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I actually think he’s thinking of Brandon Phillips. BP wasn’t a bad guy, he just had diarrhea of the mouth, and that will definitely burn some bridges. He certainly pissed off Yadi.
Good to see a lot of grownups in the room there.
He’s a liar.
No, he’s the liar.
Let’s just get the government to fix this for us.
The government is always a big help. This should go really well.
Bob Reed is probably holed up crunching some numbers and will emerge with some insights none of ever thought of before.
I sure hope so. I count on him for the latter.
Not directly related to prospects (but very related to my view of Cardinals prospects), but has anyone heard from Bob Reed lately?
Yeah, I’m actually okay with a stand pay year where they can reset to youth. I’d love to see Fowler and Carpenter come roaring out of the gates. If they do and we are winning, then great – we’re winning! If they do that, and we are still not winning, then maybe we can trade those guys (or just Fowler), and get our young outfielders a lot of work. I expect big things from Bader (his defense has to be factored in for that, but I think he can be league average at the plate, and that would make him very valuable), and I think one of, if not both of, Thomas and O’Neill will become solid starters. But I want to see these guys playing as close to everyday so that we can see what we have.
I believe that Edman will regress at the plate, but I still think we’d be okay with him as a starting 3B as long as he doesn’t fall too far. The above three in the OF and Edman, DeJong, Wong, and Goldy on the infield makes for a fantastic defensive team.
We have a lot of young pieces that I am excited to see in action this year.
I was wrong last year. I hope I’m wrong again this year. I just don’t see that good of a team, but I do see real potential at several positions. I wouldn’t be shocked to see this team be very good. But I also wouldn’t be shocked if they ended up under .500. They have a pretty wide range of outcomes.
I see sleepy Mo has got some of our posters drinking the “we will be just fine with what we have” cool aid.
Again, astounding.
I don’t think we are fine, but I didn’t think last year’s team was even going to be a .500 team. Nothing we can do, so worrying that the sky is falling isn’t helpful.
Anybody who pays me $35 million for playing a game I love can disrespect me just as long as those checks keep coming and I’ll keep smiling, keep playing and have a little more strawberry ice cream
Amen to that! But make my ice cream chocolate.
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That was just the long way of saying, “Get off my lawn!”. 😉
The fact that you don’t like them doesn’t make them bad, though. I’m guessing WAR rankings of players would line up better with your ranking of how good guys are than any of your counting stats. And that is what WAR is designed to do. BA isn’t designed to show player value. Neither is a P’s W/L record. Nor is ERA. Those are counting stats that tell you very little. A guy can give up 27 105MPH line drives and throw a perfect game (get a win and have a 0 ERA for the game). That doesn’t mean he pitched well. After two at bats, two guys can both have a batting average of 1.000, but if one guy got sawed off and legged out a single because the fielders were dodging wood pieces, he obviously wasn’t as successful as the guy who homered on the next pitch.
You don’t have to like it. You don’t have to understand it. You have a right to your opinion. But when you insult a stat that you don’t understand it says more about you than the stat. Keep that in mind.
Of course, but that post by Arenado was to quell fan unrest with the organization, not him. They have no reason to be mad at the player (except for the few fans that resent players that get huge contracts). The economic realities of the game is what they should be mad at.
When it comes to comparing Carlson and Rasmus I think most of us are counting on their being an improvement on the skills generated above the shoulders.
There is little doubt that Rasmus was mentally weak, but that really isn’t my point. My point is that we generally over-estimate the hit rate of prospects, especially position players. I know that most superstars around the league were highly-rated prospects coming up – but for some reason people tend to get in the mindset that the opposite is true, that most highly rated prospects become superstars, or something close to it. And that is FAR from being true.
What we need to focus on is doubling down on run prevention. Pitching and defense will be the key the next two seasons until we can offload some of the dead money.
I think this is pretty spot-on, though I think it is somewhat important all the time, and not just with our current group. Great defense can cover a lot of deficiencies.
Please notify me when a WAR is physically proven. Then maybe we can move on to Quality Starts but that is a lot simpler than a ton of acronyms that I don’t have a clue as to meaning. My stat: See ball. Hit ball. Run like hell.
WAR is far less subjective than “see ball, hit ball, run like hell.” Not sure what point you are trying to prove. WAR is a pretty good predictor of value – the best we have, actually. There are many brands, but they tend to stack rank players in a way that most would agree is a fair overall assessment.
It isn’t perfect, so asking it to be is foolishness. It isn’t hard to understand if you’d spend just a little time reading.
I’ll get off your lawn now.
I am really pulling for Carlson and hope he can continue what he did last year. However, there are reasons to be cautious in expectations.
I think this is an important caveat for all prospects. I remember when Colby Rasmus was destined to be a superstar. There is a delicate balance between the crowd that always wants to trade prospects for proven (whatever that means) veterans and the crowd who wants to hoard prospects.
That’s the great thing about top pitching prospects – the ones who don’t pan out as starters typically pay off with pretty good value out of the bullpen.
One thing I will say, in the last 20 years, what prospects have we traded for stud players that we have regretted dealing? That list isn’t long. And we could have gotten a king’s ransom for Rasmus, and we ended up settling for pennies on the dollar. Something to think about.
The Cards will finally be able to follow through on the attempted development of a home grown (for the most part) outfielder. I suspect Tyler O’Neil will get the most time with the big league club this year based on his numbers when he has played day in and day out. It’s time to follow through with the development of internal talent, and not pay some one on the wrong side of 30 10s of millions of dollars again.
Yeah, I’d really like to see them get good looks at O’Neill and Thomas before Carlson makes his way up. I am also in the camp that believes that they need to park Bader in CF and leave him alone. He doesn’t need to hit much to be a very productive player for us. I’d really like to see O’Neill and Thomas play the OF corners a majority of the time. I’m not rooting for an injury to Fowler, or a lost season, but getting an extended look at those two would be nice. Another “problem” with that is that Tommy Edman has earned playing time, and his most likely spot, when he’s not subbing for an infielder, is corner OF.
You have to think that Mo is working some quiet back channels to see how he can unload Fowler and Carpenter, though. I know we were just in the NLCS, but this team surely doesn’t have the look of a contender this year. Getting younger (and cheaper) wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Schilling has been deemed not good enough for the Hall by many sports writers because he has the wrong politics.
Ty Cobb and his puritan beliefs nods in approval.
Not knowing who our 1B was for the 2011 World Series title is grounds for being banished to the Cubs for a season.
the best team was made up of top talent acquired via trades and FA, mixed with a few homegrown talents to keep the costs down a bit…
2006, and 2011…World Series victors…compared to today:
c- Yadi………..Yadi………..Yadi
1- Pujols………Craig……….Goldy
2- Miles……….DD………….Wong
3- Rolen……….Furcal………Carp
ss- Ecks……….Freese………DeJong
lf- Taguchi…….Holliday…….Thomas
cf- Edmonds…….Jay…………Bader
rf- Encarnacion…Beltran……..Fowler
(Jrod,Speizio)…(Berkman,Carp)..(Carlson,Edman)3 big stars……..3 big stars….1 big star
Does this roster matrix up there say that Allen Craig was our 1B for the 2011 World Series? Yikes.
i could care less about whether the owners make an extra 1m
If you could, then you should. You’ll feel better.
