Springfield appears to be the first stop on Joel Pineiro’s rehab tour. He’ll be starting there Tuesday. Erik will have the details that night, I’m sure.
Cory Rauschenberger was moved up to AAA to replace Kelvin Jimenez. They haven’t back filled that spot in Springfield yet.
Mark Hamilton is trying to improve his defense. The best thing he can hope for is as trade to another organization. He did show some nice offense in tonights AA game.
The system goes 3-for-1 tonight. Boom goes Rasmus. Boom goes Allen Craig. Splat goes Adam Ottavino. He goes the DFR.
- A nice outing for AAA mercenary John Wasdin. He struck out 2 and allowed just three hits including a solo HR during his 6 innings. Mark Worrell followed him striking out 3 in 1.2 innings while walking 1.
- Colby Rasmus had a great night going 2-for-4 with a solo HR of Sidney Ponson and a walk.
- Joe Mather was 0-for-3 with a pair of walks and a SB. So far so good in building off of his Springfield and spring training numbers. He seems to have adjusted to AAA this season.
- Amaury Marti looked a fastball over the fence.
- Josh Phelps was 3-for-5 with a double.
- Jarrett Hoffpauir continues to draw walks going 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. He did have a fielding error though.
- Not a good outing for Adam Ottavino. It took him 83 pitches to get through 3.2 innings. Most troubling was the 4 walks although he did strike out 5. He allowed 6 hits including a HR totaling 4 runs.
- Nick Webber had a better showing tonight. He went 2.1 scoreless innings striking out 1, walking 2 and allowing just 1 hit. He recorded 4 of his 6 ball in play outs via the groundball.
- Jon Jay was 3-for-5 out of the leadoff spot with a pair of doubles. If Jay makes it to the majors and he’s put in a corner outfield position, he is exactly the type of player that people will claim lacks the power for those positions. Jay’s game is plus defense, good contact rates and getting on base. He’ll have gap power but, personally, I doubt he’ll ever develop more than 15 HR power. He’s still a valuable player but he’s not the typical corner outfield profile.
- Jose Martinez is not off to a good start. After going 0-for-5 tonight and making the final out, he’s batting .056 on the still young season.
- Allen Craig was 2-for-4 and Mark Hamilton was 3-for-4. Both of them went deep in the game.
- Tyler Greene is also off to a dubious start batting .077 and committing an error in the game to go with his 0-for-4 night.
Palm Beach 5, Brevard County 3
- Jess Todd wasn’t sharp in his outing tonight. He allowed 4 hits, 2 BBs and struck out 3 in 3 innings for 2 runs.
- Mountain Dew recorded the 2 inning save allowing just 1 hit and striking out 2.
- Tyler Henley went 1-for-3 with a triple and a pair of walks. He also had an outfield assist.
- Tony Cruz was 2-for-4 with a walk.
- Daryl Jones went 0-for-4. He dropped his average to .429 but he made contact each time, so that’s a good thing. He was also hit by a pitch.
- Donovan Solano had a hit and a pair of walks.
- In all, Palm Beach had 10 walks and 7 hits. Patience was the name of their game tonight.
- Alright. I’ve got a management issue. If you pick a SS with your first overall pick and you decide to send him to full season ball, why in the name of Ozzie Smith would you play him at 3rd? Why? Does that make any sense at all??? No. It does not. Pete Kozma was 1-for-5.
- Centerfielder Justin Roberson was 2-for-4 with a SB.
- Mike Folli had a triple and a pair of walks in his 3 plate appearances.
- Blake King was effectively wild allowing 4 hits and 3 walks in 3.1 innings. He only allowed 1run in part because he struck out 6.
- Andres Rosales threw 3 innings allowing 3 hits and 1 K.
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I was thinking about Rasmus last night and asking myself where on earth the guy fits into the major league equation if he keeps hitting… he’s not exactly valuable trade bait since he’s old… and Rasmus and Mather may be ahead of him on the depth chart… how does Amaury Marti find a way to the bigs?
I was thinking about Marti last night and asking myself where on earth the guy fits into the major league equation if he keeps hitting… he’s not exactly valuable trade bait since he’s old… and Rasmus and Mather may be ahead of him on the depth chart… how does Amaury Marti find a way to the bigs?
uh, just ignore that first comment, yesh.
Went to my first sprinfield game of the year and left worried about many of the so called prospects we have in spfld. ottavino had no breaking ball or control.hamilton, anderson and greene could not get there bat head on anything and looked terrible in the field. I hope it is just an early season slump but left thinking only Craigs bat and Jay were the only prospects I saw.Green looked horrible at short, no arm whatsover and took terrible at bats.I am a big Cardinal fan and saw 15 spfld games,but I am worried about what I saw for this years club.
I realize those comment might look harsh considering hamiltons line shows three hits including a dinger,but he had two jam shot clunkers past the pitcher for infield hits and the homer was a 321 opposite field over the short porch yawner.
Jon Jay = Matt Lawton
On Kozma playing 3B…
Tony likes versatile infielders.
The quickest way for him to reach the majors is to be educated in playing several positions.
Maybe the kid recognized this and asked to learn a few positions.
Jon Jay can hit 5-10 HRs a year and that would be fine with me. As long as his puts up a .290-.300 average and an OBP around .380 and steals 20 bases.
Power from the LF position won’t be necessary with Rick Ankiel hitting 30-40 bombs in RF and Colby Rasmus possibly doing the same in CF.
When Edmonds was in his prime, it was the same thing. The LF/RF power was in CF and the need for power from the LF/RF wasn’t as great.
Its beginning to look like Jay may not have much of a future starting in the Cardinals outfield, though. CF and RF are taken for, hopefully, the next 6-8+ years and LF could be Brian Barton’s for the same amount of time. Joe Mather and Jon Jay would make a nice 4th/5th outfield duo, though. Right handed power, left handed OBP/defense.
Question, everybody.
Since the new format went down, does everyone else have avatars in the comments section? I’m only getting names, with no avatars. Is this happening to anyone else?
I ask because erik demanded I go and make an avatar, and I did so, and now I’m not seeing any of them.
The avatars show up on the main page in the recent comments section but they are not a part of the comment threads.
i just like to make you run mindless errands rb. heheheheh… in seriousness, they should appear on the righthand sidebar. Not sure why they are not appearing in the actual comments any longer. the gravatars usually take up to an hour to show up.
“I was thinking about Marti last night and asking myself where on earth the guy fits into the major league equation if he keeps hitting”
While I think there is still some time, Moz is going to quickly face another big challenge: what to do with the excess OFers in the system. I see four guys who potentially could fill the three everyday spots in Rasmus-Barton-Ankiel-Duncan.
Then we have the Mather-Marti-Ludwick-Schumaker foursome competing for two bench OF spots. As well as Stavinoha/Haerther who could be possible bench OFers and potentially Jay coming in somewhere.
At some point, some of these guys are going to have to be either traded or cut to clear the way. There are a lot of ways this could pan out (remember that Ankiel will be a FA quite soon), but somehow we need to turn this surplus into something we’re lacking.
Also, it appears that Bolivar and Kozma are going to alternate some between SS and 3B. Since both should be at SS.
If memory serves me correct kozma played some outfield last year so this isn’t the first time something like thishas happened.