Twins Voided Out The Contract On Jelfry Marte Due To Vision Issues

The Twins have voided the $3 million contract of 16-year-old Dominican shortstop Jelfry Marte due to an issue the team discovered during his physical.

Baseball America

Kevin Siegrist Comes Off The Disabled List; Cardinals Give Big Deal To Jonathan Machado; Matt Holliday At First Base; Extra Bases

The Cardinals have activated lefthanded reliever Kevin Siegrist, who had been on the 15-day disabled list with mononucleosis, but he will be the only one to come off the disabled list for a while.

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Cardinals Sign Cuban Outfielder Jonathan Machado For $2.35M, Sent To Rookie-Level Dominican Summer League

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A deal that has been expected since spring training was finalized Friday and continued to show the Cardinals expensive and expanding involvement in the Cuban market.
Bird Land

After a busy opening to this year's international free agent signing period, the St. Louis Cardinals continued adding talent to their minor-league system on Friday with three more signings.
Fox Sports Midwest

The Cardinals announced Friday they signed Cuban center fielder Jonatan Machado to a minor league contract.
KMOV

Cubs' Million-Dollar Deal With Christopher Martinez Falls Apart

The Cubs’ $1 million deal with 16-year-old Dominican third baseman Christopher Martinez has fallen apart following an issue with his physical, according to multiple sources.

Baseball America

Former Cardinals On Ozarks Pro Baseball League 2015 Opening Day Rosters

Wagner Mateo - Ridgerunners

Can Cardinals Make A Big Splash In International Waters?

The top righthanded pitching prospect in the Cardinals’ system is from New Jersey and in many ways personifies the traits the organization scouts for in pitching talent – athleticism, power arm, mechanics – when it comes to the amateur draft.

Bird Land

Diamondbacks Release Wagner Mateo

MiLB Official Site

Wagner Mateo Assigned To Short-Season Rookie-Level Missoula

MiLB Official Site

Aledmys Diaz Adds Intrigue To Camp

The Cardinals might have preferred anonymity or at least a little more subtlety. It’s difficult not to suspect something out of the ordinary when a 23-year-old wearing a Cuban national team uniform hops out of a golf cart and starts taking grounders on Field 1 behind Roger Dean Stadium.

Post-Dispatch

Wagner Mateo Was Reassigned From Short-Season Rookie-Level Missoula To Short-Season Rookie-Level Arizona League

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Wagner Mateo Making The Move To The Mound

After struggling to make any contact the past calender year playing in the low affiliates, it was announced today by the Missoula Osprey that Wagner Mateo would be converted to a pitcher. In 9 games before being demoted to Missoula, Mateo had only 5 hits in 32 at bats (.156 avg), paired with 13 strike outs for Hillsboro. In four games with Missoula he hit .333 in 15 at bats, and another 4 strikeouts. These numbers are a drastic improvement compared to last year at Yakima, where he struck out 85 times in only 186 at bats (and another 13 in 38 at bats for Visalia).

AZ Snake Pit

Wagner Mateo Demoted From Single-A Hillsboro To Short-Season Single-A Missoula

The Osprey became part of their third inter-organizational transaction Wednesday, though this one might be the most interesting yet.

Missoulian

Prospect Hot Sheet: July 15th

3. Kolten Wong

6. Oscar Taveras

9. Zack Cox

In The Team Photo: Tyrell Jenkins

Not-So Hot Sheet: Wagner Mateo

Baseball America

Cardinals Latin American Bonus Babies

A point-in-time review of the biggest names from the St. Louis Cardinals’ Latin American signings since 2004. Eduardo Sanchez is the first to have reached the majors.

The Cardinal Nation

Evaluating International Signings Points To Farm System Health

It takes years to build a quality international program.

It's a process that involves hiring the right people—both to evaluate players and to make sure those players are being handled and developed the right way—and being consistent in the market year after year, almost always with the support of ownership committed to international players.

Baseball America

Top 20 Prospects From 2010 Latin Summer Leagues

Baseball America

2010 International Signings Roundup

4. Carlos Matias, P, STL
Matias ate DSL hitters alive with his upper 90's fastball. The K/BB rate is exciting for a guy who can get close to 100 MPH. He's far from a likely success, but a great fastball like that can't be taught and can allow a pitcher to succeed much more readily. He could be the best pitcher out of this group.

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Two Cardinals Play In 2010 DSL All-Star Game

Pitching phenom Carlos Matias and catcher Luis Perez, both 18, are Dominican Summer League All-Stars

The Cardinal Nation

A Year Later, Cardinals May Finally Have Their International Prospect

A year ago, the St. Louis Cardinals made the biggest splash in the international signing market and followed that with a stunning retreat from the deal.

STL Today

Cardinals Should Sign Austin Wilson, No Matter The Cost

One of the easiest things to do in sports is spend somebody else’s money.

With that disclaimer out of the way, I really hope the Cardinals can sign Austin Wilson, and I don’t care how much it costs.

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