Erik chiming in here with a quick update: Friend of the blog Keith Law will be on with Jeff Gordon on 590 The Fan at 12:30pm today.
This is old, but I had not seen it before. The Hardball Times analyzes the top draft picks, including scouting video. The bit on Brett Wallace is interesting, comparing his swing to Prince Fielder’s.
The Cardinals finally gave in and put Colby on the DL with his groin injury. Groin injuries seem to linger - I strained mine a couple of years ago and it wouldn’t go away until I finally stopped doing anything for two weeks.
All the teams were in action today and finished 2-4 on the night. All the details are after the jump.
- Shane Robinson hit his first homerun at AAA. He was 2-4 and also had a double.
- Jarrett Hoffpauir was 2-3 with a double and a walk.
- Uncle Rico Washington was 3-4 with a double.
- Mike Parisi had a bit of a bad night, he gave up five runs (four earned) in four innings on six hits and five(!) walks. He also struck out five.
- Ron Flores Randy Flores threw two scoreless innings, Mark Worrell threw one and Jason Motte pitched a scoreless final inning with two strikeouts.
NW Arkansas 11, Springfield 10
- The normally untouchable Jess Todd gave up six runs on six hits and four walks over 4.2 innings. He struck out five.
- In spite of Todd’s off-night, the Cardinals had a shot to win this game going into the ninth, but Fernando Salas also struggled, giving up five runs on five hits in just two thirds of an inning.
- Justin Fiske pitched a perfect inning in relief, striking out all three men he faced.
- Allen Craig and Andrew Brown were each 2-4 with a homerun. Brown also doubled.
- Matt Pagnozzi was 3-3 with two doubles.
- James Rapoport was 1-4 with a triple and had an assist from the outfield.
- Matthew Arburr was 2-4 with a homer and a double.
- Luke Gorsett and Daniel Descalso also went yard. Gorsett was 2-4 and Descalso was 1-4.
- Tyler Henley was also 2-4 with a double.
- My Dad’s favorite minor leaguer, Brandon Dickson had a solid outing, giving up one run over seven innings. He gave up six hits and three walks while striking out four.
- Brett Wallace was 1-3 with a homerun and a walk. I’m already looking forward to seeing him next year in Spring Training.
- Nicholas Peoples also homered, he was 1-4.
- Nick Additon had his first bad outing since, well, maybe all year. He gave up six runs on seven hits and two walks over four innings. He struck out five.
- Non-Cardinal Note: Sean Coughlin, South Bend’s catcher, went 2-4 with a walk, two homeruns and seven rbi. So if you’ve got him in your Low A Fantasy League, I hope you started him.
- Shane Peterson was 1-2 with a pair of walks.
- Jose Garcia was 1-3 with a walk.
- Jermaine Curtis and Jon Edwards were each 1-3 with a walk.
- Jameson Maj gave up two runs on four hits over five innings. He struck out six.
- Ramon Delgado went three innings, allowing a run on three hits and striking out a pair.
- Adam Reifer finished the game off with a scoreless inning, striking out one.
- Alex Castellanos was 2-3 with a homerun.
- Jairo Martinez was 1-4 with a homerun.
- Curt Smith was 1-4 with a double.
- The well-named Johnny Bravo took the loss, but didn’t pitch that poorly. He was betrayed a bit by his defense as only one of the three runs he gave up was earned. He pitched four innings and gave up seven hits and two walks while striking out five.
- Matthew North was also betrayed by his defense (two of his four runs were earned), but he pitched poorly, too. He only lasted 1.2 innings and gave up five hits and two walks.
- Matthew Frevert pitched 1.1 scoreless innings and Samuel Freeman pitched two scoreless innings.
Filed under: Brett Wallace, Colby Rasmus, Daily Farm Reports
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Randy not Ron Flores pitched for Memphis tonight
Randy not Ron pitched.
