Hope you all had a Happy 4th. One thing I miss about living in St. Louis is celebrating the 4th of July. Cedar Rapids does a decent job with their fireworks I suppose, but I miss the barbecue pork steaks drenched in Maulls with some cole slaw on the side, the VP Fair, and all the other fun happenings. Plus now you have the Cubs are in town for a pivotal series; I envy you non-displaced St. Louisans right now.
The Crew at Scout have a little more info on the international signings. I’m pretty excited about Pina and Franco in particular.
The farm goes 3-for-6 tonight.
Josh Phelps 2-for-4, 2 HR.
Joe Mather 1-for-4, HR.
David Freese 2-for-4.
D’Angelo Jimenez 2-for-3, BB.
Mike Parisi 7.2 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K.
Josh Phelps and Joe Mather provided the fireworks tonight in Memphis. Say what you will about Mike Parisi, but he’s been dominant over his last 4 starts-1.14 ERA over 31.1 innings with 20 K’s to 4 walks.
Allen Craig 2-for-4, 2B.
Adam Daniels 3 IP, 6 H, 8 ER, 4 BB, 3 K.
Kyle Sadlowski 3 IP, 1 H, 1 BB.
Luke Gregerson 2 IP, 2 H, 3 K.
I’m not sure what is keeping Daniels out of the bullpen. He’s left-handed, throws a slider, and can’t help himself from being pasted all over the park. Left-handers have pasted him, too, albeit he hasn’t faced many of them. I’d venture to say it’s because Texas League managers are loading their lineups with RH batters when facing him.
Matt Arburr 1-for-3, HR, 1 BB, 1 K.
Tyler Henley 0-for-2, 2 BB, CS.
Daryl Jones 0-for-4, 2 K.
Luke Gorsett 1-for-4, 2B.
Brandon Dickson 7 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K.
Elvis Hernandez 1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 K.
Mark Diapoules 1 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2 HBP.
For a non-drafted free agent, Brandon Dickson is proving himself at every level so far. Matt Arburr homered in his first High A at bat. Daryl Jones hit lead off tonight. Sad to see one of my favorite sleepers Mark Daipoules blow up in his first High A appearance tonight. Maybe it was nerves, his hometown is Palm Beach.
Pete Kozma 4-for-6, 2B, 2 RBI, SB, 1 K.
Thomas Pham 2-for-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI.
Paul Vasquez 3-for-5, 2B.
Brett Wallace 1-for-3, 2 HBP.
Aaron Luna 0-for-4, 1 BB, 1 K.
Francisco Rivera 2-for-5, 2B.
Adron Chambers 1-for-4, 3B, 2 BB.
Nicholas Additon 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HR.
Jared Bradford 2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 K.
Pete Kozma needed a game like this, he had been hitting .194 in his previous 36 at bats. I’m pretty surprised to see Aaron Luna jump up to the QC some of the other hitters drafted ahead of him. If Pham could ever learn to make consistent contact, then wow. He’s slugging .500 but batting only .219 in 180 plate appearances for the QC. Non-drafted free agent C Paul Vasquez is hitting .323/.380/.484. He’s 23, so obviously he’s pretty old for his level but you don’t see too many NDFA’s do as well as he has.
Jonathan Edwards 2-for-3, 2B, HR, 1 BB, 1 K.
Shane Peterson 3-for-4, 1 BB.
Chris Swauger 1-for-3, HR, 1 BB, 1 K.
Xavier Scruggs 1-for-4, 2B.
Charles Cutler 1-for-4, 2B.
Colt Sedbrook 1-for-5, 3B.
Jose Garcia 1-for-2, 3 BB.
Ramon Delgado 5 IP, 4 H, 1 K, 11 GO/AO 11-2.
Jameson Maj 3 IP, 2 H, 2 K.
LaCurtis Mayes 1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 1 HR.
Jon Edwards is a beast; he’s up to .380/.492/.780 over 50 at bats. Shane Peterson upped his average to .352, but out of his 19 hits only 2 have gone for extra bases. Matt Gorgen pitched a perfect 2 strikeout inning for Hudson Valley, he’s Scott Gorgen’s twin.
Matt North 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 K.
Jon Bravo 3.1, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 HR.
JC was one hit tonight, and the only hit came from OF Paul Cruz…I have no idea who he even is. Nico Vasquez went 0-for-3 with 2 K. Matt North is begging for a call up. The tall 20 year old RHP now has 22 K’s to 5 BB over 19 IP, with only 11 hits allowed. He has a ground out to fly out ratio of 2.2. Pretty nifty. North is a 9th round pick out of high school in 2006.
