Establishing a starting pitcher appears to be well under way with Jaime Garcia. The minors has produced a handful of players the Cardinals have considered for the hot corner in David Freese, Joe Mather and Allen Craig with the former apparently winning the position. So what’s the next need that will arise? It’s almost certainly right field.
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The system went 2-1 today with a loss to the hated Iowa Cubs and turncoat Mike Parisi, Springfield offense having a … well, spring field day and QC winning a pitchers duel.
Don’t forget to check out fewgoodcards MLB draft pitcher preview below.
Daddy mac will make ya…
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Jameson TaillonHere’s a quick run down on the top pitchers in the draft and how I would rank them right now. I went through the top 20 which would definitely cover the Cardinals’ first round pick, and I think has a pretty good chance of covering the sandwich picks as well. Of course these things are really fluid especially at this time of the year, but this gives you an idea of what is out there and maybe you can find some favorites to follow going forward.
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Shelby Miller sighting! Jon Jay continues a torrid start and Blake King shows some improved command.
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A nice showing for the farm system tonight as they go 3-1. Jon Jay looks to be off to a nice start in Memphis and Gary Daley sends his regards to danup in Tokyo.
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A 5 hour game for Memphis is the only win for the farm system . . . but it’s almost like they won 2 games.
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It was Opening Day for the minor league teams, so lets get to it!
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All the minor league rosters after the jump.
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This 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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Thursday is opening day for the full season minor league teams.
Quad Cities @ Burlington
Palm Beach @ Charlotte
Springfield @ Frisco
Memphis @ Omaha
Short season clubs open in June.
Johnson City vs. Kingsport
Batavia @ Auburn
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