2025 St. Louis Spring Training Games thread

Any thoughts on Hence dropping to Springfield rather than Memphis?

Some random thoughts so far this spring…

I don’t know what they’re going to do with Gorman, but I see Saggese as our starting second baseman by mid-season.

I don’t know what to think about Walker except that I thought he was going to be a star player. Someone said that Walker looks like a linebacker and I agree with that. But can he put the bat on the Ball?

I love Siani’s defense. His offense was improving consistently from month to month in 2024. He’s having a horrible spring and, at this point, I’m thinking that he will have to hit at Memphis and then wait for a reason to be needed to play CF again in St. Louis. Too bad.

Baker will probably get stashed on Memphis’ roster as protection in case something happens to Contreras. Me deserves to be a regular major league DH, IMO.

We can see what Victor Scott looks like now. But what will he look like by the end of spring training?

I get the impression that Nootbaar took the offseason off.

I watched Barrero today in the game against Washington. I know he has hit two HR this spring. But watching him today I thought he didn’t have the slightest idea of where the ball was when he was swinging the bat.

Practically nobody thought this team would be competitive in 2025. But if Walker can hit and if Scott can be good in centerfield, this could be a fun year.

Just remember that Boog Powell always had to ‘play himself into shape’ during Spring training.

Are this years version of the Cardinals heroes or zeros? We don’t have all that long to find out.

Liberatore, Romero, leahy, O’Brien, Munoz and Fernandez have been strong this spring so far out of the pen.

I think Liberatore is interesting if they could dump Matz, I may give him another shot as a starter, but they may not want to mess with him since he has had success out of the bullpen.

Victor looked really good on defense today. McGreevy looked good as well while Pallante did not. His fastball was flat and he was missing in the the middle of the zone. Jojo and Roycroft have looked good all spring and hopefully that carries over to the season. I specifically think Jojo lost steam late July last year and hopefully he can hold up.

It was great to see signs of life from the offense. I know spring stats don’t matter, but I want Gorman to have some success and gain some confidence as a lack of confidence has been one of his issues in the past.

We did see a lineup where Noot was in CF and VS3 was in a corner spot. Idk if there’s anything to read into that.

Spring Training is the place to try out things. Management probably wanted to see how Noot looked in center and Victor in a corner, as during the season they may need to play those places in the course of a game.

I don’t see you Brian, but I do see the Mad Hungarian Al Hrabosky!

Those are amazing seats. Enjoy the game. Hopefully you can get a great look at the pitcher’s stuff from those seats.

There is no reading involved. If Noot is in CF, we don’t have any corner outfiedlers.

I’ve liked the way Koperniak is playing this spring.

We still don’t know if Walker can hit, or if he will wind up getting traded to the NFL.

Breakout player of the year, Chase Davis, is lurking in the shadows.

I wonder why they call it Fanduel? Is it somehow connected to the legalized baseball gambling syndicate? At any rate, it took me a little while to find it on our TV system. It’s channel #1748 and they call it “Fanduel Midwest” in the StL. area. Sounds a little silly to me.

Kind of like dueling banjos.

Is Gray going to be our Ace this year?

What do you think?