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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Kevin Goldstein addressed a Jaime Garcia question in his chat today (I don’t know if Chris from St. Louis is an FR reader that saw Az’s request or if the question was serendipitous, but thanks to Chris for the question, either way):
Chris (St. Louis): Jaime Garcia is off to a great start. If his elbow [...]
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This really isn’t all that easy and I could see the draft going in so many different directions. I tried to factor a few things here, notably Scott Boras and what teams are willing to spend. I also tried to look at team’s particular drafting patterns, whether they like HS players or college players, [...]
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Only in Iowa:
The River Bandits are working with Crop Production Services on the small plot of corn and team groundskeeper Ben Kratz will have the task of overseeing the crop.
“We’ve already got a rabbit or two living in that area, so we’re interested in seeing what else we attract,’’ Goodman said. “By late July, August, [...]
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I’m starting a new series, something that could be weekly but more likely bi-weekly. It’s just a quick glance at the present “hots” and “nots” in the system. Of course, there will usually be more then three players that fall in those categories at any given time; I’m just looking at the ones that stand [...]
Filed under: 3 up, Adam Ottavino, Jaime Garcia, Pete Kozma, Tommy Pham, Tyler Greene, Tyler Henley, three up, three down | 8 Comments »
This might be hard to relate to for a lot of people but I’ve never identified with a single Cardinal player as the titular point of my love of baseball. I don’t have a specific attachment to Stan Musial or Albert Pujols or Bob Gibson or Chris Carpenter. I’ve liked the Cardinals as a team [...]
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The wrap is back with some familiar names. Gordon Beckham and Buster Posey continue to mash while Yonder Alonso and Justin Smoak are heating up at the right time. Shooter Hunt showed that he might just have a clue where the ball is going, but Christian Friedrich missed his scheduled start this weekend. [...]
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I was nosing around for some notes on Mark Mulder’s rehab start in Springfield. All I found was Kary Booher’s writeup where he notes that Mulder threw 45 of 75 pitches for strikes. While that’s all well and good, until I hear that Mulder his consistently sitting in the 88-89mph range, I’m going [...]
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You can file this under “For Whatever It’s Worth”. Here are a few 2007 1st round high school picks, by OPS as of 4/18:
Mike Moustakas .552
Matt Dominguez .535
Jason Heyward .755
Kevin Ahrens .764
Pete Kozma .910
*All players are in class A. Moustakas, Dominguez, Kozma and Ahrens are in the Midwest League. Dominguez and Heyward are in the [...]
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One of the strengths of this draft is the college pitching, and that may be where the Cardinals are leaning with their first pick. We have already profiled the top two pitchers, but the next group of hurlers is pretty strong as well. This set of pitchers may not have the polish of [...]
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A reader who goes by Mookie sent me a few videos from the other night’s Springfield slugfest. It includes Bryan Anderson’s HR, a single by Brendan Ryan and (briefly) Clayton Mortensen throwing a strike. First of all, it’s cool to go by the name Mookie. Secondly, it’s always very cool to send me videos of [...]
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One of the interesting things in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook is they have some brief writeups about each teams drafts including the total budget and the top 5 signing bonuses. The whole book is a great resource and a good read but I’m always drawn to numbers so these types of things stood [...]
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Kary Booher has a nice article in the Springfield News-Leader about Clayton Mortensen. Mortensen talks about staying away from websites that discuss minor league prospects (I guess that means he doesn’t read us) so that he won’t get caught up in the hype for himself, or the guys he is about to face. There is [...]
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