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When a team let go of me at my worst the @RaysBaseball stepped in and decided to sign me at my worst and i am forever grateful for them giving me a second chance. pic.twitter.com/RxX1byrtLN
— Ryan Sherriff (@KingSherriff) April 26, 2019
Luke Voit – 3-4 vs SF. On base 38 straight games; hitting 14-15. Makes one wonder if he could have excelled under Shildt but not with orders to keep Carp at 1B.
Matt Adams – walkoff homer for Wash in 11th. Another 1B who passed through the system and seems to do better with others.
Greg Holland has now pitched 30-1/3 innings since leaving the Cards, and has allowed 2 earned runs. He’s struck out 39 and walked a far more acceptable 14. This year in Arizona, he’s yet to be scored on.
Hopefully this year’s Cardinal bullpen can have all the fortune that the last couple teams have lost from crazy bad performances out of otherwise solid pitchers.
Amazing what Voit has done as a Bomber. He is the AL player of the week. To think, all we had to do is play him, and the Goldy trade would not have been necessary.
You wonder how we did not see him as anything but a 4A guy?
Voit has been on base 34 straight games. Is that True?
MLB shows him 0 for 3 on April 2 with no walks, but he had a HBP that day.
#Reds call up Matt Bowman to help out the bullpen, option OF Phillip Ervin to AAA
— C. Trent Rosecrans (@ctrent) May 1, 2019
Former #stlcards pitching coach lasted one season and a month with the Nats. https://t.co/8wJzdHGKB5
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) May 3, 2019
When your star pitcher is 1-5 in the first month+ of the season it is rightfully the pitching coach that must go but actually the offense is the offender.
It is a time-tested script in both college and professional sports. When the heat is turned up, assistants are the first to be sacrificed. If the pain doesn’t stop, the head man is next.
So, #Nationals get one of the finer-pitched games of the series and afterwards … they announce the firing of pitching coach Derek Lilliquist, the longtime #Cardinals pitching coach/coordinator. This D.C. franchise is endlessly curious. #MLB #stlcards
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) May 3, 2019
My issue with Lilliquist’s firing is the timing. It is May 2. Whatever issues the #Nationals had with Lilliquist should have been apparent to them last season, his first as their pitching coach. Thirty games into a new season, how much could he have possibly changed?
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) May 3, 2019
Look at these stats for 2019. Where was this last year???
Unless Strasburg fired him for the game starting last night while it was still drizzling, Lilliquist was probably made the example for the team’s poor start. They aren’t going to say that, but lacking any real facts, it seems the most likely reason.
Yes, I agree. He was the scapegoat.
Dave Martinez probably won’t make it much longer either if they continue their pitiful play.
Why some of the writers act surprised like they don’t understand what is going on surprises me. The Nats are in fourth place with a losing record while the Phillies have claimed the high ground. I am not condoning or condemning, but I get it. Common sense.
It took only one start in the independent Atlantic League for former #STLCards Seth Maness to land a minor-league contract with Rangers. Struck out 5, allowed 1 run in 6 innings. ICYMI our story on his decision to sign with that league. https://t.co/oLacYWueH7
— Rob Rains (@RobRains) May 3, 2019
Not sure what to think about Lilliquist’s firing. Are the development/current status of pitchers like Rosenthal and Siegrist his fault? I don’t think so. I think overuse by the manager played a large role, and you can throw Maness in the mix also. On the development side, Siegrist was a one pitch pitcher when he had velocity, and Rosenthal was a 2 pitch pitcher. I thought Rosenthal had a good curve, but being a closer I understand his lack of use of it. Siegrist, on the other hand, I think might be still a viable reliever today still, if he had a secondary pitch.
Story about the late #stlcards pitcher Joaquin Andujar's son Jaison. https://t.co/p7ow44jWip
— Brian Walton (@B_Walton) May 4, 2019
The main problem with the Nationals is the injury bug. They are playing without Zimmerman and Turner. That is like us losing both Goldschmidt and DeJong.
Get those two back and they will look a lot better.
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