Comments on: Daily Farm Report - 5/21/08

By: erik

erik — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:47:38 +0000

Funny that it was Mather and Co. beating up on Jeff Weaver last night. I didn’t notice until checking the boxscores again.

By: picklefork

picklefork — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:20:38 +0000

Someone will likely take a chance on him….maybe a team with multiple early picks…MIN or MILW.

If he is healthy or can be 100% healthy by the start of 2009..then he is worthy of a top 50 pick.

Personally….I dont mess with Shoulders…elbows, knee’s are fine…shoulders are a coin flip for me.

There are some good names this year…Cutter Dykstra, Shooter Hunt, Yonder, Zeke Spruill…some classics!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:54:33 +0000

aw but c’mon picklefork… his name is just too fun to say… SCHEPpers.

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:51:10 +0000

RE: Matt

I didn’t take it as cleaning house so much as cleaning out ineffective pitchers. Mikrut rewarded the Sp. Cards with an excellent first outing, upton his return to AA last night.

By: picklefork

picklefork — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Scouts think the shoulder is more of a problem then its being reported to be.

Havent heard of a pitcher suffering a stress fracture while pitching..so either he hurt it doing something else, hurt while pitching and has some serious structual issues in the shoulder or he has another shoulder injury that the college team doesnt want to share.

Either way, a shoulder injury in any form is a HUGE RED FLAG to me.

Just look around at pitchers careers basically come to an end when they have a shoulder surgery (Mulder).

Scheppers is a nice talent, but its not like he was the Mark Prior of college pitchers coming out.

He has a nice arm, but before this year was a relative unknown and his only year of being at the top of his game he couldnt finish b/c of injury.

Drafting is a risky business to begin with….adding injury to the mix makes it even more of a gamble.

I wouldnt be shocked to see Scheppers go the entire first day of the draft..undrafted.

He might be better off just going back to Fresno for a SR year.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:15:14 +0000

Looking at Hugo’s recent transaction list, I’m saddened to see that Wlad the Wmpaler was released.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:06:26 +0000

So it’s still a possibility the Cards could “steal” him in the supp round? Or do you see them going in a more safe route? Thanks

By: erik

erik — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:56:19 +0000

Tom–

That is the million dollar question, isn’t it? I think he won’t slide out of the supplemental round given this class, but that’s just a guess.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:53:33 +0000

Does anyone have an idea of how far Scheppers is going to slide in the draft?

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:52:29 +0000

Just looked at BA’s list of transactions. Some of these I hadn’t seen yet, like Stu Pomeranz being released and Uncle Rico to the DL:

St. Louis Cardinals
Released: RHP Fabian Marquez, RHP Gustavo Martinez, RHP Stuart Pomeranz, LHP Wladimir Mendoza, 1B Chris Gibson, OF Mateo Marquez, OF Justin Roberson
Placed on restricted list: RHP Cory Rauschenberger
Added to 40-man roster: RHP Chris Perez
Placed on 7-day DL: LHP Justin Fiske, 1B Brandon Buckman, 3B Rico Washington, OF Adron Chambers
Reinstated from DL: RHP Adam Ottavino, RHP Pete Parise, RHP Matt Scherer, LHP Justin Fiske, C Gabriel Johnson
Reinstated from inactive list: RHP Kenny Maiques