Pretty straightforward here. Three prospects that took a step forward in 2010, and three that did not. Let me know y’alls three up/three down in the comment section, too.
Archive for the “Uncategorized” CategoryWhat’s up, folks? The Cardinals are attempting to take a series from Cincinnati today, while I work on materializing a Tony La Russa v. Colby Rasmus cage-match. Some good people around the interwebs produced insightful thoughts, check em’ out: - Our friends at PlayAHardNine took a good look at Rasmus’ approach at the plate. It’s broken down into two parts: Part 1 & Part 2. - Daren Smith of MiLB.com recaps Johnson City’s Appalachian League Championship well here. - Jay Hulsey of i70Baseball.com profiles Tyrell Jenkins. - Adam Foster of ProjectProspect listed Daniel Descalso as a Top 5 Second Base Prospect. That’s all I’ve got. Have a great Sunday, everybody. I’ll be heading to Springfield this weekend to catch the AA team Friday thru Sunday. It looks like I’ll see David Kopp, Brian Broderick and Scott McGregor on the hill. Matt Carpetner is obviously of a great deal of interest right now. If there’s something/someone you want me to watch out for, leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do. Let’s do a little bit of live chatting here on Future Redbirds for the first round and supplemental tonight. Everyone is doing one, why not us? Draft chat starts at 7pm Eastern, 6 Central, 11pm Reykjavik time and goes until the Cards last pick in the supplemental round … or later! I have the day off and I have the draft and prospects on the brain, so why not chat? This is out of the blue, so we’ll see if anyone shows up. Per Derrick Goold, Joe Mather and Fernando Salas are optioned to AAA. Evan MacLane and Adam Ottavino are added to the active roster. Evan MacLane is a 40-man addition as well. The draft is under two weeks away now and the Cardinals are blessed with a plethora of early picks. Specifically they’ll have three top 50 picks in the first round and the supplemental round: #25, #46 and #50. The Cardinals are a difficult club to make draft predictions about for two reasons: 1) They generally pick late in the draft and 2) they run a tight ship. While it wasn’t a complete surprise given his talent level and the players still available, the Cardinals’ pick of Shelby Miller was an uncharacteristic selection of a fireballing high school arm. Prior to that they picked the best bat available to them in Brett Wallace, who was an uncharacteristic pick given his poor defense. I’m disinclined to try and pigeonhole the Cardinals as having a prediliction for a type of player, but if you force me too there are a couple types of players that you should keep an eye on for draft day: I can’t recommend this post enough. Daniel @ C70 does all the leg work of collecting links to what appears to be every active and many retired blogs and Cardinals’s sites. If you’ve got a couple hours to whittle away, I bet you could spend them here. I’m just back from taking an 8 hour test. My brain hurts and I’ve been detached from the internet for over 24 hours. And my cell phone died. It was like living in the 1980s or something. I’ll get caught up tomorrow with Friday’s games and Saturday’s games. Promise.
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