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Rookie ball continues during the break. The Cardinal Nation #STLCards Players of the Day Facundo Velasquez and Rainiel Rodriguez led the DSL Cardinals to a Monday win. The FCL squad lost a twin bill. https://t.co/vGGQY0UZA4 pic.twitter.com/eTh3Z1KjxS
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 16, 2024
The #STLCards system was 1-0 on Tuesday. The Cardinal Nation’s repeat Player of the Day, DSL catcher Rainiel Rodriguez, hit two solo home runs. Starter Keiverson Ramirez pitched five scoreless innings on two hits. https://t.co/eNXpLqShG7 pic.twitter.com/ag3jVgq1T3
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 17, 2024
The #STLCards system was 0-3 on Wednesday. The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, DSL 3B Daniel Rojas, was 3-for-3 including a double and home run with two RBI and two runs scored. Other standouts include Arfeni Batista, Nelfy Ynfante and Yairo Padilla. https://t.co/JBasugu2em pic.twitter.com/XfrsfrrJlc
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 18, 2024
Brian-Ive been searching for Springfields starting pitching schedule. I want to get down there on this next homestand.
Going into the break, none of the teams announced their pitching plans for after the break. I should have them this afternoon. Once I see who Springfield is starting this weekend, I will post it here.
Im not going to be able to get down there until next weekend. Would be great to see Tink and Matthews but i am exited about all the young pitching there. If I go Thursday night i will see most of them.
The #STLCards system was 1-3 on Friday. The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, Palm Beach CF Chase Davis, was 2-for-5 with four RBI. Other standouts include Nick Dunn, Ivan Herrera, Sammy Hernandez and Ross Friedrick. https://t.co/NNGphgMcXb pic.twitter.com/oiVWvqJhfH
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 20, 2024
If we can’t score any runs post break, Herrera has to be brought back up, especially if the corner infielders continue to flounder. Ive decided to call them the corner infielders instead of their names, so as not to hurt anyones feelings. Anyway, this is a pennant race at the moment. If those corner infielders flounder, it’s ridiculous to have a good right handed bat available in Memphis
Yes I would DH him and move Burly to first if it’s the first baseman who doesnt hit. I think the 3rd baseman will hit enough along with his defense. But he needs to be moved down in the order. If the third baseman refuses to hit at all, play Donny at 3rd. EDIT I said I would dfa Crawford but you can’t do that since Tommy isnt coming back. No backup ss. By Carp.
I see no evidence that Goldy or Arenado will be benched so you would have to play Burly in RF and Noot in CF, which weakens the OF defense some.
Yes GScott its just talk. I’m bored. If they wouldnt show Carp a seat on the bench when he was so horrid, or DeBong, they aren’t going to bench one of the corner infielders. Arenado did hit a hr today. Wasted though.
There are three problems that limit what can be done to improve the lineup.
The first is that Carp and Crawford clog the bench with pretty useless players.
The second is our corner infielders do not produce like we need to get from those slots.
The third is the FO is not going to do anything about the first two.
Bling the third baseman has been picking up the pace the last 10 games. Keep your fingies crossed that continues.
KCB, he has been able to slap out singles on and off throughout the year, and I agree he’s been slapping them out pretty good for a couple weeks. That’s not what he gets paid to do though.
Fermin with a couple of hits tonight. Going in to today’s game he was hitting .130 with an OPS of .390 in his last 30 AAA games. Even with that he had an OPS of over 1.000 for the season
I am not sure what you are getting at KCB. It is the 20th and he has 2 extra base hits all month. He’s put together singles and walks. From NA, that sucks. Its Siani on a hot streak.
The #STLCards system went 3-1 on Saturday. The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, Memphis’ Ian Bedell, threw 7 2/3 one-run innings. Other standouts: Jose Fermin, Nathan Church, Chandler Redmond, the Springfield pen, Zach Levenson and Justin Guerrero. https://t.co/1n7VXvJhIv pic.twitter.com/EHe17vYPR8
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 21, 2024
The #stlcards system had an 0-for-4 Sunday, scoring just nine runs. The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, LH Ixan Henderson, tossed five scoreless innings for Palm Beach. Other standouts: Ivan Herrera, Jacob Young, Jacob Buchberger and Hancel Rincon. https://t.co/vpNQAzvNKg pic.twitter.com/sNWfR7xnS8
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) July 22, 2024
Its pretty late in the season now. Somebody like Rajcic doesn’t have a 5 ERA because of a slow start, or settling in or anything. The rest of the AA rotation looks the same. Some say, oh, but there’s Hence and Hjerpe and Roby. No there’s not. There might be some day, but not soon. Talking about shuch guys before they establish durability is meaningless. I tried to make that case when everyone was placing Roby near the top of the prospect rank. But we went with make believe. OK, but make believe isn’t going to help. There is nothing to filter up to AAA next year. At AAA are a few guys who can freshen up next spring’s laundry list vying for the 5th/6th starter slots. That is bleak. Its effing bleak.
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