I didn’t see Chris Perez tonight, but checking out Gameday it looks like he had a solid debut. His fastball was 95-97 and that’s mostly all he threw, with the exception a couple of sliders to Longoria, whom he struck out. Congrats to Perez, we’ll miss talking about him around here.
Jaime Garcia was in the 6-spot on Friday’s Prospect Hot Sheet, netting some much deserved recognition after dominating AA and making a seamless transition to AAA. I’m dreaming of a 1-2-3 of Carpenter-Wainwright-Garcia for 2009.
Kary Booher takes a look at how Shane Robinson got back on track this year. Can anyone possibly hit for a quieter .400+ average?
Jim Callis makes some educated guesses in his first mock draft, and predicts the Cardinals pick OF Zach Collier of Chino Hills High in California. Some see Collier more of a supplemental rounder or even 2nd rounder, so at 13 he could be considered quite a reach, but that’s also what was said about Pete Kozma. I just have trouble believing the Cardinals would pass on Friedrich if he’s available. Anyway, looking at his draft video, it looks like he could develop some pretty nice power.
Get to know Daryl Jones. Daryl is someone I can relate to–he likes playing Halo and Madden. Madden is good stuff, however it’s pretty much been the exact same game the last 5 or 6 years, sans roster updates. Halo is fun but I stink at it. My two brothers-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law and even my wife are much better than me. It’s gotten to the point where I renamed my character “Freekill”. Stupid sniper rifles; oh how I loathe them. Daryl also likes hip hop and jazz, but when goes he goes with jazz he goes with…um…Kenny G. That’s just blech. Daryl, if you’re gonna do jazz and you like the sax, then you got to go with Coltrane all the way, particularly his earlier stuff with Miles and Monk.
The farm goes 3 for 5 tonight counting the Venezuelan squad, who have found themselves a little coverage in the DFR’s lately.
- P.J. Walters allowed his 9th homer in his 8th game, and 7 earned runs on 8 hits and 3 walks over 4.2. 3 walks has to be his own personal worst given Walters’ track record of unbelievable stinginess. On the plus, he registered 7 K’s.
- Brian Barden went 4 for 5 and scored 4 runs.
- Josh Phelps went 3 for 5 with a HR and 5 RBI.
- David Freese was 2 for 4 with a stolen base.
- Nick Stavinoha doubled.
- Joe Mather hit his 7th HR and was HBP. That’s a .329 Isolated Power for Joe.
- Now hitting all the way down in the 8th spot, Colby walked, hit a sac fly RBI and struck out twice. Believers in prayer, say this with me- “God, you like Colby. Please remind him how to hit again on a regular basis, and please help the balls he’s hitting find ground. May he never be associated with the name Dee Brown when it comes to his baseball career. Ever. Amen.”
- Mark Worrell struck out 3 over 2 perfect innings.
- Jason Motte has got the motts. He struck out all three batters he faced.
Springfield 9, Tulsa 10 (11 innings)
- Adam Ottavino must be hurt, because he got drilled again tonight. 2 innings, 7 ER, 7 hits (including a grand slam), 3 BB, 2 K. Something still isn’t right with his shoulder, it just can’t be. I expected him to find AA more challenging, but this is ludicrous.
- Tyler Greene doubled and homered.
- Steve Hill went 2 for 5 with a HR and 3 K’s. He also committed his 4th error in his 6th AA game, this time playing LF. It’s like baseballs are out to make him look foolish. Must be revenge for hitting them so freaking hard.
- Allen Craig also went 2 for 5 with a HR.
- Jon Jay went 1 for 6 with a double. He stranded runners on 2nd and 3rd to make the last out of the game, unfortunately.
- Nick Webber threw 4 scoreless innings and induced 10 groundouts.
- Luke Gregerson struck out 2 in 1 inning, with a walk and a balk.
- Fernando Salas struck out 4 in 2 innings. I’m not sure where he’s came from, but Salas has a ridiculous number of 41 K’s in 25 innings. To my Springfieldian readers out there I ask-what kind of gas is this dude bringing?
- Kyle Sadlowski went 5 innings, gave up 1 run on 3 hits while striking out 3. He induced 8 groundball outs to 2 fly outs.
- Elvis Hernandez (Mosquito numero uno) struck out 5 batters in 2 innings. He allowed 2 hits, 1 hit being a solo HR.
- Josh Dew allowed 2 hits and a walk in 1 inning, but didn’t allow a run. He struck out 1.
- Fransisco Samuel (Mosquito numero dos) pitched a perfect 9th, and struck out 2.
- Luke Gorsett doubled and tripled.
- David DeJesus doubled, walked and was picked off at 1B.
- Nicholas Additon and Mark Diapoules combined for a gem. Additon allowed 4 hits and a walk over 5 innings, striking out 3. Diapoules went 4 innings, allowed 1 run on 3 hits and a walk, striking out 6. He had 5 groundouts, no fly outs. Diapoules is really starting to intrigue me.
