This just in: guy who rips the company he works for and questions their company’s strength in certain areas is let go by said company. Nothing really to see here, except that Joe Strauss tries to make him in some sort of martyr.
On the other side of the Force, Derrick Goold takes an in depth look at the Cardinals upcoming 40 man roster crunch for the Cardinals. The Rule 5 draft should be a interesting day for the Cardinals farm system.
Surprise Rafters 6, Scottsdale Scorpions 4
- Tony Cruz was at catcher today, going 1 for 4 with an RBI.
- Pete Kozma was playing shortstop. He was on base twice, once with a walk and once he reached on error. One time on base he was picked off and the other time he was caught stealing 2nd. He had a 0-3 day at the plate.
- Jordan Swagerty pitched 1.1 innings, giving up 2 hits and no runs. He struck out 1.
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Kinda looks like Koz is playing his way out of consideration for the 40-man, doesn’t it? There figure to be some slots open (Goold’s article is hard to follow on that), what with Feliz, Winn, Stavinoha, probably Suppan and Miles, and maybe Walters and Jones, or even more, not getting re-upped. However, the team will want to use those slots on someone who is actually useful — and Kozma’s case for fitting that description is getting pretty tenuous.
At least now we know who was feeding Strauss all those quotes about the general lousiness of the Cards’ minor-league system. It must be awful for the Cardinals coaches, having to actually coach young players. I’ll bet that’s never happened before in the entire history of baseball.
Now Mason is free to work for an organization where every single player who comes up from AAA is a tobacco-chewing veteran with pinpoint control who never, ever needs coaching, because it’s absolutely absurd to think that there’s any adjustment required when you make the transition to facing major-league hitters in front of 40,000 paying customers.
Nice…cracked me up.
I love a good pessimistic rant on a Tuesday.
Strong work Lou. Keep it up.
I guess what I found to be puzzling about Mason apparently being a voice of discontent about what the farm system has been producing is that over the last few years McClellan, Motte and Boggs have been good to very good products of the farm system and relief pitchers seem to be one the strengths/deepest areas of the system.
Also if he had seen the value in guys like Perez and Gregorson and/or assisted in their development we would have kept one guy that is closing and another in line to close, instead of all the bad guys bought up to his bullpen that he apparently doesn’t like.
Maybe he was ragging on Pagnozzi, Anderson and Hill, not the pitchers (my intended joke).
maybe he thought they should get more opportunity
bottom line, is we’ll win 20 more games next year w/o marty holding us back
Agree with Indiana. The one thing the Cardinals farm system now seems adept at doing is producing relievers. So much so that they tossed aside for little return guys like Garcia, Todd, Gregerson, and Perdomo. Now if Marty was ragging on our system about cranking out middle infielders or power hitting corner outfielders who can truly field the position, then I might agree with the complaint. Our bullpen depth looks pretty solid right now. Young guns in the MLB pen with Salas and Sanchez MLB ready, plus some nice relief arms down at AA.
Was Stephen Hill in the Arizona league last fall?
Whoa…they fired Marty Mason? I just always assumed that he was the heir to the Cardinals pitching coach position. I am actually kinda shocked.