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At a minimum, my guess would be May, Romero, and Nootbaar are getting traded. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were more.
Derrick Goold wrote that Maniscalco signed an over slot deal, but I don’t have a PD subscription so I don’t know the number.
gscottar said:
I don’t follow the all star game like I used to. As others have mentioned the players don’t seem to care about it like they once did. One other tidbit that irks me is the fact that the players don’t wear their teams uniforms anymore.
Yes they do. They went back to wearing their team jerseys last year.
They don’t for the events prior to the game, like the Home Run Derby, but they do for the game.
Kevin McGonigle is the Detroit player.
McGonigle is two years younger than Wetherholt. He is also performing at a higher level right now. The two players aren’t comparable.
There are many things that go into a decision like this. For some players, money is not the only consideration.
Thank you jj-cf-stl. My research chops get a workout in this new Bloom era of Cardinals baseball. Mozeliak’s direction was much easier to predict!
Nonsense.
Just off the top of my head I can think of several successful MLB pitchers with a history of chronic injury
Chris Carpenter (5 arm surgeries)
Jack Flaherty (multiple trips to the IL with arm problems)
Adam Wainwright had multiple arm problems over his long career.
Jacob DeGrom
Chris SaleI could come up with more if I wanted to.
Pitchers have injuries. Throwing a baseball over a long period of time is not normal behavior.
Injured pitchers are a staple of baseball. Their are 43 MLB pitchers currently out with Tommy John surgery.
There are 114 pitchers out with non-TJ injuries (these include internal brace surgeries)
Guess how many injured pitchers the STL Cardinals have (MLB, not minor leagues)?
One.
Thanks. With respect to the switch hitter aspect of Bernal, I noticed that he has fairly glaring splits this season. He is much better against lefties than righties. That wasn’t the case in previous years.
I wonder if this is just an anomaly based on the hitting environment he is in this season.
Took a brief look at the new list. I am most interested in the catcher situation since the Cardinals seem intent on keeping Herrera away from catching (not complaining per se, his defense is an issue). But at some point I would assume the team will move away from Pages and Pozo (at least I hope so) and move on to Crooks and Bernal. I see in your list you have Crooks one spot ahead of Bernal. MLB Pipeline just adjusted their list, and though they moved Crooks up one spot, they still have Bernal ahead of him.
What is your assessment of the difference between the two, and is it too small of a difference to be a real difference (if that makes any sense)?
It was just announced that Fedde will start on Saturday.
The FCL team is currently beating the Mets’ FCL team so I am happy to see at least one of our teams can beat the Mets.😊
Bryan Torres is putting up pretty good numbers. He doesn’t have much power though.
He seems to be a Donovan type, but I haven’t seen enough defense to judge though I don’t get the impression he is gold glove caliber.
I need to watch more Memphis games. I have plenty of time now.
The Deep State is at it again.
Relievers are fungible. There are plenty to be had in the system.
Give me a good starter conspiracy and you have my attention :>)
That’s about $30M in salary according to Goold. Goldschmidt is another $26M off the books.
It’s going to be interesting to see how much more this “reset” is going to cost. 😜
Well I don’t know enough to get into the weeds on the mechanics of it all. That is for the people who know the stat better than I do.
I think it all boils down to how many runs you prevented making the most difficult plays to make based on how far you had to run to get to the ball and how much time it took you to do it and make the out.
The way I understand it with OAA the measure is actual success rate in relation to estimated success rate. Each play is given an estimated success rate measured by distance and time. There are categories of plays based on probability of making the play.
So the difference is how often a player turns a low probability play into an out. in the example given, Bobby Witt Jr turned plays with a 67% estimated success rate at a rate of 69%, which is a 2% success rate added. Hernandez turned plays with a 74% estimated success rate at a rate of 69%, which is a negative success rate added.
It all depends on the difficulty of the plays that were turned into outs. You can’t just look at success rate alone in a vacuum. If you look at the Statcast leaderboard, you can see that the players with the most OAA are the ones with the highest success rate added.
I’m not a huge fan of Marmol but I think the rush to always blame the manager for a team’s failures is vastly misplaced.
One has to think of the dynamic that could be in place between the manager and the front office. How much autonomy does the manager actually have? It is different for each team.
Personally, I think blame often (but not in every case) lays at higher levels than the manager.
In any event, the second game of the season is a little early for panic. I plan to wait at least a couple of weeks :).
