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McCarver claims that our offense has been giving opposing bullpens grief this year….I can’t honestly say I agree with that statement. Am I wrong?
Ozuna representing the tying run here in the 9th with 2 outs. He can earn a lot of lost love back right here with one swing of the bat.
And Ozuna puts closure to this one by meekly grounding out yet once again. Do you think Miami would take him back? We don’t necessarily have to get anything in return.
Ozuna up thrice with the bases loaded the last two nights and one RBI groundout to show for it. Sad.
Also, Pugs…the return for Yelich was the #18 ranked prospect, #75, a recent top 100 and a back end guy who had good numbers in A ball. So it would have been something like Flaherty (or Reyes), Kelly, Bader, Hicks for equivalent prospects from the Cards’ system.
There are so many guys playing below replacement level right now its unbelievable. How does this team even have a winning record?
There are so many guys playing below replacement level right now its unbelievable. How does this team even have a winning record?
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Ozuna needs to be removed from the clean up spot. His performance has been just as bad as Fowler and Carpenter.
Thanks for the clarification, stlcard25.
We have one big problem…not just one or two, but several players need to be lowered in the batting order. We have like five #8 batters and no real #3. This is hands down the least inspiring Cardinal offense I can recall. Offensively speaking, we have like 3 Dal Maxvills, a Dave Ricketts, Julian Javier and then Gyorko, Martinez and DeJong.
I said it at the outset of the offseason and I’ll say it again now. The Cardinals needed two big bats last off-season. They got one and at best he’s a Robin not a Batman. They needed another front line starter and didn’t get one. The mismanagement of this club at the top is the biggest issue though and it goes from there. Sure they make a good move here or there but they have made far more bad moves and it has caught up with them. They have players that should have been traded two or three years ago but now they are a sunk cost. They have others they never should have signed to begin with and they too are a sunk cost. It’s in a mess and a sell off needs to happen so they can rebuild. I know some will disagree with me, but this team is going nowhere. It’s the same manure we’ve witnessed three years running.
The underachievement in this lineup is overwhelming. No need to name names.
The team is being carried by two longtime minor leaguers that are now just hitting their stride. Two years ago, had anyone thought that these guys would be our best hitters, his name would be Kreskin.
The FO has certainly been proven wrong in bringing in two “all-stars” that don’t seem to like the Cardinals uniform. One we can trade at a loss, the other we can’t give away. Marvelous.
ps…. in their defense there has been Mikolas.
TexasCard (& NyquisT), I agree about your biggest issue and have said it too over the last couple years. Mo is reactionary at best and lacks vision. However, maybe it should be reactionary at worst because they have pulled off some real stinker moves. The apparently good Mikolas type deals are certainly outnumbered by the Leake / Cecil type moves.
McCarver claims that our offense has been giving opposing bullpens grief this year….I can’t honestly say I agree with that statement. Am I wrong?
The only grief our offense has been giving is to our fans.
The offense has not been doing much to any pitchers, but in some of the Cardinals better games over the last couple of weeks they have scored runs late on several occasions (the one win against Minnesota and that big comeback in the Cubs series comes to mind).
Last night had a chance to add to the 10 o’clock lightning, but it fizzled.
Unfortunately most of our games have seen a lacking of hitting throughout the contest.
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