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After Monday’s day off…
7:15 p.m. RHP Michael Wacha (4-1, 3.62) vs. RHP James Shields (1-3, 6.14) FOX Sports Midwest/KMOX
Our prayers have been answered! This upcoming series vs the downtrodden ChiSox promises to be just the remedy to get this flailing Redbird club right back on track. If we can’t have the Reds then the White Sox are the next best thing. And the Cards get the Sox just where you’d want to get them….. on THEIR home field. Believe it or not, the White Sox at 2-10, have even a more dismal home field record than the Reds. Looking forward past this series, after the other Chicago team comes into St. Louis to shut us down for 3 games, our bumbling Birds then are fortunate enough to play the next 8 games vs the lowly Twins, who just got drilled at home this past weekend 2-3 games to the Reds by a combined score of 24-14 and then the always beatable San Diego Padres. Other goodies are coming compliments of a most favorable schedule…. the ChiSox come back for more punishment in a series in St. Louis. Our Cards also get treated to the likes of lame teams such as Miami, the Royals, the Pads again….and get this….a whole bunch more games vs Cincinnati.
Not sure what you meant there but to clarify the upcoming two games against the Sox are in St. Louis.
I think it is time to tweak the lineup. I would go with:
CF Pham
SS DeJong
1B Martinez
LF Ozuna
3B Gyroko
C Molina
RF Fowler
2B Carpenter/Wong
POk…guess we’re playing the ChiSox at home. Really makes little difference as there’s 2 teams that we can beat at home, on the road, Flagstaff…anywhere. And the White Sox are one of these teams. Getting on to the state of affairs….drastic times calls for drastic measures. Wong as the starting 2nd baseman just isn’t working. The man is a utilityman…period. Max Schrock is just the spark plug we need. Get him up here now! The man is twice the hitter that Wong could ever hope to be. Fowler needs to go. Carpenter isn’t ready to be put out to pasture yet, but let’s either put him on the DL or just regulate him to a pinch hitting/DH role until he’s physically ready to play the field properly. I’d try this:
1. Pham (CF)
2. Schrock (2B)
3. Martinez (1B)
4. DeJong (SS)
5. Ozuna (LF)
6. Yadi (C)
7. Gyroko (3B)
8. Fowler….for now. (RF)Pugs, I agree with you about Schrock. He needs to be called up eventually. Maybe he will develop into our version of Altuve.
But until then I think we need to focus on shoring up our defense. That means Yadi, Wong, DeJong, Gyroko, Ozuna, and Pham should play EVERYDAY. That leaves 1B and RF. Some kind of timeshare of Carp, JMart, Fowler, and Bader to take care of those two positions.
1. Pham – CF
2. Martinez – RF
3. Ozuna – LF
4. DeJong – SS
5. Gyorko – 3B
6. Molina – C
7. Carpenter – 1B
8. Wong/Garcia – 2BWong needs to go, but play him until a taker can be found and then put Schrock in there. Bader or Fowler can be a defensive replacement for Martinez. I still think I’d trade Martinez while I can. The OF depth is there to let it happen. Carpenter needs to be at 1B, Gyorko has to play every day. If Carp gets going then he can go back to 1 or 2 and Pham at the other.
Wasn’t it a theory a guy in the 2 hole who was a flyball hitter and K’d a lot elimanted a lot of a risk for a double play?
Not sure why you want a Strike out KING in the 2 whole Scottar?
Who else do we have? Someone hitting .150?
Dumb. Let’s just add more of a cluster to 1B for Matheny to try to figure out. Or maybe it means Martinez is moving to RF.
Tonight’s lineup:
1. Tommy Pham (R) CF
2. Matt Carpenter (L) 3B
3. Jose Martinez (R) 1B
4. Marcell Ozuna (R) LF
5. Yadier Molina (R) C
6. Dexter Fowler (S) RF
7. Paul DeJong (R) SS
8. Kolten Wong (L) 2B
9. Michael Wacha (R) Ponyx,
considering pauls wRC+ is exactly double of Matts (hitting 2nd tonight), i’d side w scottars choice over Mathenys.Do you think Dan will get roasted and criticized over his comment about the white sox trainer who’s been there 40 years in the aftermath of the BPV shooting? When he heard that he’d been there that long he responded ” so he knows where the bodies are buried.”
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