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I started prepping my list last night and will do so for the next few days and share when I have it.
I am not going to rank Crooks, Jordan, Torres as they either have surpassed eligibility or will soon due to days in the active roster criteria for rookie eligibility
I’m guessing the Molina and Cjintje promotions mean Blewett will not get any more starts going forward. He will likely get the same AAAA role in another pet as teams like having guys like him in case of emergency.
I’m very excited to get to listen in. It may be a few days before I can listen especially to a longer episode, but I am looking forward to it and will gladly take such a detailed discussion on the draft guys
Brian’s matrix has Naughton on the 7 day IL and he is out for the year. He should be an easy transfer so that leaves 2 potential releases. Palm Beach has a lot of guys I don’t know their injury but I’m guessing they will find at least 1 or 2 of them to move from the 7 day to 60 day IL. Brian may have a better idea if some of those guys are expected to be out all year.
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I thought someone mentioned maximum roster spaces. With these cuts, would that account for the possibility of adding the 23 players just drafted? I’m Assuming there are more cuts coming. Now that I think about it, some players won’t be activated until next year.
Yes 165 domestic minor Leaguers that are not on the 40 man. Players also on the Full Season Injured List (FSIL) or the minors 60 day IL also do not count against the limit. I am taking from the Roster Matrix and calculating based off those rules.
Memphis – 37
Springfield – 33
Peoria – 32
Palm Beach – 35
FCL – 3040 man in minors – 14
Minors 60 Day IL – 10
FSIL – 3That gives a total of 140 players and leaves 25 spots for 23 draftees, although 1 (Ritchie) won’t sign. Baseball America has the Cardinals with 3 undrafted FA signings (Tristan Bisesetta, JR Fordham, John Lemm). That brings the incoming player count to 25 which takes all 165 spots up.
Although note that Henderson, Robberse, and Clarke are actively on rehab (thus still on 60 day IL) and when they return, they will need a spot. They can either transfer some guys on the 7 day IL to the 60 day IL, or they will have to release 3 players.
Baez isn’t ready so I don’t think there is a need to move Nootbaar. I know some have clamored for Baez to get a call up since he is hitting HRs but he needs to work in swing decisions still.
I also personally like watching Nootbaar play when he is healthy as he is an entertaining player.
Thanks for digging that up LA. Sounds like from your quote he should have been fired a long time ago.
My hope is they trade May, Romero, and Stanek. Get what they can for them and also it frees up roster spots to let younger pitchers get more opportunities to develop. I suppose if Urias can be traded they should to avoid having to demote a younger guy when he comes backs.
I wouldn’t trade Nootbaar at the deadline unless someone overwhelms me. I would instead try to let him build up more value the rest of the year and consider trading him in the off-season.
I believe I saw a Redbird Rants article title that said they were brothers but maybe since corrected.
Willie said
They did get some decent guys vut when ypur draft includes guys not ranked in top 500, that has to take away from your draft regardless of why you took them.
I wouldn’t really look at the BA and MLB draft board and consider them a true measure of talent especially the further down the board you go. Neither employs a full scouting org to come close to even getting fully accurate assessments of players. The talent also drops off massively after a certain point and the difference of #200 and #500 is a minor delta of opinion on what you favor on a guy.
Teams are drafting based off much more info available on assessments, but also on where guys will realistically go. They have a large amount of intel and a team isn’t going to draft a guy in round 7 for example if he would be available in round 15 aside from maybe a case of saving money. But teams generally have an idea of ballpark round range on guys and the Cards wouldn’t have drafted that guy if at least one other team didn’t have a similar round eval in them.
Teams also have development staffs that are evaluating these players. Their development staff will help provide input on who to draft on what they think they can do to improve that player. Even first round guys have things to improve, but especially as you go further into the draft guys have a lot more weaknesses. At that point it becomes what does our org think they can do to maximize the odds of this guy being successful.
The Texas League is a very hitter favored league and Cjintje’s ERA and FIP as bad as they look were league average.
There will likely be a flurry of promotions the next 2 or so weeks as the draft guys sign and people need to be moved up to make room on the lower levels. I assume there will be releases as well since the domestic minors can only have 165 guys at once.
Willie, it is spend it or lose it. Teams are permitted to go up to 5% over their pool amount without penalty and most teams get right there. Last year the Cards left something like 4.5% on the table which I hope is not the case again this year.
Looking forward to digging in Brian. Like Willie said, great job. I’m sure the draft is very exciting and very hard work for you. You dig up some great info when it is hard to come by for the non top guys.
Oh they already played the futures game? It feels like they chose a horrible time with the intent of no one watching. That should have been a Sunday Night game with very little competition
Well he made it what 2.5 games? I assume Luna is hurt again since he was replaced defensively in the middle of the inning.
I love the Kennedy pick. Guy couldn’t hit at all his first 2 years, has lasik eye surgery, and suddenly is smashing the balm making great swing decisions.
I don’t know much on him. Sounds like a Bloom / Cerfolio pick though that tracks with last year’s picks. A guy with good traits but not much of a track record and has pen risk. Seems like they are betting on him improving since he is still 20 and low on experience against good competition.
Rocco has a lot of upside as he is a great defender and has power. But he does have massive swing and miss risk. He wasn’t one of my favorite HS guys as I liked a few guys with hit to go with power but I do like that they went for upside.
I wouldn’t recommend clicking on a link I didnt trust either. No guarantees I guess dont click on any than you are safe. My understanding is the https means it’s OK but what do I know. I know enough not to click on any of the advertising.
The s in HTTPs just means it a secured connection between you and the website and people anywhere in the world can’t see the data you and sending to / from the website as it is encrypted. Never use a non HTTPs site for anything personal info, cards numbers, passwords, etc and in general steer clear of them as all sites should be https now.
But the s doesn’t verify the integrity of the website itself. It could still go to a malicious site that uses secure end to end encryption, but the site hosts are trying to collect info and sell it or use it for malicious purposes.