Eduardo Sanchez and Shelby Miller are the Cardinal players selected to this year’s Futures Game. My two gripes about the Futures game: I don’t like the World versus US format, and I don’t like how every team has to have two players in the WBC. It leads to some watered down teams and I think it would behoove the MLB to showcase the best overall prospects and not try to be fair to every team or represent several different countries.
Boxscores aggregated daily, XXL version with the Appy having their Opening Night tonight. Onward DFR! Feels good to be sharing the best of the boxscores again as I sub in for Jeff.
- Allen Craig went 3-4 with a double.
- Ruben Gotay went 4-4 with a double
- Evan McLane doubled and pitched a complete game. 10 hits, 6 ER, 2 BB, 4 K and *gah* 3 HR.
- DJ Tools, 3 AB, no hits, 2 K, 2BB. How good are his tools, really?
- Jose Garcia went 2-for-4 with a double
- The Kozmanaut went 1-3 with 2 walks and a stolen base
- Aaron Luna doubled and walked. Luna is walking in 14.6% of his plate appearances.
- Farmer Scott McGregor threw 7.2 innings, 2 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 5 K. 12 outs via ground, three via air. Not shabby for his Double-A debut. McGregor boasted a 58% groundball rate at Palm Beach, but only managed 16 K in 52 innings. On the positive he only walked 13.
- Eduardo Sanchez struck out one, allowed two hits and picked up his 11th save.
Palm Beach 0, Fort Myers 3 (Game 1)
I’m guessing this was finishing off a game that was previously started, as Mark Diapoules, who pitched last night for Springfield, has a line of 5 IP, 3 H, 0 BB, 4 K for this game. The only hits came from Charles Cutler, Alex Castellanos and Colt Sedbrook, all of which were singles.
Palm Beach 2, Fort Myers 0 (Game 2)
- Xavier Scruggs went 2-4 with two doubles and two strikeouts
- Jermaine Curtis and Rich “the Rock” Rocobaldo both went 2-4 with a double.
- Newly promoted Scott Schneider: 6 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 3 K
- Tyler Norrick struck out the side to end the game.
MWL West All Stars 2, MWL East All Stars 6
- D’Marcus Ingram singled and stole a base
- Audris Perez went 3-4 with a stolen base. Behind the plate he allowed 2 basestealers on three tries.
- Adam Melker went 2-4
- Jose Rada blew the save, allowing 2 ER on 2 H and a walk.
- $500,000 bonus baby Cesar Valera went 0-3 but drew two walks and scored. He played SS. Greg Garcia, one of my favorite draft picks went 0-5 and played 2b. Greg Garcia is considered to be a plus defensive shortstop, so I’m guessing this is a temporary move, but there’s no harm in him getting reps at other positions along the infield. I don’t if the same can be said about Valera’s defense, but he had a pretty ugly game as it pertains to errors tonight. He made two throwing errors and one fielding error. Two of the errors came in the same inning.
- Chris Edmondson went 2-3 with a HR and a walk.
- David Medina doubled.
- Hector Hernandez’s line: 4 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 2 HR. Hernandez was a 10th rounder out of Puerto Rico last year.
Things I’ve learned since I’ve last DFR’d: MiLB.com is getting worse, not better.
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I would be excited about Aaron Luna if I thought that he had any sort of future within the Cardinals organization as an outfielder.
But he doesn’t so I don’t.
Why didn’t they try him out at third, or try to make him play second as long as possible? I’ve always been under the impression that he was a decent enough athlete to stay in the infield as a pro.
Doesn’t make sense.
McGregor was really efficient throwing 72 pitches through 7 innings.
I believe that Valera was touted for his defense also so they will stick with him at SS as the team has more invested in him.
@Kazakhstanny Danny: I agree completely. Worse case scenario is that he loses some outfield development…which probably causes no harm. Luna is a very good athlete, he can hit and play small ball.
On the downside, what’s to be said about DJ Tools? Is his prospect status evaporating into the night? He’s not that young anymore, he’s repeating a level and not hitting terribly well. Where does he go from here?
Hope Hector Hernandez has a good season, seems like a nice little left handed pitching prospect.
Erik, I agree about MiLB.com. I don’t know how much money they’re getting from those Flash ads, but they’re ruining the site — it’s ugly, it’s annoying, and the functionality is pretty poor until you get used to the quirks.
@Lou Schuler: I agree as well. I actually use the wap.milb.com site – as dumb as it might seem, it’s the most direct way to get what I want. You can filter scores by affiliates – I’m not even sure you can do that on the regular page.
The great part about milb.com is once you get to the team you want to you can often listen to live games over the internet if they are bring broadcast. Nothing better on the Cardinals day off that switches between games in our Farm system.
Luna is not a lost cause. Sometimes, albeit rarely, players can become 2B in the majors
@riotmute:
forgive my ignorance. what does the “wap” do/mean?
@Tackle Box: It’s just their mobile site but like I said, all I want is stats & box scores and that link works the best for me