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1:15 p.m.
RHP Miles Mikolas (0-1, 11.25) vs. LHP Cristopher Sánchez (0-0, 4.09)
FanDuel // KMOX // WIJRNot looking forward to a Mikolas start. Just from a pure entertainment standpoint he is boring and the results lead to viewers tuning out by the 4th unless the Cards offense is clicking. I’m curious how much ownership tracks attendance and viewership to the SP for the day.
Mikolas is very probably treading on thin ice.
I bet he gets this start and one more but if he can’t get through at least 5 innings while giving up less than 4 runs – I think he goes to the bullpen or the scrap heap.
He seems to be untradable but – some bottom feeding team just looking to get through 2025 might take him and part of his salary? We’d get nothing back though but, so what?
The other way this plays out is that he provides bang on average pitching and fills the 5 spot…
One thing for certain is that we ARE going to find out.
Don’t you think most people buy their tickets before they know the pitching matchups? My guess is the opponent and the date are the key buying factors.
That’s it Brian. You get who you get for the lineup and starting pitcher.
Unless you are a local and looking to walk up the day of the game – which does happen but would represent only a small percentage of the crowd.
If I lived in town I would select based off the pitching matchup. As a fan selecting which games to watch on TV, I use pitching matchups as an indicatorbof whether I will watch.
Today's starting lineup vs Phillies starter Cristopher Sanchez (0-0, 4.09 ERA)
LF Lars Nootbaar
DH Luken Baker
1B Willson Contreras
3B Nolan Arenado
2B Brendan Donovan
RF Jordan Walker
C Pedro Pages
CF Victor Scott II
SS Thomas Saggese🔊1120AM, 104.1FM, or online:…
— KMOX Sports (@KMOXSports) April 12, 2025
And FYI here,
That little stinker Tommy Edman slugged his 6th homerun of the year last night in a game at Dodger Stadium. It was a 3-run dinger and turned out to be the only runs of the game as the Doyers beat the Cubs 3-0.r/Esteemed Rat
Update: I see this was posted late last night in the Friday night thread. My apologies for the redundancy.
I’m glad we won the game last night but having to use Pages at 2B is beyond ridiculous for a serious MLB team. Our roster management is clueless. We have 75 DH’s but no one to play middle infield.
In a 5-game set, we get
Skenes
Keller
Nola
Christian Sanchez
Wheeler4 of those 5 are Cy Young candidates . . .
Strike 2 = Ball 2 to Schwarber.
Strike 3 = Ball 4 to Schwarber.Then a double scores Schwarber. Ugh.
On Edman having six jacks already, in Spring Training there was a piece written about guys whose bat speed looked better, as well as worse than last year. It projected who might have a better or worse year. Edman was one whose bat speed was down. Obviously something changed.
We appear to have a pretenders strike zone, w/the contenders getting the calls. We didn’t get a fair shake in BOS, and now it’s followed us home vs PHI.
They won’t make a move with Mikolas just yet. High dollar contract will pitch and if he continues to suck in whatever capacity he’s in they’ll cut him loose in June.
Remember we starting the six man rotation soon. So we won’t have to deal with him as much for a couple weeks.
Edman was one whose bat speed was down. Obviously something changed.
I read that he is meeting the ball farther out in front of the plate than he used to.
You gotta think that pitching short teams are eyeing Matz. I’m thinking that a guy that was untradable is moving in the other direction.
Good question. I’ll have to look that up, but I can’t remember the last time I watched the Redbirds be victimized by 5 GIDP’s in a single game. Those are killers.
The #STLCards have hit into five double plays today, tying for the franchise record in a game. Last time they did it was April 27, 2011 versus the #Astros.
— John Denton (@JohnDenton555) April 12, 2025
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