Jaime Garcia Promoted

by mtzxc on May 4, 2008 2:36 AM EDT

Just found this article, but top Cardinals pitching prospect Jaime Garcia was just promoted to AAA Memphis. This comes less than a week from Bryan Anderson's promotion, and sure makes one think that more moves could be coming. No official announcement has been released yet from Memphis or Springfield that I can find, and therefore we can only speculate on who will be demoted or released to make room for Garcia; but my guess is that someone like Josh Wasdin may be headed out the door. As I stated in my previous post about Anderson, Memphis is becoming one nice little minor league club now. It certainly is nice to see a crop of young, home grown talent knocking at the door...

So far Garcia is 3-2 with a 2.06 ERA on the year, with 41 K's in 35 innings. The kid is downright impressive in my opinion. To view his Minor League player profile, click here.

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I’m sure we’ll hear more on this today, but it’s being rumored over at Future Redbirds that Walters was also promoted with Jess Todd and Tyler Herron moving to AA. I sure hope this is the case. It seems that Mo and Co. are staying true to their word of aggressively promoting prospects. One would think that Jose Martinez will also be promoted sooner rather than later, and David Kopp could also be in AA by mid-season. I really think that next year will be LaDunc’s last year, because there’s no way that by 2010 Tony and Dunc are going to want to deal with all these kids….Would Dewitt/Mo even want them handling them?

AAA Rotation:

Parisi
Boggs
Garcia
Walters
Hawksworth/Mulder

AA Rotation:

Daniels
Mortenson
Herron
Todd
Ottavino (DL)/Raushenberger

How long has it been since a Triple-A Cardinals affiliate had a 5-man homegrown rotation?

"Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead!" - Wayne Hagin after the cardinals snapped a losing streak

by The Ghost of Todd Burns on May 4, 2008 3:38 AM EDT reply actions

Garcia and Walters would be fine with Duncan

Both fit right into his mold. No reason to expect conflicts there.

Todd and Worrel might have issues.

by DriverZn on May 4, 2008 4:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Garcia's K rate might be an issue......

I’m wondering if they are gearing up to release Mr. Mulder….....

She isn't crazy, she's just not impressed.

by jillsinmo on May 4, 2008 6:54 AM EDT up reply actions

yea...

its hard for me to envision either Mulder or Clement making any type of significant contribution. At this point, I have no problem cutting ties with both. I’d rather see Boggs/Garcia/Parisi/Walters get a shot if a starter was needed.

"Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead!" - Wayne Hagin after the cardinals snapped a losing streak

by The Ghost of Todd Burns on May 4, 2008 7:27 AM EDT up reply actions

like Ghost, I'm wavering too

I’ve been too optimistic about Mulder returning to some semblance of his good years, and I confess I was excited about picking up Clement… and even tho’ this early hot streak for the Birds may begin to slip to normalcy, I’m at a point now where I like the WAY we are progressing—on the big club and system wide.
I was in Jan, Feb, Mar and April all for building for ‘09 and ‘10. And the excellent W-L performance early ‘08 really doesn’t change that. I’m no longer craning my neck looking for the Mulder or Clement bus to pull up to the station. If we lose them, we lose them.
Carpenter, however, is a different breed of cat. We DO need him (for ‘09 and ‘10 I mean).

by the Tewk on May 4, 2008 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions

K rate an issue?

Explain that one please. As far as I can tell Duncan isn’t going to make people not strike people out, just make them pitch down in the zone, with the elevated pitch as a K pitch.

"Your Holiness, I'm Joseph Medwick. I, too, used to be a Cardinal."-Joe Medwick, to Pope Pius XII.

by redbirdnation8206 on May 4, 2008 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow, excellent

It’s pretty exciting to see a pair of 21-year-olds making their way to AAA. Very exciting, actually.

by mojowo11 on May 4, 2008 3:39 AM EDT reply actions

don't forget..

Rasmus is also 21.

"Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead!" - Wayne Hagin after the cardinals snapped a losing streak

by The Ghost of Todd Burns on May 4, 2008 3:41 AM EDT up reply actions

Walters promotion confirmed...

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3634697

"Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead!" - Wayne Hagin after the cardinals snapped a losing streak

by The Ghost of Todd Burns on May 4, 2008 3:59 AM EDT reply actions

Tear it up!

Watching Garcia’s and Walter’s last outings was all kinds of fun. I got the feeling one or both were going to Memphis….... along with Anderson, I really hate to see them go so early in the season, but hey….. tear it up and good luck!! Welcome to Springfield Todd and Herron!

by cardschinmusic on May 4, 2008 6:41 AM EDT reply actions

If it's true that Parisi is getting called up

Then there is room at Memphis for Garica.

by Evilfrog on May 4, 2008 2:01 PM EDT reply actions

I said that...

Before Reyes took the spot.

by Evilfrog on May 4, 2008 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Mulder

speaking of MMulder, everytime I see Haren and Daric Barton I get a sick feeling in my stomach…..

by DenverCardsFan on May 6, 2008 1:47 AM EDT reply actions

Haren yes Barton no.

Where would Barton play?

by ICbirdfan on May 6, 2008 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions

Left field

land of all displaced 1Bmen.

by spants on May 6, 2008 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

Daric .259 BA/ 1 HR/ 13 RBI/ .365 OBP/ .362 SLG/ .727 OPS

Duncan .257 BA/ 2 HR/ 6 RBI/ .385 OBP/ .378 SLG/ .763 OPS

Duncan has not even really started hitting, I don’t get why people can’t say yeah it sucked losing Haren but Barton is a moot point as he really has no spot on the current big league team for the Cards

by ICbirdfan on May 6, 2008 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed

I was so pissed when Jock traded Haren. But I was all, “Daric Barton? Who the f$*# is that?” And even if we don’t keep Dunc, and he gets his groove back, he’ll have a lot more trade value than Barton on his own.

by spants on May 6, 2008 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions