Comments on: Daily Farm Report 5/3/09

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:59:33 +0000

24 Apr – 1 May Moves:

Per BA: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=3741

St. Louis Cardinals
Acquired: LHP Evan MacLane from Diamondbacks for future considerations
Recalled: SS Tyler Greene
Placed on 7-day DL: RHP Kyle Mura, LHP Justin Fiske, LHP Kat Maekawa, C Blake Murphy, OF Shane Robinson
Reinstated from DL: RHP Fernando Salas, C Brandon Yarbrough, OF Paul Cruz

For those of us that missed them.

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:08:14 +0000

PROMOTE HIM NOW!

By: sluhser

sluhser — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:02:10 +0000

Lance Lynn very solid in his AA debut: 5 IP 0 ER 6 K 2 BB with 5 ground outs to 3 fly outs.

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:20:49 +0000

I’d be interested in seeing it — also, I know you left a comment a while back about a banner that doesn’t overlap into the links at the top of the page. If you’d send that too, I’d be appreciative.

By: BigJawnMize

BigJawnMize — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:28:44 +0000

If there is some interest I drew up a “DJ Tools” jersey back for a FR t-shirt.

By: Tomm

Tomm — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:51:08 +0000

If it is indeed Thompson down and Walters up, I’d be okay with that on the basis that I think Thompson could fill the role better. I’d like to see Walters starting anyhow. Of course, I’d rather see Todd, but that just not gonna happen yet. I hate the 8 man bullpen, but the only position player who even warrants a promotion is Shane Robinson and I doubt he’d get much PT. They could try to bring up Mather in hopes that being back in the bigs would recapture his confidence, but I don’t see how they can truly justify promoting a guy with a .139 average.

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:16:31 +0000

Don’t blame this one on me! Watching some drills, Buck’s outfield arm stood out as the strongest on the field among the A-ball candidates. He missed last year to TJ, I believe, and was drafted out of community college, so I didn’t have any kind of offensive profile for him.

Not a pet prospect so much as an intriguing low-rounder that I know very little about.

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:40:17 +0000

Mortensen is not on the 40-man.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:55:15 +0000

I think the fact that he is “known and uninteresting” is exactly why he is coming up (saw a post on Cardinals Nation stating it was him). TLR may have taken to using rookies and young players more but he hasn’t been willing to give over the keys to the kingdom to unproven players just yet. Motte had a short leash, Rasmus isn’t even playing CF every time he plays.

By: tom s.

tom s. — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:00:42 +0000

Pj is probably a certainty to go down. I’d hope it might be mort or the hawk. Both are on the 40 man, right? Other than thompson kinney would be the last name to come to mind. Scherer is on the roster too.

But PK is such a known and uninteresting quantity at this point. I’d like to see what the other guys can do. Boggs has been a pleasant surprise so far.

Why not the hawk? We’ve gotta find out whether he sinks or swims and probably this season. Now’s as good a time as any. Mort probably has been pushed as far as he ought to go.