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Daily Farm Report - 7/3/08
Future Redbirds — ... Alex Castellanos was 2-4 with a double and a homerun. Brett Lilley was 1-2 with a double and three walks. Travis Mitchell was 1-3 with a double. Nico Vasquez (First Inning is spelling it that way, so I guess I will, too) was 0-4 with an error in the field. Carlos Gonzales had a rough start, giving up five runs on five hits, a walk and two hit batsmen over three innings. Samuel Freeman pitched two scoreless innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four. ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/3/08
Future Redbirds — ... Alex Castellanos was 2-4 with a double and a homerun. Brett Lilley was 1-2 with a double and three walks. Travis Mitchell was 1-3 with a double. Nico Vasquez (First Inning is spelling it that way, so I guess I will, too) was 0-4 with an error in the field. Carlos Gonzales had a rough start, giving up five runs on five hits, a walk and two hit batsmen over three innings. Samuel Freeman pitched two scoreless innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four. ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/9/08
Future Redbirds — ... - but I could be wrong about that) came in after the Cardenas-Lugo disaster and struck out three over three scoreless innings. Pulaski 5, Johnson City 2 (Game 1) The Cardinals only managed five hits in the first game and a double by Osvaldo Morales was the only extra base hit. Deryk Hooker had a nice start, giving up one run on five hits over five innings. He also struck out four. Samuel Freeman and Jorge Rondon let the game get away from the team in the sixth inning, ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/9/08
Future Redbirds — ... - but I could be wrong about that) came in after the Cardenas-Lugo disaster and struck out three over three scoreless innings. Pulaski 5, Johnson City 2 (Game 1) The Cardinals only managed five hits in the first game and a double by Osvaldo Morales was the only extra base hit. Deryk Hooker had a nice start, giving up one run on five hits over five innings. He also struck out four. Samuel Freeman and Jorge Rondon let the game get away from the team in the sixth inning, ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/10/08
Future Redbirds — ... loss, but didn’t pitch that poorly. He was betrayed a bit by his defense as only one of the three runs he gave up was earned. He pitched four innings and gave up seven hits and two walks while striking out five. Matthew North was also betrayed by his defense (two of his four runs were earned), but he pitched poorly, too. He only lasted 1.2 innings and gave up five hits and two walks. Matthew Frevert pitched 1.1 scoreless innings and Samuel Freeman pitched two scoreless innings. ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/10/08
Future Redbirds — ... loss, but didn’t pitch that poorly. He was betrayed a bit by his defense as only one of the three runs he gave up was earned. He pitched four innings and gave up seven hits and two walks while striking out five. Matthew North was also betrayed by his defense (two of his four runs were earned), but he pitched poorly, too. He only lasted 1.2 innings and gave up five hits and two walks. Matthew Frevert pitched 1.1 scoreless innings and Samuel Freeman pitched two scoreless innings. ShareThis

Daily Farm Report 7/14/08
Future Redbirds — ... 7 (12 innings) Nico Vasquez was 2-for-5 with a double and a walk. Edgar Lara was 2-for-5. Travis Mitchell was 2-for-3 with a triple. Alex Castellanos was 3-for-5 with a pair of long balls and 4 RBI. Carlos Gonzalez was responsible for 6 runs and now has an ERA over 12. Andres Rosales sighting. He went 2 innings allowing a hit, a walk and 2 Ks. Samuel Freeman struck out 3 in 3 innings allowing a hit. A walk, a single, a couple of outs ...

Draft Review: The First Fifty Days (or so) - Part 3
Future Redbirds — ... on base (he was hit by a pitch 109 times in four years at Notre Dame) and doesn’t hit for much power. I think the nickname ‘Rudy’ is a natural for him, considering his game and his alma mater.  The Cardinals seem to have a fondness for guys like this in the organization and it wouldn’t surprise me if Lilley sticks around for a few years, even though he has very little pop in his bat. Pick #33, Thirty-second Round, #965 Overall - Samuel Freeman Johnson City - 14.1 ip, 22 k’s, 9 BB’s, 6 ...

