Future Redbirds

I’m not seeing GCL Cardinals as playing today. . . too bad I can’t verify on a WEBSITE. Feel free to contact milb.com and let them know that Cardinal fans would like a GCL Cardinal website.

Johnson City had an off day and Palm Beach was postponed.

We’ve got a flurry of roster moves for you tonight — someone’s finally taking FR’s advice. Joe Mather goes boom and AZ would like to page Mike Matheny.

It’s all here in your Daily Prospect Report.

Roster Moves: Eddie Degerman gets an overdue promotion to Palm Beach and the tandem starting rotation comes to an end. Huzzah! The tandem starting rotation was nice at the beginning of the season but these pitchers need to learn how to adjust to hitter seeing their stuff for the third time in a game. Blake King gets sent down to Batavia to work on his command — he has league highs for walks and wild pitches. Joining the Swing are a 23 and 24 year old pitcher — I mean this in the nicest way but they appear to be spare parts.

2007 Draftee: The first player to crack A ball is Steven Hill. He can play catcher and 1B — is there anyone who can’t play first base? As always, I’d like to see if he can stick at the more defensively critical position. Given that they just brought in Tim Dorn, I’m hopeful that Hill sees significant time behind the plate.

Memphis 1, Round Rock 2

• Joe Mather hits his second Memphis HR for the only memphis tally.
• Rick Ankiel goes 0-for-4 with 2Ks.
• Hawksworth pitched a good game. 6 innings, 6 hits, 1 BB, 1HBP and 2 Ks. Until he gets that K rate up though, I just don’t see how he can make it in the bigs.
• Mark Worrell pitched 2 scoreless innings.

Springfield 4, Midland 0

• Bryan Anderson had his 11th passed ball. If he were in the majors, at least half of those would be considered wild pitches (just kidding). Seriously though, I want to know who is working on this kids defense with him. Maybe they should try having someone else worth with Mr. Anderson. If I might make a suggestion. He did go 2-for-4.
• Colby Rasmus went 2-for-3 with 2 doubles and a HBP. He did get picked off 1st. I would like to see how that play went down, if he just got caught napping or what. Remember a few weeks ago when he kept going 0-for-# with Ks? Ya, me neither.
• Adam Daniels went 7 strong innings striking out 4 walking 2 and allowing just 3 hits. It may take a while for the scouting report to get out on guys like Walters and Daniels so while the pitching performances are nice now, give it 2-3 more starts and we’ll see if they start taking some lumps. He also had 11 of 18 outs on balls in play as groundballs.
• Kyle McClellan threw 2 innings allowing 1 hit and striking out 3. Underrated or did everyone just miss this kid. He’s striking them out left and right.

Quad Cities 8, Wisconsin 0

• Daryl Jones needs to get his act together quickly or he’s going to become one of those players that gets labeled as unable to turn their tools into results. cough Tyler Greene cough He went 0-for-4 with a walk and a SB but is batting .195 currently.
• Tim Dorn went 1-for-4 with a triple.
• Jaime Landin playing LF went 2-for-2 with a walk.
• SS Christian Lopez went 1-for-3 with a HR and a walk.
• Elvis Hernandez went 5 innings striking out 2, walking 1 and allowing 3 hits. He’s lowered his ERA to 2.51.
• The Kyles (Sadlowski and Mura) combined for the final 4 innings of scoreless ball.

Batavia 10, Mahoning Valley 3

• SS Oliver Marmol went 2-for-4 with a double.
• 1B Andrew Brown went 2-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBIs.
• DH Justin Roberson went 2-for-4 with a double.
• Batavia recorded 6 doubles in the game.
• Jonathan Stambaugh went 4.2 innings allowing 2 ER. He struck out 2 allowing 5 hits.
• Brandon Garner pitched the final 4 innings allowing 1 run, striking out 3 and 5 hits.