There once was a time the Phillies farm system was the envy of baseball.
It was 2017. We were younger, more innocent, babes in the woods. We naively believed a tear-down rebuild of a once-great roster was a prudent way to create a new baseball team, flush with young prospects developed on the farm, supplying the fanbase with fresh new faces and exciting young talent to rally around.
Prospect experts loved what the Phils had going on, so much so that, ahead of the 2017 season, the farm system ranked 6th in all of baseball.