Kary Booher has the rundown on the Springfield game. It’s a bullpen start as Mark McCormick goes back to get a medical opinion on his shoulder. Booher also name drops Justin Fiske (I believe Liam is the one who has been trumpeting the lefty recently) as a guy to watch. As much as I like Booher’s writing, I’m not a fan of his music selections.
Indtroducing (?) Allen Vaughn of the Springfield News-Leader as he starts what appears to be a weekly column called “Shuffling the Cards“. The column is solid although I cringed at what he implies is a causation rather than a correlation (and probably a very tenuous one at that) between Shane Robinson’s promotion and the Memphis winning streak.
Is it too coincidental that the winning streak was jump-started when Shane Robinson was promoted?
Absolutely not.
Actually, it probably is. But A for effort. Also, Nick Additon is 6′3″ and just 170lbs — does he look like a stringbean on the mound? One thing I love reading is “Daryl Jones is 21 years old.” Say it aloud. It just rolls off the tongue.
Congrats to Matthew Arburr who earned co-Offensive Player of the Week award for the Midwest League.
A tip of the hat to Jess Todd and Matthew North who won Pitcher of the Week awards for the Texas League and Appalachian League respectively.
- Joe Mather goes 1-for-3 with a pair of walks.
- Josh Phelps was 2-for-3.
- Bryan Anderson cannot be contained. He went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, a triple and a walk. He’s hitting .331 with an OBP over .400 and an OPS over .800. Who could ask for anything more?
- PJ Walters was awfully hittable over 5 innings. He allowed 6 singles, a double and a triple for 2 ER. He did strike out 5 while walking just 1. He also had 6 groundouts against 2 flyouts. A nice outing but far from dominant.
- Matt Clement threw a scoreless inning striking out 2 and walking 1. Baby steps.
- Mark Worrell was the extra inning goat. He allowed 2 runs (1 earned) on 2 walks, 1 hit and a pair of strikeouts. To be frank, he needs to get it together if he wants to claim a bullpen spot in the bigs he’s got probably less than a year before guys like Salas and Gregerson are gonna creep up behind him — not to mention Jason Motte.
- Jose Martinez was 2-for-5. He’s hitting .227 on the season. If any single player has had his stock fall farther, I’m not sure I can name them. . .
- Allen Craig goes 2-for-4 with a double.
- Congrats Brandon Yarbrough, you get a golden sombrero.
- Tyler Greene was 3-for-4.
- Andrew Brown was 2-for-3 with a walk. He kinda snuck up to Springfield when I wasn’t looking but he had excellent power numbers (ISO > .200) at both Palm Beach and Quad Cities.
- Kyle Sadlowski gave the Cardinals 5 solid if unspectacular innings. Not bad for a bullpen start.
- Marco Gonzalez struck out 2 and picked up the win with 2 perfect innings.
- Fernando Salas had a rough go of it collecting his 13th save as he allowed 2 runs over 2 innings.M
- Tyler Henley goes 1-for-4 with a double. Has he been the most impressive position player thus far from the ‘07 draft or am I forgetting someone.
- Daryl Jones goes 1-for-3 with a walk.
- Luke Gorsett goes 1-for-3 with a HR.
- Brian Cartie goes 2-for-4 with a double.
- A nice outing for Tyler Norrick who goes 5 innings allowing 2 ER. The lefty allowed 3 hits, 2 walks and struck out 7.
- Elvis Hernandez struck out 4 over 2 scoreless innings allowing 1 hit and 2 walks.
- Casey Mulligan (aka Jason Motte v. 2.0) had a blip tonight retiring just 1 batter. He allowed 2 hits and an ER. We don’t seem to have many readers from the PB area but does anyone know what his velocity is?
- Francisco Samuel allowed just a hit while striking out 2 for his 16th save.
- Yes, that 17 is correct.
- Nicholas Peoples went 1-for-4 with a HR.
- Domnit Bolivar went 2-for-4 with a HR. That’s longballs in back to back games for Bolivar.
- Roberto Espinoza went 2-for-3 with a walk.
- Most of the blame goes to Brian Broderick who allowed 9 ER on 12 hits while recording 4 outs.
- After some duds in the middle relief, Matt Spade sat down 5 batters allowing just a hit.
- Pete Parise allowed 3 hits but also struck out 3 in his inning of work.
- CF Frederick Parejo went 2-for-5 with a double.
- C Blake Murphy went 2-for-4 with a HR.
- 1B Xavier Scruggs went 2-for-4 with a HR.
- Beau Riportella was 3-for-4 with a double.
