Baseball America's list of top ten Phillies prospects was filled with former BlueClaws. ---
Baseball America's list of top ten Phillies prospects was filled with former BlueClaws.
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Baseball America's annual look at the Phillies Top Ten Prospects featured five 2017 BlueClaws among a group that includes eight total former BlueClaws. For the fourth straight year, 2013-14 BlueClaw JP Crawford heads the list and 2017 BlueClaw Sixto Sanchez follows.
Click here to see the full list from BaseballAmerica.com.
1. SS JP Crawford - Crawford played for the BlueClaws in 2013 and 2014. In 2014, he earned a promotion to Clearwater just after the All-Star Game, for which he received the most votes of any player in the league. He began this year with Lehigh Valley and was promoted to the Phillies in September, playing 23 games in the big leagues as the 80th player to go From the Shore to the Show.
2. RHP Sixto Sanchez - Sanchez spent most of 2017 with the BlueClaws, where he was 5-3 with a 2.41 ERA in 13 starts. He allowed one run over his final three starts with the BlueClaws and was promoted to Clearwater for the final month of the season. Sanchez, who turned 19 in July, was one of just 15 players to play for the BlueClaws at age 18 (he joined Mickey Moniak at age 18 on the 2017 BlueClaws).
3. 2B Scott Kingery - Kingery was a 2nd round pick out of Arizona in 2015 and opened his professional career with the BlueClaws, hitting .250 with 11 stolen bases. This year, he hit a combined .304 between Reading and Lehigh Valley, stealing 29 bases in 34 attempts.
4. RHP Adonis Medina - Medina spent 2017 with the BlueClaws, going 4-9 with a 3.01 ERA, striking out 133 hitters in 119 innings pitched. He had a 2.18 ERA over his final nine starts and threw six innings of one-hit, shutout ball in the final game of the season.
5. OF Adam Haseley - Haseley was the 8th overall pick in the 2017 draft (University of Virginia) and spent the final three weeks of the season with the BlueClaws. He hit .284 in his debut season between the GCL Phillies, Williamsport, and the BlueClaws.
6. LHP JoJo Romero - Romero, a 4th round pick in the 2016 draft, was the BlueClaws Opening Day starter and went 5-1 with a 2.11 ERA over 13 BlueClaws starts before a promotion to Clearwater, where he went 5-2 with a 2.24 ERA. Romero represented the BlueClaws in the 2017 South Atlantic League All-Star Game in Columbia.
7. OF Jhailyn Ortiz - An international signee in 2015, Ortiz spent last year with Williamsport in the NY-Penn League, hitting .302 with eight home runs and five stolen bases. He could be with the BlueClaws as a 19 year old in 2018.
8. C Jorge Alfaro - Alfrao was acquired by the Phillies in the Cole Hamels trade in 2015 and spent this year with Lehigh Valley, hitting .241 with seven home runs. He was promoted to Philadelphia in August and hit .318 in 29 games with the Phillies.
9. OF Mickey Moniak - Moniak was the first overall pick in the 2016 draft and spent all of 2017 with the BlueClaws, where he hit .236 with five home runs and 11 stolen bases. Moniak was the first, first overall pick to play in the South Atlantic League since Bryce Harper in 2011 (2010 draft). Further, he was one of just 15 players to play for the BlueClaws at age 18, joining Sixto Sanchez among 2017 BlueClaws.
10. RHP Franklyn Kilomé - Kilome spent 2016 with the BlueClaws, going 5-8 with a 3.85 ERA and winning Game 1 of the 2016 SAL Championship Series in Rome. After opening the season with Clearwater, where he was 6-4 with a 2.59 ERA over 19 starts, he made five starts for Reading and was with Lehigh Valley for the International League post-season.
Further, among the Best Tools in the organization, Baseball America rates Sanchez as having the "Best Fastball," Kilome as having the "Best Curveball," 2016 BlueClaw Jose Taveras as having the "Best Changeup," and 2017 BlueClaw Edgar Cabral as the "Best Defensive Catcher."
The BlueClaws have released their 2018 schedule with game times, which you can see by clicking here.
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