Daily Farm Report 8/9/08
Posted on August 9th, 2008 by fewgoodcards in Daily Farm Reports, tags: 2009 MLB DraftThe 2009 Draft is a long way away, but today scouting directors all over baseball were paying attention as the top high school prospects in the country took part in the AFLAC All-American game. It mostly took place during the Cardinals’ game, so I will have to go back and take a look at the tape before I give my full report, but it looks like a very talented class especially on the pitching side. The two lefties, Matt Purke and Tyler Matzek were very impressive from what I saw.
If you want to find out more about the players, saber scouting and baseball america both have break downs of the top talent. Once again this year a local kid was one of the stars. You will hear a lot about St. Charles’ own Jacob Turner between now and June. He was the starter for the west squad and fanned 5 in 2 shutout innings. Hopefully for him he won’t have a senior let down like Tim Melville did this year.
It sure was nice to see the Cardinals put a beat down on Zambrano wasn’t it?
The system finished 3-3 on the night, check out all the highlights inside.
- Josh Phelps 2-3, 2 2B, R, RBI, BB
- Jon Jay 2-4, 2B, RBI
- Nick Stavinoha 1-4
- P.J. Walters 6 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K
- Jason Motte 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K
Phelps extended his extra base binge, and Jay just keeps getting hits. Outside those two the offense was pretty quiet. Walters put in a solid start, his second straight quality outing. Jason Motte only struck out 1? What was wrong with him?
Springfield 1, Corpus Christi 4
- Allen Craig 1-3, 2B, RBI, BB
- Mark Shorey 1-4, 2B
- Adam Ottavino 6 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2ER, 1 BB, 4 K
Ottavino had a nice night, but Springfield just wasn’t able to generate any offense. Craig and Shorey are trying to do what they can, but the loss of Robinson, Jay, and Greene is proving to be too much to overcome. The RBI for Craig was his 80th of the year.
- Tyler Henley 3-4, 2B, HR, 2 R, RBI, BB, SB
- Pete Kozma 1-5, RBI
- Luke Gorsett 2-4
- Tyler Herron 5.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K
- Francisco Samuel 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K
Henley had an unreal night with 2 of the hits including the homer coming off rehabbing major league lefty Andrew Miller. Kozma went 0-2 with 2 K’s against Miller, but finished 1-3 against the minor leaguers. Tyler Herron continues to pitch well in Palm Beach. I think AA was just a little too much too fast for him. Samuel is just a flat out K machine. With Chris Perez in the bigs, is their a Cardinals’ prospect that has better stuff than Samuel?
- Jon Edwards 2-4, 2 HR, 2 R, 4 RBI
- Tommy Pham 1-3, HR, R, RBI, BB, SB
- Ross Oeder 1-3, HR, R, 3 RBI
- Brett Wallace 1-3, R, BB
- D’Marcus Ingram 1-4, 2B, R
- Chuckie Fick 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
The River Bandits brought out the power sticks tonight going deep 4 times. Jon Edwards had his first two full-season homers. This guy has unreal power when he can make contact. Another guy that struggles to make contact, but is super exciting when he does is Tommy Pham. He now has 15 homers and 15 steals in just 67 games with Quad Cities. If he was there all year would he be looking at a 30/30 season?
- Colt Sedbrook 2-3, HR, R, RBI, BB
- Xavier Scruggs 1-3, 2B, BB
- Chris Swauger 2-4, RBI
- Thomas Eager 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 0 K
- George Brown 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K
- Adam Reifer 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K
Mets’ supplemental first rounder Brad Holt was the best pitching prospect on the mound tonight, but don’t tell the Muckdogs’ hurlers. The threesome combined on an absolute gem holding down a lineup that included two first rounders. Adam Reifer is already up to 14 saves. That’s a pretty impressive total for a short season club. Colt Sedbrook looked like roster filler at the time of the draft, but he is quietly having a very strong season. He has hit for average and even shown some occasional power.
- Alex Castellanos 2-4, HR, R, RBI
- Niko Vasquez 0-3, BB
- Curt Smith 2-4, 2B
- Mike Blazek 5 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 5 K
- Jon Bravo 2.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K
Alex Castellanos continues to mash, but he also committed his 15 error. His stats look nice, but he may not have a position and is a little old for the league. It will be interesting to see where he goes next year and how he responds. Curt Smith also continued his assault on Appy league pitching. The appearance for Bravo was his first since July 15th. Its nice to see him back and pitching well.
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Jon Edwards had a tough week politically, but it was nice to see him bounce back with 2 dingers.
Tyler Herron did not pitch last night for PalmBeach….King did..i….somehow they put his name on the the game line….Tyler had pitched two days earlier….goog outing for King….
Was at the QC game last night and Edwards has a nice smooth swing, was impressed with what I saw.
Todd up to Memphis, Furnish up to Springfield.
thanks for the news. i have been wanting to see what todd can do, but furnish in springfield could get ugly.
Todd was listed milb without a team so I figured he was heading up.
Good for our ss Muckdogs, the Mets have inserted older players in place to win a championship, Brooklyn is owned by the GM, they place more importance on there than other places.
BTW, it was time to move Furnish up wasn’t it? They move so many up too quickly but I think this was a move that places him in where he should be age wise and he knew it was coming sooner than later.
FGC,
Check your birdhouse inbox.
This isn’t the first time Tyler Henley has hit a home run off a major league lefty on a rehab assignment. He also took Scott Kazmir deep in April.
Anyone know what the deal is with Daryl Jones? He has been out the lineup for a couple days.
Also, I found this interview with Brett Wallace online that I don’t think anyone else here as mentioned: http://azsportshub.com/2008/08/04/conversation-with-brett-wallace/
The Springfield Cardinals game will be on FSN Central today. It’s a national channel if you get it.
That is great news for Todd, but sort of a bummer for the rest of the Springfield rotation. I liked Furnish going into the year but he’s done nothing to really separate himself from the pack and he’s been pretty homer prone. If you’re homer prone in the Dean, you’re gonna get pasted at Hammons.
ok — I’ve been in and out the last couple days obviously. Todd is replacing . . . who in Memphis (I’m embarrassed I have to ask).
parisi is hurt and out for the year, i would guess he is replacing him.
Yea I’v herd thay Parisi might have to have Tommy John. I was realy hopeing that he would make our team next year as a 5th starter or as a long releaver. He has had a realy solid if not great 15 starts for Memphis this year. If he does have TJ you can almost bet that he will never pitch another inning for the Cardinals.