Boggs up, Garcia optioned out

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Evening Roundup for 7/21 (Kershaw, Garcia and more)
Published 7/21/2008 by Eric Stashin at Rotoprofessor
... for the post), Clayton Kershaw is set to rejoin the Dodgers tomorrow night and start for the team against the Rockies.  Jason Johnson had been scheduled to make the start.  We’ve talked about Kershaw before, but he is one of the top young prospects in the game and is worth owning in all formats. Jaime Garcia’s time in the Cardinals rotation was apparently a short one.  According to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click here for the article), Garcia was optioned to Triple A, with the team recalling Mitchell Boggs.  Garcia had been scheduled to make his second ...

Daily Farm Report 7/21/08
Published 7/22/2008 by azruavatar at Future Redbirds
... so I can’t speak to his stuff from an eye witness perspective, but his numbers are very good. A 5:1 K:BB ratio at Springfield with a FIP under 3. He’s holding lefties to a .612 OPS on the season (righties .722). Maybe he’s completely unprepared but with the absence of a second reliable left hander, I would have liked to see what he could do for the major league club before this (seemingly) random conversion to starting. Already well known but, Garcia down and Boggs up. Rotoworld has their midseason top 150 prospects. ...