Daily Farm Report - 7/30/08
Future Redbirds — ... and two stolen bases. Michael Blazek got the start and lasted 2.2 innings, giving up six runs on four hits and two walks. Santo Maertz lasted on a third of an inning and he gave up two runs on a hit and three walks. Matthew Frevert pitched a scoreless inning, walking one and striking out two. Andres Rosales pitched three innings, giving up two runs on four hits and a walk. He also struck out three. Samuel Freeman gave up a run on a hit and a walk in one inning pitched. Jorge ...

Daily Farm Report - 8/12/08
Future Redbirds — ... Sam Freeman allowed a a hit and struck out a batter in one inning. The former Jayhawk reportedly can hit 95 MPH, pretty nifty for a lefty. He has 26 K’s over 20.1 innings. ...

Daily Farm Report 8/23/08
Future Redbirds — ... the game winning sac fly in the 15th. Ryde Rodriguez went 1-2 with a HBP. He was taken out of the game later, hopefully just as a precaution. Miguel Flores pitched relatively well in his first Appy League start. He gave up one ER in six hits and a walk in four innings. Just one K but eight ground outs. Matt Frevert struck out 2/3 of the batters he faced. Randy Santos struck out three in two scoreless. Sam Freeman allowed three ER in 1.1, blowing the save. He fanned four. David Carpenter ...

Daily Farm Report - 8/28/08
Future Redbirds — ... Lucie 2, Palm Beach 1 Colby Rasmus‘ rehab took him to Palm Beach. Unfortunately he was 0-3 with a HBP, but he did throw out a runner at third base. Antonio DeJesus was 2-4. He’s on a nice little hot streak, going 12 for his last 25. Pete Kozma was 1-4 with a double. Blake King gave up a pair of runs on four hits and three walks over four innings. He struck out three. Samuel Freeman pitched two hitless innings, striking out four. The Casey Mulligan ...

Daily Farm Report - 9/3/08
Future Redbirds — ... Hill were each 1-4 with a walk. Hill also doubled. Matthew Arburr was 1-3 with a homerun and two walks. Luke Gorsett was 2-3 with two doubles and two walks. Oliver Marmol was 2-4 with two stolen bases and one caught stealing. Nick Additon gave up two runs in seven innings on seven hits while striking out two. The Casey Mulligan Experience threw 1.2 innings and gave up a run on five (!) hits. Samuel Freeman came in and struck out a batter to finish off the seventh inning. Pete ...

Friday evening miscellany
Future Redbirds — ... Luhnow: Sam Freeman. Left handed pitcher up to 94 with good secondary pitches, and one of the best athletes we have in our system. Watch out for him! Good timing, too, as we certainly aren’t going to turn away any good lefties. Also, ...

Daily Farm Report 10/16/08
Future Redbirds — ... stock didn’t go down during instructs.” To have a 17 year old playing in either the Appy or the NY - Penn is pretty exciting stuff. Luhnow also cited Gerardo Mannbel as another player that was impressive coming out of the instructs. Mannbel had the most impressive stats of any VSL Cardinal, with a .302/.401/.421 line. Mannbel, an 18 year old SS, also had more walks than strikeouts. (28/20) Derrick Goold chats with Sam Freeman, who also I got the chance to interview over the weekend. Not trying to sell ...

Daily Farm Report 3/24/09
Future Redbirds — ... Springfield Mitchell Boggs pitched for Springfield to get some work in and did well only allowing 1 hit over 3 innings, but he did offer 2 free passes. Trey Hearne took the brunt of the Memphis attack over 1.1 innings. His line was 4 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 1 BB Chuckie Fick was able to stop the bleeding with 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K George Brown had two perfect innings, 1 K Sam Freeman - 1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K A lot of people were waiting to see how ...

Daily Farm Report 3/30/09
Future Redbirds — ... Boggs got knocked around a bit and what I like least about his line is the 5, count em, 5 walks in 3.2 IP. He also allowed 4 H and 5 ER and he only struck out 1. Matt Scherer begs and pleads to stay on the 40 man roster with 1.1 IP of 1 hit ball with 1 K. Pete Parise went one inning with one K. Tyler Norrick didn’t help the cause with 3 ER over 2 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, but he did have 3 K’s Breakout candidate Sam Freeman finished off the game with 1 IP, 1 H, no runs allowed. Nick Stavinoha was ...

