On Tuesday, the St. Louis Cardinals had another camp day in which their top two and lower two rosters opposed each other while the Marlins and Mets faced off elsewhere. Springfield and Palm Beach went home winners on the day.
Tuesday’s Player of the Day: Springfield outfielder Chris Edmondson singled, tripled and homered in three at-bats. Too bad he didn’t have a chance for the very rare spring cycle!
Tuesday’s Pitcher of the Day: Seth Maness, who spent some time with Palm Beach last season (as well as Batavia and Quad Cities), threw three perfect frames for the PB club. The right-hander fanned three.
As he has been doing the last few seasons, Cardinals farm director John Vuch is sharing game stats with this site and several others with interest in Cardinals prospects. As always, the raw numbers are his, but the comments mine.
Don’t read too much into which rosters on which players are appearing as early spring assignments are especially fluid.
On Wednesday, the Cardinals two lower-level clubs, Palm Beach and Quad Cities, will bus over to the Mets’ facility at Port St. Lucie while Memphis and Springfield remain home at the Roger Dean Stadium complex to face New York’s Triple-A and Double-A clubs.
The Cardinals spring record against external minor league competition remains knotted at 6-6-2.
The Cardinal Nation subscribers can check out the full minor league schedule and spring training working rosters. The entire system view by level and position is available via the Roster Matrix, right here at The Cardinal Nation Blog.
Springfield 12, Memphis 11
Apparently the arrival of Allen Craig inspired all the hitters – along with the wind blowing out. Though his numbers weren’t part of the Vuch report, the outfielder went 0-for-4 with two at-bats each for Memphis and Springfield. He fanned looking both times against Brian Broderick and flied out to center and grounded out to second base vs. Nick Additon (hat tip to Tom Ackerman of KMOX).
| Memphis pitching | IP | H | ER | BB | K | Notes |
| Brian Broderick | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5 | Also yielded an unearned tally |
| Tyler Lyons | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | Was Cards’ designated starter in 2011 AFL |
| Adam Reifer | 2 | 2 | 3 | Spring struggles continue | ||
| Willy Paulino | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Big step up for 2011 Johnson City pitcher |
| Memphis hitting | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | Notes |
| Mark Hamilton | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Good to see 1B man back in action | ||||
| Xavier Scruggs | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Nice extra-base power from another 1B | |||
| Kolten Wong | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | All indications are of a complete player | ||||
| Jermaine Curtis | 1 | 1 | 1 | Played some OF along with 2B last year | |||||
| Nick Derba | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Zack Cox | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | Grand slam! | |||
| Adam Melker | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Chris Swauger | 1 | 1 |
| Springfield pitching | IP | H | ER | BB | K | Notes |
| Nick Additon | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | Tied for system lead with 26 starts in 2011 |
| Seth Blair | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Better, but a ways to go for 46th overall pick in 2010 |
| Nick Greenwood | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Began spring in major league camp | |
| Justin Wright | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | Didn’t pitch in big league trip to Orlando Monday |
| Springfield hitting | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | Notes |
| Chris Edmondson | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Solo home run | ||||
| Niko Vasquez | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Three-run jack | |||
| Ronny Gil | 2 | 2 | Shortstop quietly hits | ||||||
| Nick Longmire | 2 | 1 | Dressed for Orlando StL game Monday | ||||||
| Starlin Rodriguez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Ditto. Trip must have been inspiring | |||
| Mike O’Neill | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Jonathan Rodriguez | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Alan Ahmady | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Cody Stanley | 1 | ||||||||
| Rainel Rosario | 1 | 1 |
Palm Beach 3, Quad Cities (White) 2
| Palm Beach pitching | IP | H | ER | BB | K | Notes |
| Carlos Martinez | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Our 2nd-ranked Cardinals prospect |
| Seth Maness | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Perfection = Pitcher of the Day |
| Todd McInnis | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2011 NYPL All-Star with Maness |
| Palm Beach hitting | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | Notes |
| Vance Albitz | 2 | 2 | 1 | Went from (Lincoln) Saltdogs to (Batavia) Muckdogs in 2011 | |||||
| Casey Rasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | Made his one plate appearance count | |||||
| Cesar Valera | 1 | Only extra-base hit for Palm Beach | |||||||
| Phil Cerreto | 1 | ||||||||
| Garrett Wittels | 1 | ||||||||
| Roberto Reyes | 1 | ||||||||
| Gary Apelian | 1 |
| Quad Cities Red pitching | IP | H | ER | BB | K | Notes |
| Victor De Leon | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Coaches like his stuff |
| Nick Gillung | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19th rounder in 2011 pitched for Johnson City |
| Ryan Sherriff | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 28th rdr in 2011 split between JC and Batavia |
| Dyllon Nuernberg | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Quad Cities Red hitting | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | Notes |
| Breyvic Valera | 5 | 2 | 1 | Could 2B man become this year’s Oscar Taveras? | |||||
| David Medina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Getting mentioned here often this week | ||||
| Anthony Bryant | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Lance Jeffries | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Sam Tuivailala | 1 |
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Schmalbert goes Ofer 4, 3 Ks. kkkkk
You need to get over Schmalbert, Bling. He is irrelevant.
