It’s Saturday, you have things to do, you don’t need to read this. We have told you this how many times? Yet you refuse to follow directions. Sheesh! Anyway, you should know the drill Geoff has Triple-A and Double-A, Rhys White has High-A, and Matt Thompson has Low-A. Proceed to the blurbs!
All the College Baseball Probable starting pitchers for April 16th to April 18th, 2021. All starters subject to change due to weather and COVID-19 factors.
College Pitching Probables Starters for Week Five of 2021 College Baseball, March 19th to March 22nd.
The top starters to watch for week two of 2021 NCAA Baseball.
June 16th, a day that will live on in the history books. For on this day both Jermaine Palacios, Samad Taylor and Brayan Buelvas all went double dong. This is what America is about, a land of plenty. As always this is brought to you by Dem Sheet Boys, Geoff Pontes (Triple-A and Double-A), Rhys White (High-A), and Matt Thompson (Low-A). Now for the blurbs!
You don’t need no stinking introduction, do you? Well, we’re a month into the minor league season officially and I think we’re all just relieved to be back in the swing of things with something new to talk about. You know, we did spend a year obsessing over workouts videos and Instagram clips of Jasson Dominguez batting practice. Talk about the silly season that went on forever huh? Anyway, song is the same Geoff on Triple-A and Double-A, Rhys on High-A, and Matt Thompson on Low-A. Let’s Go!
We got blisters to two top pitching prospects, a three home run game from Bobby Witt Jr., and Jo Adell tying Johan Mieses for the minor league home run lead. Beyond all those happenings we have a bunch of nasty lefthanded starters that shoved and Matt Frisbee continuing his run of dominance in the early going. Tune in to the top performances across minor league baseball for May 30th 2021. As always Triple-A and Double-A are brought to you by Geoff Pontes, High-A courtesy of Rhys White, and Low-A from the brain of Matt Thompson. Read on!
The St. Louis Cardinals are next on our Players Likely to Debut series. In case you missed it, we have already rolled out the AL and NL East along with the AL Central.
AL East: Red Sox — Yankees — Orioles — Blue Jays — Rays
NL East: Marlins — Braves — Phillies — Mets—Nationals
AL Central: Tigers — Royals — White Sox—Twins—Cleveland
Below, you will find a list of three prospects from the respective organization. Each prospect will have a number score next to their name — this number will represent the estimated amount of time we anticipate that player seeing at the big-league level. Players that have already made their big-league debut will not be included on this list.
1 — September call-ups / guys that are likely to see less than 20-25 games on the roster
2 — 1/4 of the season (roughly 40 games on roster)
3 — 1/2 of the season (roughly 80 games on roster)
4 — 3/4 of the season (roughly 120 games on roster)
5 — Full season on the MLB roster
Position — Name (Time on Roster Score)
3B — Nolan Gorman (1)
The 3B spot for Gorman to potentially claim at some point this season quickly closed up after the Cardinal’s big acquisition of a different Nolan just a few weeks ago. The arrival of Nolan Arenado will obviously impact the trajectory of Gorman’s next few seasons, but the left handed swing has shown that the slugger is going to be a force in the major leagues at some point. Expect Gorman to take the better part of this year to continue to iron out some of the swing and miss tendencies, but don’t be too surprised if he gets a cup of coffee in September.
Catch up with Cards slugging prospect, Nolan Gorman.
LHP — Zack Thompson (1)
One of the bigger names coming into the ‘19 Draft out of Kentucky was Zack Thompson. He wrestled with some injuries that ultimately led to his stock falling a bit and primarily being used in the pen during his first taste of professional ball. However, with that in the rear-view, the Cards should be looking to push him fairly quickly as is common with established college arms.
Kentucky LHP Zack Thompson is one of the better pitching prospects in the 2019 draft class.
C — Ivan Herrera (3)
Looking at the depth chart right now, it would appear likely that Herrera plays almost the entire season at the MLB level, but there’s a pretty significant name still on the market by the name of Yadier Molina. It seems as a return to the Red Birds is almost inevitable for the longtime Cardinal’s backstop so Herrera will likely end up sliding down a spot on depth chart. Nonetheless, Andrew Knizner nor recently acquired Tyler Heineman are overly successful backstops so a spot for Herrera could potentially open up rather quickly.
A couple of names to consider that could see some at bats are Luken Baker and Juan Yepez. Both stem from the same tree: Corner-only RHH power bats. Otherwise, Angel Rondon, Connor Jones, and Griffin Roberts are a few arms who could see a handful of innings in the Cards’ pen at some point.
