This video of Descalso comes courtesy of Adam Foster of Project Prospect.
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May
27
2009
Q and A with Matt Baker, Springfield Cardinal beatwriterPosted by erik in Brett Wallace, Curt Smith, Daniel Descalso, Daryl Jones, Francisco Samuel, Interviews, Mark Hamilton, Pete Kozma, Trey HearneMatt Bakers covers the S-Cards for the Springfield News-Leader, and has stepped right in where Kary Booher has left off in putting together some great coverage for the team. You just don’t get the sort of coverage he brings from most AA teams, and he was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule and answer some of my questions about the team and his impressions of the players.
Daniel Descalso has been on fire since getting called up to Springfield this past week, the 21 year old second baseman is hitting .458 thus far. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Daniel about hitting and making adjustments, offensively and defensively. Q and A after the jump. 2B/SS Jose Martinez came into the season with lofty expectations after a breakout season in AA, where he hit .300/.337/.472 over 412 at bats. Baseball America ranked him the Cardinal’s 17th best prospect heading into 2008, and Kevin Goldstein went as far as to rank him the Cards’ 7th best prospect. Disappointingly, things haven’t worked out as well as we had hoped for Jose going into the year. He’s been one of the Texas League’s least productive hitters with a horrendously bad .598 OPS, the league’s worst among qualified batters. So what’s the story?
Jul
16
2008
Prospects by Position – Second BasePosted by roarke in Brian Barden, Daniel Descalso, Jarrett Hoffpauir, Jose Martinez, Oliver Marmol, Prospects by Position, Ross OederIn our third installment of the Prospects by Position series we look at a position that has been a weak point of development for the Cardinals (unless you really like Bo Hart) in recent years. Adam Kennedy came up through the Cardinals system and he was a useful 2B for the Angels for a few years, although he was mostly a shortstop until his second year at AAA. Otherwise the Cardinals system has been (and still is) pretty thin at second base. Currently they’ve got a guy in AAA that many of us would like to see playing in St. Louis and then there are a whole bunch of question marks. The rundown of all the second basemen is after the jump. Read the rest of this entry » |
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