Future Redbirds

I don’t think I’ve seen this posted before but Keith Law unveiled his top 60 prospects in the upcoming draft. He noted that it’s not a projection but simply who he thinks the best 60 players are.
Shane Robinson was the Texas League position player of the week. He was also discussed in Goldstein’s [...]

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Shaun Garceau takes over Tyler Herron’s spot in the Palm Beach rotation. Daryl Jones is one of Palm Beach’s most eligible bachelors. Also, it seems that Dr. Suess is an licensing Nazi.
Kary Booher takes a look at Allen Craig as he begins to heat up at the plate. Personally, I love cold [...]

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Cardsfan1 (our Springfield tipster if you will), noted in the comments that Adam Ottavino should be back from the DL this Saturday. Kary Booher confirms this in his recap of Cory Rauschenberger’s 2nd start in place of Ottavino.
Bryan Smith, the BP college baseball & prospect guru, had a chat today that included some Cardinal [...]

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Quite the tumultuous few days in Cardinal Farmland. Parisi to the bigs. Garcia to Memphis. Reyes to Memphis. Herron to Springfield. Walters to Memphis to help with a double header. Todd is headed to Springfield on Wednesday (probably). Rauschenberger is going to take Ottavino’s place in the Springfield rotation. Got all that? Good.
Derrick Goold takes [...]

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As noted in the comments of yesterday’s DFR, Kary Booher confirms that Garcia is headed up to Memphis.
For the record, that’s twice this season commenter cardsfan1 has broken the news of Springfield promotions in our comments (with Bryan Anderson being the first about a week back).  I’d guess that either Castellanos is headed back to [...]

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The Memphis Commercial Appeal catches up with Motte for this edition of:

”They were like, ‘we’re going to turn you into a pitcher now,”’ Motte said. ”Not that I didn’t expect this, but I’ve never pitched in my life. I didn’t really know how it was going to work, or how I was going to do.”
I’ve [...]

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A couple of injury updates to lead the DFR tonight:

David Freese is listed as day-to-day with a knee contusion after making contact on a slide.
Josh Kinney went to see Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion after feeling pain in his elbow from breaking pitches. Andrews and Dr. Lewis Yocum are two names you never [...]

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Here’s an article about Tony Cruz and catching. I broke my finger (pinkie finger - my favorite finger) today so I’m struggling to type a bit. (Hence the short intro.)
Let’s get straight to the DFR. The system goes 3-for-5 tonight and the winners aren’t who you’d guess.

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I complained about the Kozma-at-18 pick the other night in a DFR, but Pete has been so good thus far this season that he deserves a look. (As an aside, I’m sure once this year’s draft comes, I’ll stop complaining about Kozma-at-18 since I’ll have other fodder.) I haven’t opened up his numbers yet [...]

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You’ll remember way back last season when our starting rotation in the bigs was absolutely terrible, I went looking for some minor league talent that could help, basically for free.  My favorite of those three options was Jack Cassel who signed a minor league contract with Houston this past season after being released by the [...]

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This might be hard to relate to for a lot of people but I’ve never identified with a single Cardinal player as the titular point of my love of baseball. I don’t have a specific attachment to Stan Musial or Albert Pujols or Bob Gibson or Chris Carpenter. I’ve liked the Cardinals as a team [...]

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I was nosing around for some notes on Mark Mulder’s rehab start in Springfield. All I found was Kary Booher’s writeup where he notes that Mulder threw 45 of 75 pitches for strikes. While that’s all well and good, until I hear that Mulder his consistently sitting in the 88-89mph range, I’m going [...]

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