PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Now that we’ve wrestled technology back to doing our will instead of the whims of some wild, crazy, improvisational, blog-here, blog-gone techno gremlin, here is the recap of the live blog from this afternoon’s Grapefruit League.
If you thought the blog was messy there for awhile, you should have seen the game.
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This live blogging from the St. Louis Cardinals’ Grapefruit League opener is meant to be…
TOWER GROVE — The 2010 edition of the annual Baseball America Prospect Handbook has reached shelves and if you flip to page 366 for the start of the St. Louis Cardinals entry the number that is most striking isn’t anywhere in the Top 30. It’s actually the number of players missing from that 30.
A total of 15 names from the 2009 list have dropped off the Top 30 for 2010. Fifteen. Half.
Six of…
TOWER GROVE — The St. Louis Cardinals admittedly don’t have the level of prospects out in the Arizona Fall League that they’ve had in the past. There is no Brett Wallace out there this season, for example. There are a few players auditioning for a spot on the 40-man roster — like Tyler Greene did last fall — but they aren’t expected to use that roster spot to vault into a major-league debut, as Greene…
CREVE COEUR — They are at very different stages in their careers, at very different positions and they were talking about two very different subjects, but St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter and minor-league outfielder Tyler Henley hit on the same theme during interviews I had with them Wednesday.
In discussing how his career changed when he won the Cy Young Award back in 2005, Carpenter described how expectations changed around him. He wasn’t just…
TOWER GROVE — Some members of the St. Louis Cardinals brass, including VP/farm director Jeff Luhnow and assistant general manager John Abbamondi, traveled west this week to see the Arizona Fall League and the prospects there in person. They were greeted with a marquee start — against their players.
Stephen Strasburg, the Washington Nationals’ No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft and widely billed as the best pitching prospect to reach the draft in…
TOWER GROVE — In what probably was the closest vote yet in any Bird Land Community prospect poll, Eduardo Sanchez, the fireballer righthanded reliever, took 52 percent of the vote in the runoff and will be your No. 7 prospect on the Top 21 poll this year. Lance Lynn, the steady starter, will be No. 8. At 4 o’clock St. Louis time on Monday one vote separated the two.
So, I gave the poll another…
TOWER GROVE — The Arizona Fall League is settling into gear, and while Stephen Strasburg is the headliner out at the annual gathering of some of the better prospects in baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals have sent some noteworthy names out west. A few are making up for lost time. A few are trying to extend their strong seasons. And more than one is trying to find a way onto the organization’s radar.
Several, as…
TOWER GROVE — It started as a cumbersome, at-times chaotic, count-by-hand poll posted in the Cardinals’ message board here at StlToday.com. Through four years and four attempts to refine the process it has improved to an at-times cumbersome and slightly less chaotic poll based here at Bird Land.
But, hey, we no longer have to count it by hand. Viva technology.
With the St. Louis Cardinals’ season over with the sudden sweep by the Los…