Angels fans will agree soon enough.
Lets get over Adams and Rosenthal too. Their times will come, years hence.
Adams is the last prospect level NRI. His time is now. For now.
He benefited by Hamilton’s absence.
Mr Irrelevant went 1 for 1 today.
Westbrook’s line is encouraging.
Berkman rips Selig
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7714711/st-louis-cardinals-lance-berkman-says-bud-selig-extorted-houston-astros-al-move
Trivia. Among retired players who played their whole career with the Cards, Pepper Martin had the fifth most career homers with 59. Name the four players with more.
OK lightweights. Besides Stan at #1 with 475, I’ll give you Ol’ Irish Mike Shannon #4 with 68. And we have Martin #5 with 59. Who can name #2 and #3 ?
Jeesh. I’ll give all you pantywaist non-fans #3, Terry Moore with 80. Who is #2 ?
#2 Whitey Kurowski, 106
Trivia #2. Among retired players who played their whole career with one team, who had the most career homers?
Without looking it up, I guessed Mantle. Incorrect, though he’d be the AL Leader. Forgot about Killebrew when I was thinking about this but he bailed me out by playing his last year with the Royals. I won’t spoil for the rest by naming the correct answer.
Right about Mantle being the AL leader with 536 for the Yankees followed closely by Ted Williams with 521 for the Red Sox.
Well, we know it is a National Leaguer, and since guys don’t stay with one team much lately, it is probably a guy who played for a team that has been around a long time.
If you were thinking “it can’t be a Cub”, you were right. But their top guy has more than ours. Ernie Banks with 512 for the lamentable losers.
Mike Schmidt, 548 for the Phillies
The current situation I believe was “suggested” a while back………as a possibility……. it is actually far more complex than it appears………………. Adam was never a candidate to go up against Johnson in a much ballyhooed game……..with the entire country watching………. the sizing of Garcia is Matheny…..
Now we need to figure out how we’re going to get 4 runs out of Johnson and their relief core…………its do-able…………… and here comes the question………is it try-able?
I had a great time at Roger Dean today. Cards won the game in the 9th inning and I got to meet Brian, who is a handsome devil
(Sorry if I embarrassed you Brian)
I will post pictures later.
You mean the picture isn’t from like ten years ago?
Since you couldn’t meet Big Mac, I guess I had to do! Still, I’ll take the compliment. The check is in the mail…
It was a pleasure to meet you, too.
Okay, pictures.
https://picasaweb.google.com/111205811395517988427/SpringTraining?authkey=Gv1sRgCNXbspTm_8jmIQ#5722501922758130050
Nice work!
Thanks for sharing the pics.
Good to see Lance is throwing something into the stands other than a bat. A ball tossed softly seems a bit safer.
Greene seemed to get a workout at 2B today, play-by-play showed as much, how’d he look?
Thanks. I’m jealous. Beautiful weather.
