Comments on: Round 14 Pick 450: Anthony Melchionda, SS

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:24:04 +0000

Melchionda went to the same college as Cards first rounder of 2004, pitcher Chris Lambert. Since a senior, Melchionda is going to be looking at a much lower bonus, probably about $1,000 bucks, not a million like Lambert.

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:46:04 +0000

Allen Craig was a senior, rd 8. Freese, signed for $6K, rd 9. Senior Matt Carpenter, signed for $1,000, rd 13. Stavinoha was a senior sign, $15,000, round 7. The Cards have been selectively signing seniors for years. Nothing new about selecting a senior in round 7 of the 2012 draft.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:15:15 +0000

I don’t think you really understand how this works.

By: Mrs. TLR

Mrs. TLR — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:43:36 +0000

Alan Craig signed for $15,000 in round 8. The guy should expect $18,000, a round sooner. .

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:51:15 +0000

He said he hopes to get up to 5 digits. Which to me means 9999 is the biggest 4 digit number and any 5 digit number will be very low 5 digits.

By: Hugecardsfan

Hugecardsfan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:53:41 +0000

Did he mention the figure 10K? Because I read the article to say 5 figures and that he wanted enough to help offset the small amount he’d be paid in the minors. Unless you ran across a hard 10K figure, I doubt it was that little.

By: BigRob

BigRob — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:45:36 +0000

Awesome. Good info, Andrew. I appreciate it. I remember when they were drafted that it was noted how raw they were but they had the physical ability to be good ball players. I’d like to see Williams get out of SS ball quickly because it’s hard to hope for much out of a kid that’s struggling in SS ball at age 23.

As for Bryant, he’s got a little more time to get things together. Like I said, he’s only 20 this season. For him to become a legitimate prospect, I’d expect to see improved numbers this season in GCL (or where ever they send him) and possibly be at QC at some point next year at age 21. If he can do that, his future will look even better, but he’ll have to force the organization to move him up with good play.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:31:43 +0000

Of course they are, Williams was going to start last year at QC but broke his hamate bone in Spring Training. He came back did well at Batavia but wa suspended for PED just like Cody Stanley. Stanley has served his 50 games. Williams becuase he was in SS ball to end the year his suspension doesn’t start until the SS season starts so he won’t be able to play till Mid August (which i find bogus, same suspension different amount of time served because of what league you were in).

Bryant I saw in Spring Training. Raw guys like that you can’t judge a year after being drafted. Bryant may never make it out of SS but he’s surely got physical talent.

By: BigRob

BigRob — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:25:30 +0000

I didn’t know where to post this so I guess I’ll just post it here and hope someone that can help me will see it. I have a question. Does any one have any updates on other high potential players the Cardinals took a few years back in Reggie Williams and Tony Bryant?

I found their stats online. Both were on short season clubs last year. Williams will turn 23 in September and Bryant just turned 20 in January. Do either of them still have prospect status or are they just hanging on at the moment? Williams had the better numbers of the two last season, but Bryant is younger (neither had very good seasons). Thanks for the help!

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:11:58 +0000

I think this is it. Every year it seems like the organization uses a couple tendencies to pick larger groupings of players with the hope that a couple get the job done. I’m hopefully a couple of the high school athletic types will play well in short season coming up