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If Motte could’ve retired the first batter he faced, Parisi would’ve had a shutout.
As good as the Cardinals seem to be at finding and developing outfield bats as of late, it’s pretty amazing to me that they’ve really failed to develop a single infield bat in the farm system. Even Allen Craig is struggling and he’s the best bet. Weird.
Does Edwards get the aggressive promotion soon if this continues? It is his 3rd year in the system. Or they could look at the rate he K’s and the fact he is only 20, and let him (hopefully) experience success for a complete season in Batavia.
I’d like to see how it plays in QC at some point this year. Even if just for 50-100 AB’s.
Az- agreed. How does a team develop so much righthanded pitching and outfielders, yet be so bereft of lefties and infielders. Are they just looking for the wrong things, or is it simple bad luck?
Of course, their willingness to move Tommy Pham to center field after not even a full season at his drafted position doesn’t help matters any. That one still really puzzles me.
Weird indeed — it really goes in cycles.
When we traded away Adam Kennedy and Jack Wilson in 2000, then Placido Polanco in 2002, it seemed like middle infielders were easy to find, and cheap to acquire.
Now we don’t really have anyone above A ball who profiles as a solid-average major leaguer, and the guys in A ball and below are exciting but are a long way from InBev Stadium.
On the bright side, Glaus looks like he can give us a couple of good years at third, at least.
But even an optimist would acknowledge that we’ll have to go outside the org to get middle infielders for the next 2-3 years.
Dearth of infield bats in the system. Add to the list from above (Tommy Pham move out of MI to OF, rraded Kennedy, Wilson, and Polanco) … Skip Shumaker moved from SS to OF.
How sweet would it be if Shumaker was still a MI? Move his bat to 2B and then Ludwick plays every day in RF, maybe move Joe Mather up as the 5th OF. Our system has a ton of 4th / 5th outfielders as others have noted. I still would like the team to send Skip to winter ball to play 2B then try to move him there in spring training in 2009. Kennedy is showing enough this season that we will be able to trade over the winter if we are willing to eat some of his contract.
Am I mistaken, or did Colby just sit two days in a row? Why would that be? Injury, call up, trade??? I hope it isn’t the latter.
redbaaron, there is a third possible explanation (besides bad talent assessment or simple bad luck), and that is simply poor ability to develop talent at those positions. Was Tyler Greene really a bad choice at that position of the draft? Or did we just fail to develop his particular skill set in a way that would have let him turn the corner by now?
Todd:
I think it is actually three games in a row. Someone said in the comments yesterday that he has a sore hip flexor muscle.
Can we maybe get a post this week about why parisi hasn’t been able to translate well to the majors this year?
To me..it seems like if you dont get your SS via the HS or Latin route…you have a hard time finding one drafting college players.
I could just be seeing things thru my heavy slanted HS drafting eyes, though.
I’ll be at the Sprinfield - Frisco game tonight to see Jess Todd destroy us all, anybody else going? I’ll be wearing a navy blue Cardinals cap and sitting down the first base line, feel free to say hi if you see me chasing a couple of kids around.
Sidd-
You could be right, you know. Maybe the Cards just don’t do a good job working with kids that play those positions. Although, in the case of Greene, I would contend that he has to be considered a bad pick, as the Cards passed on Clay Buccholz to take Greene, after Buccholz had a rough workout at Busch Stadium.
OK, Schumaker once played shortstop. So did Joe Mather. Lots of players grow out of middle infield positions in every organization.
I don’t think the middle infield issue is due to a lack of effort. Most teams have an unbalanced distribution of prospects. It’s just the way things work out: If you roll a dice 60 times, you are unlikely to get every amount exactly ten different times.
I was at the QC game last night. Phams HR was a monster shot that would have probably gone 400+ if not for a fence that it hit.
Additon was solid again although they didn’t have a gun going showing his velocity. He may end up being a usefull lefty reliever for us at some point.
Wallace didn’t swing at any bad pitches, his eye is as good as advertised so far. He got a few chances to show off the glove and I think he’ll be fine at 3rd (as long as he doesn’t put on lots of weight). At worst he may be another Troy Glaus. He’s not going to win any gold gloves but he’s certainly not going to hurt. Time will tell on all that of course.
I’ll be at tonights game as well, I’ll try to get a few pics but my 2 year old son will be with us and that will make it a little tricky