Phillies Cancel Minor League Affiliates Due to Lack of Players

With the Phillies trading half their prospects for Cliff Lee and trading the other half of the farm system with Cliff Lee to Seattle and Toronto to get Roy Halladay, they have ran out of players to field teams next year. Rather than rushing low-level players to field one team at the AAA level, the Phillies will play intersquad games to keep the players healthy and active.

However, the Phillies will not invite scouts to view the intersquad scrimmages so other teams will have a hard time judging the talent of the Phillie prospects when they want to dump overpaid veterans to the Phillies to clear salary space. The Phillies hope to sign lots of Dominicans next year so they can once again play minor league baseball in 2011.