So, we are about a month away from the MLB Draft. Live this year in prime time on MLB Network. Fewgoodcards has the college Monday wrap-up below.
That also means that we are less than 2 months away from the July 2nd international signing day in Latin America. One of the gems of this year’s class looks to be Miguel Angel Sano. He’s been seen in Cardinals gear, but he’s also been seen in a lot of different team’s gear. All that means is that the Cardinals brass have had contact with Sano. Sano is a 15 year old switch hitting man-child shortstop who should command around a $3 million contract.
Here’s a pretty limited and quick scouting report from an ESPN article on Sano. (fixed, thanks HL)
Miguel Angel Sano enjoys some downtime during a busy week. He has three workouts for pro scouts in three days, the next one in about an hour. Last night he pounded the ball out of Valerio Cabrera ballpark, a short drive from his home in San Pedro. Today he’ll do it again on the field next door.
The ubiquitous MLB Trade Rumors has a post on him today as well.
There’s a great short video on him at Global Post. He’s seen in Cardinals gear in the beginning and a Cardinals shirt while moving into his new home. I’m not saying, I’m just sayin.
Enough dreaming, let’s get to the DFR as the organization went 2-2.
- Blake Hawksworth was great again. He went 6 innings only allowing 3 hits, 2 walks with 4 strikeouts. He has picked up his game lately and is just begging to be taken seriously again as a prospect. Let’s see some more good outings before proclaiming him back.
- Fernando Salas pitched one perfect inning.
- Josh Kinney pitched a perfect 8th.
- Royce Ring made it interesting in the 9th with 2 hits and a walk, but avoided giving up a run.
- Jarrett Hoffpauir, 2B went 4-4 with a walk and 1 run and 1 RBI. It’s always a good night when you don’t make an out.
- Nick Stavinoha, 1B was 2-4 with 3 RBIs.
- New Memphis SS Donovan Solano is holding his own at the level and he went 1-5 with 2 runs scored.
- Jon Jay, CF was 3-5 with 2 runs scored and he was hitting leadoff.
- Lance Lynn was the cat’s pajamas in his first game in double-A. He pitched 5 shutout innings allowing 5 hits and 2 walks with 6 strikeouts. Nicely done Lance. It is especially good considering the quick promotion. Lynn is impressing so far in his first full pro season.
- Pete Parise had 2 shutout innings with 2 strikeouts.
- Tyler Norrick and Francisco Samuel each pitched 1 shutout inning. Francisco Samuel struck out the side, but allowed a walk.
- Andrew Brown, 1B went 2-4 with 3 runs.
- Tony Cruz, C went 2-4 with 2 RBIs. He allowed 2 stolen bases, but caught 1.
- Antonio DeJesus, CF was 2-5 with 1 RBI.
- David Kopp started and wasn’t great over 5 innings giving up 3 runs. He gave up 7 innings and 3 walks. He did strikeout 6 guys, however.
- Shaun Garceau followed Kopp and was worse; somehow giving up 3 runs on only 2 hits and 1 walk.
- Eduardo Sanchez pitched a perfect 9th in a tie game with 2 strikeouts.
- Sam Freeman took the loss in the 10th. He was victimized by a error by 2B Colt Sedbrook with 2 outs. Other than that error he did give up 2 singles however.
- Curt Smith played LF and went 2-6.
- Shane Peterson was DH’ing and went 2-6 as well. He had a solo HR.
- Matt Arburr, 1B was 2-3 with 2 walks.
- The only good pitching line belonged to Casey Mulligan who continues his Motte-like transformation with a perfect 8th, striking out the side.
- Now, the bad. Andres Rosales started and gave up 4 earned runs over 3 innings.
- George Brown gave up 2 runs in his 1 inning.
- Jonny Bravo was not Bravo as he gave up 6 (6!!!) walks and 1 hit and 4 runs in 1 inning. That is bad, very bad.
- David Carpenter gave up 3 runs in his two innings.
- Charles Cutler, C went 2-3 with a double and a single. That was Quad Cities only 2 hits.
- Brett Lilley, 2B, Nico Vasquez, SS, Paul Cruz, RF, Chris Swauger, 1B all had one walk each.
- Nico also had two errors in the game. One on fielding, one on a throw. The team had 5 errors total.
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Are we talking about Sano or Ramel?
Wow, that was a terrible mistake. I’ve fixed it.
it’s time to move mulligan up. i know it’s only 10 innings, but he’s striking out 2 batters per inning and only has two walks.
Sano sounds like a big-time talent. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds. Following the international signing period is a lot like following college recruiting. It’s kinda nice now that the Cardinals are starting to become players for some of the top talent coming out of Latin America.
You failed to mention that Bravo struck out the side in his lone inning of work :)
That could be the worst 3 K inning in the history of baseball.
I’m with erik on Mulligan. He’s overpowering the MWL right now.
Yeah, Mulligan will see a promotion soon. 20 K’s in 10 innings with a 10:1 K:BB ratio. Crazy stuff. The great thing about him too is that he’s still a really young guy at 21-years old whereas Motte started the conversion at 24 and didn’t really start dominating until 25 (still relatively young, but you get the point). Anybody know much about his velocity and what stuff he has?
Nice to see Lynn dominate in his debut.
Lastly, it’s nice to see Salas is back.
Per Dgoold, he sits at 92. He doesn’t have Motte-like velocity, but he does have Motte-like K numbers. No word on his other offerings.
I’m really glad to see Salas back. I expect him to put up some gaudy numbers at Memphis.
Garceau has had some bad luck…he was cruising and then of course a 3run homerun to the #8 hitter with lowest batting average on the team…he broke his bat and the ball went with the wind blowing to left field…. the same batter had the game winning hit in the 10th inning…..I guess you must say that it was his night…
I see that Walrus and Jones were out of the lineup again, although DJ did get a pinch-hit appearance. Is everything OK with those two? Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Off topic and it doesn’t really matter that much since we only have 38 players on our 40 man, but why isn’t Garcia on the 60-day DL. I’m probably completely wrong here, but I thought time on the 60-day DL counted differently than time on the 15-day DL (i.e, 15 day counts towards rookie eligibility, 60 doesn’t).
I don’t think 15 day counts to eligibility, but I know you can’t use the 60 day DL unless your 40 man roster is full.
thanks hugo … makes sense