Its more a lack of interesting content ever since James left too (similar to how BL is trending downhill with Jason not doing the thread headers anymore IMHO).

I'm going to suggest you may have missed sarcasm on that one. Posted by: Jack | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM Maybe...there are some pretty stupid people that post there (see the Hewitt comments that are being made on why they cant promote Dugan as it would take away Hewitt's playing time...or how they should promote Hewitt to AAA to make room).

Reasons I dont post much at PhuturePhillies anymore: 1. People arguing that Hewitt is still a real prospect 2. People saying they should move Maikel Franco to LF to make room for Zach Green (a 3B prospect in Williamsport) James used to cut off those types of stupid comments pretty quickly when he was running the site.

Right on schedule...now the real test begins for Franco. AA, where so many prospects have gone to die.

***And he's been worth about 4 each season, so he's a pretty valuable player. They didn't necessarily make a mistake extending him, but they definitely aren't maximizing their assets.*** He's definitely a great defensive player and that is his saving grace but even fantastic defense doesnt make a .581 OPS hitter valuable (ie worth $15 million a year like he's being paid). Maybe if they didn't have Profar sitting around it made sense but since they did, they're now playing the #1 prospect in baseball in LF rather than at his natural position.

Signing D. Young wasn't really the mistake...continually throwing him out there and handing him a starting role in RF based on nothing more than hopes and dreams was the mistake.

They should have looked to move Andrus this off-season or during the season this year as he would have had a ton of value.

Perhaps giving Andrus, a career 81 OPS+ hitter a 700 year deal when the #1 prospect in baseball was a MLB ready SS sitting in AAA wasn't the smartest idea for Jon Daniels. That's RubenAmaroesque there. Andrus has a .581 OPS this year BTW...in case you were curious.

prospects should be contracts in the above post.

It means that Kinsler and Andrus are veterans under long-term prospects but that they still want to get Profar playing time. Nothing more.

Don't look now but Howard's OPS+ is back up to 115 on the year.

Profar to the OF? Discuss amongst yourselves. Posted by: Sad Guy | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 11:29 AM They would have been better off trading Andrus this off-season than wasting Profar in LF.

Mitchell actually has pretty even splits too so many he wouldn't be completely neutered by LHP (he's a LHB) Though it is kind of telling that he was never given a shot in Oakland's OF the last few years despite all the issues/injuries they've had there. His 2011 season was pretty solid in AA/AAA and he never even got a cup of coffee...granted those numbers were posted in the Texas and Pacific Coast leagues so that .960 OPS isn't nearly as impressive as it would look otherwise...but still.

There is nothing that DYak gives you that Mayberry doesn't already provide but at a higher level and with actual good defense in RF. Mayberry's presence on the 25 man is one of the things that made the DYak signing/playing so mind-boggling.

It's good to see IceNEPP jump on the Revere bandwagon. Posted by: Edmundo | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 09:35 AM We've both always supported Ben Revere and defended him here. Also, Beerleaguer has always been at war with Eastasia.

Revere is a .500 hitter since the start of the 6th inning last night. That alone shows me that he will likely continue to be a productive player going forward.

Clifton Phifer Lee has a great chance at his 2nd Cy Young this year...assuming Clayton Kershaw is felled by a congenital heart defect at some point.

Franco's Home/Away splits: Home: .287 AVG/.352 OBP/.926 OPS Away: .305 AVG/.345 OBP/.902 OPS He has hit 9 of his 15 HRs at home but 15 of his 23 doubles on the road. Doesnt seem to be a huge park factor distorting his numbers.

I used to post a ton at PP but when the actual Phuturephillies guy left, the site went downhill a bunch so I stopped posting there for the most part.

Franco's power is more impressive when you realize that the FSL is not a hitter friendly league by any means. Dugan and Franco have hit half of the Thresher's HRs on the year.

Its early yet too...and that entire Lakewood team has been terrible so that's a tough situation to play in regardless as lineups tend to feed off of each other. It'll be interesting to see where he's at by August. His BB rate is still pretty good and his SB numbers are off the charts (not Billy Hamilton level but definitely Anthony Gose type SB ability in the minors). Hes probably going to end up with around 70 SB and about 15-20 CS...maybe more if he starts getting on base more.

***Has anyone read any scouting reports on Quinn recently? Boxscore errors are so darn subjective. I would actually like to see what a scout says about his defense instead of reading the boxscore. *** Supposedly his footwork and positioning need work and that's affecting his throws (a lot of his errors are throwing errors). He's still learning SS as he played CF primarily in HS. Its a very steep learning curve. I agree on his offense starting to become a concern...though its very possible his defensive struggles are affecting him at the plate.

23 year old slugging RFs who have career 141 OPS+ in their first 1600 PA are pretty rare. The only real negatives against Stanton are his minor injury concerns (he missed 40 games last year and a good chunk of this year to minor ailments already) and he's entering Arbitration next year so he's no longer super super cheap, just pretty cheap.

Biddle probably ends up as a #3 at best. He won't get guys to chase pitches like he does in Reading once he goes to AAA and the Majors. Thus, his SO rate will go down at that BB rate will become more of an issue. It'd be Biddle and 2-3 other solid pieces to even start the conversation...and at that point, the Rangers could simply offer Profar and still outbid us rather easily.

***Or Roman Quinn's 1-3 with a BB, SB, and 2 errors?*** The sad thing is that the 2 errors per night really isn't even much of an exaggeration. He's on pace for a 50/50 season with SB and Errors.