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The Palm Beach game is at the Florida Fire Frogs, but they don’t have home TV either. From the audio, it appears Roberts gave up some hard-hit balls. I did not hear any velos mentioned, though that isn’t his calling card, anyway.
To add to the O’Reilly and Pearce examples is Zach Petrick. He was the Pitcher of the Year for the entire system in 2013 at Springfield after dominating across three levels. Yet, he never made it to the majors and he wasn’t derailed by injury. He eventually went to Japan for a couple of years and that was it.
On service time, there are a number of examples in the past when it was not manipulated by the Cardinals. When others have brought up the possibility in the past, I have asked them to share examples to the contrary, but no one could provide them – except for other teams.
On Reyes specifically, he was kept in Palm Beach until doctors determined his broken finger was far enough along in healing that he could risk batting. Hard to manipulate that. I think if he was dominant in a couple of starts for Memphis, he would be brought up to St. Louis immediately. On the other hand, given his recent results in PB – good but far from great – I don’t think he is going to be ready that fast – service time and broken finger aside.
The Cardinal Nation's 13th-ranked prospect, Griffin Roberts, is making his 2019 debut, taking over mound duties for high-A Palm Beach when Saturday's suspended game was resumed this morning. The Wake Forest RHP was the #stlcards 2018 Comp. Balance Pick in Round A, 43rd overall. pic.twitter.com/95pD63syJ4
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) June 2, 2019
As expected, #stlcards P Alex Reyes makes his return to Triple-A Memphis today, making the home start against OKC. The right-hander had two starts at high-A Palm Beach coming back from a broken pinkie. His Memphis record this season is 1-0, 2.61 in five appearances, two starts. pic.twitter.com/A3Ni3OAPBw
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) June 2, 2019
Bikemike, all you had to do is check Knizner’s player page here. It is KIZ-ner. If you tune into the radio today, I imagine Shannon will use all of those pronunciations and several more! You know the going gets really tough when he just calls him “the Cardinals catcher”. 😉
On travel plans, I was already scheduled to connect through O’Hare on Friday and once I figured out what was happening, I turned my one-hour layover into an all-day stop. Going to the game with my Cubs fan lawyer friend who has season tickets. He already warned me on what not to wear, as if I needed a reminder. Wrigley is not a friendly place for non-Cubs fans and even worse when they lose. My main hope is to not have to listen to that dreadful “Go Cubs Go” jingle.
Score one for gscottar!
#STLCards lineup today, with Knizner making his MLB debut:
Harrison Bader, CF
Paul DeJong, SS
Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
Marcell Ozuna, LF
Jose Martinez, RF
Jedd Gyorko, 3B
Kolton Wong, 2B
Andrew Knizner, C
Adam Wainwright, RHP— Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) June 2, 2019
This season is 186 days, but the most service time a player can accrue in a season is 172 days. For the Cards to keep Reyes the extra year, he would need to finish 2019 at 171 days or less (and never be optioned out again in future seasons).
Using your number, if he is at 2.065 now, he would need to spend no more than 106 additional days active this season to get under the mark. So your three more weeks out seems a reasonable estimate.
However, if he progresses well, they probably won’t keep him down that long. But that is still a big “if”.
Do you mean as a pinch-hitter or starting? 😉
It depends on how bad they want to give Knizner a start. With a day off Monday, any perceived need to rest Wieters is minimized. Especially given how Shildt sticks to his lineups, I expect to see Wieters on the lineup card today.
Maybe they give Knizner a start in the Reds series, where the stakes are not as high. We shall see…
Five of the top six pitchers across the #stlcards system in May began with high-A Palm Beach. In a tight competition, Alex Fagalde is The Cardinal Nation's Pitcher of the Month. (free) https://t.co/witoI6GXy1 pic.twitter.com/tdQ10FN6uU
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) June 2, 2019
The #stlcards system went 2-2 on Saturday. Player of the Day, Peoria’s Alvaro Seijas, went 7 1/3 scoreless innings on only three hits. Memphis and Springfield were pummeled, the former losing its 11th straight. Palm Beach’s contest was suspended by rain. https://t.co/yjdMKcdG7t pic.twitter.com/yWBBW60eVu
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) June 2, 2019
Hopefully the rain stays away…
Three solo homers and the Cubs are up 2-1 after two innings. Rizzo, Goldschmidt, Heyward.
