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Daniel Descalso has been on fire since getting called up to Springfield this past week, the 21 year old second baseman is hitting .458 this past week. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Daniel about what he brings to the table to Springfield.
Q and A after the jump.
Seems like the transition to AA has gone pretty well so far you. Can you explain your early success in ...
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Josh Kinney ’s rehab starts have gone very well . He’s been away from the Cardinals for a long time now, but he had become a calming presence in the big team’s bullpen before his injury, so it would be great if he could return to that form.
The Quad Cities Times had a nice write-up on Curt Smith yesterday. He’s played really well since getting drafted in the 39th ...
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I’m bumping the chat to today rather than Friday. Feel free to join me here .
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Josh Phelps got the call to St. Louis, while Jaime Garcia was sent down and Mark Mulder was shifted to the 60-day DL. In the same article LaRussa hints that Garcia will probably not get a September call up due to the number of innings he has already pitched this season. I approve of that line of thinking, especially after he had the elbow strain at the end of last season.
Four teams were ...
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Staying on the theme of the week, I have yet another Q and A with a Muckdog. This time I talk with RHP Jason Buursma , whom the Cardinals drafted in the 25th round out of Bucknell University. He was voted the Patriot League Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A two-way player at Bucknell, Buursma hit 13 homers and put up a .367/.426/.671 his senior year, as well as pitching 83.2 innings ...
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I can’t stand the Brewers.
You know the season is about over when you see the AFL rosters were announced. Justin Fiske , Brad Furnish , Tyler Norrick , Adam Ottavino , Steve Hill , Tyler Greene , Shane Robinson and Brett Wallace will all be on the Peoria Saguaros. Wallace and Gordon Beckham are the only two players from the past draft in the league, and as it turns out they will also ...
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Many of you will remember Jeff’s excellent columns
at the Baseball Analysts , where he was a
regular contributor. He provided fascinating analysis using slo-mo video analysis to break down the hitting (and sometimes pitching) mechanics of ...
Kevin Goldstein has either read some comments on this site or you’ve been e-mailing him. Two Cardinals make his Monday Ten Pack . The first is Daryl Jones whom Goldstein says will get plenty of top-100 consideration. I have a hard time picking on Kevin for dropping Jones off his top 10 list last year. I barely kept him on my top 25 list. . . he was almost a throw in down at the ...
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I recently had the opportunity to do a little Q and A with former UNLV star and current Muckdog first baseman Xavier Scruggs . Thanks to the Xavier for taking the time out of his schedule to answer my questions.
Enjoy.
What is the baseball life story of Xavier Scruggs?
I guess the life story would basically be I grew up playing baseball ever since I was six years old. I’ve ...
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I can still recall when I first saw Daryl Jones at Quad Cities. He’s got an obvious athleticism and the potential was plain. Now as the tools become production, he hasn’t slowed a bit at Springfield . At age 21, he’s hitting .319/.453/.549 with peripherals that aren’t much out of line with the slash marks. He’s lacing line drives and hitting a ton of flyballs in ...
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I’m filling in for fewgoodcards, who is moving this weekend. Wins all around today, let’s just jump right into it tonight. Wow, suddenly I’m really cold…what the?!?
That cold chill is me, haunting your blog Erik. Tell DanUp I’m back to torment his mind. And tell him that he needs to start posting again. I think I like it here, you know, where you all ...
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Baseball America is running their annual ratings of “Best Tools” from the big leagues all the way down to A ball. They poll minor league managers from each league to come up with their conclusions, so they can be pretty subjective. Managers are not scouts—not in most cases—so they can view tools a bit differently. Obviously managers care most about what shows up in games. Several ...
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I know this is pretty impromptu, but I wanted to give a chat a try. Maybe we’ll do it every Friday or so. Feel free to drop by at 1PM central if you’d like to chat for a half hour or so.
Chat found here .
Update: Chat is done, but thanks to everyone who stopped by. We’ll definitely have to do it again.
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I apologize in advance for the weakness of the introduction tonight (or really the complete lack of a proper introduction), but hey, all of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales weren’t timeless works of art, were they? Oh, they were? Well, who cares about English literature anyway, this is about baseball. Lots of action on the farm today - all the details are after the jump.
Memphis ...
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The pitching was more impressive than the hitting in Memphis. I got a chance to watch several relievers (Motte, Scherer, Worrell) as well as a couple starters (Walters, Boggs) that could play roles in the future for the big league club. I also saw my two nemeses far too often.
It’s boring out here.
They don’t blow enough games in late innings at Memphis.
They’re ...
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The News-Leader has an interesting article about the Cardinals involvement with Buddy Biancalana’s “Motion Science” system to help ballplayers improve. Now, I still harbor a grudge against Mr. “Can’t hit is way out of a paper sack” for his .435 OBP performance against the Cardinals in the 1985 World Series, but if his system is helping guys like Adam ...
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I normally save transactions and promotions for the DFR’s, but as a founding member of the Nico Bandwagon, I wanted to break in with a quick update: With Wallace now up to AA, it appears that the River Bandits made a corresponding move. On their roster it shows that Nico Vasquez will now be fighting crime in the mean streets of Davenport, IA. He and teammate 1B Curt Smith were called up ...
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A couple of weeks ago, I broke down the Brewers’ system in the wake of their deal for one Mr. CC Sabathia. I’m hoping to make my way ever so slowly through the entire NL Central in the coming weeks; I thought I would continue on with the other divisional rival to make a big time deal at the trade deadline: the Chicago Cubs.
Sitting atop the division, the Cubs went all in this ...
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Most of you by now have heard that Brett Wallace has been called up to Springfield . Allen Craig hits the DL with lower back pain. Quad Cities is sliding out of the MWL Western Division race, while Springfield was tied for first in the TL North going into tonight, and in need of a powerful bat to replace Craig in the lineup. I think Wallace fits that bill. Yet another aggressive promotion.
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(Photo credit: Mark Schiefelbein, Springfield News-leader)
I was able to catch up with Springfield 3B and Baseball America’s 15th ranked Cardinal prospect Allen Craig and was able to talk to him about hitting, defense, and the importance of winning at the minor league level.
Interview after the jump.
How would you describe Allen Craig, the person and the ballplayer?
I ...
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Q and A with Batavia hitting coach Jeff Albert