If you read the comments to yesterday’s DFR, the Futures Game selections are no surprise to you, but here is Kary Booher’s article about the Cardinal prospects selected. Congrats to the guys selected. I think it says a lot about the progression of the system that we had three players selected and Colby Rasmus isn’t one of them. Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus claimed that the Cardinals don’t have any high upside prospects besides Colby, but the Futures Game selections seem to indicate otherwise. Here is an article from Baseball America that discusses the relationship between the US Futures Game team and the US Olympic team. And finally, here are the full rosters for the US team and the World team.
Palm Beach was off today, but the other five teams all had games and collectively went 3-2. All the details are after the jump.
- I am really liking Memphis’ lineup right now. Shane Robinson is up to his old tricks at the top of the lineup (4-5 with a double tonight), then you have Colby, who seems to have left his early season slump behind him (1-4 with a walk), then Mather, Phelps and Freese in the 3-4-5 slot. Then they’ve got solid hitters like Hoffpauir and Bryan Anderson (who hit his first AAA homer tonight in going 2-3 with a walk) at the bottom of the lineup. Solid all the way around.
- Jaime Garcia got the start tonight and struck out ten in 6.2 innings. He allowed five runs, but only three were earned. He gave up six hits and (importantly) did not allow a walk. He also helped himself out with the bat, going 1-3 with a two-run double.
- Mark Worrell gave up a solo homerun in his inning of work; he struck out two.
- Kelvin Jimenez pitched a perfect ninth for the save.
- Adam Ottavino had a much-needed strong outing. He went six innings and struck out five while allowing only one hit. Let’s hope that he’s gotten himself on track and will go on to have a strong second half of the season.
- Unfortunately, Jon Mikrut blew the game for Ottavino late in the game by giving up four earned runs in 1.2 innings on three hits and three walks.
- Allen Craig was 2-3 with a double and a walk.
- Mark Shorey and Brandon Yarbrough were each 2-4.
- Pete Kozma was 2-5 on the night. We may have been a little too quick to jump on the Kozma bandwagon after he excelled in a small sample size earlier in the year, but even though he has come back to Earth, he is still having a very solid season for a twenty year old in A ball. His power has faded a bit, but .272/.362/.374 is nothing to scoff at.
- Charles Kingrey was 3-3 with a homerun and three stolen bases. Matthrew Arburr also went deep for the eleventh time this season.
- Oliver Marmol and Francisco Rivera were each 2-4 and Tommy Pham was 1-3 with a walk. Marmol and Pham each also stole a base.
- Pete Parise pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, striking out four.
Johnson City 6, Elizabethton 7
- Well, Niko Vasquez didn’t get two hits tonight, but he did hit his first professional homerun. He was 1-5 on the night, striking out three times.
- Guillermo Toribio continued his hot start to the season, going 4-5 with two stolen bases on the night.
- Ivan Castro and Alex Castellanos each had two doubles. Castro was 3-4 and Castellanos was 2-4. Castellanos also made three throwing errors.
- Jairo Martinez was 1-4 with a homerun.
- Adam Veres pitched three scoreless innings, allowing three hits and a walk and striking out four.
- There was no power outage for Batavia tonight: Jermaine Curtis, Jon Edwards and C. Rosa (who?) all hit homers. Curtis and Rosa also doubled and Edwards also tripled. Curtis and Edwards were 3-5 and Rosa was 2-3.
- Shane Peterson was 2-4.
- Lance Lynn got the start and pitched 1.2 innings allowing three unearned runs on two hits and two walks while striking out one.
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I know this is getting to be an old question, but where is Wallace?
I have Monday June 30th in my When Will the Walrus Sign Pool.
Cards want to introduce him at Busch, let him take BP and talk to the media
They dont return home until that Monday
One Side note…Wallace’s buddy and supposed vacation partner, Ike Davis just signed.
So the word imminent is probably going to be thrown around by the Cards brass.
Who’s ready to get back on the Jon Edwards bandwagon?
I’m very worried that Parisi’s continued struggles will equal another cameo in St Louis for the Kelvin Jimenez hit-parade.
Yikes!
Niko is a SS, yes? Any experts think he may turn into a legit, big time prospect?
Vasquez could be a legit prospect.
Kelvin could get another shot in StL and he could do better than prior visits.
