Minor League Updates (8/13) ~ Cards System

[craviduce]

TIMES AND PROBABLES

Memphis @ Charlotte ~ 6:04pm CDT

LHP Quinn Mathews (3-4, 3.63 ERA)

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Springfield vs. Wichita ~ 7:05pm CDT

LHP Ixan Henderson (7-5, 2.50 ERA)

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Peoria @ Lake County ~ 11:05am CDT

LHP Mason Molina (0-0, 4.50 ERA ; 3-5, 3.46 ERA)

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Palm Beach vs. Bradenton ~ 5:30pm CDT

TBA

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Andrew Sojka debut

[NYCardsFan]

Don’t know if anyone has posted about this already, but interesting tidbit on Doyle from John Denton this morning:

As for Doyle -- the Southeastern Conference’s leader in strikeouts-per-nine innings in 2025 -- he is working out at the Cardinals’ Spring Training headquarters in Jupiter, Fla., and he will soon be assigned to a Minor League club and pitch in games before the end of the 2025 season, per a team source.

[Cranny]

Andrew Sojka debut

Thank you for the info, Craviduce. Look forward to it everyday, Tues.-Sun.

[82birds]

BIG start for Mathews IMO

[Futuregm2]

BIG start for Mathews IMO

Agree! And Charlottes has one of the highest runs per game and OPS’s in the International League. They do strikeout quite a bit, too.

[82birds]

two more great starts from him and EE-SHAWN and Mathews get the callup in Sept and EE-SHAWN takes his spot in the Memphis rotation.

[craviduce]

Don’t know if anyone has posted about this already, but interesting tidbit on Doyle from John Denton this morning:

As for Doyle -- the Southeastern Conference’s leader in strikeouts-per-nine innings in 2025 -- he is working out at the Cardinals’ Spring Training headquarters in Jupiter, Fla., and he will soon be assigned to a Minor League club and pitch in games before the end of the 2025 season, per a team source.

that's both good news, and scary at the same time.

I look forward to it.

and how close to the vest do the Cards want to keep him? Palm Beach where the major training facilities are? Peoria where he's facing better competition. Springfield with the 2nd best training facilities and close to St. Louis, and competition comparable to the SEC/ACC?

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Andrew Sojka debut

Thank you for the info, Craviduce. Look forward to it everyday, Tues.-Sun.

I do my best work on Sundays. It's something in the air, I'm sure.

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Peoria 0, Lake County 0 ; Top 1st

JonJon Gazdar leads off

[82birds]

Don’t know if anyone has posted about this already, but interesting tidbit on Doyle from John Denton this morning:

As for Doyle -- the Southeastern Conference’s leader in strikeouts-per-nine innings in 2025 -- he is working out at the Cardinals’ Spring Training headquarters in Jupiter, Fla., and he will soon be assigned to a Minor League club and pitch in games before the end of the 2025 season, per a team source.

that's both good news, and scary at the same time.

thx NYCardsFan for the info

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Chiefs' opposition pitcher.... 84 K's in 82 IP....and 74 walks. The singles hitting squad should be stymied again....maybe they'll walk him to death? They've had games like that this season.

Would love multiple XBH today...not likely. We'll see.

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Peoria 0, Lake County 0 ; Bot 1st

Mason Molina takes the mounds

JonJon Gazdar ~ 0-1...fly out in foul ground in RF
Jesus Baez ~ 1-1, Single...roller down 3B line, beats throw at 1B. Close one.
Deniel Ortiz ~ 0-1, K...swinging
Travis Honeyman ~ 0-1....slow roller to 2B...fumbled by the charging 2B. Baez to 2B. Honeyman safe at 1B.
Andrew Sojka ~ 0-1...big bouncer to 2B....weird up and down batting stance...standing up straight.

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2 straight walks by Mason Molina to start the bottom of the 1st.

this is going to be a fun one

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Lake County 1, Peoria 0 ; Top 2nd

Mason Molina ~ 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K ....27 pitches, 12 strikes

Jesus Baez ~ 1-1, Single.


Gazdar with diving stop at 2B to prevent a bad inning from becoming much, much worse....saved 2 runs there to end the inning. High throw to Ortiz at 1B, but the youngster was tall enough to bring it down

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Lake County 1, Peoria 0 ; Bot 2nd

Mason Molina ~ 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K

Jesus Baez ~ 1-2, Single....ground out to SS with bases loaded, ends threat
Chase Adkison ~ 0-0, BB
Ian Petrutz ~ 0-1...fly out to CF
Anyelo Encarnacion ~ 1-1, Single...another infield single, Adkison to 2B....off the SS glove
Brayden Jobert ~ 0-1, K...swinging
JonJon Gazdar ~ 0-1, BB...walk to load bases, 2 outs