The system goes 3 and 1 on the day; Palm Beach wins for the seventh time in its past nine contests by shutting out Fort Myers thanks to a strong outing by Chris Corrigan. Steven Hill makes a triumphant return from the disabled list. Ryan Jackson continues to give us hope in his bat. Oscar Taveras flashes some skill in the outfield despite entering late in the game. Details after the jump…
- Steven Hill played 1B; he was 2-for-4 with a double and home run.
- Ryan Jackson was 2-for-3 with a walk; one of his hits was a double.
- Adron Chambers added a double of his own in the 9th inning and then scored the winning run on a single by Eugenio Velez.
- Jermaine Curtis was 1-for-2 with a pair of walks.
- Matt Adams and Zack Cox had pinch hit appearances. Adams walked and Cox grounded into a double play.
- Brian Broderick permitted a lot of base runners and it hurt him. He walked 3 batters and allowed 7 hits in 5 innings pitched, resulting in 6 runs (5 ER). He had 4 strike outs.
- Barret Browning pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief that included 1 hit, 1 walk, and 1 strike out.
- Adam Reifer gave up 1 hit in the 8th inning while Nick Greenwood gave up 1 hit and recorded 1 strike out in the 9th.
- Xavier Scruggs went 1-for-4 with a home run.
- Audry Perez had a home run and single in 4 plate appearances.
- Kolten Wong reached base twice with a single and a walk.
- Greg Garcia and Chris Swauger both had singles.
- Jose Garcia, Kyle Conley, and Jake Shaffer each had a walk. Garcia stole his 3rd base of the season.
- Oscar Taveras entered the game late as a pinch hitter but made his presence known by throwing a runner out at home in the 9th inning to keep Springfield within 1 run. He grounded out to shortstop in his first plate appearance and then flew out to left to end the game.
- John Gast limited the damage in 6 innings. He allowed 3 runs (2 ER) on 5 hits, 4 walks, and 3 strikeouts. 9 of the 12 outs that he recorded on balls in play were grounders.
- Jesse Simpson pitched 0.2 innings. He struck out one batter, walked another, and also surrendered a solo home run.
- Jorge Rondon struck out the first 3 hitters he faced in 1.1 innings.
- Eric Fornataro escaped his inning without giving up a run despite allowing 3 hits. He had 1 strikeout.
- Chris Edmonson was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.
- Ronny Gil was 2-for-2 with a double and a walk.
- Travis Tartamella also had a double in four plate appearances at catcher.
- Geoff Klein and Mike O’Neill had a hit and walk a piece.
- Vance Albitz was 1-for-2 with 2 of the RBIs.
- Chris Corrigan limited his opposition to 1 hit and 1 walk in 6 shutout innings; he struck out 4 hitters and twice as many ground ball outs (8) as fly outs (4).
- Zach Russell had a scoreless frame despite loading the bases with 1 hit and 2 walks.
- Ricky Martinez also allowed 1 hit and 1 walk. He also would have been charged with a run if not for Alan Ahmady who threw out a runner at home plate to end the 8th inning.
- Logan Billbrough walked 2 hitters in the final frame.
- Luis Mateo was 2-for-4 with two singles. He stole his 6th base of the season but was also caught for the first time.
- Colin Walsh, Juan Castillo, and Tyler Rahmatulla all had 1 double; Walsh also walked once.
- Anthony Garcia walked twice.
- Nick Martini walked once and stole his 3rd base of the season.
- Todd McInnis had an underwhelming start that lasted 4.1 innings. He gave up 1 run (0 ER) on 5 hits, 2 walks, and 0 strikeouts.
- Ethan Cole had a strong outing that included 3 strikeouts in 2.2 innings; he only allowed 1 hit.
- Danny Miranda allowed 1 hit and 1 walk in his scoreless inning.
- Heath Wyatt notched the save with a perfect 9th inning.
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look at the show colin walsh is putting on; in 103 PAs, he has 25 hits. 16 for extra bases (7 doubles, 3 triples, and 6 HR). he’s slugging .644 in this small sample size. he’s also walking at a good rate – 16 in those 103 PAs, good for a 13% walk rate, which is consistent with (even a step down from) his prior walk rates, prior to this monster power year (16.7% in 2010, 15.5% in 2011).
He’s 22. I guess I’d be a little more excited if he were doing this in high A or AA… or he’d shown some of this power in previous years.
Fair enough. He’s not ancient for QC, but he’s not young either.
His tour there last year was only about half a season long. Why so short? Injury, or something else?
It seems like a good deal of the QC roster is a bit older than it has been in the past. Is this depth? Guys that were/are marginal but have been held up maybe a year or 2 because of better prospects ahead of them? or have I not been paying as much attention and it always is until around draft time?
I find it odd too since, I’m pretty sure, a lot of these guys played at either Batavia or Johnson City last year. I was assuming they were more in line with the teams Quad Cities usually has in terms of age.
Then again, maybe they’re all just about right for the league and we just perceive that as being old since we’re used to having guys that are younger than the league.
According to B-P, QC currently has the second oldest roster in the Midwest League. It’s not far on the wrong side of average — 21.9 vs. 21.5 — but it’s still on the wrong side. (Milwaukee’s A team is older, if anyone is interested.)
IT doesn’t help that we didn’t draft a single HS pitcher last year.
Jackson is putting together a quite, but really good season. An Average above .300 and obp north of .360.
Mo trading with grade
1) Edmonds for Freese A+
Enough said Playoff hero. Even though Jim is one of my favorite cardinals
2) Alex Castellanos for Rafael Furcal A
Alex was blocked, Furcal gave us the defense we needed ; bonus with his bat and speed.
