The Springfield Cardinals will look to seal the deal tonight in Frisco when they take on the Rough Riders. Heading to enemy turf with a 2-0 lead in the series, Springfield will send Kevin Siegrist to the mound.
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Derrick Goold with an article about the Cardinals instructional league and notes.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/detailing-the-cards-instructional-league-roster/article_c4a2b986-fe80-11e1-9942-001a4bcf6878.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Thanks DT. As you can tell, I’ve been following Shaban. I read the link in the article. He started at VT as a freshman, 3B and 1B, great hitter. He turned down Baltimore his junior year because of his offense (he wanted to hit). He missed half of his senior year with a recurring hamstring, hence the high number of DHs (with one good leg!) . His coach said he was one of the top two-way players in college and thought his senior year injury would affect his draft value. I think that’s how the Cards found the higher ceiling player that slipped through. He actually hits better than he pitches but has adapted well to the new role.
It was a good game. Springfield falls 5-1. Siegrist was better than his final line would show. 6 strike outs, including 3 to Mike Napoli who ended with a golden sombrero.
It was raining most of the game, but while the rough riders eventually rallied, the Cardinals were pretty quite most of the night. OT had a nice 2b in the 6th to drive in Wong. Wong almost booted a pop fly the bounced out of his glove, but then caught it with his bare hand. Was kind of cool. OT looked to misplay a ball of the wall that almost turned in to an inside the park home run, but recovered with a strong throw to the cutoff man resulting in a close tag out at the plate.
Thanks for the up-date Matt M.
Beast Walsh moving back to 2B. His bat should play there.
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