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• Paul Swaney writes at Stadium Journey about … yep, stadiums. Yesterday he posed his review of Modern Woodmen Park and if you click through the ‘MILB’ link at the top you’ll find reviews for Palm Beach’s Dean Complex and the Muckdog’s digs in New York.  Paul has yet to review Memphis’ Autozone Park (the best complex in the organization in my opinion) and Springfield’s Hammons Field (the most accessible complex for the fans in my opinion).
• Craig Wieczorkiewicz writes about his trips throughout Low-A Midwest League. Currently, the site is featuring posts on the Quad Cities River Bandits MWL championship.
• This is a fun video recapping the River Bandits including a proposal, homeruns and fielding hijinks. Worth a watch.

James has been really great about sending some Springfield  photos to me via e-mail this year, which I’ve featured a couple times here previously. I look forward to seeing more next year especially on the new Future Redbirds facebook page.  A couple of my personal favorites from the last batch: Read the rest of this entry »

This is a long time in coming and Jeff is the one who deserves the credit. I’ve been lax in keeping the facebook page up but Jeff was kind enough to create the new “page” version for Future Redbirds. You can find the page here with the RSS feed already tied up.

My favorite part of the group and one that I’d encourage everyone to use is the photo feature. I know some of you are incredible photogs (James, I still have your pictures in my inbox — I promise) and now you’ve got a place to store and share them with other people who follow the Cardinals minor league system.

So go ahead and like it. You know you want to.

I hope everyone is fortunate enough to have the day off — if not, my apologies. If you’re in the St. Louis area, go outside and enjoy the incredible weather we have right now.  Posting will resume as normal tomorrow including a congrats to the Appalachian League Champions the Johnson City Cardinals.

As we move towards wrapping up the minor league season, Matt Adams and Starlin Rodriguez push to end excellent seasons on a high note. The farm went 3-3 on a night when Palm Beach played a double header, Quad Cities was cancelled and Johnson City won game one of the three game Appalachian League championship series.

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I’m super swamped at work today and didn’t get the blog post going ahead of time, so I’ll throw out an exercise for you all this afternoon.  Put the following 5 pitchers in order where you would rank them in a prospect list.  Don’t forget to show your work.

David Kopp
John Gast
Nick Additon
Joe Kelly
Tyler Lyons

The Cardinals 40-man roster currently stands at 42 including 60-Day DL residents Eduardo Sanchez and Adam Wainwright. (Aside: Nervous that there hasn’t been more news on Sanchez? Me too.) With September looming, the Cardinals will have active rosters expanding and the ability to move beyond the current 25-man constraints.

Memphis isn’t completely out of the post-season hunt yet (4 games back of first place w/ 7 left to play) but there season is rapidly closing and the Cardinals will have the chance to call  up some players. The candidates are almost certainly going to be players already on the 40-man roster as September would be an unusual time of the year to try and clear someone on waivers.

Who is likely to get a callup?

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Following are the top 5 leaders in our farm system for players who qualified with at least 200 at-bats in their respective league.  For a summary on what wRC+ is, click here for further reading.

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A few weeks ago I had a run down of what minor league teams were headed to the playoffs. Since then, we’ve seen some precipitous slides and have a firmer picture of things.

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I’m a little busy at the moment but cariocacardinal made a comment a few weeks ago about being more interested in, shall we say, less prominent starters. The hidden gems, if you will.

After the jump you’ll find a list of current/recent starting pitchers who have K:BB ratios of 2:1 or better.  That’s something of a minimum threshold for a starting pitcher in my mind. If they don’t meet that criteria, something isn’t working.  I’m only considering prospects at their current level, which admittedly penalizes some pitchers who advanced during the season.

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