2017 Phillies Outfielder Assignments

[Squire]

Just noodling around here. Figure no more than 5 Outfielders per level.

Major League:
Aaron Altherr
Howie Kendrick
Odubel Herrera
Roman Quinn
Daniel Nava or other veteran

Lehigh Valley:
Dylan Cozens
Nick Williams
Tyler Goeddel
Andrew Pullin

Reading:
Aaron Brown
Jiandido Tromp
Zachary Coppola
Carlos Tocci
Joey Curletta

Clearwater:
Cord Sandberg
Mark Laird
Jose Pujols
Carlos Duran
David Martinelli (or Cornelius Randolph)

Lakewood:
Mickey Moniak
Cornelius Randolph (or David Martinelli)
Luke Maglich
Juan Luis
Jesus Alastre

Williamsport
Jhailyn Ortiz
Josh Stephen
Malvin Matos
Ben Pelletier
2017 Draftee

[julio]

Comments:

The current AAA roster has two OF on it - Osmel Aguila and Cam Perkins. I'm not sure I see them as candidates for release.

Curletta is not currently showing on any roster, although we know he was acquired by the Phils in September. Reading seems like a reasonable place for him.

Other outfielders currently on stateside minor-league rosters: Derek Campbell, Herlis Rodriguez, Enmanuel Garcia, and Greg Pickett. Figure them to be gone?

Zach Green and Luis Encarnacion are listed as DH on the Clearwater and Williamsport rosters, respectively. Not sure whether to think of them as OF, or just as 1B candidates.

[Lucky_Beagle]

I can't think they would carry Quinn at the major league level without him being a starter. With Kendrick, Herrera, and Altherr I am not sure Quinn would start and get enough playing time unless something else happened like trading Hernandez and moving kendrick to second.

Also I only counted 4 listed at AAA maybe this is where you wanted to place Perkins?

[Austinfan]

Pullin is probably more likely to start with the ML club than Quinn, they would want Quinn to be playing every day in Lehigh than sitting in Phillly.
Too bad Stassi can't play LF, coming off his winter ball performance you'd like to see him get a shot.

It's pretty early, I think they'll add an OF or two before spring.

[julio]

Brock Stassi has started 36 games in the minors in left field, in A-ball and AA. He did not have any starts in left in 2016, at AAA.

[LoneStarPhan]

Minor league rosters as posted on the mlb web sites this time of year are useless. The Phillies and I assume other MLB teams do not publish the minor league reserve lists because they don't won't to confuse the fans. The reserve lists are not necessarily representative of what the various minor league teams rosters will be coming out of the spring. The reserve lists are important for the minor league phase of the rule 5 draft but you never see much mentioned about who is on the AAA or AA reserve lists. The minor league rosters on mlb web sites in past off seasons have usually been those players who were on that team to end the season and who were not added to the 40 man roster, cut or did not become minor league free agents.

I would love to see the MLBAM websites for each of the teams include a minor league organization roster of all players in the organization not on the 40 man ML roster that would have all the minor league players in one list. It could included a column that showed the team/level to which the player was assigned.

[julio]

LSP is correct that the minor league rosters currently on MiLB'w websites tend to reflect where players were on Labor Day (with the deletion of those who became free agents, were released or traded, and the addition of acquisitions - some acquisitions, that is). Collectively, they give a pretty good picture of who all is in the organization.

[Squire]

Good point on Perkins and Aguila. I had forgot about those guys Someone will likely get injured to help sort it all out. Explains why we didn't sign hardly any minor league free agents this offseason. We're pretty full up and down the system. What do people think about Cornelius Randolph? Did he get enough time at Low A last year to warrant the bump to Clearwater? or do they put one of the college 2016 draftees (like Martinelli or Maglich) there instead. Tough call for me. Probably depends on how he looks in minor spring camp.

[phillychuck]

I agree that Randolph's placement depends on his spring performance. I like Perkins a lot, but I think the organization sees him as a AAA player, not a potential major league call-up. I'd still like to see the MLB team sign a real basher for a corner OF spot, but I'm skeptical...