Comments on: Cardinals Unsigned Picks

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:18:04 +0000

Doing some research on how the guys that didn’t sign are faring….

Aramis Garcia is hitting .278 with 5 hr’s and 28 RBI’s.

David Schmidht is a bullpen guy at Stanford 3-1 with about a 2.70 ERA. He gave up 6 runs in .1 inning. Without that performance he would be at 1.30 ERA.

Brett Graves is struggling some he’ 1-5 with about a 5 ERA.

Chris Kirsch- didn’t sign with the Cardinals as the money was too far apart again and he was disspointed he fell 8 rounds from the previous year. He committed to VCU but decided to stay at Lackawanna college. He’s lights out this year there 8-1 with 15k’s per 9 innings. 93 in 60 some innings. 12 starts and only 12 earned runs given up. If his stuff is up then I’m assuming he will be drafted much higher this year.

Chris Matulus- is still at UCF is 6-0 with a 3.23 era. He’s a 6-5 left handed pitcher and a SR so he may be a redraft by the Cardinals this year, as they wanted him before and can save money on him this year possibily.

Kevin Medrano is hitting .383 but has only walked 4 timse this year.

Justin Kamplin-is 1-4 with a 3.71 ERA and has struck out 46 hitters in 63 innings…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:54:57 +0000

Just found an article where we offered Garcia 350k. That’s a ton of money for a 20th round pick but he said the money just wasn’t there. He wanted mroe.

http://fiusm.com/2012/02/20/garcia-turns-down-350000-to-earn-a-starting-spot/

By: JC

JC — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:35:18 +0000

Cards signed Tilson (2nd Rdr) to $1.275M (roughly 2.5 times the recommended slot) per Callis. I estimated it would take at least twice the slot to get him signed so this is about what I was thinking.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:40:30 +0000

What areyou talking about he has very good speed, isn’t that a tool? He also has a good hit skill.

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:49:25 +0000

Tilson is high risk. Snow belt high school. Not toolsy. I’d rather get a compensation pick to try again next year.

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:21:36 +0000

I was just saying it was possible, because you said we couldn’t get compensation for declining the option. This is a situation we could no matter how unlikely. I hope we sign him to a couple year deal cuz he’d be good for shelby miller when he comes up.

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:37:50 +0000

If he was only a type B FA we might be able to do a wink agreement where he declines arbitration. As a type A it hurts his open market value so it wont happen.

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:35:42 +0000

Declining our final year of Carp’s contract is like getting a divorce. We are not going to turn around and offer him an engagement ring (a new contract). The player’s union would frown on such corporate misbehavior. We either will pay him what he we agreed to pay him for 2012 or he is free.

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:19:28 +0000

We are worrying about a 2nd round pick but most teams are still worrying about their top picks. Best i can tell 30 of the top 43 aren’t signed yet. We should be thankful we got Wong signed. Best I can tell, only 3 higher picks have signed.

By: Clark

Clark — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:59:22 +0000

Greg maddux is one who actually accepted it. Every year you have to offer type a or type b free agents to get the compensation picks for their decling, their is also the risk of them accepting and gettin a big pay raise. They can decline the option of carpenter and offer arbitration where he can accept and make a bunch for one year, or he can decline and maybe sign with another team and we get the picks.