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05.16.2009 12:28 pm

Brett Wallace promoted to AAA; David Freese on DL

By Derrick Goold
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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DOWNTOWN — St. Louis Cardinals first-round pick and top prospect Brett Wallace is headed to Class AAA Memphis less than a year after the Cardinals drafted him with the 13th pick. Wallace, who leaves behind a .281 batting average at Class AA Springfield, will be the starting third baseman for the Cardinals Triple-A affiliate.

Wallace’s promotion was necessitated Friday when the club decided to place David Freese on the disabled list. Freese continues to experience soreness in his ankle — and injury related to a January car accident and that same injury that limited his playing time early in spring training.

Freese opened the season on the major-league roster, and he was hitting .244/.298/.372 for Memphis since being optioned there to get more playing time.

Wallace finished last season at Class AA. After cranking a couple home runs and driving in six runs on opening day for the S-Cards, Wallace slowed. He recently hit walk-off home runs on consecutive nights, and he has elevated his batting average with a .293 turn through his past 10 games. The lefthanded-hitting infielder has five home runs and 16 RBIs in 128 at-bats. His batting line for the S-Cards is .281/.403/.438.

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I am really curious to see what kind of ceiling Wallace’s talent has

— 407CardsFan
1:52 pm May 16th, 2009

Very pumped about Wallace. Only reason he was not taken higher was because he is not built like you prototypical 3B. I believe the Cardinals nailed this pick and Wallace will turn into a great hitter. His college stats are off the charts.

— Walter Hamilton
2:09 pm May 16th, 2009

Derrick, do you have access to Wallace’s fielding numbers at Double A. I was unable to find anything searching the ‘net. Thanks!

— DarinP
2:26 pm May 16th, 2009

i feel sorry was brett wallace he would have been better off being drafted by an american league team and i think the cardinals are wasting his time and as long as he is with the cardinals he will never reach his full potential.

— marcus
2:58 pm May 16th, 2009

In 30 games at 3B Wallace has made 2 errors, has a .975 fielding percentage and a range factor per game of 2.63. Admittedly a small sample but not bad and an improvement over last season.

— Richard
3:07 pm May 16th, 2009

Hope they aren’t pushing him too fast. That said, I’m going to a AAA game in June when they’ll be in Des Moines and I’m psyched that I may get to see him play.

— LPD
3:27 pm May 16th, 2009

The Cardinals FO appears to be intent on giving Wallace every opportunity to play 3B in STL this season. TLR didn’t seem to even want him around in spring training, sending him down almost immediately because he “has a long way to go” defensively. I haven’t seen him play much. For those of you who have, what’s your evaluation of his defense?

— gpm
7:21 pm May 16th, 2009

.281 at AA. That’s not exactly a dominating performance. We’ll see how he does at AAA.

— billiken bob
10:33 pm May 16th, 2009

I’ve watched him play quite a bit down here in Springfield. First I’ll talk about him at the plate. He’s not getting pitches to hit, the league has been very good at forcing him to go after marginal pitches. He’s going to need to learn to be more selective and take his walks; much like Rasmus has.

In the field he’s interesting, he does a great job moving vertically and charging the ball, but doesn’t move horizontally much at all. His arm is above average. For his build he seems to be very athletic in the field, but he’ll always need a plus range, plus arm, and plus glove shortstop to his left.

— SpringfieldMookie
10:21 am May 17th, 2009

Unless he really improves his defensive game, .281 average will not be good enough. In my opinion, St. Louis needs Wallace to be a *great* hitter - not just a *good* hitter.

— emc2013
12:37 pm May 17th, 2009

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