A quick peruse of the jerseys I could read from the people in stands was quite an eclectic collection – Freese (2) (though the second one could be the same person). Pujols, Berkman, and Clark.
It appears that Matheny and Jamie have reached an understanding. ……… Cruz is making a statement. ……… And I am absolutely loving the absents of TLR…………….. If Matheny has the personnel in place to run a double steal………he runs it………… every scout in the league now has to say, ” Christ, if this guy has speed on third, he’s going to steal home”…………. that a huge plus……because now he doesn’t have to……. he will get the pitch outs….he will be drawing the infielders up every time……….. thats coaching,,,,,,, Tony was a coward…worrying that a failed play would reflect on his genius…always trying to come off the wall with something instead of playing the game………….. Billy Beane is a genius……look what he gets for Geo………Cards torch him…………..
Even a slow team should have some kind of a running game, because the loss of a runner now and then would be more than made up by the gain from having the opposing infield in less than optimum position to guard against the steal attempt, and by the distraction to the pitcher.
The fact that plodding Albert was able to waltz down to second as often as he did, and that Greene was able to come up and take 11 in a row, proves that opponants were not at all worried about the Cards running on them.
Just imagine how much more convincingly we would have won the WS if Tony was smarter.
Good interview with Lilly……….. he wasn’t going to be trapped……..the shower of seeds hitting him cracked me up……………… Shelby just got the notice …………. he is now being groomed for the “barter market”…… prepared doesn’t mean they trade him …… ………..but don’t think for a second that that wasn’t scripted………. its a brave new world ……………… all interested party’s make a note of that one………
I missed it. Missed the first half of the game.
ST is fun to watch. Guys running in the outfield. 3 number 13s on the field, the Nats SS and 2B and the batter, Cora. Love it.
Lilliquist was hinting that Shelby had an attitude problem and had better shape up or be passed over for another pitcher.
New regime CRD………….. you do the spanking in the coaches office………doing it in public, and you are conditioning the fans………while alerting the GM’s……………..his agent will be chatting with him…… this is not Mo talking over the wall as Tony makes waves…………Mo is in the dugout now………
Yes Billy Beane is a genius. And Luhnow must be also since the Astros have a winning record right now. My God, It’s Spring training. Geo’s ERA coming in to the game was 1.42.
Motte’s control is terrible, back to back walks. Unacceptable for a closer. I’m sure its all because Anderson is catching him.
Descalso bobbled and dropped while making the pivot. Wouldn’t have been able to get the runner at first, but that is beside the point. Ragged D.
Without triple bonus points for being a veteran, I don’t see how Cora makes this team over Carpenter.
Maybe if Greene is the starting 2B, they keep Cora. If Descalso starts at 2B, they keep Carpenter.
There is drama in Anaheim……….. 2 0n and no outs….Soccia tries a double steal on the first pitch with Albert taking…………………. AP was grinding on that because the runner was called out at third…….. he forces the AB and grounds out to short to collect the RBI………………. they showed the dugout which had a load of information ………………. Angels are a good team ………… AP needs his entire game there …. he is showing signs of stress ………….
Sounds like good info………..for an Angels blog.
Westie could drive Angels fans bonkers.
I hope there is no truth to the rumor that WC is now being groomed for the “barter market”.
With grooming, Westie might win “Best in Show.”
6’3″ 195 …………..and he loses weight???……….. give it some thought…………thats no ordinary weight loss program……………. hes for sale …………..
Sell quickly, Westie’s stock is near its all time high as he has been on his best behavior recently. Ludicrous comments like this will make getting that bag of used baseballs difficult though.
What do you know about the new low body fat “energy drink” workouts the kids are into up here…………..from down there ………………. …………….. why don’t you write about it………. why don’t you explain why the Cardinals are unhappy with it?
Because I am an idiot – you told me so so it must be true. So i have to wait for you to enlighten me and the others here. Of course you seem incapable of doing it that, preferring to write in gibberish. But I have faith it will all be revealed in time (cough, cough). Maybe in your own blog or in your book. We are all holding our breath. Maybe it will all only come out when BDW reveals the latest version of his strategic plan to you and only you. ……or not!