Daily Farm Report 4/1/09
Future Redbirds — ... Daniel Descalso was 2-for-4. Coo Coo Ca Choo, Andrew Brown and James Rapoport all were 1-for-4. Palm Beach 2, St. Lucie 3 Ryan Kulik pitched 4 innings. The rest of his line went 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K’s Blake King gave up 0 runs in his 1 IP. He did give up, however, a hit and a walk while striking out 1. Not literally WHILE striking out 1, mind you. Sam Freeman rocked in his 2 IP. The other team chalked up 2 hits and 1ER while he jayhawkedwalked 3. ...

Daily Farm Report 4/16/2009
Future Redbirds — ... Samuel Freeman had a rough go of it tonight. Palm Beach had a clean game until Freeman’s inning in the 8th. He gave up 3 hits, 2 ER, a BB and a K. ...

Daily Farm Report 4/22/2009
Future Redbirds — ... let that get in the way of a 1 for 3 day with an RBI. Tyler Greene and Nick Stavinoha both went 1 for 4, Stavinfection picking up an RBI and a double in the process. Shane Robinson had a run scored and a single, keeping his average over .400. Palm Beach 1, Fort Myers 6 Shaun Garceau was grosseau! He only lasted 2.1 innings with a line of 6 hits, 4 ERs, 1 SO and 2 BBs. Samuel Freeman however went one extra batter (2.2 innings) and didn’t allow any runs or hits, ...

Daily Farm Report 4/27/09
Future Redbirds — ... with 3 runs over 2 innings. Daryl Jones, Brett Wallace, Steve Hill, DH, and Daniel Descalso all had two hits. Daryl Jones had a stolen base. But, Brett Wallace had a throwing error. Palm Beach 3, Fort Myers 4 Mark Diapoules started the game and went 3 innings giving up 2 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks. Not the best of outings. Thomas Eager and Sam Freeman both had 2 no hit innings. A Scott Gorgen sighting as he went 2 ...

Daily Farm Report 4/30/2009
Future Redbirds — ... Chambers continued his hot hitting, going 1-for-5 with a stolen base. Shaun Garceau was tonight’s starter, going his allotted 4 innings. They got 3 hits off of him, walked once and he struck them out twice. Only 1 run scored. Eduardo Sanchez pitched a scoreless frame of 2 hit, 1 strikeout ball. Richard Castillo took the loss. He didn’t last 3 innings (2.1) giving up 3 hits, 3 walks and 5 runs (4 ER). Sam Freeman came in to finish the inning and walked 2, struck out 2 while giving up 1 hit. ...

Daily Farm Report 5/4/09
Future Redbirds — ... 1. Antonio DeJesus, CF was 2-5 with 1 RBI. Palm Beach 6, St. Lucie 7 David Kopp started and wasn’t great over 5 innings giving up 3 runs. He gave up 7 innings and 3 walks. He did strikeout 6 guys, however. Shaun Garceau followed Kopp and was worse; somehow giving up 3 runs on only 2 hits and 1 walk. Eduardo Sanchez pitched a perfect 9th in a tie game with 2 strikeouts. Sam Freeman took the loss in the 10th. He was victimized by a error by 2B Colt Sedbrook ...

Daily Farm Report 5/12/09
Future Redbirds — ... left 7 on base. Palm Beach 6, St. Lucie 12 Scott Gorgen got torched for 6 runs in 1.2 innings of work. You can head over to the box score for the rest of the carnage. It could have been worse as Shaun Garceau stranded Gorgen’s two runners, but then Garceau allowed 4 runs of his own in his other 2 innings of his 2.1 innings of work. Mark Diapoules mopped up 4 innings and gave up 0 earned runs. More on that error later. Sam Freeman and Adam Reifer combined to finish the last inning of work. Adron ...

Daily Farm Report 05/14/2009
Future Redbirds — ... runs on a 1-for-3 day. He also stole a base. Curt Smith knew I would be doing tonight’s DFR, so he went ahead and had himself a 2-for-3 day with a double. Francisco Rivera scored the teams 2 runs, going 2 for 3 with a stolen base. Nick Additon calculated that even though he had 2 runs to work with, pitching a 6 inning shutout was for the best. To reach a dividend of zero, he negated his 3 hits with 3 strikeouts. Samuel Freeman continued to be nasty, picking up the hold with 2 innings of shutout ball. He ...

