The low minors win and the high minors lose.
Archive for April, 2010With the revolving door from Memphis to St. Louis now in full effect (a few years after it should have started I might add), and Garcia and Freese making solid contributions to the team as starters I pose this question: Who is the next ‘big impact’ guy likely to come from the system? Will it be this season and if not, then when? We’ve got a full slate on the DFR, so let’s get to it. All Hail our Rookie of the Year, Jaime Garcia. Not only is he spectacular at retiring bat swingers but his ability to throw the ball behind his head and to look like a 45 year old man are unparalleled in the sport.
Memphis had the night off. On to the DFR! Brian Walton’s weekly piece at the Globe Democrat. This week is about position players to watch. I think the Matt Adams bandwagon has left the station a bit early. Kary Booher, who broke the Scott Bittle surgery news, has an update.
Kevin Goldstein wrote about Shelby Miller last Thursday. Seems like Goldstein caught the wild version of Miller last night at the QC game. Nothing to really worry about though. Keith Law has a top 100 up for the 2010 draft. He breaks it down by position as well. Baseball Prospectus’s Kevin Goldstein was in attendance for Shelby Miller’s start tonight and here are his reactions from twitter to add a little bit of color to tonight’s DFR.
All I have to say about Aaron Miles is he better not take at-bats at 2B in Memphis from Dan Descalso. Or *shudder* anyone at SS. The farm went 1-2 with Quad Cities off to my great disappointment. Follow along with me past the jumpity goodness. Tyler Greene up. He’s had some defensive miscues but he’s hitting at a reasonable clip and he’s a very good fielder when you evaluate his total body of work. Jon Jay up. He’s your fourth outfielder who is likely to spell Ludwick and Holliday on their offdays. Mather in center on Colby’s offdays make the most sense to me since those offdays should be against lefties when needed. Allen Craig optioned. Not unexpected and makes some sense to let Craig get regular playing time and get things going. Felipe Lopez to the DL. I hope this isn’t worse than it turns out to be. Makes you wonder if this wasn’t some of the delay with his offseason contract. I can’t recommend this post enough. Daniel @ C70 does all the leg work of collecting links to what appears to be every active and many retired blogs and Cardinals’s sites. If you’ve got a couple hours to whittle away, I bet you could spend them here. There was much hand wringing when the Cardinals voided Mateo’s contract in September. Half a year later and he’s finally found a club in Arizona who signed him for $500k or one-sixth of his contract with the Cardinals. It’s likely of little consolation to the Cardinals (after all it’s obvious they wanted to sign the kid) but this has to be viewed as a massive validation of their screening process. Mateo may go on to have a very successful career but the Cardinals (and 28 other teams) were scared off by what looks to be significant health issues in hindsight. The Cardinals likely haven’t done any long term damage to their long term interests in Latin America. Cynical though it may sound, players from that part of the world are unlikely to turn down multi-million dollar contracts because of one isolated incident. The Cardinals will still need to augment their farm system this draft season but I’d expect them to invest heavily in the draft and shy away from any seven figure Latin American signings. Previous Wagner Mateo coverage can be found here. Quad Cities has a double header to make up yesterday’s rainout. Former Redbird, Jarrett Hoffpauir hit for the cycle out west. Brendan Ryan is going to be jealous of one of the players down on the farm today — care to take a guess which one? |
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