Comments on: Daily Farm Report - 6/26/08

By: SleepyCA

SleepyCA — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:03:44 +0000

Yes, Sheehan is funny. When he isn’t writing about the cardinals or cubs, he is a great writer, but throw either of those two teams into the discussion and he loses his mind.

Shane Robinson may complicate the schumaker decision next spring…

By: curiousgeorge

curiousgeorge — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:16:51 +0000

I don’t think H.S. players drafted in 2005 have to be protected until next year.

By: roarke

roarke — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:07:47 +0000

Crud - sorry about the bad link. I can’t fix it from here, but I will when I get home.

As for Jaime being a LOOGY: I think one of the worries is prep time coming out of the bullpen. I suspect that worry is overblown, but then again, I’d hate for Garcia to get injured because we used him to patch the lefthanded hole in the big league bullpen.

I don’t know the answer to the rule 5 question (maybe I’ll do a bit of research later).

I would much prefer Worrell to Parisi or Jimenez, but I’ve been saying that since March. His power bat off the bench would be nice, too.

By: lawless

lawless — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:43:49 +0000

Just want to thank all of you at Future Redbirds for the excellent job you continue to do. Always well done.

Anywho, on to random comments: (1) Why don’t we bring up Jaime In August (assuming he is still doing what he is doing now) to be our shut down LHRP? Seems to me that with Villone’s good splits and Garcia’s progress he could get the job done whether as a LOOGY or a one full inning lefty (assuming we don’t need him as a starter of course) and

(2) Remind me on the rule 5 - Do HS players that were drafted in 2005 need to be protected this year (your Daryl Jones or Tyler Herron’s….)

(3) Shouldn’t Worrell be in the bigs vs. Parisi? Seems like he has been groomed to do exactly what the Cards have needed lately… Parisi needs to be piching in the minors or at the MLB level with nada on the the line to get his confidence back…

By: Double A

Double A — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:20:37 +0000

Roark- the Springfield box score link jumps to the Memphis game. Not sure if that is worth fixing, but…

Peterson and Curtis are starting to impress.

Allen Craig needs to find his power stroke back. That kid needs a solid season of 22 - 30 jacks to stay on the franchise radar screen.

By: ArRedbird

ArRedbird — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:54:45 +0000

Rosa who?
St Louis acquired C Christian Rosa 6/23 from the Rockford RiverHawks (Frontier League) and assigned him to Batavia.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:41:16 +0000

OK, then I guess it’s a matter of semantics for me, haltz. “Best year so far” and “career year” have never been identical in my mind. A “Career year” is much more out of whack (to borrow Sheehan’s expression) with one’s previous performances–see D. Lee of a few years ago.

By: haltz

haltz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:24:20 +0000

Molina and Pujols are having career years by EqA. Schumaker is torching his equivalencies. Same goes for Ludwick and Ankiel, though Rick hit this well in his call up last year. Miles is having a career year as well.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:52:18 +0000

Great to see Garcia with a 10/0 K/BB game (and a 8/2 GB/FB tally, to boot). Too bad the 21-year-old doesn’t have a “high ceiling.” );

Nice to see Anderson flash some of the improved power he showed in AA; his BB/K has improved markedly in Memphis (14/19), and as we all know, his CS% is up to around 40%. I know the Cards want to keep him fresh, but I’d like to know what he can do with at least 5 starts a week.

I feel kind of bad for Joe Sheehan (when I’m not laughing at him, I mean). He’s twisting himself into knots trying to invent reasons the Cardinals will collapse, and he’s been doing so since the 3rd week of the season.

The Cardinal pitchers–given that Busch is playing as a pitcher’s park this year–have a supposedly “out-of-whack” HR rate that is in fact barely better than league average, if at all.

And the “whole bunch” of players having “career years”? Well, there’s Ludwick (who mashed in the minors), Wellemeyer (who’s simply doing *exactly* what he did after coming to the Cards last year), and…who else? Schumaker, I suppose. And if Skip weren’t hitting, Mather probably would be.

This team isn’t going anywhere, Mr. Sheehan. They’ll be closer to 100 wins than the 69 victories you predicted.

Of course, even when the Cards win 90+ games, it won’t mean anything to poor Rationalizin’ Joe. As he took pains to point out, St. Louis is in a “weak league” anyway. Funny stuff.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:41:52 +0000

At this point, I would rather us have Kelvin Jiminez up with the big club than Mike Parisi