3) Colby for czep, dotel, and Jackson A+ short term I long term
World championship! Colby’s future not sure, great talent weak mind plus we get 2 top draft picks as well.
4) Wallace etc. for Holiday A
Brett is in AAA for a rebuilding team with the guy who drafted him.
5) Perez for DeRosa F
Clev closer for bad finger and draft choice
6) David Carpenter to Houston for Pedro Feliz D
Carp in Houston pen Feliz still looking for his first hit.
7) Scott Rolen for Troy Glaus C
Each team got one good year.
8) Mark Worrell and Luke Gregerson for Khalil Greene F-
Love Gregerson and Khail had breakdown
I am sure there are others like the Reyes.
Question who was the draft pick for DeRosa?
asked and answered
Seth Blair was pick for DeRosa
That doesn’t make it any better…….yet.
Quick question: Are you counting everything Holliday has done since the trade? Or just the half-season we traded for that resulted in the Dodger Stadium nutshot?
If you are only counting the half-season, you would almost have to include Cox as part of the haul, because the Cardinals seemed hellbent on sighing Holliday anyway and they would have had to surrender the first round pick that turned into Cox as compensation right?
I based my grading on what the player has done with the cards.holiday in 4 th season with us. Cox was our regular draft choice. You do not know if the cards would have signed him if he did not play 1/2 a season with us. same situation for westbrook,furcal
You’re right we don’t know if we would’ve signed Holliday, the only reason I treated him differently than Furcal or Westrook, is that A) Tony openly pined for him and B) they were willing to make him the highest paid free agent that offseason and the highest paid Cardinal of all time. That is still in the realm of the hypothetical though.
And I know Cox was our regular pick, but had we signed Holliday as a Type A free agent wouldn’t we have lost the pick that turned into Cox?
5) Seth Blair, so its still incomplete, though it looks like Seth Blair isn’t going to provide much.
Also, I would give him a B for actually getting a pretty decent prospect out of Brendan Ryan.
Westbrooke for Ludwick was a nice move as well.
The Matt Holiday trade: A
forgot about westbrook/ludwick. also got Greenwood in the deal as well. agree with B
That was better than a B. As so often, we got Luddy’s career year. He hasn’t been the same hitter since the trade.
As for Perez/The Rose, keep in mind that Perez may be Cleveland’s closer, but he hasn’t exactly set the world on fire there. I got to see him last week in Cleveland (wife and I are touring all 30 MLB parks). I’d rather have Motte.
Remember all the fans who whine and complained about “Clueless MO”?
I know it is early but it is friday and slow. looking at what we can trade and for who?
I emlinate Miller,Wong,Martinez,Jenkins and Oscar from any trade outside of Kemp,strasburg etc.
trade Jackson,Adams and Rosey for the Cubs Castro
I’m curious about Castro’s future. Is he a shortstop going forward? Or is his “errors” more a product of getting to more balls than the typical shortstop? Because, he gets a ton of errors.
Great range strong arm Mental laspes . I think if he worked with Jose O. might solve problem. boy can he hit.
Tons a talent. But the mention of Jose O. made me think of another Jose O in a similar situation…Jose Offerman.
Notes from Springfield 5/3:
Wong appears very locked in at the plate. His hit was a crisp single the other way. Good plate discipline all night. There have been a number of questions floating around related to the quality of his defense. While Springfield’s D was atrocious on the whole last night, Wong made all the plays hit to him and additionally made a great play up the middle, ranging to the 3B side of second and almost got a speedy runner at first. There was no way I thought he’d even get to that ball, let alone almost throw the runner out.
Disappointed that Taveras only played a few innings, but the throw gunning down the runner at home was a missle. Apart from that great throw, I’d say he looks ‘toolsy’ in center, but not ‘comfortable.’ Hopefully that will come with more experience. Perez did a terrific job blocking the plate, not sure the runner ever touched home plate.
Gast was all over the place. For both sides it was an erratic, but generally big, strike zone (especially on low pitches) and he still had trouble. A couple of Cards hitters were rung up on pitches literally at their shoetops. If my memory is correct, the punchouts of Scruggs and Perez were the worst calls of the night. Gast touched 96 (on the Springfield gun), sat 91-92. Good range of velocity, as several offspead offerings were 79-83. Officially picked off one runner, but actually picked off two (Scruggs misplayed the other potential PO).
Perez’s ‘single’ was actually a double off the centerfield wall that he was admiring (thinking it was gone) and got thrown out at second. Not pretty.
Fornataro wasn’t nearly as bad as his line would suggest. I wasn’t sure we were ever going to convert a third out in the ninth defensively. He sat mid-nineties on the stadium gun.
Thanks Good report
Why would we have surrendered a draft pick that turned out to be Cox if we had not signed Holliday? we would have received at least one extra pick had we not signed him.
you are right. do not know what ebo meant?
To clarify I meant that if we had signed Holliday as Type A free agent from another team we would have lost the pick that turned into Cox.
I was essentially saying an added bonus of the Holliday trade was having the luxury of re-signing him as one or our free agents and not having to pay the penalty that goes with signing a player on the open market.
you are right if we did not trade for Holiday and signed him we would lost a draft pick. then we would still have Wallace,peterson,moertenson and holiday The fact is Tony wanted a lot did not always get it.
Good to see Jackson having a good season offensively so far. If he can hit consistently because he is a really good defender at SS he will get a starting knod.