Comments on: Daily Farm Report – AAA Championship Game

By: FreeRedbird

FreeRedbird — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:27:07 +0000

What’s the point of carrying K Greene on the playoff roster? He’s a liability on the field and not very good at the plate either. The Cards already have a backup SS in Lugo. Our bench lacks a RH power bat and Craig would fit perfectly.

If they really hate to add Craig on the 40 man roster so cannot call up him, I’d rather have T Greene or Hoffpauir on our bench than K Greene.

By: tom s.

tom s. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:22:25 +0000

Azru had a comment on VEB I’ve been thinking about. I think we agree brian barden is not the RF of the future. We are quite weak there.

Henley is the prime prospect in the high minors, and aaron luna, who has gotten some play there is probably next. With stavinoha and robinson not looking like MLers, who are our options even in a pinch. Jay, craig, jones . . . Are these guys all so weak-armed they can’t be trusted in right?

It seems to me that lack of range is a bigger deal than arm, even in RF.stav made several spot starts there, and his defensive limitations are bigger than jay’s.

With luddy injury-prone and struggling this year, who do you see backing him up in RF?

By: sadsushi

sadsushi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:54:13 +0000

the 40 man roster excuse doesn’t hold any weight..he has to be added this year or be exposed the rule 5 draft which he will get picked up in

By: Forsch31

Forsch31 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:14:12 +0000

Craig also isn’t a member of the 40-man roster; they’d have to add him just for the couple of games he’d get into. With only one spot available, they decided to add Pagnozzi to it instead to give LaRue and Molina some rest/injury protection in prepration for the playoffs.

By: easy

easy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:32:03 +0000

If one of the position call ups really is going to make the post season roster I think it baffles me even more that Craig wasn’t called. The call up will likely not make an appearance on defense and Craig murdered lefties in AAA this year. There’s a lot of portsiders on the opposition staffs.

By: sadsushi

sadsushi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:00:22 +0000

the only way i look at the callup situation now is that the cardinals are saving 71 k for not bringing up craig..that’s it..a money thing for them and using the third catcher excuse..they didn’t need a catcher for the first how many months and now they need one?

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:27 +0000

Ryan, they did “give the Padres a million dollars” and Jim Edmonds for Freese. He must be one of the best prospects in all baseball, right?

I also thought it hilarious when the play-by-play guy thanked the “stats people” for the great stat of Redbirds 0 runs, 2 hits in first five innings compared to 3 runs, 3 hits in the 6th. They really had to dig deep for those stats.

By: CRay

CRay — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:31:47 +0000

Besides the few games remaining, the Cards will probably have an opening on their post-season roster, and it would be filled by either Freese or T. Greene. They are not going to put Craig on the roster when he has never before been in the majors. If the Cards go with 11 pitchers, then there are six bench players after the usual starting 8. These six will consist of Ankiel, Thurston, K. Greene, LaRue, Lugo, and ??. Since the last person will probably not be Glaus, that leaves room for one more – presumably Freese or T. Greene, since Stav is injured and Barden is no longer on the 40-man roster. So, the Cards want to look at these two. Craig simply doesn’t fit given this matter, the few remaining games, and not being on the 40-man.

On the pitching side, besides 4 starters (including Lohse), I see Franklin, Smoltz, Miller, Reyes, McClellan, Hawksworth, and either Motte or Thompson. TLR could take both of them and go with only 13 position players.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:25:26 +0000

“Not sure he reminded me of Bob Horner (per the announcers…and surprisingly not the dumbest thing said during the game), but I think it will translate to the bigs decent enough.”

I loved it when the play-by-play guy said Freese was “one of the best prospects in all of baseball.”

By: Lou Schuler

Lou Schuler — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:04:57 +0000

Didn’t we make a fuss last year when Colby didn’t get a call-up? Or was he injured at that point?

Either way, call-ups don’t seem all that important to me, especially when the team is getting set for the playoffs.

I understand why the Cards want to take a look at Freese — he might be the starting 3B next year. And T. Greene gives us some speed off the bench and might have better range at SS than some of the other backups.

But Craig is just one more RH bat on a team that already has a ton of them. If he makes the team next year it’ll be as a bench player anyway, at least at first. And whatever he does now won’t have any bearing on that — he’ll still have to win the job in spring training.