Posted on July 10, 2008 by roarke49
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, [...]
Filed under: Brett Wallace, Colby Rasmus, Daily Farm Reports | 28 Comments »
Posted on July 9, 2008 by roarke49
Kevin Goldstein’s Future Shock [subscription only] series hit the NL Central today and he gave an update on what his Top 11 Cardinals prospects have been up to. I know that no matter what he does, someone will complain - and it is nice that he covered a lot of ground, talking about more prospects [...]
Filed under: Daily Farm Reports, Justin Fiske | 33 Comments »
Posted on July 6, 2008 by roarke49
[erik update: Recently I was approached by the folks at the Batavian and was asked to provide a who's who on the Muckdogs roster. It's not for pay or anything, so here's the link.]
Here is a profile of Andrew Brown from Kary Booher. Brown has come on strong this season, hitting for power and average [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by roarke49
In addition to the signing that Erik posted about earlier, Derrick Goold is reporting that the Cardinals are set to announce a total of six international signings. He has all the details about the players in this article.
Kyle Mura got the call up to Springfield to make the start tonight, all the details are below, [...]
Filed under: Bryan Anderson, Daily Farm Reports, Kyle Mura | 8 Comments »
Posted on July 2, 2008 by roarke49
This chat roundup discusses the Cardinals interest in Brian Fuentes and Matt Holliday. This quote, in particular, caught my attention:
“Certainly the Rockies are fishing for prospects and names such as (OF Colby) Rasmus, (C Bryan) Anderson and (LHP Jaime) Garcia will be thrown around. John Mozeliak insists he is not going to trade Rasmus. I [...]
Filed under: Daily Farm Reports | 27 Comments »
Posted on June 26, 2008 by roarke49
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 [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by roarke49
What’s been going on? I leave town for a week to see the Cardinals in Boston and to catch a game at Yankee Stadium [sorry, I couldn't help the self-promotion, I'll keep it to a minimum] and all of a sudden the number of prospects to follow seems to have doubled and The Red Baron [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by roarke49
Last time we took a look at the catchers, which is a top-heavy group led by Bryan Anderson. The first basemen, on the other hand, don’t have a lot at the top, with non-prospect Josh Phelps holding down the Memphis job and Mark Hamilton struggling at Springfield. The best talent we have at the position [...]
Filed under: Brandon Buckman, Carlos Pupo, Charlie Pelt, Josh Phelps, Mark Hamilton, Prospects by Position, Steven Hill | 9 Comments »
Posted on June 12, 2008 by roarke49
Andrew Brown continues his ascent through the system as he gets the call to Springfield to replace Steve Hill. Most of you have already seen this article by Goold on Jess Todd, but he posted it after last night’s DFR was posted, so we haven’t linked to it yet (and it is worth a read [...]
Filed under: Daily Farm Reports, Jess Todd | 12 Comments »
Posted on June 11, 2008 by roarke49
Izzy got the start tonight for Springfield and here is Kary Booher’s review of the outing. Booher also had a piece on everyone’s favorite overachiever, Shane Robinson, and his heroics last night.
Baseball Prospectus has an audio interview with Matt Slater, who is the Special Assistant to the GM and the lead scout in Asia for [...]
Filed under: Bryan Anderson, Daily Farm Reports | 14 Comments »
Posted on June 9, 2008 by roarke49
I attended the Memphis Redbirds game on May 30th in Des Moines. I have not gone through and applied scounting grades like Az did for the 5/4/08 game, but I was able to make some useful observations. I also took a lot of pictures (I was a guest at the game of friends that have [...]
Filed under: Anthony Reyes, Colby Rasmus, David Freese, Nick Webber | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 6, 2008 by roarke49
With the draft behind us now it feels a little bit like the day after Christmas. The anticipation of not knowing what you are going to get is gone, but you just can’t wait to play with all your new toys. You can check out four of our new toys at the Super Regionals this [...]
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