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Did Molina crater?
bccranParticipant25 – In your opinion, did the virus affect Martinez more than all the other Cardinal players who contracted it?
bccranParticipantYou give your young relievers a chance, Forsch, because you think their ceiling is higher than Brebbia’s. That the logic.
bccranParticipantIf you sign, Yadi, you’ll need to get his agreement that he will sit one day a week. If you’re going try for more time than that for Knizner, don’t sign Yadi.
bccranParticipantToo much overlap to keep Brebbia. Better to give him a chance with another organization. Also, there are some guys like
Whitley, Fernandez, and Elledge that they want to give some time to in order to assess.bccranParticipantIf there was a private message function on here, 25, you’d understand where I’m coming from.
bccranParticipantAre Carp and Fowler goof cases?
bccranParticipant5 possible closers. Wow.
bccranParticipantCards value contracts by projections of runs produced and runs saved. They add on a factor if it’s a legacy player. Like they did with Albert. What’s the factor? 10% more? 15% more? 20% more?
bccranParticipantHasn’t started effectively since 2018. Season
bccranParticipantUnreliable as a starter and the bull pen is full. Where do you see a role for him?
bccranParticipantHaving only 2 major sports teams kinda makes St. Louis look like a second class city. Add to that our #1 ranking in murders/capita (since only city statistics are used), and we don’t appear to the outside world a very attractive place to reside and work. When the opposite is true.
Too bad.bccranParticipantWell, Forsch, if Carlson bombs out they will need 3 outfielders after Fowler is done. That could be a real problem. Mo will have to make some trades.
bccranParticipantSo there’s no sense in talking about a clutch player, who bears down even more with runners in scoring position in a tense moment of the game? Who chokes up and refuses to give in to the pitcher? Of course there is.
bccranParticipantNot a big deal, and certainly not having to do with stats, but most of my friends who watch a lot baseball feel that the best player to have at the plate when the game is on the line is Yadi. Why? Because he hits the ball where it’s pitched. He makes contact. The last two seasons he’s only struck out 13% of the time. Nothing more discouraging than watching a batter with his hands down on the knob of the bat with two strikes in a clutch situation whiff with a mighty swing at a slider in the dirt or a sizzling chest high 4 seamer.
bccranParticipantForsch –
Please don’t take this the wrong way, (as being braggadocious), but I played 4 years of D1 baseball, done some coaching, been following MLB for well over 60 years, and I can say it’s a very, very small chance that Carlson will bomb out. All the basics are there. He’s a real talent. And when he was called up to the Cardinals, he had played only played 18 games at AAA. So it would be foolish to judge him on his first 35 games as a major league. The main difference between he, Bader, and O’Neill? Plate discipline and pitch recognition.bccranParticipantI read an article which said that Yadi lead the team in the last full season, 2019, in BA with runners in scoring position. He hit .315. That’s what I was drawing on, Brian.
bccranParticipantOh I don’t know, mspaid. Maybe a trade will happen.
And I would like for Yadi to be re-signed because he’s clutch, and we don’t really have anybody else better ready to go.bccranParticipantGotta firm up that OF. We went into 2020 with one aging veteran and 4 unprovens. Look what happened to our offense.
One of the worst in MLB. The infield and catcher can’t carry the day. The team offensive numbers don’t lie. Do you want Carlson, DeJong, and Goldy to be our only decent bats?Also need to close that donut hole with an addition or two at the AAA or AA level.
4 more years of Bader, 25? With that “look at me, ladies” attitude? Ugh.
bccranParticipantAAA lines –
Carlson (22 years old) – .361/.418/.681/1.099 (small sample)
Dean (27 years old) – .331/.398/.546/.944
O’Neill (25 years old) – .256//339/.554/.893
Bader (26 years old) – .275/.345/.465/.810You tell me, 25 and Forsch.
bccranParticipantCarlson was one of 3 outfielders named to the all minor league All Star team by BA. He’s in a different class than Bader,
O’Neill, and Thomas. He’s a certainty. The other 3 fall short of that.bccranParticipantPlease look up both Bader’s and Dean’s numbers at AAA and compare. Thanks.
bccranParticipantCards tried this before with a great glove no hit centerfielder. Clubs get carried away with that defense in centerfield. Cards finally gave up and traded him to the Phils. Then he went to the Rays. Then the Braves. And finally back to the Angels. Never was able to win a starting job after being traded originally from the Angels.
The dark horse for the OF is Dean. Isn’t he still on the team? You referred to Bader’s minor league numbers. Have you checked out Dean’s numbers at AAA New Orleans in 2018 and 2019? Eye popping.
bccranParticipantWell, gscottar, who plays CF if Bader, O’Neill, and Thomas bomb out at the plate,
like they have? Fletcher is years away.bccranParticipantPutting Bader above Fowler and O’Neill (who had dismal numbers for corner outfields) sure isn’t saying much. Why would you want to make that comparison? It’s embarrassing. It’s like comparing a C- term paper to two D term papers and saying the C- term paper was pretty good.
And to compare Bader to Carlson is like comparing apples to grapefruit. Carlson was a 21 year old kid who was in his first 35 major league games. A kid who was brought up only because guys like Bader, O’Neill, and Thomas were so weak at the plate. A move to try to inject some energy into that dormant offense.
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