Yep, the minor league teams have spring training too, and the beat writers at the PD and MLB.com have the scoop at their respective blogs regarding the intra-farm action, as Springfield took on Memphis and Palm Beach took on Quad Cities. Leach has on on the spot account, and he was pretty impressed with Hearne’s curve and notes that Lambert got hit around pretty hard.
Why do I care about this? Well, it could be a preview of the 2007 rosters.
Today’s Memphis lineup-
Brendan Ryan 6
Reid Gorecki 8
Travis Hanson 5
Stavinoha 9
Rico Washington DH
Amaury the Body 7 (who homered twice today)
Matt Dryer 3
Michel Hernandez 2
Jarret Hoffpauir 4
Lambert 1, followed by Haberer
Sean Danielson 8
Tyler Greene 6
Randy Roth DH
Joe Mather 9
Juan Richardson 5
Mike Ferris 3
Ian Church 7
Danilo Sanchez 2
Kevin Estrada 4
Trey Hearne 1
Of course this is just a spring training roster, but many these players should stick to their respective rosters. Others may not, for instance what happens to Reid Gorecki when Miguel Negron and Skip Schumaker inevitably get sent down? And then there’s John Rodriguez and Ryan Ludwick who also seem inevitably destined for AAA this year, so what happens to Stavinoha and Haerther (when his wrist is healed up?). Will they go back to AA. There’s a real outfield conundrum brewing.
I’m pretty excited about Hearne pitching with the AA squad, it’ll be a real test for him, and I have a feeling he’ll surprise.
Goold also noted Matt Hirsch had a good start for the Swing today, who struck out 3 in 2 innings.
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Did you mean Tyler Greene 6 and Juan Richardson 5? I hope so…
Hearne at Double-A is what I was hoping for. I’ve read his stuff is underwhelming but if his curve is showing up then that’s certainly encouraging.
Always rooting for Mike Ferris, he was my ill-advised breakout pick for last year.
mateodh…dumb moment, fixed. Ferris sure has been one of the more disappointing picks of recent memory, and the 2004 draft has to go on record as a bad draft to say the least
Maybe if Lambert and Haberer move to the pen like Dove did they will look better. I’m not ready to count out Donnie Smith or Phillip Anderson if they can find some health this season. Sillman, Worrell and Scherer might have futures in the bullpen. Sure it wasn’t a good draft, but every draft this decade up until then had been pretty bad, except possibly 2003 when we netted Barton, Ryan and Reyes. Now just think if Ian Kennedy, Brett Sinkbeil and Max Scherzer had signed back then… wow.
03 was a very nice draft, 05 and 06 seem to be pretty good ones too, at least so far. maybe that’ll have to be a post subject, just go year by year on the past few drafts
i wouldn’t say every draft sucked. while we choked on the first round picks, 2000 did produce molina, narveson, johnson, cali, and gall in a year that was considered pretty sub par. not very much star power, but some decent players. of course it would have looked a lot better had we taken utley at 13 instead of boyd, but not bad overall.