• 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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Februrary 29th Grapefruit Action and some non-baseball fun

Great baseball discussion today about pitching workloads.
Prospects in today’s game:

Brendan Ryan went 2-for-3 with a triple.
David Freese went 2-for-3 with a triple as well. Given that Freese is the only true third basemen in camp, I wonder if the Cardinals would consider carrying him as Spiezio’s replacement.
Colby Rasmus and Joe Mather both went 0-for-1 [...]

Pitching Health, Part 2: 2008 Workload

There are a multitude of reasons why pitching prospects don’t pan out.  I believe that, after talent, the biggest reason is health.  Every organization has had its share of pitching prospects that have flamed out, or at least have had their career temporarily derailed, due to injury and the Cardinals are no exception. 
There is no [...]