Today, Pete Parise took off on a plane headed towards San Juan, Puerto Rico. As of this moment, he is preparing to play for Ponce, the reigning champions of the Puerto Rico Baseball League (PRBL). I say “as of this moment,” because with the PRBL, what you think you know, you actually have no idea […]
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The winner-take-all Triple-A Baseball National Championship Game will be played tomorrow night in Oklahoma City. ESPN2 will cover the game, which starts at 7 p.m. EST. If you plan on watching make sure to join the Facebook Event page. The Memphis Redbirds are 6-0 in the playoffs after sweeping both of their opponents in the […]
Last night, the Memphis Redbirds, a team that was not sure it would even be making the initial round of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) Playoffs, won the first game in the PCL Championship round. By a score of 1-0, the Redbirds were able to secure a series lead against the heavily favored Sacramento River […]
As a self-proclaimed moderate (fiscally conservative, socially liberal), I do not confuse Judaism with liberalism. Seems like a lot of people may, though. Fantasy drafts complete and one game into the season, are you as pumped about the start of the NFL regular season as the majority of men in the United States? Are you […]
Yesterday, while waiting on his flight to board for Albuquerque to take on the Isotopes in the Pacific Coast League playoffs, Pete Parise took the time to talk with Scout.com writer, Brian Walton. The result was that TheCardinalNation.com, the St. Louis Cardinals website on Scout.com, penned two pieces contraining titles plush with alliteration. In To […]
Pete Parise is having the time of his life with the AAA Memphis Redbirds. Just one level away from the Major League St. Louis Cardinals, Parise has found himself as one of the main relievers in the farm system, with former Memphis closer, Jess Todd, being the Player-To-Be-Named-Later in the Mark DeRosa trade and Clayton […]
You already know that Pete Parise went undrafted, that he played at the University of Pittsburgh, and that he was not truly a pitcher until he hit the Frontier League. But did you know that his fastball is currently hitting mid-90s and that he is developing a mean sinker and changeup? The two new pitches […]
Just went through a very draining few days of the MLB Amateur Draft, and the fun is not over yet. We had some guys drop in the round selected because of signability issues, a couple of guys leave us, and we picked up a few new players to advise. It really is crazy how this […]