Memphis vs. Tacoma, 7:05pm – Scott Gorgen (back from Springfield)
Springfield @ Corpus Christi, 7:05pm – Richard Castillo
Palm Beach – No Scheduled Games
Quad Cities vs. Burlington, 7:00pm – Hector Hernandez
Batavia – No Scheduled Games
Johnson City – No Scheduled Games
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Not many exciting arms but intriguing. Will be interesting to see how Gorgen and his plus change-up fare out tonight in Triple A. The reinvented Richard Castillo who has become more of a groundball pitcher this season he owns a 52.2% groundball rate he’s put himself back on the borderline prospect range. Hector Hernandez is an intriguing southpaw sits 86-89 on his fastball also throws a solid curve-ball he will be more interesting if he can throw strikes more consistently.
Brian Walton reports Matt Adams being shut down for the year to have surgery to clean his elbow.
https://twitter.com/B_Walton/status/235039922992590848
That elbow must really be bothering Adams. Amazing he put up the numbers he did with the elbow issue.
That’s a shame. I was really looking forward to an imposing Matt Adams standing in the on-deck circle during September when opposing teams (Reds) bring in their big RH relievers (Broxton).
Oh well. Hopefully he’ll come back even stronger next year when he’s healthy. Maybe this opens the door for another highly touted LH hitter in September….?
The recent promotion of Ryan Jackson got me to looking at the crop of shortstops currently in the Cardinal pipeline. The position is almost bare in the organization. Way down at GCL Brett Wiley and Kenneth People Walls show some promise. Are there other promising players at this position already in the organization. Filling this position through trades or free agency will certainly place a considerable strain on the organization’s other strengths. Am I missing something by dismissing the shortstops between GCL and Memphis?
it depends whether you think Greg Garcia can play SS at the major league level or not. Don’t dismiss either Ronnie Gil (Palm Beach) who definitely has the range and glove and Matt Williams (Quad Cities) who probably has the glove and also possibly enough bat.
CC,
They brought up Ryan for reassurance but after one game the job went to Descalso.
Jackson will sit and waste valuable playing time to improve.
I hope that they make it up to him if he sits. Winterball?
Sure the kids like the big league pay and benefits, but in reality they would rather be playing.
Carioca,
Thank you for reminding me of Garcia. He has appeared in discussions here at futurebirds. Matt Williams already has over thirty errors I’ll reserve my enthusiasm for Garcia and Gil. Further insights into the state of the short stop position in the Cardinals system would be greatly appreciated.
Something you don’t see every day: The GCL Cards scored 10 runs on 22 hits, and lost!
20-year-old Tony Bryant, in his third tour of the GCL, had 5 hits, including a double and homer, and stole 3 bases.
Kenny Peoples-Walls had 4 hits, and 4 other guys had 2 or 3.
Unfortunately, Foody pitched to 7 guys in the 2nd inning w.o. recording an out, and 6 of them scored. The final pitcher, Norge Paredes, gave up 2 runs (I earned) in the 8th to take the loss. The ER was just his second of the season in 11 appearances.
Steve Bean 2-5 with a double 2 RBI he is now batting .313 10-for-32 sample 4 RBI. Good to see him not getting over matched no more at the plate.
Kenny Peoples Walls is starting to take off with the bat he is batting .389 in his past 10 games AVG now up to .260. 2 HR 23 RBI in 35 games.
Foody has been horrendous. No surprise.
Memphis switches to Rosenthal – hoping for a bounceback….
Now it switches back to Gorgen – you got me……
In the event, it actually was Gorgen, with a blah start (3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR). Excuse me for not expending any of my limited reserves of excitement on this guy.
Gaub got the loss after giving up 2 R in 1 IP. Time to take this waste of roster space off the 40-man. If you can’t be a successful LOOGY in Memphis, what business do you have standing by to be one in St. Louis?
I have to agree.
It also looks like they were switching to Rosenthal before Fuentes pulled his exit stage left. Pretty strange turn of events.