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Long Drive hopes everyone had a great holiday season. We should be back on regular posting schedules now that the bulk of the holidays are behind us. Continuing with our Outlook Series, today’s piece covers the plethora of talent the Phils have in the outfield. If you’ve missed any of the other editions of this series, click the related links at the end of the post to catch up!

State of the Phillies Organization – Outfield

Domonic Brown leads a pack of young outfield talent in the Phils system.

Overview

The loss of Jayson Werth hurts the current outfield talent, but help is on the way in Domonic Brown. After an extended cup of coffee, which was laden with bench time, Brown is ready to begin his rookie campaign. He will be given every opportunity to win the job outright in spring training, but nothing has been guaranteed to him. In the minors, a slew of toolsy talent permeates all levels of the organization.

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Without further ado…

TOP TEN PROSPECTS
1. Domonic Brown, of
2. Jonathan Singleton, 1b/of
3. Brody Colvin, rhp
4. Jarred Cosart, rhp
5. Trevor May, rhp
6. Sebastian Valle, c
7. Jiwan James, of
8. Jesse Biddle, lhp
9. Domingo Santana, of
10. Aaron Altherr, of

Matt Forman did this year’s write up after years of John Manuel doing the honors. The entire in-depth article can be found at BaseballAmerica.com.

Expect Long Drive’s own team of writers to reveal their prospect lists and analysis in Jan/Feb of next year.

He stole half of this list

It’s that time of year when everyone is publishing lists of all kinds and sizes and varieties.  We at Long Drive didn’t want to fall by the wayside so here is our own list: The 2010 Top 10 Phillies Prospects!  Some of you may recognize this as a slightly edited version of the list I posted on PSD.  I spruced things up a bit by using a 1-5 star ranking system which I will briefly explain in a moment.  We also did a solid 2 minutes of collaborating.  I  included a player’s upside and downside and 2010 age.  All these player evaluations come with the qualification if healthy. These projections are a median expectation.  The upside/downside is provided to indicate certainty.  And check out the links…there’s some video or stats pages for most of the guys.

One final note before I plunge into things.  James at Phuture Phillies recently published his Top 30 prospects list.  His work is far more ambitious than mine.  I highly recommend reading it AFTER mine.  We have differing opinions on a couple things, mostly he’s just more bullish on Gillies and Singleton than I am and less bullish on Brown and Valle.

The ranking system:

• 5 star – Future All-Star/Elite talent.
• 4 star – MLB average to above average talents.  Players who will consistently put up between 2-4 WAR most healthy seasons.
• 3 star – MLB role players.  These guys may or may not be starters but they will usually be between .5-2.5 WAR per season.
• 2 star – Replacement level/Organizational soldier.  These guys will probably have fringe MLB talent and will struggle to become more than the 25th man on a roster.  Sometimes these guys are briefly useful and sometimes they fool everyone.
• 1 star – Really? is this ever going to show up on a top 10 list?  A 1 star athlete has no semblance of talent or projectability.  When a player is listed with 1 star downside, that means there is considerable risk of him being a complete bust.

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