Daily Farm Report 5/19/09
Future Redbirds — ... short of the golden sombrero. Palm Beach 2, Sarasota 4 Nick Additon pitched 2 innings and gave up 1 run and was hung with the loss even though he didn’t have the worst outing of the day. That belonged to Shaun Garceau who gave up 2 runs on 4 hits and 3 walks in 2.1 innings. He was bailed out by Chuckie Fick who stranded Garceau’s two runners. Thomas Eager had a shutout inning. Sam Freeman gave up a rare run in his inning of mop-up duty. CF Adron Chambers went 2-3 with ...

Daily Farm Report 05/20/2009
Future Redbirds — ... Beach 1, Charlotte 2 Adron Chambers was 2-for-4. Chambers was caught stealing twice. Chris Swauger was 2-for-3 with a run scored. Swauger stole 2 bases. Domnit Bolivar had the only RBI, going 1 for 2. David Kopp had 7 innings pitched, 5 hits and 7 strikeouts. He walked 1. Adam Reifer picked up the blown save giving up 2 BBs, 2 hits and 2 ERs in just 1/3rd of the 8th inning. Sam Freeman finished the inning with 2 strikeouts. In the 8th inning, Sedbrook and Curtis ...

Daily Farm Report 5/27/2009
Future Redbirds — ... 0 Shane Peterson was 2-for-4 with 2 runs scored. Chris Swauger hit a triple and drove in a run. Francisco Rivera hit a double and drove in 3 runs. Domnits are Forever Bolivar was 2-for-3 with a double. Palm Beach pitching combined for only 1 hit. Scott Gorgen gave up that 1 hit, but we’ll forgive him. He threw 7 innings of shutout ball with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. Samuel Freeman threw an perfect inning with 2 strikeouts while Casey Mulligan wanted to do ...

Daily Farm Report 5/28/2009
Future Redbirds — ... Colt Sedbrook was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Nick Derba was 1-for-1 with a double and an RBI. Jose Garcia was 1-for-3. Yup, that’s all your hits for today. Shaun Garceau was the starter and scattered 7 hits and 2 BBs over 4 innings. He yielded 2 runs and struck out 1. Thomas Eager certainly was to pick up the win. He pitched 3 scoreless innings, striking out 3 and giving up a hit. Samuel Freeman received a hold with a scoreless inning, a strikeout and a hit. Adam ...

Daily Farm Report 6/7/09
Future Redbirds — ... 1 RBI and 3 runs as well. Tony Cruz, 3B had a solo home run. Matt Arburr, 1B and Tyler Henley, RF both had RBIs. Palm Beach 6, Clearwater 4 Chuckie Fick pitched 4 innings and gave up 4 runs on 7 hits with 2 Ks and 0 walks. Good Blake King showed up and pitched 2 shutout innings in relief with 3 Ks and 1 walk. Tom Eager got the hold with 2 Ks and 3 walks over 1.1 innings. Sam Freeman came in and stranded Eager’s 2 runners and struck out 2 over his 1.2 innings to get ...

Daily Farm Report 06/10/2009
Future Redbirds — ... Star 3 – Samuel Freeman. After Casey Mulligan blew a 3-1 lead in the 7th inning, Freeman came on to pitch 2 scoreless innings for the win. Freeman struck out 3 and only walked 1, a better ratio than the starter ...

Daily Farm Report 06/17/2009
Future Redbirds — ... After the Cardinals put up a 7 spot in the 7th, things looked ok in the 9th with a 3 run lead. Sam Freeman came on to hopefully get S’field out of the game, but gave up the walkoff 3-run HR instead. ...

Daily Farm Report 06/25/2009
Future Redbirds — ... double-play combo. Stephen Hill and Tony Cruz both went deep. Antonio DeJesus was 2-for-3. Brandon Dickson, who I honestly believe might be 12 years old, was solid. He struck out 7 over 6 innings. Despite giving up 8 hits, he only walked 1 and limited Arkansas 3 ER (5 R). Marco Gonzalez gave up 2 of those runs for Dickson, but none for himself. Those 2 hits came in the first part of his 1.1 innings. Sam Freeman finished the final 1.2 and struck out 4 for his first Arkansas League save. ...