The major league team may have left Friday morning — and taken the Double-A team with it — but most of the Cardinals’ minor leaguers remained in Florida for the weekend. They’re still playing. Which means there are still Vuch Reports coming.

Below are the complete reports from Friday’s scrimmages, and after them are the highlights from the two previous days — Vuch Reports that slipped through the cracks of packing, traveling and other writing. The minor league…

JUPITER, Fla. — Continuing what’s become a lengthier — even arduous — grind back to a major-league rotation, Cardinals right hander Matt Clement made his first appearance in a game Tuesday, throwing for the Cardinals Double-A affiliate.

Clement threw 37 pitches and walked four of the seven batters he faced. While his command was flighty and his velocity sat in the mid-80s — according to the radar gun the Cardinals kept — his pitches all…

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Cardinals stuffed their bus with outfielders for the trip across Alligator Alley to the opposite coast of Florida. Not just the major-leaguers are this trip as Colby Rasmus continues to tagalong days after he was assigned to the minors.

With a designated hitter available and first base unoccupied, the Cardinals can cram into one lineup all five of the outfielders they plan to take north.

Actually, they are the first…

JUPITER, Fla. — One of the talent pools the Cardinals are intent on tapping is the international veins of baseball, from Caribbean to East Asia. The club’s expanding efforts in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and even Nicaragua are well documented. And, at the start of spring, they invited a European player across the pond and signed their first player from South Korea.

Well, the pipeline is clearly open, but as Jeff Luhnow has said, it’s…

JUPITER, Fla. — The moves made at the major-league level Monday began to have their ripple effect on the minors Tuesday. The Cardinals placing Colby Rasmus and Joe Mather on the Memphis roster makes for a crowded house in the Triple-A outfield, where Cody Haerther, Nick Stavinoha and Amaury Marti were already slugging it out for playing time.

Rasmus and Mather will play, no doubt. Rasmus in center. The others …

The Cardinals also expect the infield…

JUPITER, Fla. — The question was posed in the comment section of the previous Vuch Report, and the answer to just who Carlos Pupo is begins with a simple rule.

Location. Location. Location.

The strapping first baseman lives near Jupiter and he worked out often with the Gulf Coast League team last summer. So much that he made an impression on coach Dan Radison and the Cardinals signed him for this season. Pupo has pop…

JUPITER, Fla. — The Cardinals’ minor-league camp begin games today, facing the Florida affiliates from across campus. And that means the first good look for us of first-round pick Peter Kozma and a peek at the layout of the organization’s minor-league rosters.

Cardinals official John Vuch said a goal this spring was to assign players to the team they probably will open with. That doesn’t necessarily mean the starting lineups for today’s games are representative, but…

TOWER GROVE — Returned home after a delayed, fogged, re-routed and serpentine trek back from Prague to be greeted by a true sign of spring: Lindy’s Fantasy Baseball was on the airport’s magazine racks.

Ah, preview mags. 

Flipped through Lindy’s on the last leg of the flight home and loved scanning the mock draft and the predicted statistics. One of the first places I turned was to the list of ”Hot Properties”, or 40 fantasy rookies to…

TOWER GROVE — A reminder of the Cardinals possible future was in Nashville yesterday, a free agent selling his services to the gathered general managers.

Outfielder Steve Finley, who rejected acceptance to a prestigious chiropractor school ot pursue a career in baseball, visited the Opryland this week to talk with club executives about his desire to keep playing, at 42. It’s a name that has not only been mentioned as a prospective Cardinal, in the…

TOWER GROVE — No matter the topic this offseason, when it comes to the Cardinals the conversation always finds its way back to the minor-league system.

Talking shortstop? Well, the Cardinals are out looking for one because the internal feeling is that the best middle infield prospect in the system, Brendan Ryan, isn’t quite ready to take on the full-time job. OK, so they’ll try for a trade. Except, the Cardinals may not have…