams

OF / Cameron Perkins
OF / Dylan Cozens
OF / Andrew Pullin
OF / Cord Sandberg
OF / Jose Pujols
OF / Cornelius Randolph
CF / Odubel Herrera
CF / Roman Quinn
CF / Aaron Brown
CF / Carlos Tocci
CF / David Martinelli
CF / Mickey Moniak

PITCHERS

SP / Jeremy Hellickson
SP / Aaron Nola
SP / Jerad Eickhoff
SP / Vincent Velasquez
SP / Zach Eflin
SP / Adam Morgan
SP / Jake Thompson
SP / Ben Lively
SP / Mark Appel
SP / Alec Asher
SP / Nick Pivetta
SP / Ricardo Pinto
SP / Tyler Viza
SP / Elniery Garcia
SP / Brandon Leibrandt
SP / Thomas Eshelman
SP / Franklyn Kilome
SP / Cole Irvin
SP / Grant Dyer
SP / Blake Quinn
RP / Jeanmar Gomez
RP / Hector Neris
RP / Daniel Stumpf
RP / Brett Oberholtzer
RP / Edubray Ramos
RP / Elvis Araujo
RP / Mario Hollands
RP / Luis Garcia
RP / Colton Murray
RP / Severino Gonzalez
RP / Tom Windle
RP / Jimmy Cordero
RP / Victor Arano
RP / Alberto Tirado

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.