Edwards could be a legit prospect too. The Cards reinvented his swing and he has it going. He wants to be the new McGwire.
In the Daily Farrm Report, why does Johnson City get reported on before higher rung Batavia?
Beau:
I don’t have a good reason why - mistake/the randomness of how I jump around when doing the DFRs is the best answer I can give. I will make an effort to keep them in proper order from now on.
At this point, I would rather us have Kelvin Jiminez up with the big club than Mike Parisi
Great to see Garcia with a 10/0 K/BB game (and a 8/2 GB/FB tally, to boot). Too bad the 21-year-old doesn’t have a “high ceiling.” );
Nice to see Anderson flash some of the improved power he showed in AA; his BB/K has improved markedly in Memphis (14/19), and as we all know, his CS% is up to around 40%. I know the Cards want to keep him fresh, but I’d like to know what he can do with at least 5 starts a week.
I feel kind of bad for Joe Sheehan (when I’m not laughing at him, I mean). He’s twisting himself into knots trying to invent reasons the Cardinals will collapse, and he’s been doing so since the 3rd week of the season.
The Cardinal pitchers–given that Busch is playing as a pitcher’s park this year–have a supposedly “out-of-whack” HR rate that is in fact barely better than league average, if at all.
And the “whole bunch” of players having “career years”? Well, there’s Ludwick (who mashed in the minors), Wellemeyer (who’s simply doing *exactly* what he did after coming to the Cards last year), and…who else? Schumaker, I suppose. And if Skip weren’t hitting, Mather probably would be.
This team isn’t going anywhere, Mr. Sheehan. They’ll be closer to 100 wins than the 69 victories you predicted.
Of course, even when the Cards win 90+ games, it won’t mean anything to poor Rationalizin’ Joe. As he took pains to point out, St. Louis is in a “weak league” anyway. Funny stuff.
Molina and Pujols are having career years by EqA. Schumaker is torching his equivalencies. Same goes for Ludwick and Ankiel, though Rick hit this well in his call up last year. Miles is having a career year as well.
OK, then I guess it’s a matter of semantics for me, haltz. “Best year so far” and “career year” have never been identical in my mind. A “Career year” is much more out of whack (to borrow Sheehan’s expression) with one’s previous performances–see D. Lee of a few years ago.
Rosa who?
St Louis acquired C Christian Rosa 6/23 from the Rockford RiverHawks (Frontier League) and assigned him to Batavia.
Roark- the Springfield box score link jumps to the Memphis game. Not sure if that is worth fixing, but…
Peterson and Curtis are starting to impress.
Allen Craig needs to find his power stroke back. That kid needs a solid season of 22 - 30 jacks to stay on the franchise radar screen.
Just want to thank all of you at Future Redbirds for the excellent job you continue to do. Always well done.
Anywho, on to random comments: (1) Why don’t we bring up Jaime In August (assuming he is still doing what he is doing now) to be our shut down LHRP? Seems to me that with Villone’s good splits and Garcia’s progress he could get the job done whether as a LOOGY or a one full inning lefty (assuming we don’t need him as a starter of course) and
(2) Remind me on the rule 5 - Do HS players that were drafted in 2005 need to be protected this year (your Daryl Jones or Tyler Herron’s….)
(3) Shouldn’t Worrell be in the bigs vs. Parisi? Seems like he has been groomed to do exactly what the Cards have needed lately… Parisi needs to be piching in the minors or at the MLB level with nada on the the line to get his confidence back…
Crud - sorry about the bad link. I can’t fix it from here, but I will when I get home.
As for Jaime being a LOOGY: I think one of the worries is prep time coming out of the bullpen. I suspect that worry is overblown, but then again, I’d hate for Garcia to get injured because we used him to patch the lefthanded hole in the big league bullpen.
I don’t know the answer to the rule 5 question (maybe I’ll do a bit of research later).
I would much prefer Worrell to Parisi or Jimenez, but I’ve been saying that since March. His power bat off the bench would be nice, too.
I don’t think H.S. players drafted in 2005 have to be protected until next year.
Yes, Sheehan is funny. When he isn’t writing about the cardinals or cubs, he is a great writer, but throw either of those two teams into the discussion and he loses his mind.
Shane Robinson may complicate the schumaker decision next spring…