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I just dont see herrera as that good. If hes a power guy, why does he only have 11 homeruns. Thats not real power for this point of the seaaon. Jj has more than him and i dont consider him a power guy. I unserstand the financial side of control but personally i look at the quality of the player. To me burleson can do more with the bat but thats just me. Sure we need pitching but you still have to be able to hit. From what ive read, there arent many power if you will right handed bats available in the draft so you might be able to get more for herrera than burly.
I would trade herrera in a hot minute if good prospects were involved. Burly no cause i think hes a better all around player and hes more of what the cardinal need.Noot i would def take offers. Baez im not sure about,just depends on what im getting. Hes injured a lot s o might be good to get put from under him.
Brian, i dont know a lot of things. Do they secretly have conversations with umpires. Do they manipulate the screens that show the balls n strikes. Do i think there is shenanigans going on,no i dont. But regardless bedding themselves with the devil doesnt help their cause in this case. Rose def had his faults i agree and those didnt help his cause. I just know that rose was the ultimate competitor. You never saw him in any way play to lose so i dont think he did that as a manager. Far as a ball player goes, every player should play like rose. I remember when he got hot at garber when garber got him out in his last at bat when his 43 game hit streak ended,saying he was pitching like it was the final out of the world series. Kind of rich coming from rose and he looked like an idiot saying it but thats how he was. He prob regretted saying that later but it was amusing then.
Rose did deserve to be banned at the time. But baseball has went against its own rules by bedding itself with the evils of gambling for its own greed.i dont see any difference. Sure rose betting on his own team called into question how he managed unless he always bet they win. But same applies. We dont really know if the games are on the up n up based on their partnership.
Can never trust early season highs, best to trust your judgement if you have the experience to have that. Still some good things this year. Jj, while i thought he would be good, has turned out really good, maybe even great. Walker has def come out of his past years issues. I think those two really provided some early energy and we def won a few games that we wouldnt have if we didnt have that energy. Plus other teams like the cubs have turned it around and the brewers have just stayed consistent. I dont generally cheer for any other teams but i hope that the brewers can finally put that magical run on in the playoffs.
Far as the steak thing goes, well done is always the way to go. Just like my potatoes, well fried. I want everything that might be in them dead. Teams hitting a little rough patch for sure. Have to remember, angels are still an mlb team. Cardinals still need a lot. We are going to have to get rid of some decent players now to get hopefully something on other end. The draft while highly praised by some didnt really impress me as a draft that will bear lots of fruit down the road but i hope to be proven wrong on the youngsters. The older ones could materialize into decent talent within a few years. 2029 maybe. We will see.
Manalscalco was way overpaid. Randall was underpaid. All my opinions obviously and based on different scouting reports on them. Randall is thought of as a player that could contribute now at the mlb level, that kind of talent should get paid. Manalscalco is very young and has a lot of holes in his swing. So basically we are paying on hope and prob to keep him from going to college being players there get paid now for some reason. The hope thing still alive in cardinal management practice.
Totally concur with brian and gscottar. Ive been on that track for a long time, far predated bloom. You cant fall victim to the shiny stuff thats within your grasp. A lot of the fans finally realized this. It will take some time but its going in the right direction.
Well after watching some of the game yesterday, i had some other stuff to do today but i did check the score, 7-0 us. I thought its in the bag but i get home tonight and i see we blew it. It happens but thats kind of crazy. To me though i already felt we should be sellers so this game regardless wasnt changing that. . We still have a lot of holes to fix and stuff to get right before we start yammering about playoffs n such. I believe that time will come, its just not yet.
Cardinals bases loaded down 5 to 1 here in 6th. New pitcher coming in. Arizons manager totally mismanaging this inning but thats to the cardinals advantage. Stats show theur starter gets rocked third time through order but manager lets him give up run plus load bases. Will see if cardinals can come through.
Oh i agree albert, but lots of people say there isnt much difference between tbe players around 200 to 500 so ypu could say that for much earlier rounds too.
Well the art of getting hit by the pitch does take some courage and grit but also requires being smart enough to do it in such a way that it doesnt hurt as much as it could.
Ron hunt passed away. He was from st louis but was drafted by the mets. Was a pretty solid ballplayer who had a knack of getting hit by the ball. Did end up playing for the cardinals for 12 games or so in 74. Got cut in 75 so he decided to hang his cleats up.
Christian martin was just drafted a couple years ago. Tells you the fate of a lot of these draft picks. Seems kind of soon to give up on the dream but hopefully he will be fine.
I dont like how it pans out. You are paying a guy whose never taken a bat against college competition 5 million dollars while randall cam prob get major league guys out right now on a consistent basis is only slotted to get 500,000 dollars. But it is what it is.
This was one of the picks i def like. His track record isnt great but it was amazing what he did once he had the eye surgery. So i think taking a chance on him was a great thing. Nice to see he gets a little spending money.
A lot of those spots being opened up by releasing guys will be filled up by guys that will probably be released in a few years. I wonder where cal randall will go. They say hes ready right now for the bullpen but cardinals want him to be a starter. Hes prob in my eyes the best player they drafted at least at the moment. I also agree with trying to make him a starter.
Players swing harder because missing the ball isnt viewed as a crime anymore. Pitchers have more speed because starting pitching has bee. n devalued. It isnt some magic of evolution. It has made the game worse. There is some science that has expanded abilities dont get me wrong. But like i said, i would still favor the experienced person over the tech guys. The experienced guys would def cost more cause they are far fewer. Everyone has jumped on the tech boat. Pretty soon no catchers will call balls and strikes, its already happening at every level including high school. I would stop being a mlb fan in a hot minute if a league came in offering old school baseball with old school organization. Rules that would require coaches leaving starters in longersuch as less reievers on the roster. In fact less pitchers ovetall and not being able to just call up guys to skirt around the issue. If i had a baseball dream, that would be it.
Cardinals signed an undrafted catcher out of alabama. John lamm i believe. Strikes out a lot but has some numbers.
Well jnevel we wil just have to disagree. They use the stuff cause anyone with basic tech degree can use vs having to find experienced people who would probably disagree with their computer analysis. Lot cheaper to higher tech geeks. They had already figured out how big the world was before people sailed around it.
Thats also where the diffetence in the 200 guy and 500 guy comes into play.The lap top may not be able to separate them but the true baseball guys can.
I think bringing science into a draft is a lot like dragging advanced analytics into a conversation. But thats just me. If i was making a draft team, they woukd see physically every single player we might draft. No sight no draft. That means physically,not video and other nonsense. Might cost more money but id rather spend the money there than other places. Analytics and things like that work in spread sheets and people that probably never had any real feel for the game on laptops but ill still take an old man that has lived the baseball lifes opinions over anything else.
