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Does Siani have the potential to hit similar to Edman? Say 90-92 OPS+, maybe a little better sometimes?
Maybe in a good year, but I imagine he is a 80 wRC+ type on average unless he can hit it into the gaps more.
Siani actually has a .514 slugging % the last 15 games. I obviously don’t expect that to continue, but he should be able to get a fair share of doubles and even triples with his speed.
Siani has came within half a foot of a HR a few times now. I imagine they guys jokingly yell weight room at him
Its not like Mo is going in blind to the trade deadline with no idea what Dunn etc can do. The Cards and all the other orga have a plethora of data and scouting reports on the guy. If other teams valued Dunn more than the Cards do, they would trade for him. If someone gets traded in the big league roster, the org already will have a very good idea of what they want to do.
In general, AAA stats are just that, AAA stats. Fermin lit the world on fire in AAA and was the flavor of the month recently here. Now it is Dunn’s turn to be the flavor of the month. Unfortunately the diff between AAA and MLB pitching is humongous and just having a good batting average doesn’t mean the bat won’t get knocked out of your hand in the majors. Some skills and profiles are better suited for MLB even if they underperform others in AAA.
I would have preferred Graceffo to get the start as well. At least he is getting an opportunity and his stuff will play up in the pen.
So what you want to tell someone like Donovan sorry we are benching you for a couple of weeks to see if someone can take your spot and trade you? To get them playing time, you have to take away from the current staters, and none of those guys are better than what we have. If they were, they would be on the big league roster or another team would have traded for them since the Cards don’t value them. You’re also going to hurt the teams chances of actually winning games and we may just drop right out of the race.
I’m very excited for Noot to come back and take RF. Burly goes to DH and Carp goes to a bench warming leader role with PH duties thrown in. Significantly better defense and offense at that point.
Seeing them in MLB for a decent trial will inform deadline trade decisions which would take other pieces off the board, like Noot, Goldy, Donovan, Edman, Gorman, Carlson or Burleson, for example.
I just don’t see this being realistic. We are in contention and Mo will want to improve the team, not subtract. I personally would like a hybrid approach, but we aren’t going to subtract bats. If anything, we will add more. We could trade Carlson, but I would be quite confident in place we would trade a mid tier prospect for a good RH bench OF bat like Pham.
I would like to see the younger guys get a chance, but when it makes sense as an org. Dunn and Koperniak are really hurt by being LH as we do not need more lefties. When rosters expand, one of them may get a chance. I’m also not a fan of having both Crawford and Carp as that is part of our LH heavy bench. When Edman comes back, we will see what happens with Crawford. I could see them easing Edman in and using him as a super util type to back up SS and get time all over the place. Maybe Crawford could go then, but we need a SS backup in the meantime.
How would Dunn, Koperniak, Baker going to be the pivotal changes to make us legit playoff contenders? They are all depth options with very limited if any trade value. Come the playoffs, they won’t see playing time as you stick start you best and there is no need for a start per week from a bench player. The best a bench player can do is PH, and out of those, Baker is the best option as a RH. As long as he is on the 40 man by the first day of September though, he could join the playoff roster even if not having been on the MLB club.
Testing to see if this comment go through without links to Statcast added in?
I have to give Michael McGreevy credit. I had wrote him off as a depth type, but something seems to have changed or clicked in the last month. He historically had K rates that hovered around 20%. For the month of June, his K% is up to 27.6% with a 7.8% BB%. His HR/9 is 0.93 with a great career GB% around 50% as well. Those are quite good numbers and would translate fairly well to the majors. I hope to see him continue the trend over more starts and hopefully he has figured something out that will truly let him be a 4/5 SP for years to come.
He did add a cutter this year to his arsenal this year. Looking at his pitch splits from April and May versus June, he has swapped up his arsenal to really cut down on the changeup rate and to replace them with 4 seamers up in the zone. This appears to be doing him great favors and I’m guessing this changeup was getting hit hard previously. His release point also seems much more consistent among all pitch types and is slightly more horizontal and vertical. His velocity also ever so slightly is up and as Blake noted in his scouting report, McGreevy’s sinker needs would play a little better with just another MPH or 2 on it.
The problem is for them to get a spot on the MLB roster even for a trial, you have to push someone down. You can’t send Crawford or Carp down. Both would have to be released and you don’t want to release them just to give someone a shot as if it doesn’t work out, well now you have much less org depth.
Ken Rosenthal listed out who he wants in the All Star game. For the Cardinals, Gray and Helsey were the only 2 representatives. Masynn Winn was the only honorable mention we had.
I agree with his choices at this point in time. He also had Skenes making it which I very much approve of despite the limited innings. He has pitched great and realistically the All Star game is about putting players on the field that fans want to watch.
Oh wow. Congrats to Graceffo. With Pallante going tomorrow it is probably wise to have a pitcher capable of going multiple innings.
With the Cards holding a WC spot at the moment, I see Mo trying to improve the team at the deadline. I’m not sure if we will trade for any bats though as we have Noot coming back soon with Edman maybe a month away. If anything, I could see us trading for a backup RH hitter. I wonder if a Pham reunion could be in place.
Out of the pitchers available, I would be calling Toronto about Kikuchi. We could use a LHP and he has pitched well the last 2 seasons. He likely. I would love to get Miller or Woo from Seattle, but the asking price would be quite high and they likely would want MLB bats. I doubt Seattle is willing to trade either anyway as you can never have enough good SP even if you currently have more than you need for the playoffs.
When you rely on pitch to contact in the modern game, you get clunkers like this every now and again.
That is multiple times I’ve heard Winn scream a curse when he hits a popup. It doesn’t bother me, but it makes me curious if the Cards have said anything to him about it.
I don’t really see the Tigers trading Skubal. They are a team that is likely hoping to contend next year and I don’t see them trading their ace with 3 years left after this year before becoming a FR.
Looking around the league, Judge, Soto, Gunnar Henderson, and Ohtani are having really good years. They are all on pace for seasons that would normally easily win an MVP award. Bobby Witt isn’t far behind either with his glove and bat combo at SS.
I’ll gladly take a series win against Atlanta. Agreed with JJ’s hat tip to Siani. He hit well this series and continues to play some of the best defense in baseball.
Hjerpe’s stuff must be very good. He misses a lot of bats with a 30+ K% this year. He has only allowed 29 hits in 45.1 innings. The bad part is 25 BBs. He definitely has things to work on like building back up innings after missing time last year and the control. Control and innings are easier to improve over the long run than improving stuff is.