• Amaury Marti Watch

    Amaury Marti is currently hitting .424/.509/.633 in 39 games for the Mexican Red Devils of the Mexican League, also known as Liga de Amaury Cazana. Bud Selig ordered the Cardinals to banish him to there, in fear of the major leagues losing competitive balance.

    Amaury also refuses to accept the watch curse. He has the power to curse, and the power to bless.

  •  

  • RSS FirstInning.com: St. Louis Cardinals Daily Report

  • My del.icio.us

  • Flickr Photos

    lynn

    Shane peterson

    Louisville_Zack_Pitts_

    brettwallaceswing

    Jason Buursma

    More Photos
  • Visitors

    • 1,427,779 hits
  • Header design

  • Google Reader or Homepage
    Add to My Yahoo!
    Subscribe with Bloglines
    Subscribe in NewsGator Online

    Add to My AOL
    Add to Technorati Favorites!

Day 2 Intrigue

202. Oliver Marmol, SS, College of Charleston. Another reach pick. Marmol was considered a 8 to 12th round talent the Cardinals picked in the 6th. Baseball America says-
Marmol has good middle-infield actions but little offensive upside. He’s a plus runner and has a plus arm.
For someone with good middle infield actions, he committed 23 errors [...]

Luhnow speaks (via Goold’s Blog) and AZ responds

erik and I will continue to update the Draft thread for day 2 as we get into the deep rounds where the team is really reliant on individual scouts.  erik has his review of the first draft day below.
Derrick Goold had a late night interview with Jeff Luhnow regarding the draft, which he graciously put on [...]

MLB 2007 Rule 4 Amateur Draft, Day 2

Me and Azru will be dropping by with comments on who the Cardinals select (or perhaps fail to select) today when we are able. We both have obligations but will try and sneak off when possible. About yesterday: Yes, it was college heavy. Yes, it smacked of “safe pick-ism.” Yes, there were certainly some big [...]