Percival Nears Return With Cardinals

It has been over two weeks since the St Louis Cardinals signed Troy Percival to a minor league contract and 12 days since his first appearance with the AAA Memphis Redbirds.

In his six appearances with Memphis he has a 1.35era with 9 strikeouts in 6.2 innings of work.

When he signed with St. Louis, there was a clause in his contract that he could opt out of his contract if the Cardinals did not bring him up to the majors within 2 weeks. That time is quickly approaching and I expect to see Troy back with David Eckstein, Scott Spiezio, Adam Kennedy, Jim Edmonds and Russ Springer.

Here's a look at his six minor league appearnces:
Date   OPP  W L SV   IP  H ER BB SO
Jun 13 NAS  0 0  0  0.2  1  1  3  0
Jun 15 @IOW 0 0  0  1.0  1  0  0  2
Jun 17 @IOW 0 0  0  1.0  0  0  1  0
Jun 20 @ROU 0 0  0  2.0  0  0  1  2
Jun 22 @ROU 0 0  0  1.0  0  0  0  3
Jun 24 NOZ  0 0  0  1.0  2  0  0  2
Totals      0 0  0  6.2  4  1  5  9