Comments on: Draft Prospects Visiting Busch Stadium

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:33:51 +0000

I agree players are largely known. Adams got tryouts from other teams, including the Yankees. Chambers was a 39th round pick, but there was a video of him at MLB’s draft central.
Nonetheless, its fine with me if the Cards do not reveal anything to Goold to leak all over the Web. Its hard to see an upside to revealing anything about amateurs you are giving tryouts to. This may entertain fans for pre-draft publicity, but its hard to see how this helps the business of signing talent.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:44:16 +0000

Each team has it’s own scouts and tryouts. It’s not like becasue we try someone out another team will all of a suddent learn about them. Most players are pretty much well known. If there was a guy they wanted to hide I’m sure they would.

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:33:11 +0000

We ending up selecting 5 of the 13 revealed by Goold as try outs.

Matt Adams and Adron Chambers went to regional tryout camps.

I hope the Cards become quieter about who attends their tryouts. Or, invite a few guys you are not interested in, so as to mislead other teams.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:56:07 +0000

Any idea on who we are trying out this year or if it’s even happened yet?

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:29:06 +0000

If Taveras gets healthy and puts up a near-.400 wOBA in Quad Cities/Palm Beach the rest of the way, as a 19 year-old, I’m pretty sure he vaults way ahead of Cox and every other prospect not named Miller (or maybe Martinez) in our system.

Of course, that’s a big “if”.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:25:48 +0000

Also – Hamilton has a .507 OBP in AAA. He makes an out less than half the time, this year! Pretty amazing even in only 71 PAs.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:24 +0000

Hamilton has a wRC+ of 169 in Memphis this year, 144 last year. That said, he’s 27 and therefore pretty much a non-prospect in my opinion.

Adams has a wRC+ of 148 this year. He’s got better numbers than Hamilton but, relative to his league, has not hit as well.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:20:39 +0000

I have a sneaky suspicion Taveras won’t be on everyone’s top 100 lists this year. He’d certainly be on mine (not that I know enough about the rest of baseball to have a top 100…) but I just get the feeling his relatively unknown status before this year might make him a little under-rated nationally.

Hard to see Cox, Martinez and Miller missing out, though.

Obviously you and I disagree on Adams, as we’ve already established – I think I have him in the 12-15 range. It’ll be interesting to see whether he gets any props nationally if he keeps hitting like he has done so far.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:14:13 +0000

I personally find it hard to believe that ANYONE in this draft would be likely to overtake Matt Adams as our #1 prospect when all’s said and done.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:02:15 +0000

I wouldn’t say Castlellanos struggled last year at Palm Beach. He hit .270 but had 55 extra base hits. 35 doubles, 7 triples and 13 hr’s. Those are really impressive numbers actually.