• 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.

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VSL Update

I figure since the VSL Cardinals are now 43 games into their schedule and only have about a month left to go, now is about as good of a time as any to take a look at how things are going down in Venezuela. I have to warn you, there’s not much to see here. [...]

7/3/07 Daily Prospect Report

Per Matthew Leach:
The Cardinals named Tyler Herron their Minor League Pitcher of the Month for June, and Allen Craig was the Player of the Month. Herron went 5-0 with a save, a 2.27 ERA and 37 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings at Class A Quad Cities. Craig hit .337 with seven home runs, 19 runs [...]

Gomez on Russell and Mortensen

In part three of the series at the Hardball Times, Carlos Gomez has his latest dope on the mechanics of the 2007 draftees, starting with Kyle Russell.

“OK. Russell does have a long swing (notice his hands and bat angle when his front heel lands). In other words, he has a long way to go from [...]

7/2/07 Daily Prospect Report

Adam Daniels, Adam Ottavino and Tyler Herron took Pitcher of the Week honors in their respective leagues for their performances last week. Herron was also on BA’s Prospect Hot Sheet this week.
The Cardinals’ supplemental first-round pick in 2005 out of a Florida high school pitched 10 innings last week, giving up one earned run while [...]