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Will the FO have the guts to actually have Fowler sit on the bench while he is making his huge paycheck/ Will Fowler`s pride allow that?
My guess is if Fowler sits long enough, he will demand a trade.
Just have to make the decision to put him on the bench.
Ahhh….but remember all those Sabremetricians who tell you it doesn’t matter which way you make an out???!!!
It’s almost like the concept of WAR, where the size of the error term is as big as the expected value, yet everyone takes it as gospel!!!
Matt Adams is putting together a pretty decent year as a full time 1B – .275/.351/.575 with 13 HR in 57 games…
Tonight’s game hasn’t been added to BR yet, but in the previous 11 games, Pham had been hitting .289/.333/.356.
Cardinals finally made Quintana work, drawing back-to-back walks. But nothing doing and we are tied after 5 innings. 0-0
Well, that about does it for Flaherty. 97 pitches through 5 innings, while Quintana has thrown just 54
He could also move his wife’s C-section like Dexter Fowler did for this series…
I have not heard the Cardinals had a deal in place, but Baltimore is said to be high on Jack Flaherty
Calileo isn’t close to being as highly rated as Jaden Hill is.
True. But a lot of the pitchers with similar rankings as to Jaden Hill are signing for $1.5-2 million.
I would imagine if it was over the max amount of $125,000 it would have been announced.
Not so sure. They may not have announced because they don’t want to give up leverage in the Gingery negotiations.
Also, I don’t understand putting Ozuna in the questionable/stupid move category.
I think it was just his slow start to the season the first two months, both offensively and defensively. There were times we were all shaking our heads at his defense after he won a gold glove last year, and having him, Folwer and Carpenter struggling the first two months of the season didn’t help.
Ultimately, there wasn’t a whole lot available on the FA market to get other than Leake, Cecil, Gergerson, Holland and Fowler that would have made an appreciable difference.
Ummm….So far those four have all made a negative impact on the Cardinals. If your argument is there weren’t many centerfielders available, the only other one was Austin Jackson, who wouldn’t have cost a draft pick, but broke his leg after the first month. In terms of the Cecil signing, Boone Logan was available, is a better LOOGY, and signed for one year at about $3.5 million. Holland was last man standing as far as relievers, so I guess I agree with you there…
I truly believe that Fowler will turn it around hitting-wise.
If he’s not going to play defense for the Cardinals like he did for the Cubs, then I think its irrelevant if he turns it around hitting wise. He is nothing but a bench bat given how lousy his defense has been.
I thought the Fowler signing was needed when it happened. They didn’t have any minor league OFs ready and they needed a bridge to that point in time. I didn’t like a 5 year deal, though. I thought anything longer than 4 years was a mistake and was really hoping for 3 years.
The best deal he received the previous offseason was 3 years/$33 million. The Cardinals gave him 5 years/$82.5 million. Seems to me, they overpaid by 2 years and roughly $50 million. The Cardinals are know for their strict adherence to player valuations, and they totally blew the market determined price out of the water…The Fowler signing only needed to happen because they got burned by plugging two players who were not much more than rookies into the starting lineup the previous year and got burned…You can have two rookies battle/platoon for one position, but you don’t let your outfield be 2/3 rookies…Then, they said nothing will do except a center fielder, when if they had been willing to sign a corner outfielder, there were many more opportunities. Tunnel vision caused the overpay for Fowler…
Jaden Hill is the only guy that I believe won’t sign.
Calileo?
Vargas signed his contract today.
How much?
Cards have $446,300 remaining of their pool allotment. If they choose to go over that amount up to 5% they have $844,720.
The slot value for Gingery is $446,900…and he is still unsigned, correct?
Right now, the Cardinals are about even in terms of over/under slot.
I guess they are hoping Vargas will sign for $125k + the 5% bonus pool overage, the three remaining Top 10 will sign for slot or under, and all the college players drafted after round 10 will sign for $125k or less…
Right now, the lack of any decent LH hitting options is making him almost essential to keep around.
If right handed hitters can hit right handed pitchers better than Fowler can, then this point is moot.
Wong looks like a classic change of scenery piece
Well, that should have happened as soon as he started saying he should be lead off hitter, and he should be starting 2B based on the size of his contract…
Apart from those guys, we have no lefties at the big league level and no one of any repute even on the horizon in the pipeline.
I am less concerned about left-handed hitters than team chemistry and desire to win. Desire to win should be seen by accepting demotions when you are clearly being outplayed.
That’s why you’re almost stuck with Dex in the hopes he can even get to the 115-120 wRC+ guy from last year.
Even with that, he was one of the five worst defensive outfielders in all of baseball last year. He was brought in here to increase the athleticism of our outfield. He is not delivering what he sold to the team, therefore, he should be removed from the starting lineup.
you don’t throw away guys you signed less than two years ago for 1/3 of a bad season.
Defensively, it’s been 1 1/3 seasons. Offensively, he had a bad 40+% of the year last year, and a bad 40+% so far this year. Overall, he is just bad.
I agree, he won’t be traded during the season, and we are probably going to have to sweeten the deal to get anybody to take his contract. But that’s bad sports management. Do free agents avoid Boston because they ate some bad deals? Then they won’t avoid the Cardinals if the Cardinals do what’s best for the team.
Hicks is still very young with more endurance than say a guy like 33 y.o. Norris.
Endurance has nothing to do with it. A pitching motion is an unnatural motion, which is part of the reason why as velocities go higher, there are more Tommy John surgeries.
Matheny, the coaches and the trainer determine who is able to pitch and when.
And Matheny has proven to be terrible at it, and we have seen no evidence the coaches or training staff can override his decisions….
If there is a chance that an arm is being abused the player’s union would have something to say.
I can’t think of an example of the Player’s Union doing this. Is there an overusage clause in the CBA? If not, it won’t happen.
I don’t hear Hicks claiming that he is being overused.
He’s a rookie. Rookies do what they are told, when they are told. If you don’t recognize that, you’ve never played sports (think of a freshman on a varsity team). He hasn’t had this kind of workload before, he is not used to the toll it will take over a full season. What the Cardinals are risking is him breaking down in August and September, right as we near the playoffs…
But let’s have Matheny keep trotting him out there every day, and maybe when Hicks has Tommy John the Cardinals will finally say enough.
If free agents won’t come to St. Louis because we play rookies that are outperforming free agents with bloated contracts, we probably don’t want those free agents anyway.
Hey Pugs, I am here. But I believe it was you that came up with the rule of 10 runs, then we start bunting. I merely added the suggestion we bunt until the other team scores…
But yes, it is exciting when we have back-to-back homers in the first and the pitcher starts a rally by drawing a nine pitch walk…
