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Love both Scott and Saggy(Saggese). It’s hard to not imagine both of these exciting talents not being Cardinal mainstays for many years to come. And speaking of “exciting”, boy do we have a bunch of new posters on board this year. Welcome to each and every one of you. I think 10 years from now, we’ll look back at this 2024 bumper crop class of new posters with great reverence.
If Carlson is injured again. It might be time to expedite a Scott promotion. Scott would give the Cardinals something they need more of. Speed and defense.
That certainly seems a possibility now. It was defensible to start Carlson in CF, especially with him having a good spring. But if he is not available for any significant period of time, starting Siani over Scott seems suboptimal.
Scott has made it to the bigs. Now, how long will it take Saggese? He looks darn good to me as a MLB hitting prospect.
We will have to wait for the cluttered middle infield to clear out or fail to find out if he can hit at a big league level.
Lots of 2b and 3b on the roster now.
“Lots of 2b and 3b on the roster now”. 1B should open up next season or sooner. Slide Gorman over to 1B. Insert Saggese at 2B. Trade either Edman or Donovan for starting pitching. That’s if Saggese establishes some fine offensive stats at AAA. The Scott insurance reference in the OP has already transpired. Now let’s see if Saggese can provide that, too.
Do you lead off Scott tomorrow in the opener? Or bat him 9th. A little less pressure. Winn at 8, Scott at 9, lot’s of speed at 8 and 9. After that, Donovan. Could be good table setters for the “big sticks”.
Yeah, I think you keep Victor down the order for now. Let him get his feet wet.
Saw he chose number 11, so his jersey will read “Scott 11”, kind of like “Scott II”.
That Saggese looks like a darn good prospect to me too. He can really hit, by gum. He should be a really fine tootin’ good major leaguer someday.
Two ifs. 1) If Saggese puts up similar magnificent offensive numbers at AAA like he did at AA. 2) If the Cardinals offense continues to underperform. The Cardinals may need Saggese’s bat in the lineup sooner than later. There aren’t many positional options. Frankly, it would be prudent to get him some experience in LF at AAA. That may be where he has the best chance to get into the lineup as it is, right now.
BOCfan, so who do suggest at DH and the #6 hole? What’s your brilliant plan? Do you have a better option than Burly somewhere in the lineup against RHP?
Would alternate Burleson and Carpenter at DH on days you don’t use that slt to give regulars/injured partial days off.
One Of AB or MC would eventually outperform the other.
Ideally the team would have acquired a professional/potent DH. Didn’t happen.
Maybe Burleson develops. Other than hitting for a average vs. ST pitching, I’m not seeing him drive the ball into gaps or over the walls.
He Profiles as a bench at now.
We’ll just have to see how things go Mr. Shady.
Memphis only has three outfielders listed on their roster. And there’s an ample supply of infielders. Be nice if Saggese could get some work in the outfield. The versatility might expedite his chances of getting to the bigs sooner. Saggese will likely get some playing time at SS, too. That will also help his versatility.
Rivas and Young have extensive OF experience and they’re not going to play at first base ahead of Baker. So that’s five OFs in Memphis. And there will be more when Noot and Edman are healthy and the roster dominoes fall.
I get your hopes that Saggese will be tried there, but there is no substance to it, at least yet. If there is any chance he could play a starting level of SS, they’d be better off trying to answer that, IMO.
Or maybe Burleson could improve his defense and power there. He could be possibly formidable at the MLB level if he could fix those shortcomings.
BOCfan typed ~ Or maybe Burleson could improve his defense and power there. He could be possibly formidable at the MLB level if he could fix those shortcomings.
And this would help his versatility
Brian, isn’t Saggese blocked from being the Cardinals starting SS for the quite a while? Please elaborate on how you see Saggese’s quickness way to being in the Cardinals starting lineup. Especially, as a regular.
If Saggese could become good enough to at least back up at short, it would put him in a position to potentially take Crawford’s roster spot next year. But I am not hearing that is likely.
Honestly, I don’t see a path for Saggese to start with the current roster. In fact, with him being 2B only, I don’t see room for him even as a reserve. But that can change over time.
The good news is that he is hardly dying on the vine. He has only one month of AAA experience and it wasn’t all that great. Unless there are a lot of injuries this year, Saggese is a 2025 discussion for me, late 2024 at best.
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