Minor Links 04/07/10
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by azruavatar in Daryl Jones, Evan MacLane, Francisco Samuel, Minor Links, Pete KozmaThis will be a regular feature each week collecting the pertinent links for the minor league teams from their disparate sources.
Brian Walton has a lengthy post at the Globe-Democrat regarding Evan MacLane. MacLane is great for organizational depth but it’s unclear to me that he figures into any potential callups should the major league rotation suffer an injury. For Memphis, he’s a welcome stalwart of the rotation though.
At the bottom of the article, Walton notes the sad news of PJ Walters’ daughter passing away. A very sad situation to which I can’t fathom the tragedy and can only offer condolences to the family.
Kary Booher is back at the Springfield News-Leader after spending some time with Baseball America. He’s a top notch reporter and I’m thrilled to see him chronicling the S-Cards again. (Matt Baker, who was a good guy that I had the opportunity to meet, departed after covering the team last season.) Booher notes that Francisco Samuel is out for three weeks with shoulder pain. No reason to panic yet but if three weeks become four. . . well we’ve seen this injury progress in unfortunate ways before.
Booher: Can Daryl Jones breakout this year? Goodness, I hope so.
Booher: Kozma at AA and working with Pop Warner. We’ve seen several players in the past have real success at AA (Joe Mather, Jarrett Hoffpauir) and while some of that is park effects, the coaching staff at Springfield is the best in the system, imo.
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I agree about the coaching staff at Springfield. I got to meet all the players and coaches last night at the season ticket holder event. Mr. Martinez is one class person. I think he will do a good job with the kids. Andrew Brown told me he will be playing some third base this year as well as 1b and the outfield. With Curt Smith at 1b this makes since. Ryan Kulik is in the bullpen this year. Hill said he is doing nothing but catching and dh this year. I sure hope Kozma shows me something the year. I was not impress with the fielding and we all know about the fielding. The fact he was voted the best shortshop is the Texas League was a little misleading. There are only 8 teams and most of them player that had been around for awhile. I am also glad Booher is back. He is very good. Baker didn’t even make it through the season last year. Looking forward to the sixth season at Springfield. Home opener is the 15th. GO CARDINALS!!!
Well, Kozma was at Springfield last year so I’m not sure why he’d make great strides this year due to the coaching staf if he didn’t last year.
@cariocacardinal:
Kozma is still fairly young for AA and has been moved quickly through the system… a bit too quick IMO. I could see him making vast improvements in a second year at AA. Hopefully he has come in this year prepared to work on all his faults from last year.