They only got one inning in…
UPDATE: Due to unplayable field conditions, tonight's game against the @GoPBCardinals has been postponed. It will be moved to tomorrow at 11:30 am and will be part of a doubleheader. More details are coming shortly#FiredUp
— Florida Fire Frogs (@FireFrogsBB) June 1, 2019
Scrabble was released by the D-backs.
All team rosters and the Matrix are up to date. All new DSL graduates in the US are assumed to be on the GCL roster for now.
Baez scratched with a recurring heel injury. Russell starting instead.
New lineup: Schwarber, Bryant, Rizzo, Contreras, Heyward, Russell SS, Bote, Almora Jr. , Quintana
— Mark Gonzales (@MDGonzales) June 1, 2019
Here is tonight's #Cubs starting lineup.
Game preview: https://t.co/yBEReDnH56 #EverybodyIn pic.twitter.com/wOCMz3bEF1
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 1, 2019
Last night was fun… who wants to do that again!
⚾️ https://t.co/7QC7v0zq9x pic.twitter.com/8U9eQBFuTT
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) June 1, 2019
It takes a network of many to help these players to chase their dreams. Late one afternoon during spring training, I struck up a conversation with a young woman who was patiently waiting on a bench outside the media area. Totally by chance, it was John Nogowski’s girlfriend. She was there to support her man. There are a million stories like that.
Of course, player development is always no. 1. It should be assumed that 30 of 30 farm system staffs would say the exact same thing. Their job is to prepare MLB-ready players.
Having said that, they also strive to maintain a winning culture. The change in the Cardinals W-L fortunes at full season this year is significant and mirrors what we saw at State College and Johnson City last year (aggregate .465 W-L). Part of the reason Memphis is down this year is that Springfield was down last year, etc.
You can brush it aside, but the fact is that the Cardinals’ US affiliates finished in aggregate above .500 in eight of the last nine years, with the only exception in 2014. That isn’t coincidence.
That does not mean there will not always be prospects to root for. There are just fewer of the blue chip ones, in my assessment.
Ravelo is in his third year with the Cardinals and he didn’t have to come back. Nogowski went though indy ball on his rebound and again, chose to return. Perhaps respect and having a stable home has value, too.
I am working on Pitcher of the Month now and you pegged it well, C27.
Among starters, I like Angel Rondon and Edgar Gonzalez more than Seijas at this point, as my May top 50 confirms.
Among relievers, Seth Elledge and Connor Jones (to a lesser extent) are behind Fernandez. Jesus Cruz has shown flashes, but has also been roughed up at times.
In my time in EST, only one fastball touched 93 and I had the gun on every pitcher I saw. Of course, if a guy has a wipeout slider like Roberts, fastball velo is less important, but the vast majority of EST guys are still finding their way. Certainly no sure things yet.
Pugs, I have been warning for months and months that the pitching is down. The bullpens have been especially bad. Also, many of the middle tier of hitters aren’t hitting. The coaches are pretty much the same as before, when things were going well. Talent wins games.
Just last season, the Cards ranked sixth of the 30 organizations in the US with a .534 winning percentage. Right now, they are at .463. I don’t know how that stacks up in 2019, but in 2018, .463 would have been 26th of 30 organizations, so yes, it is pretty rough.
Ken Rosenthal writes that the Cubs may be able to pay Craig Kimbrel from the savings gained by Ben Zobrist’s extended absence.
I noticed Bernie ripped Edmonds the other day, calling him ‘a management-paid, management-planted “analyst”’. Well yes, that is pretty much what they all are. Expecting something else is not realistic.
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