Now that it is mid-season, Kevin Goldstein is starting to look back at his pre-season Top 100 to see where they are at now. According to KG, Bryan Anderson’s stock is up, and Chris Perez is now about where he was then.
Don’t tell DanUp, but GUB isn’t the only place former 1st round pick Chris Lambert is haunting. It appears Fangraphs has taken notice of Lambert’s decent pitching in AAA.
I was at the Cedar Rapids/Quad Cities game tonight, I’ll have a full report tomorrow around noon. For now, on to the DFR!
Mulder was garbage in a rehab outing. Film at 11.
Nick Stavinoha doubled, homered and walked.
Jarrett Hoffpauir doubled.
Colby walked and singled. How many games in a row is that now where he has reached base?
Springfield 9, Arkansas 8 (11 innings)
Jon Jay went 2 for 4 with a HR and 2 BB. I’m liking this power surge he’s shown lately. I’m liking everything he’s doing lately, for that matter.
Andrew Brown is putting himself on the map as of late, going 2 for 6 with a HR and a SB.
Tyler Greene doubled and tripled. I have a weird feeling he’s going to have an insane 2nd half.
Mark Hamilton went 2 for 5 including a 2B.
Casey Rowlett went 2 for 5 with a SB.
Fernando Salas blew a save, allowing 2 runs on 3 hits and 2 BB over 2 IP. After being nigh-unhittable for the first two or so months of the season, suddenly he’s gone thud.
Kyle Sadlowski started, going 4 innings, allowing 1 ER on 3 hits and 2 walks with 1 K.
Palm Beach 5, Jupiter 8 (11 innings)
Brandon Buckman went 2 for 6 with a HR.
Brian Cartie went 2 for 3 with 2 BB.
Arnoldi Cruz went 2 for 6 with a double.
Shaun Garceau went 3 innings, allowed a run on 2 hits and 1 walk with 4 k’s.
Elvis Hernandez allowed 3 runs on 4 hits and a walk, with 4 K’s.
Kenny Maiques blew the save, allowing a run on 2 hits, a HBP and a walk over 1.2. He picked up 3 K’s.
Francisco Samuel allowed 3 runs on 4 hits a HBP and a walk over 1.2, with 2 K’s.
Pete Kozma doubled and walked.
Matt Arburr went 2 for 4 with a walk.
Tommy Pham went 3 for 4 with a triple and a steal.
Francisco Rivera went 3 for 4 with 2 doubles.
Nick Additon allowed 2 runs on 2 walks and 7 hits over 4 IP, with 2 K’s.
Blake King threw 2 perfect innings with 4 K’s.
Pete Parise struck out 2 in 1 perfect inning.
Only three hits for Batavia, Chris Swauger had 2 of them.
Xavier Scruggs went 0 for 2 but picked up 2 walks.
Angel Tapia allowed 2 runs on 4 hits and 5 walks over 4 IP.
Lefty Hector Cardenas allowed 4 runs, (2 earned) over his 1 inning.
JC 4, Bristol 3 (10 innings)
Niko Vasquez went 2 for 4 in his debut. I have high hopes for this kid.
Ivan Castro went 2 for 3 with a HR.
Edgar Lara homered.
Osvaldo Morales went 3 for 5 with a double and a triple.
Guillermo Toribio stole 2 bases. He must have some wheels, he has 5 in just 3 games.
Jonny Bravo struck out 6 over 3.1 innings, allowing a run on 4 hits and a walk. “Now do the monkey with me!”
Matthew North went 5 innings, allowed 2 runs on 2 solo HR. He struck out 6.
Ryde Rodriguez picked up his first professional hit in the GCL Cards loss to the GCL Marlins, 3-2.
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I believe that’s 30 consecutive games where Colby Rasmus has reached safely, but I could be wrong. Maybe a little less?
Mulder’s results said ‘garbage’ but his actual performance wasn’t that bad.
Well, Mulder gave up only one extra-base hit out of the 10 hits he surrendered, so that’s an encouraging sign, but he also gave up all of those hits in 3.2 innings and walked 2 guys, which isn’t encouraging in addition to the fact that he threw 86 pitches. His GO/FO ratio was 3/5, which you can’t really judge until you see if any of those were pop ups, but you can’t really call that a decent outting. The 3 K’s was also one of the other few positives you could take away.
