Kyle Lohse will be making his next rehab start somewhere on Tuesday with some minor league team that is working at home, but Springfield is off and Memphis is in Reno again tomorrow. The next highest level is Palm Beach which is home against Bradenton tomorrow. My best guess for where we will “see” Kyle Lohse tomorrow will be in Palm Beach.
I guess you will have to tune in to the DFR tomorrow to find out!
UPDATE: Lohse is travelling to Reno to pitch for Memphis. So much for that theory.
The Memphis game gets a (late) tag you used to see in those old-timey things called newspapers and I’ll update it in the morning. is updated.
UPDATE: Also, Tyrell Jenkins will report to Johnson City late this week or early next week as he will be signed at Busch Stadium on Friday.
DFR, ho!
- Lance Lynn is on the bump for the Redbirds and gave up 1 run in 6 innings.
- Eduardo Sanchez pitched a shutout inning.
- Bryan Anderson was 2-4 with a 2 run HR.
- Dan Descalso was 3-5.
- Ruben Gotay had a 2-4 night with 2 walks.
- I await your ideas about what the heck is going on in the Tulsa logo.
Is the baseball player pregnant with a baseball? I don’t get it. - Arquimedes blinded me with science! – 6 IP, 8 Ks, 2 walks, 3 hits, 2 runs (1 earned)
- Tom Eager and Scott McGregor blew a 8th inning lead for the S-birds.
- Andrew Brown the first had a single and a solo shot.
- Steven Hill had a two run HR.
- Matt Carpenter (anyone heard of him? It’s almost like no one has been talking about him the last few weeks) was 2-3 with a walk.
- Tommy Pham doubled and walked.
- Deryk Hooker is still getting adjusted to Palm Beach, but he did K 6 and walk 2 only allowing 2 ER in 5 innings.
- Casey Mulligan got the save with an inning of all zeroes.
- Niko was 2-3 with a double and a walk.
- D’marc had a solo shot.
- Ryan Jackson had a double in a 1-4 effort.
- Jorge Rondon ho-hummed through 4.1 innings with a 3 runs, 3 Ks, 3 walks.
- Daniel Calhoun had 3 Ks to 0 BB in 2.2 1 run innings.
- Aaron Terry got the save and Chris the Notti with the hold.
- Luis Mateo was 2-5 with a solo HR.
- Colin Walsh went for 3-5 with a 3-bagger.
Batavia’s game vs. Vermont was cancelled.
- Patrick Daugherty pitched the first 4 innings allowing 3 runs on 6 hits.
- Aidan Lucas got the win pitching the last 2 no-hit innings with 1 K.
- Oscar Taveras had himself a 3-5 night with 2 doubles and a grand slam HR with 5 RBIs. The slam tied the game and one of his doubles untied it.
- Kleininger Teran had a solo shot.
- Steven Virgil Hill had a double and 2 walks.
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The man is an oiler and is “drilling” through the baseball. Tulsa used to be the oil capitol of the world back in the day before Houston found oil.
The Cardinals have only one Steven Hill, the guy hitting the home runs for Springfield. The Johnson City Hill is named Virgil. As for Carpenter, I’ve been skeptical of him because of his age and lowly position in the draft, but he’s been hitting for power and speed and even stealing bases in Double A for some time now, and I believe he’s also a decent fielder. Given the Cardinals present hole at third base and apparent inability to pick up a replacement for Freese via waivers, I think they should give Gotay a shot at the majors and promote Carpenter to Memphis. If he continues to shine in Triple A, promote him to St. Louis in September. Maybe he can be a Freese-type player who can actually stay healthy. Freese was a late bloomer also, even if nipped in the bud.
I agree about Gotay. Check out his OPS (AND Solano’s) for the last 10 games. I realize 10 games is an incredibly small sample but I could see either of both guys in the mix as utility IF next season. I was also encouraged by Lynn’s game. Hopefully by next year he can be a 4/5 candidate.
Lohse is going to pitch in Reno for Memphis. He felt the competition was worth the travel instead of pitching against high A ball. Here is the link from the St. Louis Post Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/article_54275c46-a22f-537f-a2f8-7358030a86a1.html
You gotta love the power Oscar Taveras is showing. Would like to see more walks, but that will come with experience. He’ll be exciting to watch develop.
The only reservations I have about Taveras concern his extreme splits: 1.342 OPS at home vs. .785 on the road. JC is just a great park for hitters, and lefties especially seem to thrive there.
He also struggles against lefties: .652 OPS (despite a .414 BABIP) vs. 1.127 against righties. He strikes out in more than a third of his PA vs. lefties.
Still, we’re talking about tiny sample sizes here, and I’m sure the relevant people in the Cards’ org are well aware of his struggles against lefties and will work with him on that.
The reason I’m excited about Taveras isn’t just his stats but what Luhnow say about him. Says he has the highest ceiling in our farm system. This is as he is discussing other very good prospects. Not only that it is the genuine excitement i hear in his voice when he talks about him. The numbers are great but its even better tha people in our system really believe in him. Plus he only recently turned 18.
Agreed on Taveras, both Hill’s are very good prospects and completely different. Steven it a big guy that just mashs while Virgil is a tool shed with speed being he best assest. Virgil has 2 Olypmic athlete parents.
Re: Steven Hill. Color me unexcited (personally) in a 25-year old converted catcher, repeating double-A (in fact, he first came up to Springfield in 2008 for 100 PAs or so, so this is his 3rd year there), who’s hitting for a bit of power. He has no real position to play, and, given his age and experience at AA, likely very little ceiling left. Best case scenario is that he turns into Nick Stavinoha with slightly more of a TTO profile. Meh.
