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Good wit gents. And a lot of wisdom.
Not only Leahy, but Libby is available and he had a great August. Had the hiccup in New York but it was not like he was shelled. O’Brien has not shown anything and he was brought in to a winnable game. Craziness.
As for din-din, we are doing a Labor Day cookout. Hot dogs, baked beans, chips, tater salad, sodas and beers.
Edit – sheesh, two on and Arenado looks at strike three right down a middle. Hey Nado, we need runs and you are in a run producing situation – be aggressive in the zone buddy.
I know there was a lot of angst with the Cards doing a DFA on Armstrong and then calling up O’Brien. Now that move looks even worse. The reason they did this was threefold. Yes, it did end up saving a little bit of money. And yes, it did give Armstrong a chance to play for a contender. Those are both the lesser reasons though. The main reason was because O’Brien has one option left. An option isn’t burned until a player spends 20 or more days in the minors. When O’Brien got done with his rehab, he was optioned to Memphis to continue working his way back and work on his control. But when we got to about 20 days (I think he got to 16), they called him up to preserve that option so he can be sent down next season if needed. Expect to see them leave him on the MLB roster the remainder of this season unless he just continues to be terrible.
I can’t say why he keeps pitching as often as he has been. I’m sure they are trying to get him right. But the results continue to be terrible.
The FO wants to see O’Brien and Oli delivers with a meaningful appearance(s).
If we are auditioning O’Brien as a non-contender would, then the fault isn’t in the opportunity, it’s in O’Briens’ results, right?
Conan O’Brien needs to be comic relief only. When the game is out of hand or appears done. Just like Armstrong was pretty much used.
They liked O’Brien’s power arm out of ST IIRC. It made sense then that he made the roster.
Confirmation on “stinks” seems firm, but the wonks need more data. You know, well oiled machine…blah, blah
They liked O’Brien’s power arm out of ST IIRC
They liked it but his arm didn’t. I most recently saw the injury described as flexor pronator stress injury, on the Rotowire site. If so, that is a forearm injury involving muscles and tendons structurally related to the UCL. Certain injuries tend to foretell serious elbow trouble and this is one. Another is the presence of loose bodies like experienced by Hjerpe last year and, big surprise, he went down again. Bottom line, I wouldn’t get too excited about O’Reilly’s power arm.
I guess if they have thrown in the towel and just want to see O’Reilly pitch a lot, then so be it. I figured that they still want to win just in case some magic happens.
But then that is a good point about being realistic about your chances this year, and using this time more as an audition for next year. They are doing that with Walker and to some degree Scott, so maybe that is the deal with O’Reilly.
Excellent point JJ!
Speaking of Hjerpe, I had not know for sure this current shutdown involved the pitching elbow again until I caught this on him from the end of July, also on Rotowire: “Hjerpe will remain shut down for two more weeks while dealing with a left elbow injury, Daniel Guerrero of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.”
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