- Domnit Bolivar had a big night, going 4 for 5 with a double.
- Pete Kozma went 2 for 5 with a double and 3 RBI. He also committed his 9th error of the season. I’m really not all worried about the errors. Him making plays the average SS isn’t making is what matters to me at this point.
- Luis De La Cruz went 2 for 5 with a double. He allowed his 7th passed ball, and was 1 for 3 on nailing basestealers.
- Osvaldo Morales homered for his 1 hit in 5 at bats.
- Tommy Pham put his speed to good use, legging out an infield hit and stealing a base.
- Roberto Perez went 4 for 5 with a double.
- Limbert Rivas went 3 for 5. Limbert is just a cool name.
- Peter Jaspe and Gerardo Mannbel both went 2 for 5.
- The game had 11 errors, 6 on the Cardinal side. Yuck.
Filed under: 2008 MLB draft, Daily Farm Reports
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good thing perez made it to the big leagues b/c it looks like we aren’t going to get much from our other first rounder that year.
Congrats to Perez. I look forward to seeing Motte join him sometime this season. You just can’t hold a guy back when he strikes out literally everyone, secondary pitches or no.
I know absolutely nothing about Mark Diapoules, but I’m with you, erik. I’m beginning to wonder if this guy is for real, and if so, how did he stay off everyone’s radar?
A John Coltrane name check? You’re a man after my own heart, erik. Coltrane’s version of “My Favourite Things” is literally impossible to put into words.
i second that opinion of “my favorite things”
Forgot about this, but I thought everybody here might be interested.
Jeff Luhnow was on the radio, 1380 to be exact, althought I don’t recall exactly which show. Think it was the one with Martin Kilcoyne, whatever that may be. It was a time of day when I’m not usually in the car, so I wasn’t familiar with the program. Anyway…
It was a decent interview; pretty standard stuff. Lohnow did, however, give a nice scouting report on Francisco Samuel. I believe Samuel was a pitcher Luhnow touted as a breakout candidate all the way back in Spring Training, so he must have seen something.
Samuel is strictly a two pitch pitcher, he said, pretty much locked in to a bullpen role, as he has no changeup or anything to speak of. When they recruited Samuel’ he threw in the upper 80s as about a 17 year old; he’s now sitting comfortably in the 94-95 change, running it up to 97 a few times a game. His most impressive pitch, though, is his slider. Its got good lateral movement, though its a little shallow at the moment. Somehow, though, Samuel manages to throw it right around 89-90mph. That’s freakish. Luhnow even pointed out that, at that velocity, you would think it had to be a cutter, but no, it’s a full fledged slider. Said the kid still has quite a bit of room to fill out and add stamina, but he’s just overmatching hitters at the moment.
I just thought it was a really nice little scouting report on a player I’m not really all that familiar with.
I was at the Springfield game last night, right behind home plate. Ottavino threw mostly off-speed stuff, even to start off batters. His few fastballs topped out at 92 on the generous stadium radar gun, and were mostly at 89-90.
It was my first time to see him pitch and I was very unimpressed.
Rasmus hitless again, is he going to be the first top 5 prospect to hit under .200 in a minor league season.
I’m not sure where Salas came from either, but he has been nails for springfield as of late. He comes in at around ninety three on the generous stadium gun and appears to use a slider and fastball both high in the zone. I’ve only seen him pitch a few times but he has made many hitters look foolish for the last month.
I’m no scout, but I am a little worried about the number of warning track fly balls he’s given up this year. this week I’ll try and find any of the scouts I recognize and get some opinions on our resident mystery man
They need to put Colby on the DL with a bogus injury and let him spend some time with Izzy on a beach in Florida. They can get their heads right together.
Allen Craig is really starting to heat up. He is hitting .323 with 6 Hr and 14 Rbi’s for the month.
does anyone know if motte is now memphis’s closer?
seems like the next step
Whats wrong with Shane Robinson he hasn’t played much in the last few games only with 1 pinch hit.
I think Shane Robinson sprained his wrist and has been resting the past few games. Nothing serious.
Is Joe Mather getting the night off tonight or could there possibly be moves being made?
I wouldn’t think they would give him a day off sence the team didn’t play on wednesday and he got a day off last sunday.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, but just saw that he pinch hit.
Gonna be interesting to see how they handle Mather.
Ankiel sat out today with a sore shoulder. If something happens to him then you probably call up Mather, it could be that they wanted him to get some rest from playing every day and that now makes even more sense as a just in case move.
While I’ll talk all the tools prospects I can come by (IE Zach Collier) it seems that the Cardinal are loaded throughout the system in terms of OF’ers and have very little in the middle infield or corner IF outside of Kozma and Allen Craig. And again, you can never have too much pitching.