HEY MY FUTURE REDBIRDERS……….GUESS WHO GOT PROMOTED TO QUAD CITIES?……….YA, IT’S YOUR FRIDAY NIGHT DFR!!!!!!
Archive for May, 201016-11 Third Place in MID Western Division of the Midwestern League. As the Cardinals get the heck out of Philadelphia and head to Pittsburgh, I pose this question to the class: Looking at the two teams current MLB roster and mid-to-upper minor leagues, who will be the better team (outside of free agency) over the next 6 years? Will it be the Cardinals with a core of Rasmus, Garcia, Wainwright, Freese and Molina or Pittsburgh with a core of Tabata, McCutchen, Jones, Alvarez, etc? There are no wrong answers here, atleast unless one of you has a crystal ball. On to the DFR! A good organization can fill the holes it needs with cheap, young talent when large contracts to only a handful of players are gobbling up all your resources (**cough**Kyle Lohse**cough**Matt Holliday**cough**). The Cardinals have been able to fill most of their pen with young talent, as well as 4 position players and 1/5th of their rotation. This will go a long way to staying in the Pujols sweepstakes this offseason. Speaking of running an organization, The White Rat used to be the head of SPECTRE, FYI!
On to the DFR…. Standings: 16-9, leads the FSL South division 13-12 Second Place in TEX North Division of the Texas League. John Sickels has a mock draft up for the first round with the Cardinals #25 overall pick taking 3B Nick Castellanos out of high school. With the plethora of early picks (3 in the top 50), the Cardinals may chase a high schooler early on but Castellanos doesn’t fit the bill imo. Sickels also has a mock of the supplemental with the Cardinals taking RHP Barret Loux out of Texas A & M 26th overall and SS Tony Wolters out of high school with the 50th. Loux makes sense but again, I’m not sure that Wolters who is more of a polish player than raw athlete fits the bill as the appropriate type of high school pick early on. Project Prospect has a pretty glowing review of Shelby Miller considering how aw he is as a pitcher. Brian Walton adds 4 more position prospects to watch. Matt Adams was on the previous week and was solely a funciton of being ranked on the Scout.com top 40. Why he’s ranked above Andrew Brown (who is basically Matt Adams but two levels higher) is beyond me. There’s too much focus on these supposed high potential bats in the low part of the system. The offensive profile for a first baseman is extremely high and very few of these guys actually make it. If you want to follow a defensively challenged power bat, follow Steve Hill. These bad-bodied first base types in the low minors are getting way to much hype. Marlon Morgan of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal has a piece on former Redbird Mike Parisi. Morgan also has an article talking to the diminutive (by baseball standards) AAA two-bagger, Daniel Descalso. Getting back late from an Angels and Airwaves concert. You know you are getting old when getting home at 11:30 on a school night is terribly late. So without further adieu let’s hit the DFR -> Standings: 9 – 13, 7 games back Quad Cities was on MLB network this afternoon, so head to the post below for AZ’s reactions from the game. On to the DFR as the non-televised teams all won. |
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