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seems like it might be a tight zone tonight. hard to say yet since peralta has been well off but a couple have been right there.
sad thing is for me they got pacers basketball on my hd fox channel so i got to watch it on a standard def channel. wouldn’t be so bad if i had a regular full hd tv but i have a 4k tv. it really makes it look bad but i am getting to watch it. first world problems i guess.
well i would rather have Martinez in there for fowler but oh well. i expected the same today. to do it differently the second game would just be admitting the opening day lineup wasn’t right. hopefully the top hits a little better and the bottom keeps it up.
yea count me in the camp that doesn’t like goldy batting second. putting him at the third spot gives him more of a chance to hit with somebody on in the first inning plus he still comes up in the first inning either way. I as always don’t like bader batting eighth. why would you put the one guy on your team who can regularly have a chance to steal a base in a spot where if he gets on, most of the time you are gonna have the batter who is the pitcher most of the time, sacrifice. baders speed, while still useful, is a lot less useful. I know there was an article that said he stoled about the same amount regardless of spot last year but that’s more because he doesn’t try to steal enough in my opinion. it just makes sense if hes on in front of a pitcher they are gonna sacrifice or sometimes hit and run. also like yesterday, if the pitcher fails to get the bunt down, are you gonna steal with say two outs and carpenter, a home run threat up, more than likely not. so again baders speed is nullified to a certain extent. it just tells you how far the game has fallen for the cardinals since the teams of whitey Herzog.
I don’t personally see the problem with a tie especially in spring training games. the score of the games mean nothing, in fact I would like to see them do away with the scoring in spring training far as the audience goes. obviously the coaches can keep track to have their stats but outside of that they aren’t necessary. people are too competitive. far as ties in regular season. I don’t have a problem with them either. you should try to have a winner but in a 162 game schedule, a tie isn’t that big of a deal. if you were giving me a choice, a tie game vs a stupid rule borrowed from kids leagues like putting a runner automatically at second leading off an inning, ill take the tie any day. that rule makes some sense with kids games cause they may have school and parents have work, its these players jobs to play these games, they don’t have school, and the games go on whether there are fifty thousand or one thousand people at the park, so people are free to leave anytime. people tend to leave early anyway to just avoid traffic or whatever.
well this is my take. overall a great game to watch. it was nice to see the bottom part of the lineup hit. liked seeing bader try to bunt, though it didn’t work out. I personally would have liked to see him try to steal that one time he was on base after mikolas struck out trying to advance him. I know carpenter a homerun threat but id rather be aggressive than hope for something. top of the lineup struggled mightily. I thought mikolas was ok, just a little off. I thought leone and brebbia were really solid. gant was ok as well. we struck out too much but we faced some tough pitching. overall a good effort, just not good enough like the manager said.
well pugsleyaddams, I do wish I could take tomorrow off or leave early. I guess I could but I only have so much sick time and it has to last the year. so I have to be responsible. I will record it however and avoid any baseball scores so it seems live to me. I am looking forward to it though. hopefully we can start the season off right.
well we have a set roster now. I wonder who is going to be sent down when gyrko returns. im thinking robinson but I hope not. the office loves munoz but I don’t love his errors. to me his erroprs hurt more than his bat help but that’s my opinion.
tis a shame, I have to work this day. im hoping the cards win and get this season started off right. how we do in our division is going to decide our fate this year.
im hoping brebbia makes the roster. hes always been solid. to me left or right doesn’t really matter. I just want guys who can get outs.
well I think the deal highly benefits goldshmidt more than it does the cardinals. now if goldy performs as he has for at least 4 of the next 6 years then both benefit. but if he follows normal baseball patterns at his age, his stats will start angling downward. then he mostly benefits unless its just a small decline. its actually the kind of deal the cardinals usually make although its a little more than usual. they tend to give proven guys that are at or slightly past their prime the money as opposed to taking a chance on someone like harper who has huge potential and is younger. I personally would have preferred harper if it was possible but I also like goldy so im glad he got paid and I hope he has some great years for the cardinals. with carpenters and ozunas injury problems, it may just not be enough.
well it doesn’t surprise me that ponce got sent down and gomber either really. they both still need more work to get major league ready. im sure we will need them down the road.