- Great pitching from start to finish. Miguel Tapia started out with 5 innings allowing 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out 7. 2008 Draftee Scott Gorgen followed him up with 3 innings of no hit ball walking 2 and striking out 5. Hector Cardenas finished off the game with a perfect 9th striking out 1.
- SS Guillermo Toribio went 2-for-4 with a walk.
- C Ivan Castro was 2-for-3 with a HR and a walk.
- CF Travis Mitchell was 0-for-1 but walked twice.
- Reynier Gonzalez started out with 5 innings with only 1 unearned run. He allowed 4 hits, 2 walks and struck out 5.
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Screw pitcher of the week! Cant we just give Todd Texas League Pitcher of the Year!!!
While Anderson is doing a fantastic job i would love to see a few more homers out of him.
“Daryl Jones is only 21″, it does roll off the tongue doesn’t it.
Anderson’s 6th error of the year was a costly one! He allowed what turned out to be the GW run to score on a failed pickoff play at 3rd with 2 outs in the 10th.
Memphis had 2nd and 3rd nobody out in the 10th after Barden’s RBI single made it 5-4. Colby flew out to make it 1st and 3rd, but Mather hit a weak fly ball that wasn’t deep enough for Hoffpauir to score, and Phelps couldn’t get it down with 2 outs.
Walters got hit on a come backer for the 2nd start in a row, Colby has been more aggressive on the bases this week stealing 4 bags, New Orleans pitchers threw away 2 balls on pickoffs plays trying to keep him close last series.
Brett Wallace will be at Busch on Tuesday to take physical in what seems to bte last hurdle to him becoming a Cardinals
Per Derrick Goold in the Cards Notes
Probably means we will see Wallace in Iowa by Friday!
Mulligan throws 91-92. In 2.1 innings pitched he has 2 hits, 1 run, 2 strike outs and 0 walks. In the GCL he pitched in 2 games, 3.2 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 2 walks, 6 strike outs and 1 pick off. Lets hope he is Motte the 2nd.
Come on! I have seen Addition in person. No way he is less than 200 lbs…
What was Henley’s draft position?
I believe Henley was a 10th rounder
How about “Bryan Anderson is 21″.
I see your Jose Martinez and raise you a Kenny Maiques…
Anyone have any insight on Ivan Castro? Kid is putting up solid numbers for JC in his redo. Any scouting perks, or is he just your run of the mill filler?
Anderson also threw out 3 of 4 would be base stealers.
Before the season when everyone was ranking prospects I was really high on Maiques. I guess my scouting career is over before it began.
At least my Lenny Dykstra 2.0, Tyler Henley, is back healthy.
How about “Daryl Jones, who just turned 21 last week”? If, like me, you occasionally check the intoxicating Davenport Translations of young Mr. Jones, bear in mind he’s being graded as a 21-year-old—and if he were one *week* younger, he’d be just 20 in baseball years…in which case his Peak Translation would be through the roof. A month ago, I’d have said trade him while his stock is up, but now he’s borderline untouchable for me.
Thanks, Todd, I hadn’t even noticed the CS’s by Anderson. Fantastic game by BA, even with the error.
Nice to see the 17-year-old Freddy Parejo garner his first couple of hits for Batavia. If he can hold his own in the NY-Penn League at that age, he becomes a top 10-15 Redbird prospect. At the least.
Interesting tidbit from today’s Birdland at Stltoday:
“Mitch Harris, the Naval Academy grad and 13th-round pick, remains a possibility even as he’s started his training and prepared to report for active duty. ”
Not sure how likely a possibility - but good news none-the-less.
Did anybody see that Mark Diapoules got promoted from QC to Palm Beach.
I think Ivan Castro has been around a couple of years so I assume he isn’t that highly thought of, but I do see he is putting up good numbers.
In my opinion, Steve Hill has been the most impressive position player thus far from the 2007 draft.
Henley, Hill and Kingrey. Top 3 2007 position draftees, in that order.
I talked to Hill before the game last night. He said he is still 6 more weeks from returning to the lineup. That makes it mid August. They waited a week before they did surgery. He also told me the pin comes out in 3 weeks. I was hoping he would be back sooner.
On another note Greene has his average higher than Martinez now with more power and speed. I can’t figure Martinez out. The ball is just not jumping off his bat like it did last year. Alot of popup’s and ground ball double plays.
mike — Hill’s a good call as well. I knew someone was slipping my mind. I could see an argument for either.
I just went to a game last night. They now have Additon listed as 6′4″ and 205lbs. That seems much more likely. The website must have height and weight from last season or an old scouting report.
What’s up with PJ Walters throwing on 2 days rest in this game?
Just noticed that.
He only threw 2 innings on his last outing.