Memphis was postponed, much to Joe Strauss’s chagrin.
(I’m leaving that Fangraphs link up, because its hilarious. Apparently, Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is older than he looks…)
Speaking of Future (non-)Redbirds and Mr. Strauss, the never-ending Roy Halladay speculation continues with the news from Mr. Strauss’s twitter account, that the Cardinals could get Halladay without including Rasmus. He specifically mentions Dan Descalso as a commodity of interest by the Blue Jays.
The Palm Beach Cardinals complete a 6 game sweep at the hands of the Tampa Yankees. Yikes.
Let’s take a look at the guts and the gore.
UPDATE: Chris Duncan has been optioned down to our friends, the Memphis Redbirds. No word on who is coming back up.
UPDATE 2: Barden is up for Duncan.
UPDATE 3: Chris Duncan is now actually traded to Boston in exchange for Julio Lugo. Big props to AZ and HL for breaking it over at Viva, discussion is here at Viva El Birdos. Also, looks like there is another PTBNL involved, so more looking around the minors for the name of that player. Mo does love his PTBNL.
- Ugly night for Springfield with 4 errors.
- Scott Gorgen was a little wild this evening as he walked 5 and struck out 5 in you guessed it! 5 innings!
- Marco Gonzalez and Fernando Salas each took an inning of all zeroes.
- Francisco Samuel is making his case NOT to be the PTBNL as he walked 3 guys and committed a throwing error.
- Chicken Fried Steve Hill had the only offense of the night as he hit a 2-run HR.
- Andrew Brown had 2 hits.
- Blake King started and was the bad Blake King.
- Tom Eager – 5 runs, no outs.
- Jason Buuuuuuuuuursma selfishly let all Eager’s runners score, but none of his own.
- Yonathan Gonzalez and Adam Reifer mopped up the mess.
- Adron Chambers stole home in this game, amongst his 2 steals and 2-4.
- Charles Cutler had 2 hits and a stolen base.
- Aaron Luna Lovegood had the only other hit.
- Billy Christopher Corrigan and gave up 3 over 4 and 2/3rds.
- Andres Rosales stranded Corrigan’s runner and struck out 2 over a total of 1.1 innings taking the lone W for the Cardinals system.
- Tyler Leach gave up a run.
- Scott Schneider continued his NYP dominance with a scoreless inning, but let one of Leach’s runners score.
- Ryde Rodriquez is playing well so far this season, he was 3-4 with 2 runs scored. He also swiped a bag.
- Luis De La Cruz was 2-5 with a triple and 2 RBIs.
- Alan Ahmady, another guy I would not have in the “most likely to hit a triple” lottery, had a triple and also had 2 RBIs.
- D’Marcus Ingram had 3 stolen bases.
- Chris Notti was a notty tonight with a bad three inning stretch.
- Justin Smith was bad as well over his 3 innings, but at least he struck out 5 and walked none.
- Jason Novak stranded one of Smith’s runners and allowed 1 run of his own over 2 innings.
- Kyle Heim was the only un-scored-upon pitcher.
- Matt Adams went 2-3 with a HR.
- Robert Stock went 0-3 and had a passed ball and a throwing error. One to forget for the young guy.
- Hector Alvarez doubled.
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Did you mean to spill the beans that Joe Strauss has arrived from the past?
I’m leaving my reply up because your editorial wasn’t there when I posted it.
looks like strauss has some wheels too. 29 steals and 7 triples in 101 games
okay so the Bluejays like Descalso. Then presumably Wallace would also have to be in the trade and they would likely want a pitcher or two as well. Does Descalso, Wallace, and Lance Lynn get it done? maybe throw in Boggs if necessary? can we get the Bluejays to take Wellemeyer back in the deal to get a little salary relief? Either way that deal would be okay with me. I don’t think Wallace and stick at 3rd and I’m fine with selling high on Descalso.
I don’t know if this was mentioned yesterday but the Nationals are scouting the Memphis Redbirds, per Goold.
Roy Halladay and Josh WIllingham would look really good in the BoB.
Per Goold….Scott Bittle to debut (hopefully) in august with Palm Beach.
I wonder if a Wallace, Kozma, Descalso, + pitching prospect(s) package would get it done for Halladay.
Imagine if they got both Halladay and Dunn (pipe dreaming here). Say what you will about Dunn, but he would be a huge upgrade over Duncan/Ankiel.
Oh, please god, not Descalso! I just don’t think I could take losing him.
And hooray for a Pumpkins reference!
Yeah I wouldn’t want to trade Descalso either, I doubt he would make or break a deal for Halladay anyways, so offer some other middling prospect as a throw in instead.
I would love to have Joe Strauss be our GM, if only so he can find out how little he actually knows about baseball.
