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NL Central Notes: Cards, Taillon, Stephenson

By charliewilmoth | July 4, 2015 at 2:44pm CDT

The Cardinals’ recent firing of scouting director Chris Correa in the wake of the organization’s hacking scandal is part of a broader problem of “brain-drain,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bernie Miklasz writes. A number of top front-office minds left the Cardinals joined Jeff Luhnow in heading to Houston several years ago, and Correa himself replaced Dan Kantrovitz, who left the Cardinals following the 2014 to rejoin the Athletics organization. The investigation into the hacking scandal continues, so the Cardinals might have to withstand other front office departures. Team chairman Bill DeWitt is in a tough position — he’ll surely want to keep what’s left of his front office mostly intact, but if he doesn’t continue punishing any other hacking offenders, he’ll be seen as “soft on baseball crime,” as Miklasz puts it. Here’s more from the NL Central.

  • Pirates starting pitching prospect Jameson Taillon will have surgery next week to fix an inguinal hernia, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tweets. Taillon will miss two months, so the injury is likely to end his season. He had already missed the entire 2014 season after having Tommy John surgery and had not pitched in 2015, so he will effectively miss two years of development. Taillon was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2010 draft, and his talent remains significant, but his injury problems appear to be denting his prospect status.
  • The Reds promoted top prospect Robert Stephenson to Triple-A Louisville, where he debuted Friday night, as MiLB.com’s Daren Smith notes. Stephenson pitched well for Double-A Pensacola, with a 3.68 ERA and 10.2 K/9 in 78 2/3 innings, although he walked 4.9 batters per nine. MLB.com currently rates Stephenson the Reds’ best prospect and the 18th-best prospect in baseball, praising his fastball (which can reach into the upper 90s) and excellent curveball. (Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America largely agreed on Stephenson’s place in baseball’s prospect hierarchy, ranking him 16th and 23rd, respectively, heading into the season.) At Louisville, he’ll likely need to continue working on his control. “There have been a couple things we’ve been working on, but the big problem was that I was nitpicking too much and being too fine with my pitches,” says Stephenson. “The other thing was that I was rushing it a little bit, and when I sped up my tempo, I wasn’t able to repeat my motion and throw strikes. When I slow it down, I’m able to repeat my arm slot every time.”
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  1. Turtle

    10 years ago

    Stephenson threw fairly well. Five innings, six hits, two runs, two earned runs, three walks, six strikeouts. He threw too many pitches (94) and too many balls (35), but that’s been his mode of operation throughout his career.

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  2. Chris Vinnit

    10 years ago

    Eh. A hernia doesn’t affect your arm going forward so I’m not sure how that impacts Taillon’s prospect status. For example AJ struggled with one all last year, got it fixed, and is pitching at near career levels this season. The only thing this wasted year hurts is you really wanted him to pitch about 100 innings at AAA this year so he’d be a viable option next season. With this year being a wash I don’t see him contributing to the Pirates next season until September call-ups.

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  3. mstrchef13

    10 years ago

    At least Taillon didn’t sign a major league contract after being drafted. The O’s had to do that to sign Dylan Bundy, and next year he’ll be out of options and the team will be forced to put him on the roster or lose him despite TJ surgery and a calcification in his shoulder costing the majority of two seasons.

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