Archive for January, 2010

Two Cardinal farmhands rank on the top 100: Shelby Miller, 38 & Daryl Jones, 59.

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Law has been consistently bullish on DJ Tools upside and obviously sees much of the same in the arm of Shelby Miller. Again, this seems eminently reasonable to me.  I’m having a recollection of a KLaw chat where he implied that Jones would be ranked ahead of Miller though.  If anyone can come across that or also remembers that, drop a note in the comments.

More interesting for us is his top 10 list for Cardinal prospects:

1. Shelby Miller, RHP
2. Daryl Jones, OF
3. Lance Lynn, RHP
4. Jaime Garcia, RHP
5. Robert Stock, C
6. Dan Descalso, 2B
7. Eduardo Sanchez, RHP
8. Adron Chambers, OF
9. Francisco Samuel, RHP
10. Audris Perez, C

It’s an interesting list that clearly favors eventual upside over proximity to the majors.  Accepting that prospect worldview I think Sanchez is a touch underrated.  Audris Perez is a Dominican Republic signee who played in Johnson City last year (also seen as Audry Perez).  I think the Lynn over Garcia rating is bogus (and may or may not be influenced by the wrongly classified “RHP” Garcia).  Overall though, a solid assessment.

The Cardinals ZiPS projections by Dan Szymborski are up and contain projections for a few minor leaguers. A random assortment of comments follows. Read the rest of this entry »

Keith Law prefaces his Top 100 prospects coming out tomorrow with organizational rankings today.  It’s behind the subscription pay wall so no reprinting the text.  The Cardinals rank 29 out of 30 with the admission that he may be slightly underrating some of the newer additions to the farm.  FWIW, I doubt he’s underrating them and I’m not surprised the Cardinals are in the bottom 5.

With the acquisition of Rich Hill, I’m suddenly wondering if I can count our potential AAA starters on just two hands.  Do I need to take my shoes off?

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Because it’s a New Year and people like lists.

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