Adron “The Star” Chambers continues to shine. He stole home but then gave it back so that he could steal it again later. Marvelous.
We need a nickname for Adron Chambers…
Accepting all entries! Go!
Adron ” I keep a slug in da” Chambers? Sounds gangster rappish, is that bad of me?
If Descalso is the deal-sealer, you gotta make the trade. I like DD a lot, but Halladay is a massive upgrade, he’ll only cost $5MM or so for rest of this year, leaving player payroll still $7-8MM under 2008, and at less than $16MM next year he’s a fair deal going forward.
Then after next year, the Cards can either get the 2 compensation picks or sign him to a gently back-loaded 3-4 year deal with a bit deferred (a la Carp’s & Albert’s contracts), which is very do-able since Lohse’s $12MM comes off the books in 2012.
Get Halladay!
I totally agree if you need to include DD in the deal for Halladay you do it. 2B prospects are not cornerstone prospects for really any organization. Most 2Bers in the MLB are past SS’s that couldn’t make it as a SS. We have others in our system that could move from SS to 2B and be our 2B in the bigs in the semi-near future. I am a fan of DD but I would much rather deal him if that is what it takes to get a player of Halladay’s caliber. Now that also depends on what else around DD the Jays are wanting.
“Nit”Adron Chambers? (Long “i”)
Adron “Judges” Chambers
From everything you read it doesn’t look like the Jays are giving up Hallady unless they get a load back. Other than Roy wanting to be traded they have no other real motivation to do it before the dead line, the deal makes more sense to do in the off season for everyone except the Phillies.
“Other than Roy wanting to be traded they have no other real motivation to do it before the dead line”
The Jays are under a lot of fiscal constraints due to a drop in the exchange rate between US and Canada from what I’ve read. They may be needing to shed payroll right now.
Adron “Marilyn” Chambers
Adron Chambers of Secrets?
I still think Descalso is playing above his skill level this season…if i’m right, then we should trade him…of course if i’m wrong, we could be trading a guy who ends up being a young cardinal for a long time
man this trading prospects stuff is risky…still, if wallace, descalso, lynn, and some right handed reliever could get it done, i’d do it yesterday(realize that i am saying this after watching yet another wellenmeyer awful start)
Nice! You’ll always get points with me for a Harry Potter reference.
I don’t get the fascination with Halliday and his huge pricetag (both in terms of $ and prospects). Having him guarantees nothing, except that you gave away the farm and now have less money to resign Albert with. Even with Halliday, this team isn’t better than the Phils or Dodgers. The Cubs had an all-star pitching staff last season and it got them eliminated in the 1st round.
Hell if you’re insistent on dumping Wallace, I’d rather have Bucholz in a one-for-one deal. Then I guess you overpay to keep DeRosa for 2010 or suffer through another year of Joe Thurston. You’re gonna need some money to resign Pineiro. And you still need to go sign a LF, unless Tony continues to wait for Duncan to break out of his 2 1/2 year slump.
The paid attendance for the Palm Springs game night before last was one (1). Can you believe that.
Rumor has it the he was a drunk that wandered in and didn’t actually pay.
My biggest concern with getting Halliday is that it hampers your ability to resign Albert to the big money he demands this off-season before he can sniff the big money someone will throw at him (Boston, I am looking at you). As much as it would make our pitching staff a murders row, our lineup is still extremely weak. It may get us in the playoffs, but it certainly doesn’t make us favorites because we can be pitched to or around too easily. I know once you are in anyone can win (thank you 2006 WS champs), but I don’t know that I want to mortgage the future on that.
On a side note, I personally think Wallace can stick at third IF he is paired with an extremely rangey shortstop who can help make up for his limitations in that department. And I do have to say, after reading shaneo69 mentioning another year of Thursty Joe made me throw up a bit in my mouth.
The thing the Blue Jays are also dealing with is that Roy Halladay has a clause in his contract that this off-season he can demand a trade. The Blue Jays have until March to trade him and if they don’t, Roy becomes an unrestricted Free Agent.
So, the basically have from now until March to trade him or get bubkis in return.
WHAT? I’m calling schadenfreude.
Seriously? How is it that not every baseball writere isn’t reporting that…That is huge news…will they not be able to get arbitration picks?
wow that was terrible…how is it that not every baseball writer is reporting that
HL … wouldn’t the same clause be able to be exercised if he’s traded this year?
Yes, unless he signs an extension or chooses not to take it. If he’s traded to a place he likes, he’s not going to give up that money.
Actually, no. If he demands a trade and is then traded he is stuck with the team he is traded to for 3 years.
http://www.brewcrewball.com/2009/7/21/956525/if-traded-can-halladay-request