How they were built: Phillies

After looking at how the Sixers and Flyers were built, it's time to take a closer look at the World Champs. This chart shows every player that has played for the Phillies this season, with their salaries and how they were acquired by the team. Contracts in baseball are much harder to find information about and are confusing to understand, what with arbitration and teams owning players rights, so I did the best I could to gather this information. If you see any errors in the info here, please let me know.

Like the others, this chart will be updated from time to time and will always be found at the link on the right side of the ATPS homepage. Look for How they were built: Eagles, coming soon!

Phillies acquired via:
Draft: 9
Free Agency: 15
Trade: 10
Rule 5/Waivers: 3

Notes:
Salary and contract information taken from Baseball Reference and Cot's Baseball Contracts

Players listed with "arb" after their contract end date will be arbitration eligible at that time. Players listed with an asterisk (*) after their contract end date will still have their rights owned by the Phillies, so they won't be free agents.

I was unable to find salary information for Bastardo or Escalona. Needless to say, I am sure they are making less than half a million dollars.

There are also a number of players no longer on the roster who are still getting paid by the Phillies, like Geoff Jenkins and Adam Eaton, but listing their salaries here would just be depressing.

Analysis:
The Phillies have built their team through a variety of ways, getting most of their best players through the draft and putting pieces around them that they get through free agency and trades. Drafting is an obvious strong suit by the club, especially for starting pitchers and their infield. It would be nice if one of the many so-called outfield prospects ever pans out to be a contributing member of the team.