I would consider this a win for the angels if trout produces the same output over the next ten years on average as he has since coming in the league. yea trout will be very wealthy but its possible he could have been even more. but if hes happy, that’s all that matters. it kind of hurts baseball to a certain extent. having your big stars out there in the news during contract time can get your sport much needed play. the sad thing is that if the angels cant ever get it together, trout may never get to be the super star that his numbers show him to be. now personally ive watched him play some games and I haven’t really seen that greatness either but I know his numbers dictate otherwise though I don’t get into all the advanced metrics people use nowadays. but I don’t watch him every day so theres that. im glad hes getting a great contract.
not surprised by any of the cuts. arozarena is somebody I like. he czan definitely use extra at bats in the minors. though personally id rather have him on the team as opposed to fowler and/or gyorko but that aint gonna happen.
I don’t mind most of the changes though there are a few I don’t like. I don’t like them limiting the September call ups, doesn’t make sense to me. cutting trades off at july 31, im not a big fan of though it doesn’t really bother me that much. I do like that they moved the injured list back to 15 days. teams were exploiting the ten day list too much. you cant give teams anything without them doing that.
well in my opinion the cardinals are wrong in their dealings with Flaherty and hicks and probably others. yea they may be young players but hicks especially was used just like an old vet but yet the cardinals use the system to not pay them their worth. are the cardinals alone no but that doesn’t make it right. with the way these young guys are trotted out there and pitch their hardest every pitch, they are one pitch away from an injury that may prevent them from getting all that money in the future some people mention. im not saying they had to go crazy and give them ridiculous money, they deserved more just based on their efforts last year. it isn’t like the cardinals have really opened up their vault the last few years.
gomber didn’t do himself any favors with his performance today. getting behind and not being able to locate fastballs. layne didn’t do much better and im not sure he has the rope gomber does. gomber pitched well for us last year. the mets starter totally shut the cardinals down though they had a couple of opportunities.
I saw on the cardinals website that they are projecting shreve, mayers and cecil to make the opening day roster. also that robinson will make the team as a bench player. I totally agree with robinson. munoz is a great hitter but I think robinson can hit as well plus hes left handed and I think hes better defensively. munoz made too many errors in a short period of playing time plus a lot of those errors happened late in games. if it don’t work out, they can always make changes. the pitchers are slated to be there because they don’t have options. personally id chuck cecil and probably shreve. I think mayers could be good though he did struggle at times last year. lets give some of these other guys a chance.
well I don’t personally care for the robot umpire. a strike is not as easy as the lines on a tennis court. im all for replays and getting stuff right but heck just go all the way and make the players androids and take all the humanity out of the game if you are gonna go that route. I also don’t like moving the mound back to 62.5 feet. its stupid. you want more balls in play, require the teams teach guys how to actually put the ball in play and reward players that actually do that. pushing the distance back is just going to mean even more injuries. also guys just rearing back and throwing their hardest all the time isn’t the best thing for them or the league. my opinion is that pitchers are like quarterbacks in this sense. qbs get protected because they really sell the nfl. yea people like the other guys but you have to have people that can get them the ball and they have the ball the most. pitchers have the ball the most in baseball. sure people like homeruns but they also like it when pitchers go out there and throwing a well pitched game over 7 innings or more. starting pitchers have been the stars in mlb right there with the other superstars, bigger a lot of the time. having a game where the bullpen is pitching more innings than the starters isn’t good for the game in my opinion.
I don’t think spring averages are something that should normally concern a team. though with fowler, I would be paying attention. to be honest, the cardinals really don’t have guys outside of goldy and maybe carpenter that you would consider really good average hitters. to counter this they need to learn more patience at plate and not chasing bad pitches plus using good situational hitting. I do think oneill has looked a lot better this spring. in the end, our pitching is gonna have to be stand out, in my opinion anyway. that goes for a lot of teams but I think some other teams have some lee way and I think Milwaukee is one of them. cubs im not sure totally about but we will see.
when you vote for someone, its your vote. so basically you as the voter set your own criteria. I agree a players stats with another team or teams shouldn’t figure in but withholding a vote for a player because they ended up playing for a rival or in the case of the cubs an enemy, is perfectly fine. in this case it was a rival. now I was young and it was before 24/7 sports news so I didn’t know why he got traded or how he ended up a met even but didn’t really matter. though I may soften as time goes forward if he doesn’t get in this year. I stand by my picks this year regardless.
