2010/2011 Cards

[Cardinals (A)]

Looking forward,

Player | 2009 level | stats | age

2010 lineup

CF Dexter Fowler | ML | 270/366/416 | 23 yrs old
LF Michael Saunders | AAA | 310/378/544 | 22 yrs old
C Carlos Santana | AA | 290/411/535 | 23 yrs old
3B Pedro Alvarez | AA/A+ | 284/368/526 | 22 yrs old
1B Ike Davis | AA/A+ | 296/384/509 | 22 years old
RF Thomas Neal | A+ | 331/419/570 | 21 yrs old
SS Alcides Escobar | AAA | 298/353/409 | 22 yrs old
Justin Turner | AAA | 310/374/405 | 24 years old

Bench/Farm:

Nick Weglarz | AA | 227/377/431 | 21 yrs old
Wilson Ramos | AA | 301/325/425 | 21 yrs old
Kirk Nieuwenhuis | AA/A+ | 280/362/476 | 22 years old
Hak-ju Lee | A short-season | 324/392/432 | 18 yrs old
Edinson Rincon | A short-season | 307/420/480 | 18 yrs old
Adam Milligan | A | 361/412/655 | 21 years old
Engel Beltre | A+ | 227/281/317 | 19 yrs old
Rafael Rodriguez | rookie | 287/390/357 | 17 yrs old
Rashun Dixon | A short-season | 211/295/292 | 18 yrs old

Rotation

1 Neftali Feliz
2 Scott Richmond
3 Brad Lincoln
4 Kyle Davies
5 David Purcey

2011 lineup:

CF Dexter Fowler
LF Michael Saunders
C Carlos Santana
3B Pedro Alvarez
1B Ike Davis
RF Thomas Neal
SS Alcides Escobar
2B ____________

2011 rotation

1 Stephen Strasburg
2 Neftali Feliz
3 Christian Friedrich
4 Matthew Moore
5 Brad Lincoln

Bullpen


MR Arnold Leon
MR Jhonny Nunez
SU Adam Miller
CL Brad Holt


Overall, depth charts, more for my own purposes than anything:

Catcher
Carlos Santana | AA | 23 years old
Wilson Ramos | AA | 21 years old
Devin Mesoraco | Hi-A | 21 years old

First Base
Ike Davis | AA/A+ | 21 years old
Nick Weglarz | AA | 21 years old

Second Base
Justin Turner | AAA | 24 years old

Shortstop
Alcides Escobar | AAA | 22 years old
Hak-ju Lee | A | 18 years old
Pedro Ciriaco | AA | 23 years old

Third Base
Pedro Alvarez | AA/Hi-A | 22 years old
Edinson Rincon | A | 18 years old

LF
Michael Saunders | AAA/ML | 22 years old
Kirk Nieuwenhuis | AA/A+ | 22 years old
Casper Wells | AA | 24 years old
Adam Milligan | A | 21 years old

CF
Dexter Fowler | ML | 23 years old
Starling Marte | A | 20 years old
Engel Beltre | A+ | 19 yrs old
Rashun Dixon | A short-season | 18 yrs old

RF
Thomas Neal | Hi-A | 21 years old
Rafael Rodriguez | rookie | 262/392/328 | 17 yrs old

SP

Neftali Feliz | ML/AAA | 21 years old
Scott Richmond | ML | 29 years old
Kyle Davies | ML/AAA | 25 years old
Felipe Paulino | ML/AAA | 25 years old
David Purcey | ML/AAA | 27 years old
Hayden Penn | ML/AAA | 24 years old
Yusmeiro Petit | ML/AAA | 24 years old

Stephen Strasburg
Christian Friedrich | Hi-A/A | 22 years old
Matthew Moore | A | 20 years old
Randall Delgado | A | 19 years old
Brad Holt | AA/A+ | 22 years old
Brad Lincoln | AAA/AA | 24 years old
Tim Melville | A | 19 years old
Kyle Lobstein | A | 19 years old
Daniel Gutierrez | Hi-A | 22 years old
Simon Castro | A | 21 years old
Jeurys Familia | A | 19 years old
Cody Scarpetta | A | 20 years old
Juan Ramirez | Hi-A | 20 years old
Kelvin de la Cruz | Hi-A | 21 years old
Tyler Sample | rookie | 20 years old
Arnold Leon | AA | 20 years old
Daniel Cortes | AA | 22 years old
Steve Garrison | A+ | 22 years old
George Kontos | AAA/AA | 24 years old
Samuel Deduno | AA | 26 years old

RP
Radhames Liz | AAA/ML | 25 years old
Adam Miller | injured | 24 years old
Jhonny Nunez | AA/AAA/ML | 23 years old

[oaklandgm (A)]

solid young team for 2013, but do you honestly think Adam Miller will ever do anything?

[Cardinals (A)]

Sure. If not, substitute Charlie Morton (who is having a stellar season, by the way: 3.86 era, 3.53 FIP era, 6.5 k, 3.1 bb, 0.56 hr rates, after dominating AAA).

The pitching is a bit on the young side, but I think Fowler, Saunders, C. Santana, C. Ross, and A. Escobar are all major league regulars start of 2010, and that Alonso, Alvarez, Friedrich & Holt join them by the end of the season, plus whichever pitcher I draft (I have to assume I'd have one of the first three picks). 2011 is the first year of contention for the Cards, and unless I make stupid deals or most of these guys implode, we're set up for a sweet run.

[Cardinals (A)]

updated after deals . . .

[Texas (A)]

I'm curious, how did you acquire Andy Marte ?

Was he just hanging around as a FA ?

[Cardinals (A)]

Yeah, just dangling there. He'd just been dropped (not sure if I put a claim on him, or waited 24 hours).

[Texas (A)]

Aug 10, 2009 6:00:00 GMT -5 Cardinals (A) said:

Yeah, just dangling there. He'd just been dropped (not sure if I put a claim on him, or waited 24 hours).

I must have missed him then;

I still think he will hit OK