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JJ is not likely to win now, not because of batting average, but because he is not playing for most if not all of the last month of the season.
Recency bias is a thing, even for Rookie of the Year voters.
Not taking him out of games a month earlier risked making the injury worse which is exactly what happened.
He was unable to compete at a normal level with the injury, so absolutely nothing was accomplished other than to guarantee the crash of his ROY hopes in the final month of the season.
Had they taken him out earlier, he could have gotten treatment and returned healthy and able to perform at his former high level in the final month.
He isn’t playing because of management incompetence. He should have been taken out of games a month earlier than he was and he likely would be playing right now and racking up ROY points in the final month.
It is always a surprise to me that people devalue defense over offense.
If your defense gives up more runs than your offense scores, guess what happens?
It isn’t the pitching that is to blame either, because a defensive error doesn’t count against the pitcher, but the run scored by the other team still counts in the box score.
Defense is every bit as important as offense.
JJ is VERY GOOD at that part and he deserves to be given credit for it. That is why WAR is an important stat because it measures how good a player is at every aspect of baseball.
Second most populous city in the US, in the most populous state in the US.
More people, more hubris.
Around 60% of all major league players in any given season make less than $1 million per year.
The unfortunately misguided and incorrect idea that major league players are “greedy” or “overpaid” has no basis in fact and is predicated on seeing player’s salaries as a whole as reflective of a VERY SMALL subset of highly paid players.
On the other hand, owners are vastly wealthier as a group than players. Before Stan Kroenke bought the Angels, Steve Cohen, owner of the Mets, was the wealthiest owner, with a net worth of around $16 Billion dollars.
The highest paid player comes nowhere near that amount of wealth.
By the way, Stan Kroenke is worth several billion dollars more than Cohen.
Just saw that from Jeff Jones.
We’ll see whether Memphis helped Scott. Doesn’t seem to have done much for Gorman.
I’ve said all I am going to say about Crooks.
Cardinal 27, it would be much better for Bernal if he doesn’t have to compete with Herrera and Pages. I like Bernal and he may be the better catcher over Crooks. He wasn’t when both were in Springfield, but Bernal has played better in Memphis.
Like I said, the best situation is for both Bernal and Crooks to compete and for the other two to not be in the picture. It is fairer for Bernal.
Well, Bling, I am not a “baseball guy” and I could see plain as day that the circumstances were untenable. Maybe Crooks was not going to work out regardless, but we will never know for sure because of the ridiculous scenario he was thrown into.
I remember an article Katie Woo and others wrote around the deadline where they said that the team admitted that Herrera’s future was not at catcher, but they kept this crazy setup going anyway. Why?
Are they going to do the same dumb thing when it’s Rainiel Rodriguez’ turn? Or any other catcher in the system for that matter.
Anyway, Crooks is back with Memphis, to help them in the playoffs (which probably won’t matter since second half Memphis is not a good team and will likely be massacred by whichever team they play)
The problem with the catching situation from the start was that Crooks, a top 10 prospect before he was called up in May, was forced to fight for playing time with a non-prospect catcher and a former prospect catcher who can’t throw.
The whole situation was doomed to fail and was total nonsense. So now another top prospect is being brought up to compete in the same situation. Perhaps he will fare better, but the situation was dumb from the beginning.
I have said all along and will maintain my position that Herrera should be moved off catcher and Pages should not even be on the roster. The best catching situation is two catchers and two catchers only. Crooks and Bernal should be allowed to compete with each other, which is a fairer situation for both of them.
The Cardinals now have four catchers, which is two more than they need.
It will be interesting to see how Marmol divvies up playing time between four catchers. Just enough playing time to completely fail at everything (except for Herrera, who seems to always get enough).
I didn’t watch the game and didn’t see what happened. I like Baez and he generally has a decent arm.
I will say from watching him play in the minor leagues, that he does at times have an attention issue. I have seen him play in the outfield like he isn’t concentrating the way he should. I can’t say it is a chronic issue as I have not watched him enough to draw that conclusion. It has been mostly a fielding issue and not a throwing one.
I would assume the coaches will address this if they think it is a problem.
Cardinals have selected Cade Winquest from Memphis. Peter Strzelecki goes on the IL with right forearm extensor inflammation. 40-man is full.
— Jeff Jones (@jmjones.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T15:16:40.692Z
Cardinals have selected Cade Winquest from Memphis. Peter Strzelecki goes on the IL with right forearm extensor inflammation. 40-man is full.
— Jeff Jones (@jmjones.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T15:16:40.692Z
In my opinion, Fermin should play the position he is the least bad at, which is 2B. At least he approaches average there. He is a below average defender everywhere else.
Winn can’t come back soon enough. JJ is a great defender at 2B. He can play shortstop, but he doesn’t have Winn’s arm.
I’d platoon Gorman and Urias at 3B. Jordan can play 1B against LHP. His offense in my opinion doesn’t warrant playing everyday.
None of it matters though, because Marmol is doing to do what he wants to do whether we like it or not. Many times I do not like it, but I don’t get to decide.
The Cardinals are calling Nolan Gorman ahead of tonight’s series opener with the Orioles, a source says. Masyn Winn is expected to be placed on the IL as the corresponding move.
— Jeff Jones (@jmjones.bsky.social) 2026-08-25T14:36:30.864Z
Burleson has a .548 OPS against LHP vs a .979 OPS against RHP. Those are drastic splits.
Burleson is going to make bank in arbitration too and he can only reliably hit RHP. That screams platoon.
Herrera has played over 60 innings at 1B in Winter Ball. It wouldn’t take long for him to get up to speed there. Wilson Contreras did it fast with no prior experience.
There is no good reason to bail on Herrera, especially so because he does not have platoon splits like Burleson.
I think the concern over Herrera’s offense is overblown. He hasn’t hit as well as previous seasons but his offensive output is still above average.
His strikeout rate is 18% and he walks at a 10% rate. He is not in any way comparable to Nolan Gorman.
Every player has off years. We put up with several of them from Jordan Walker. I don’t think bailing on Herrera is warranted.
He shouldn’t be catching, I don’t disagree with that. Burleson can’t hit lefties, and I don’t know why Herrera can’t platoon with him at first base. Blaze Jordan’s below average offense isn’t worth having him there.
Interesting that you singled out a specific thing in my post while completely missing the larger point.
The expectations you have about farm system rankings are impossible to meet.
Farm system rankers are not Nostradamus reincarnated. No one can accurately “gage” how well a system will produce productive major leaguers.
Back in 2013, everyone was sure Jurickson Profar was going to be the next great thing. Same with Andrew Benintendi in 2017.
Sometimes top prospects pan out and sometimes they don’t. You can have 10 Jurickson Profars and 10 Andrew Benintendis in a farm system and think it is going to be the best farm system ever known.
One of my favorite quotes is from a writer named Anne Lamott who said “Expectations are resentments waiting to happen”
Or there is also the great philospher Forrest Gump, who said “S**t happens”.
All farm systems are “potential”. There is no actually. Roughly a third of top 100 prospects crash and burn in the big leagues.
Well, the Rookie of the Year award is voted on by the BBWAA, that has some voters who refuse to leave the 20th century and still rely on the old school stats. So metrics may not be the basis for their votes.
I personally believe the metrics are much more fair for every player because it gives value for defense which is just as important as offense, at least in a significant number of eyes. A more well rounded stat like WAR, for instance, takes all aspects of the game into account.
