The Cardinals have signed 21 year old Mexican right handed reliever Fernando Salas from Saltilla of the Mexican League. Between the 2005 and 2006 season, including winter ball as a teammate of Troy Cate’s for Mazatlan, Salas has a 2.47 ERA in 97 innings. He struck out 88 and walked 41. He’ll be heading to AA.
Another former Mazatlan Deer is Hugo Castellanos, who will start the season in Memphis. Castellanos will turn 27 this season, he’s been in the Blue Jay, Devil Ray and Cub organizations at different points of his career as well the Mexican League. Castellanos has had problems with walks throughout his career, but gets lots of ground outs. Joe Strauss also mentioned the Cardinals signed Mexican teenager Angel Rivera, I wish I could say I knew more about him other then he’s headed for rookie ball.
Another Cardinals of Mexican descent quietly had one of the best seasons in the minors last year. Out of the Top 100 Prospect prospects at Baseball America, Jaime Garcia had the shared highest percentage of batters retired by K and ground out then any of the top ranked pitcher other then Phil Hughes, who he tied with 58%. Trailing those 2-Yiovani Gallardo, Adam Miller and Nick Adenhardt. That’s pretty nice company. He also had the highest percentage of all ground ball outs at 73%.
On Deck Baseball got around to ranking the Cardinal hitter and pitchers. For those of you not familiar with On Deck, they use stats and factor in age for level to rate prospects. I may not see eye to eye with some of the stats used in the system, but it’s interesting none the less. The system obviously puts a lot of value on youth, Jon Edwards and Daryl Jones were #2 and #4 ranked hitters, and Blake King came out as the #1 pitcher with Garcia following.
Matt Leach shares on Mike Sillman’s transformation into a submariner.
Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com has his Cardinal 2007 organizational report.
You know you’ve hit it big time when you get your own bobble head give-away day. Springfield-ians, don’t miss your chance to get your free Josh Kinney bobble head!
Bad news for Mark McCormick. He’s expected to miss at least half of the season after shoulder surgery.
Ross Detwiler pitched 7 scoreless innings against Middle Tennessee State, allowing only 2 hits and walking 3. He struck out 7 and 11 of his outs came via the ground.
Filed under: Angel Rivera, Blake King, Daryl Jones, Fernando Salas, Hugo Castellanos, Jaime Garcia, Jon Edwards, Mark McCormick, Mike Sillman, Prospect rankings, Ross Detwiler Watch
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