As I recount my notes from the past week and scour the some 50 pictures I took over 3 days, I always find it prudent to let my notes sit for a bit before I make any hyperbolic statements. The trip to the Quad Cities was a lot of fun (and I owe a big thanks to my friend in that area for housing me for the weekend) despite the humidity.
After three days, these impressions are the epitome of small sample size on a results based measure. I try to look for skills that should be relevant after any sample size but I’m cognizant of the limitations here. Without further equivocating, here are my comments, both general and specific, regarding the Quad Cities River Bandits.
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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.
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After the jump, here’s as much information we could find about the very late round draftees by the Cardinals.
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- Nick Longmire has started off red hot for Batavia hitting .500. Alert the HPGF alarms!
- Erik will be substituting for me tomorrow night as I’m in the process of moving and will be without the life giving blood of an internet connection. I’m leaving work for all of you, so I expect you to behave and not shoot spitballs at him or put tacks on his chair.
DFR!
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As we work our way into day three, info becomes scare on some of these draftees — here’s what we’ve found.
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Memphis and Batavia get stomped. Quad Cities suffers and error-ridden loss. Springfield losses in extras.
But hey, Palm Beach squeaked out a win!
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We have a Shelby Miller sighting, albeit a brief one. We also have wet grounds in Nashville and a whole lotta offense by Springfield.
We also have this epic picture of Colby!
To the DFR!
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In case you missed it, College Splits has a glowing review for the Cardinals draft. They also gave us all sorts of nerdy split data to nerd around with. As with the college hitters, here’s a few advanced stats for college pitchers.
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