• 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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Early 2008 Sleeper-Dan Nelson

I carefully considered singling out Jarrett Hoffpauir as a possible sleeper last season. He was pretty much an unknown middling middle infielder, hitting just .249/.337/.359 for AA Springfield last season. What made me even consider him was his good 11.8% walk rate, a 9% strikeout rate. With that sort of plate discipline it seemed like [...]

Daily Prospect Report 8/31/07

I remember the days when Rick Ankiel was hitting HRs in Memphis. I kind like it when he belts a grand slam out of Busch III. Let’s head straight into tonights DPR.

PTBNL for Branyan

As I’m sure many of you have already heard, the Cardinals have acquired the free-swinging Russ Branyan. As a member of the Three True Outcome cult, I kinda actually like it. Emphasis on the word kinda. Finding out the PTBNL for Maroth was Lambert was a relief, and a happy occasion. Waiting for the other [...]

Daily Prospect Report 8/30/07

Everywhere you read Ian Kennedy, try reading PJ Walters instead. Kevin Goldstein does a very nice job articulating why everyone should (in general) temper they’re expectations of soft-tossing command and control pitchers.
Let’s start with the basics on a scouting level. Kennedy is smallish (6′0), and his best pitch is a power changeup, which features [...]