Also I’m going to be at the Memphis series verse Oklahoma all 4 games so if there is any video, reports, or any other things anybody wants. Just tell me or you can e-mail be at sooneralec023@yahoo.com
is there an echo in here?
As the unofficial head of the Jameson Maj fanclub, it’s my duty to point out that the first inning home run in the Batavia game is the first HR allowed by Maj since 2/11/2007.
Think it pissed him off, seeing that he struck out the next six batters in order.
Gary Daley……I hope you didnt spend all the bonus money.
Time to find a new profession.
P’fork….it’s almost unbelievable. 5 ER, 4 walks, 3 wild pitches and a hit by pitch. it’s beyond weird.
Sean Coughlin helped me in a head to head for the week. I was trailing by 3 points but with his awesome night tonight, I picked up 4.5 and will likely win the like in my Low A Roto League.
win the week, not like..doofus.
I didn’t even know there were low a roto leagues. Fantasy baseball..crazy business.
There aren’t.
Atleast, I don’t think there are.
BTW, that link to the swing analysis only makes my heart hurt just a tad more that we couldn’t lose more games than Oakland last year. Despite being out in front a bit, Jemile Weeks swing reminds me a lot of Hanley Ramirez.
I was really hoping that Weeks would have still been on the board when the Cardinals were picking and that they’d get him. I think he is going to be a fantastic everyday player. Hell, he’d probably be the starting 2B in St. Louis by midway through 2010 if he’d been picked.
Eric-
I wouldn’t worry about it. Every time I see someone mention Luna, I start wondering when Hector made a comeback…
The guys at Saber-Scouting have their Draft Review podcast up now. Pretty good stuff. They start off talking about Shane Peterson and Scott Gorgen.
Salas is going to the futures game to replace Jaime.
Also, Tyler Norrick will be getting the start in Memphis tomorrow in place of Jaime.
Wow. That’s a big jump up for Norrick. Thanks cardsfan. I had heard about Salas, but just hadn’t said anything just yet.
Don’t let it bother you about Weeks, HL. The Cards drafted Mike Ferris a few spots before the Red Sox picked Dustin Pedroia–now THAT’S painful. (And the main reason I do not trust the Redbirds to properly scout college players. Sigh.)
On a brighter note, Bier & Marquez (17 and 16 years old, respectively) were excellent again for the VSL Cards. The organization is *great* at scouting kids.
Bob, that was years ago. They didn’t even have crosscheckers then, now they have beefed up their scouting. It does hurt, but hopefully it doesn’t happen again.
i still don’t know what the problem was with mike ferris. at that time he was considered the steal of the draft by a lot of publications.
Does anyone else think that if Bryan Anderson is not deemed ready at the start of next year the Cards could do a that worse than putting Matt Pagnozzi in the backup catcher spot? His defense is supposed to be great and while he won’t hit, its better than paying someone else a lot more to probably do the same thing.
Salas took Garcia’s spot on the World Team roster.
How long before Flores is recalled as the “bullpen savior”?
Getting back Flores would be like getting an impact reliever at the deadline
Damaso Marte has nothing on Randy Flores.
Anybody have an update on Keith Law’s chat with Gordon this afternoon?
heh, it looks like saberscouting.com has mark mulder in his cardinals uni as their front-page symbol. unfortunately, they might have to change that to an active athlete soon.
Did Boggs get taken off the 40 man?
http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/team/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=stl
How can you blame any one for not drafting Pedroia? Hell, the Red Sox couldn’t give him away before last year.
Does anyone other than me ever wonder why the QC Cards have players like Adron Chambers (.225/.316/.328) or Roberto Espinoza (.194/.284/..239) or Osvaldo Morales (.194/.240/.312 with Ks in more than 40% of ABs) playing at Low A while Jon Edwards, a third-year pro, is hitting .300/.424/.586 at Batavia? With an OPS of more than 1.000 and a cannon of a RF arm, I find it hard to believe that Edwards doesn’t deserve to be enjoying the MWL right now.