Comments on: 2011 Baseball America Cardinals Top 10

By: easy

easy — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:52:29 +0000

It was just a blurb in the transaction section of my local (Mpls.) sports page that he, some other minor leaguers, and Snell and Batista had “come to terms”. In the case of Derba and the other minor leaguers I assume that it was a routine procedure that for some reason was announced to the press.

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:10:14 +0000

Not sure what you mean by coming to terms with Derba. He is under team minor league control. Normally no contract negotiating at that point. Can you explain?

By: Hungry Jack

Hungry Jack — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:43:37 +0000

Yeah, Strauss is the Geraldo Rivera of Cardinal beat reporting. Just awful.

By: easy

easy — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:47:26 +0000

I noticed that they just came to terms with Derba. This puts Cruz in a whole new light. Derba was considered to be defensively almost major league ready when he was drafted. I’ll be following Castillo this year.

By: Forsch31

Forsch31 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:01:29 +0000

Yeah. I think about the only thing that came out of it was that it continued to screw with Ottavino’s development.

Goold is mentioning something that happened two years ago and was reported on at the time. Obviously, it isn’t common knowledge unless you follow the Cardinals, but then again, what you read there was a free introduction to the top 10, not an in-depth review of the past several years of the Cardinals’ farm system.

By: Forsch31

Forsch31 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:56:54 +0000

The other thing that Lynn has is that he’s playing in a higher level of competition (AAA) than Taveras. He had a bad year with a strong finish in his first full season in Memphis, after jumping three levels the season before. Taveras had a great short season in Johnson City, but that’s Rookie League, and while there’s a lot to be excited about, some may want to see what he does at Quad Cities, playing a full season against better competition.

By: Forsch31

Forsch31 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:45:17 +0000

We’ve heard it before, but not from Goold. It’s usually Strauss who pushes the “This is significant!” button way too much. Of the Post-Dispatch’s reporters, Goold is more in tune with the Cardinals’ farm system than most people, so I trust he can recognize when the people heading up the development of prospects has changed significantly enough to change the philosophy.

And I don’t see anything in Goold’s write-up that says the moves are a “definitive cure.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:47:31 +0000

May be a little off topic but wasn’t Marty Mason the guy that dealt with mechanical problems while Duncan was the game planner.

By: Lou Schuler

Lou Schuler — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:38:30 +0000

Wasn’t that the year they emphasized “classic mechanics,” or something like that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:25:01 +0000

He may be the player that Luhnow mentioned on an audio interview with a Batavia beat writer. When everyone wanted to talk abotu Aubry Perez, he was talking about Castillo.