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Nog drove in another one with a sac fly. He gets credited with an RBI on this one, but he has put two across the plate today with his bat, plus he advanced the runner that Molina then drove in. Somebody is probably recording his exit velocities and loft angles. And bat speed.
Nogowski is something. He hits into a DP, driving in a run and advancing a runner to third who later scores on Molina’s single. The guy makes it happen somehow.
The lineup reminds me of playing scrabble when you first put your tiles in your rack however you happen to pick them up.
It is too late for me in a certain sense. I no longer find games enjoyable to watch and have seen very few live or on TV in the last few years. I still do like to follow the story line, and I scan the box score most days. I think I may see if there will be any fan access over at the alt site in Sauget this summer. That might be fun. I’ve seen a fair number of ball games there the last few years.
There are very few hitters who choke up on the bat and look to punch one through the hole.
The emphasis is on bat speed and exit velocity rather than bat control. It is why defensive shifts are increasingly effective. My hope is that MLB will not implement more sandlot rules directing where defenders can and cannot position, so that batters will have to learn how to hit again. First, though, I think there will have to be an effective way of measuring it objectively and putting it on a spreadsheet, like bat speed and exit velocity. I say this in all seriousness.
The Appy League has morphed into, I think, a collegiate summer wood bat league for college freshmen and sophomores. There was talk last fall of some of the NY-Penn league teams, or at least venues, becoming something similar except for upper classmen. All this might come into play somehow.
It will be interesting to see what a 16 year old’s career path looks like with the slimmed down minor league system and no short season levels. I’m not sure we will see any more of the guys with 8 years in the minor league system. How many times will a guy be able to repeat a level before he has to be cleared out to make room for a new guy.
I was in France for around 10 days when I was Jr. High age, 12-13??. My uncle took me along on a family vacation. I did not care for it. Here are the memories still burned into my brain 50 years later. I did not like the food. The people smelled funny. And all of Paris smelled like a urinal. I remember little else besides the Eiffel Tower. I have often wondered what I would think if I returned now.
We need impact bats, no serviceable ML average. If a guy looks like he may become a solid ML average outfielder, get what we can for him and give the playing time to the next possibility. If a guy has been in the organization for 6 or 8 years and hasn’t broken out it time to look elsewhere.
Wait. Now spring stats do matter? I didn’t get the memo. I was basing my teeth gnashing on what the guys we are counting on have done in the past.
LACardFan:
And Wong was much worse than Bader at this point in his career.
2019 was Bader’s age 24 season and he hit .205. Wong hit .262 in his age 24 season. At age 26 he hit .285. Let’s see how close Bader comes to that in his age 26 season.
Paul dejoung 251. 319. Tyler oneil. 229. 291. Tommy edman. 283. 337. Yadi molina. 281. 337. Lane thomas. 216. 310. Career numbers
I defiantly don’t like the O’Neill and Thomas numbers, and they have both backed off from their hot starts this spring. DeJong’s numbers might be OK for a shortstop except they have steadily declined since 2017 which was the last time he hit over .250.
My thinking as far as Williams is maybe it was a pretty even trade for Pham. We could hope for that.
I wouldn’t expect Williams to publicly say ‘I called him off its not my fault he was yelling instead of listening’.
I saw a quote from Williams that he and Edman called it at the same time and he will call louder next time. This concerns me. My first hand knowledge is some 45 years old by now, but it used to be taught that the infielder never calls it. If two guys are yelling there is the chance they won’t hear each other as happened here. The infielder just goes for it until and unless he gets called off by the the outfielder. The outfielder is huffing and puffing and looking up and may well not be able to boom out the call real loud. The infielder needs to be listening as he goes out for it, not yelling out a call himself. This sort of thing loses games and gets people hurt. I cannot understand how and why they would not know what they are supposed to be doing out there. Maybe someone with more recent contact can say whether it is taught different now.
I take issue with that cranny. Bader hit .205 in 2019 which I do not consider MLB starter level talent. 4th OF, late inning defensive replacement level. As to the other in the OF competition, we won’t know for 2 or 3 months if they are starters or not. That includes Carlson. Dude hits .280 in Springfield and he’s a can’t miss MLB starter?
Arenado is hitting. 190 this spring, which means little or nothing. We know what he is most likely to do based upon what he has done in the past, although it is possible he will do something else going forward. The same can be said for everyone else.
This article describes just the sort of thing the Cardinals organization is geared to never let happen.
https://redbirdrants.com/2021/03/24/st-louis-cardinals-john-nogowski/
