As the St. Louis Cardinals minor league camp opened earlier in the month, the population of 152 initial players invited was split into four Groups. While it would be tempting and natural to conclude the four groups correspond to each of the organization’s full-season teams – Memphis, Springfield, Palm Beach and Quad Cities – that is not necessarily the case.
I am quite sure that since this list was prepared, there have already been players moved around, both because of performance as well as the net count of nine additional players reassigned from the major league club.
Still, this offers an interesting view of positional assignments and which pitchers are being prepared as starters (s) and which as relievers (r). The other classifications are first base (1b), infield (if) and outfield (of). The numeric prefix denotes the Group, one through four. Six players are out of action while rehabbing injuries.
For the full system listing, check out my Cardinals Roster Matrix. It is up-to-date in terms of a complete accounting of all players in the system, including the short-season clubs. I will next update the levels once the regular season rosters for the full-season clubs are set. That will be in about two weeks.
Pitchers | Catchers | First base | Infield | Outfield | total | |
Group 1 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 42 |
Group 2 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 36 |
Group 3 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 34 |
Group 4 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 34 |
Rehab | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
total | 83 | 14 | 8 | 21 | 26 | 152 |
Pitchers | Pos/initial group | Position players | Pos/initial group |
Additon, Nick | s2 | Arburr, Matt | 1b rehab |
Bilardello, Davis | r2 | Bogany, Jarred | of4 |
Bird, Ryan | s1 | Bolivar, Domnit | if3 |
Blazek, Mike | s4 | Brown, Andrew | 1b1 |
Bradford, Jared | s2 | Buck, Brian | of4 |
Bravo, Jon | s rehab | Buckman, Brandon | 1b1 |
Broderick, Brian | r2 | Cartie, Bryan | if2 |
Brown, George | s3 | Castellanos, Alex | if4 |
Buursma, Jason | r4 | Castillo, Yunior | if4 |
Cardenas, Hector | s3 | Castro, Ivan | c4 |
Carpenter, David | r3 | Cawley, Jack | c3 |
Castillo, Richard | s2 | Chambers, Adron | of2 |
Choi, Hyang-Nam | r1 | Cruz, Paul | of4 |
Daley, Gary | r3 | Cruz, Tony | c1 |
Daman, Wayne | r2 | Curtis, Jermaine | if3 |
Degerman, Eddie | r2 | Cutler, Charles | c3 |
Delgado, Ramon | r3 | DeJesus, Antone | of2 |
Dew, Josh | r rehab | DeLaCruz, Roberto | if4 |
Diapoules, Mark | s2 | Derba, Nick | c2 |
Dickson, Brandon | s1 | Descalso, Daniel | if1 |
Eager, Thomas | s2 | Edwards, Jon | of2 |
Ferrera, Anthony | s4 | Espinoza, Roberto | c3 |
Fick, Chuckie | r2 | Folli, Mike | if1 |
Fiske, Justin | s1 | Freese, David | if1 |
Flores, Miguel | s4 | Garcia, Isa | if1 |
Fornataro, Eric | s3 | Garcia, Jose | if3 |
Freeman, Samuel | r2 | Gomez, Edwin | of4 |
Frevert, Matt | r4 | Hamilton, Mark | 1b1 |
Furnish, Brad | r1 | Henley, Tyler | of1 |
Garceau, Shaun | s1 | Hill, Steven | c1 |
Gonzalez, Dylan | r3 | Ingram, D’Marcus | of3 |
Gonzalez, Marco | r1 | Jones, Daryl | of1 |
Gonzalez, Reynier | s4 | Kingrey, Charlie | of2 |
Gorgen, Scott | s rehab | Knoedler, Justin | c1 |
Gregerson, Luke | r1 | Kozma, Pete | if2 |
Haltiwanger, Russ | r1 | Lara, Edgar | of4 |
Hearne, Trey | r1 | Lilley, Brett | if4 |
Hernandez, Elvis | r1 | Luna, Aaron | of2 |
Herron, Tyler | s1 | Marmol, Oliver | if2 |
Hester, Josh | s4 | Marti, Amaury | of1 |
Hooker, Deryk | s4 | Martinez, Jairo | of4 |
King, Blake | r2 | Martinez, Jose | if1 |
Kopp, David | s2 | Mitchell, Travis | of3 |
Kulik, Ryan | s2 | Morales, Osvaldo | 1b3 |
Leach, Tyler | r4 | Moscatel, Kevin | c4 |
Linares, Kristhiam | r1 | Murphy, Blake | c3 |
Lugo, Rigoberto | r4 | Noland, Rickey | c4 |
Lynn, Lance | s1 | Parejo, Frederick | of3 |
Maekawa, Katsuhiko | r1 | Peterson, Shane | of2 |
Maertz, Santo | r4 | Pham, Tommy | of2 |
Maiques, Kenny | r2 | Rapoport, Jim | of1 |
Maj, Jameson | s3 | Riportella, Beau | of3 |
Mateo, Jose | r2 | Rivera, Francisco | 1b2 |
Mayes, La Curtis | r4 | Robinson, Shane | of1 |
McCormick, Mark | r rehab | Rodriguez, Ryde | of3 |
McGregor, Scott | s3 | Rosa, Christian | c4 |
Mikrut, Jon | r1 | Rowlett, Casey | if1 |
Mulligan, Casey | r2 | Scruggs, Xavier | 1b3 |
Mura, Kyle | s1 | Sedbrook, Colt | if2 |
Nieto, Arquimedes | s3 | Shorey, Mark | of1 |
Norrick, Tyler | r1 | Smith, Curt | 1b2 |
Ostlund, Ian | r1 | Solano, Donovan | if1 |
Parise, Pete | r2 | Swauger, Chris | of3 |
Parisi, Mike | s rehab | Swinson, Michael | of4 |
Peralta, Senger | r3 | Vasquez, Niko | if3 |
Pichardo, Joel | r4 | Vasquez, Paul | c2 |
Pitts, Zachary | r3 | Vera, Nick | if4 |
Rada, Jose | s4 | Wallace, Brett | if1 |
Reifer, Adam | r2 | Yarbrough, Brandon | c1 |
Richardson, Dan | r4 | ||
Rogers, Joe | s1 | ||
Rondon, Jorge | r3 | ||
Rosales, Andres | r3 | ||
Samuel, Francisco | r1 | ||
Sanchez, Eduardo | r2 | ||
Santos, Randy | s4 | ||
Siegrist, Kevin | s4 | ||
Spade, Matt | r2 | ||
Stambaugh, J.D. | r3 | ||
Tapia, Angel | r3 | ||
Thomas, Kevin | s4 | ||
Veres, Adam | s3 | ||
Zawacki, Brett | s3 |