Comments on: Springfield Cardinals Hitters: August 13-15

By: rydeshelby

rydeshelby — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:13:04 +0000

The Springfield team has some good position players. Hill (now at Memphis), Kozma, Matt Carpenter, and Pham look on track to ascend to the majors. Luna is a possibility too.

By: Vision

Vision — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:30 +0000

Papa, it did appear that you were attacking. He never said this is gospel, it is his opinion, and you can choose to do with that what you will. Your comment wasn’t as abrasive to deserve the vitriol, most likely, but it wasn’t very cool either.

I’d say we’re all intelligent enough to know that seeing a player for two to three games isn’t going to make a career assessment on the whole, but you can easily get a feel for a player’s tools, and then project them moving forward. What happens from there involves a lot of hard work and circumstance for it to go right, or wrong.

I’d wager that half of our draft picks weren’t seen live and in person more than three times by scouts.

By: CARDS BASEBALL FAN

CARDS BASEBALL FAN — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:02:55 +0000

First, i would like to say that I thank you for taking of your time to go see the springfield players. We should all truly appreciate it. As a fan, i do want to say that I have been to Quad City games, Palm Beach games and Springfield and this is my personal opinion. I don’t diminimize players because one has 20 errors and another has 6. If you look at korma’s errors that player throws himself to stop as many balls as he can. If you don’t want errors then tell him to let the hard hit balls go as so many other infielders due day in and day out. They know if they don’t touch it they wont get hit with an error. I applaud korma for trying. i also aint dum, i know some are senseless errors but he is trying. He isn’t as bad. I remember how they complained about Niko in QC having 23 errors. Niko and the 3rd baseball there last year was always throwing themself’s to try to stop all the balls. There are alot of players you might not see as prospect but those unknow will one day surprise you as Carpenter has… I also remember all the complaints people had about Jon Jay not making it and there he is in the pro’s. Jay doesn’t have the arm but he’s helping the team. Jay of course didnt’ have errors but because of not having arm strength he would throw to cutoff. Im glad for Jay. I go for the underdogs.. Chambers, Scruggs,Kozma,carpenter, niko, castellanos, ingram,jackson, parejo, nieto, mulligan etc thanks for the info and keep them coming

By: Papa Joe

Papa Joe — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:09:39 +0000

a little touchy there Aaron? Just asked a simple question and made a simple statement. He could have said 4 or 40. How would I know? Not bagging on Azruavatar or his judgement. As a matter of fact, in my two sentence response, i didn’t agree or disagree. He commented on what he saw. Interesting read. May I suggest a few more cups of coffee before 8:50?

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:36:45 +0000

I’m by no means a trained scout but those guys are asked to make judgments on players based on a couple of games all the time.

These are my impressions. You’re entitled not to like them just as much as I’m entitled to pen them.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:50:34 +0000

Are you kidding me? Really? The guy goes to the trouble of making the trip, taking notes and pictures, and then writing it all up for the benefit of the public at large — all for absolutely no pay, I might add — and you’re going to post this kind of crap? How about you save yourself the time it takes to type and the rest of us the time it takes to read and just go away. Or, better yet, go see every game Springfield plays and then give us your brilliant scouting report.

By: riotmute

riotmute — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:54:31 +0000

I’m not sure what they are going to do with Daryl Jones. The guy flat out doesn’t deserve a promotion to Memphis and are they really going to give him another year at double-A? Kozma at least shows glimpses of being major league serviceable and I am happy to hear Carpenter impressed. I think he needs to be given a spring training invite – he’s not young and should be considered

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:12:49 +0000

Not convinced he’s hit well enough to deserve a promotion, tbh. I think he should start next year at Springfield again.

Tyler Greene, at least pre-injury, was really looking like he’d started to put his talent together at the age of 25/26 this year (or whatever he is) after a LONG MiLB careeer. I’d personally given up on him but it looks like he can be a useful utility/backup guy, and possibly even a RH platoon mate for Skip/DD at 2B going forward. Hopefully Kozma can do the same thing as time goes on. Not sure he’s ever going to be a starter, though.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:08:11 +0000

That would be Olerkrud, wouldn’t it?

By: Papa Joe

Papa Joe — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:40:35 +0000

How many games have you seen these guys play this season? Not sure how you can make a career assessment over a snapshot.