Future Redbirds

Another idea I cooked up was having a monthly look at various stats. Nothing really orderly, just random statistical info on players. Thanks go to firstinning.com and baseball-reference.com.
Here’s the most hideous stat of the month is that Colby Rasmus has made 89 outs, tied for the 2nd most in all the minors, and just one [...]

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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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One of the interesting things in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook is they have some brief writeups about each teams drafts including the total budget and the top 5 signing bonuses. The whole book is a great resource and a good read but I’m always drawn to numbers so these types of things stood [...]

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A poster who goes by the moniker of Balkroth happens to be a Mizzou grad student with some access to the team. The nation’s top college ace Aaron Crow agreed to answer a few questions. Please post what you’d like to be asked in the comments. Balkroth and I will harvest the best ones, and [...]

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OK, the bells and whistles are back along with the header. I’m not a fan of the dark gray or the weird green buttons on top. And if I could change the font to red, I would but unfortunately I can’t. The trouble with WordPress is the templates are pretty cookie cutter and don’t leave [...]

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OK, enough talking. Enough guessing. Enough predicting. It’s time to for what happens on the field to begin. Prospects will rise, prospects will fall, prospects will stall. And we’ll be here to give you our 2 cents about it all. (Hey, that rhymed. Rad.) Sounds like fun. With the big club’s game being played in [...]

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Colby is just a given.

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Rounding up the Redbird notes around the net.

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Sickels hasn’t to my knowledge actually ranked the organizations (although he may in his book) but I’m taking the general system I used in creating my own set of Goldstein rankings and applying it to Sickels.

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Aside from the DPRs, College Monday or 2 cents on any pending news, I for one don’t have anything cooking for the next week or so. I’d be interested in taking some suggestions. I can’t promise I can do every idea, but if I like your suggestion I’d be sure to give it a go.

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I’m running a little behind with these this week but here’s your pitcher projection for the week.
Ottavino seems ticketed for a full season at AA.  This is a really important test for him and I’m hopeful we’ll see some strides.  If his command takes a step forward or he improves his secondary pitches that would [...]

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Derrick Goold has a look at potential minor league assignments for the farm system.  These are the lineups for the minor league camp so it’s nothing definitive — just how things have shaken out to date. Some interesting observations:

Whither Tyler Greene.  He appears to have been leapfrogged by Jose Martinez who is in the Memphis [...]

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