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The #stlcards system was 2-1 on Thursday. The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, Springfield OF Nathan Church, hit a go-ahead three-run home run. Other standouts include Luken Baker, Cesar Prieto, Chandler Redmond and Miguel Villarroel. (free) https://t.co/SUs2TqJL4M pic.twitter.com/HjrU2k2ltt
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) April 12, 2024
It was too bad for Palm Beach that Augusto Calderon came on in the 9th and gave up 3 runs on 2 homers getting just one out. I really thought the Cards would cut him in Spring Training. This is now his 6th season. He’s still in Low A. And he’s only had 1 good season – and that was 3 years ago as an older Dominican player. He’s 23 and will turn 24 just after the season is finished. He seems like an easy cut.
Minor league pitching doing really well again tonight (so far).
Mathews with 5 innings, no runs, 1 hit, and 11 strikeouts. Great job.
Graceffo had 5 scoreless innings as well with 7 strikeouts.
Hence with 5 innings, 1 run, and 8 strikeouts. His season ERA is under 1.00 in 2 starts. But he’s still never gone above 5 innings pitched in his career.
Hjerpe was the only bad performance. After going just 2/3 of an inning last time he went 3 innings this time out. But 3 runs on 8 hits. Definitely something not right with him. Note that Hjerpe did well after he got it together at the end of the first but he was terrible up to that point.
Lots of double headers today.
Team ERA’s going into today:
Memphis – 5.31 (14 of 20) (note that Josh James’ ERA is over 50 so that’s weighing this down a lot).
Springfield – 2.54 (2nd of 10)
Peoria – 3.56 (9th out of 12)
Palm Beach – 3.13 (3rd of 10)
All of these do far will get better with today’s games. Memphis allowed 0 runs in game 1 and Springfield allowed just 1 run in their first game. And Palm Beach has allowed 0 through 7 innings so far.
My optimism is that Chase Davis now has 6 XBH in 7 games (2 HR, 4 2B). Hopefully, he can keep it up and get a promotion to Peoria in May.
6 good games tonight where we pitched well. And one bad one where Memphis lost 9-0. I watched some of that one. Kloffenstein didn’t look very sharp.
Springfield has such a good rotation. I know that guys will move up, but if they kept the gang together, you’d have to give them a pretty solid shot of winning a Texas League title.
On Friday, the #stlcards system went 6-1 as Sgf and Peo swept twin bills. PB RHS Quinn Mathews earned his first career win with 5 scoreless 1-hit innings with 11 Ks. Among many other standouts: Gordon Graceffo, Tink Hence, William Sullivan & Dakota Harris. https://t.co/IArwoQJZQq pic.twitter.com/JwT9wkaY8s
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) April 13, 2024
With 1 inning to go in Peoria tonight, our 4 minor league teams have allowed a collective total of just 8 runs tonight. Another good day for our minor’s pitching.
On Sat., the #stlcards system went 3-1 as pitching yielded just 8 runs. Peoria’s Hancel Rincón is The Cardinal Nation’s Player of the Day, with 5 2/3 scoreless IP. Other standouts: Jared Young, R.J. Yeager, Ramon Mendoza, Alex Iadisernia and Chen-Wei Lin. https://t.co/IV2GQVx2WG pic.twitter.com/UoVKDcS6Jr
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) April 14, 2024
On Sunday, the #STLCards system went 2-2 as Springfield came back from six down to extend its record to 9-0. Palm Beach’s Adari Grant is our Player of the Day, with 3 hits and 3 RBI. Other standouts include Gavin Collins, Matt Lloyd and Anyelo Encarnacion. https://t.co/eV0AV4bWfT pic.twitter.com/fyOfE6diuv
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) April 15, 2024
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