Cut him a little bit of a break. He started late (played college ball) and has hit everywhere he’s played. It’s the defensive issues that have been holding him back, not to mention that he’s been blocked at the minor-league level because the other minor-league Stavvy clones have themselves been blocked.
Best case for Hill is not so much another Stavvy, but rather Daric Barton Lite — or maybe not even Lite. He does have greater prospects of being at least a fill-in catcher than Barton turned out to have. This may make him useful trade bait, if nothing else.
I see Hill having more power than Barton.
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Suffice to say, the comp is a bizarre one (Barton & Hill), as Barton’s a lefty line-drive hitter with great patience, and Hill’s more a righty power guy. Hill’s never walked >10% clip at any level of the minors (except 30-odd PAs at Batavia) and Barton’s consistently walked at a >15% rate at pretty much every stop.
Barton is the SAME AGE as Hill and has a higher OBP this year in the MAJORS than Hill does in AA. Hill might hit for a bit of power but he’s an old-for-his-level guy with no other real tools. Those sort of guys are dime-a-dozen in most minor league systems. Ergo, he has no value in a trade, and he has no value to this club either as the positions he could handle (1B, maybe LF) are kinda occupied for the foreseeable future. He’s nice minor league filler and it’s nice to see him doing well but he’s not a prospect in any real sense.
Virgil Hill
http://baseballbeginnings.com/2010/02/21/virgil-hill-interview/#more-4247
I looked at the stats to see what Hill was up to at this point… found that Springfield has 4 guys in double digits for HR.
Steven Hill – 22
Andrew Brown – 16
Aaron Luna – 13
Matt Carpenter – 10
On People as Small Farm Structures:
A young shapely woman is a brick S-house, and a young athletic man is a toolshed. I propose that a slow but valuable baseball player–e.g., Yadier Molina–is a corn bin.
I’m not too impressed with S. Hill either.
He’s not “big”. I’d say “stubby” is a more apt physical description.
Is Tavares a top 10 prospect going into next season?
Jenkins is all but signed….you’re next Austin Wilson:)
More on this in a few minutes . . .
You would have to assume that if/when the Cardinals signed Zack Cox, Austin Wilson, Tyrell Jenkins, Matthew Swagerty, Seth Blair (already signed) and Carlos Matias that they would all join Shelby Miller in the Cardinals top 10 Prospects, am I right? The question then becomes who fills out the last 3 spots.
Here is my wish list top 10:
1. Shelby Miller
2. Austin Wilson
3. Zack Cox
4. Carlos Matias
5. Oscar Tavares
6. Tyrell Jenkins
7. Seth Blair
8. Eduardo Sanchez
9. Matthew Swagerty
10. Descalso/ Stanley/ Longmire/ Carpenter
This just shows you how depleted our farm system was after rescent trades and with Daryl Jones, Lance Lynn, and Pete Kozma having down years. On top of that, Jamie Garcia, Allen Craig, Jon Jay, and David Freese have all graduated to the majors. Either way you would have to agree that the Cardinals front office and Luhnow have done a nice job re-stocking our farm system.
I think you’re right on with your top 10. If you held a gun to my held though, I’d probably take Swagerty off, move M. Carpenter to his spot at 9, and put Stanley at 10. But I wouldn’t dislike Longmire in that spot either.
Cody Stanley 2010:
166 PAs in rookie ball as a 21-year-old out of college, .908 OPS.
Robert Stock 2009:
165 PAs in rookie ball as a 19-year-old out of college, .938 OPS. With a second fallback option as a pitcher.
It’s a little early to be getting excited about Stanley, don’t you think? He’s probably facing worse pitchers in JC than he was last year in college. I’m not convinced he’s even top 20 in this system tbh.
Agree with you about Swaggerty, though.
Was at the Quad Cities game in Peoria last night. Doesn’t appear to much talent there at the moment. Earlier in the year, I saw Niko, Jackson, and Stidham (who is on the DL) in the infield – last night it was Mateo, Obregon, and Walsh. And Swinson (who really impressed me earlier in the year) is on the DL. Yet somehow QC keeps winning, with a 25-16 second-half record. I suppose it’s good pitching, though Rondon was not at his best last night, and timely hitting. That was the secret last night. The savior was Calhoun who pitched really well – the 1 run he was charged with scored after he left the game – though I’m not sure he has enough pure stuff to be a prospect. And Calhoun turns 24 in early September.
CR – you need to elaborate because the facts known to those who didnt see the game would not support that Niko, Jackson, and Stidham are any more of prospects than the Mateo, Obregon, and Walsh. The latter 3 are actually doing very well considering each is only 20 y.o. (young for the league). Add to that that the night I believe you saw them they got 6 hits among them and I’m curious why you are so down on them.
cc – you’re right to an extent. I am going somewhat on draft position and perceived potential and all my comments are based on a very small sample. But I will say Jackson didn’t impress me as a hitter when I saw him earlier – a real punch-and-judy type. Walsh and Obregon strike me as pretty much the same. Relatively few of the weak-hitting types make the majors unless they play exceptional defense, which was the basis for the Cards drafting Jackson (though I still see him as a long shot). Mateo might be a different matter. He appears to have a little pop in his bat, though I haven’t seen enough to judge him defensively. Besides that, nothing really stood out to me offensively. in the earlier game I saw, Niko had more pop in his bat and Stidham just has a great line-drive swing. Sorry it took so long for me to get back to answer your comment.
thanks
Chris Notti, a reliever for QC, has pitched 16 consective innings without giving up a run now. His ERA is still above 4.00, but an impressive streak none the less.
steven hill called up to replace larue