Comments on: Add Davidson, Pollock and Phegley to potential 1st round list

By: arch support

arch support — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:03:50 +0000

For my part, I intend to reserve all my judgments on all players the Cardinals draft this year until their professional baseball careers have panned out.

Then, I will confidently assert my opinions of said players and claim retroactively that I held these correct opinions the whole time, thus showing all of you up.

I suspect this condescending attitude will result in much derision and blog-comment argumentation, which is entirely the point. It might be trollish, but it’s the long-term, Cask-of-Amontillado/Khan Noonian Singh-style vengeance trolling that I admire.

Gentlemen, prepare to be extremely aggravated with me in eight years.

By: AaronB

AaronB — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:47:12 +0000

Speaking of Kyle Gibson, it’s reported that he has a stress fracture in his forearm, so…

1. If he’s there in the 2cd round, you take him, no questions about it, but

2. Should the Cards actually take him in the 1st? Here’s a kid who was a top 10 projected pick all year. When healthy, his fastball sits at 89-93 and he’s got a nice slider and change already. He screams Dave Duncan to me. The downside, if his injury proves more than a stress fracture, and he does apparently project as more of a middle rotation type than a 1.

By: theredbaaron

theredbaaron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:59:52 +0000

I make no promises of sanity. Nor rationality, nor level-headedness, nor reasonability.

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:40:30 +0000

i promise i will be level headed and sane in any reaction i give…but doesn’t mean i am going to like the pick…having said that, i will support whatever players we select until they show they are not major leaguers

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:20:10 +0000

I wouldnt be too terribly upset with phegley in the second round. I think that there will be better prospects to be had at that point but phegely is an interesting prospect.

By: LDC

LDC — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:56:20 +0000

Law said that on the radio, Bernie Miklasz’s Show on 101 locally here in STL. He said that if Pollock projects at SS he’d be a top ten pick. Obviously most teams don’t project him there since he’s 27 or less in most mock drafts. We have an organizational obsession with changing players defensive positions. Moving people to the corners is one thing but moving them to the middle infield is entirely different.

He also said he thinks Kyle Gibson will fall totally out of the first round with his recent injury issue. He’d make a nice second round pick if he falls that far.

By: erik

erik — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:53:16 +0000

i’m just afraid of seeing the insane reactions we’re going to likely see tomorrow.

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:52:03 +0000

i’m with you azru…the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:45:10 +0000

If one of these high upside arms falls to the Cardinals and we pass. . . well, I hope they learned their lesson in 2007.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:40:57 +0000

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2009/reports.jsp?content=pollock

Here is a good place to look up some of these guys. In the video it says Pollock use to play SS.