He’s still a ways away from making any type of decent contribution in the majors, and I personally don’t think he ever will.
Wouldn’t it be prudent for the Cardinals to promote Stavinoha to DH, and go ahead and move Jay up to AAA? They could remove Washington from the 40 man roster, as I doubt anyone is going to make a move for him. Even if they did, his usefulness has been used up.
For all the good work Stavinoha has done this year, Baseball Prospectus’ translations have him at an EQA of .260. While that would be a definite improvement over the .245 that Duncan is actually putting up, it wouldn’t exactly set the world on fire.
Is Mather hurt? I’ve noticed he hasn’t been in the DFR lately?
Mather has a sore back, if it was serious you would have expected them to use the 7 day DL but they haven’t so I am not sure, he did PH last night from what I understand.
Here are the moves I think need to be made:
Carp to 60 day DL
Washington DFA
Yadi to 15 day DL
Duncan to Memphis
Rasmus and Stavinoha up
Ludwick plays 1B
Stav and Barton DH
That to me is our best chance of winning these AL games.
I am not in favor of promoting Da Raz mid-season. His well-established pattern of struggling at a new level before figuring it out (and how) is incompatible with a mid-season call-up unless you’re willing to let him struggle in the bigs. The team is not, and should not be, willing to do that, given that they are definitely in the post-season hunt (and will be even if the interleague goes badly, nay-sayers notwithstanding). His time will come soon enough.
Agree about DFA’ing Uncle Rico. He’s a good story and seems like a nice guy, but he’s not a major leaguer.
Erik, I was also at the Cedar Rapids game last night. I wrote some thoughts on the minor league thread over at the forum at scout.com… I won’t have computer access this afternoon so I’ll have to wait until later to see your thoughts. Where did you sit? I was between home plate and the Cedar Rapids dugout…Yes, I was the guy getting the ovation from the crowd after my one-handed catch of a foul ball in the first inning.
Supposedly Parisi up Thompson down
Mulder’s first inning:
1. Called out on strikes
2. Ground single to center
3. Walk (following a stolen base)
4. Fly out to center
5. Walk
6. Infield single on grounder to second
7. Ground ball single to center
8. Line drive single to right
9. Ground ball single to right
10. Fly ball out to right
So, Mulder’s horrible inning consisted largely of four ground ball singles and two walks.
I would say that HL is not dirty is on target. Mulder was far short of great, but he had a run of bad luck.
Parisi and Thompson are probably interchangeable parts at this stage, although Parisi did perform pretty well in a relief role earlier in the season. I think he at least deserves the second look.
I really hope the Cards are careful with Molina. Wins and losses will come and go without him behind the plate, they need to think long-term both for his career and for his personal health. Make sure he is absolutely, without question, 100%.
Has Stavinoha surpassed Mather for the next callup in the OF/1B role, if necessary? I submit that he has.
“Rasmus extended his hitting streak to 11 games and has reached base safely in 29 straight.”
http://memphis.redbirds.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080619&content_id=420166&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&sid=t235
If Mather is healthy, then there is no doubt that he deserves another shot over Stavinoha in my mind. He is vastly superior in ISO and walk rate, and the fact that Mather didn’t light the world on fire in his first 41 Major League PA’s doesn’t change that.
Admittedly I didn’t look much beyond the boxscore on Mulder’s performance. I just don’t have much hope for him regardless, and I guess I’d rather talk about prospects here, not rehabbers. Sorry. I’ll try and look more closely next time, because I know there is some interest amongst readership here.
Walt–I remember that, someone in my sections was like “did you see that, a Cardinal fan got that ball”. I couldn’t see you too well, I was right behind homeplate, toward the away dugout.
Mather must be more hurt than let on because it is inexcusable for us to carry 13 pitchers and no legit DH option going into interleague play.
I’d love to see Mather get another shot. His first 25 ABs were very good and then he struggled for a week and was banished.
Bill — he didn’t struggle at all in Spring Training. He was great right out of the gate.
HL — this is the same injury that sidelined Mather earlier in the year. They’re calling it “back spasms” but it’s hard to know what that really means.
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