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Oh boy. If people think our OF defense is bad now, it is going to get much worse if Marmol puts Yepez out there.
I agree with Brian, the problem is the pitching, not the defense. The lack of the shift has very little effect on outfield defense. Our infield defense may be suffering a little, but the recent errors is more likely the result of trying too hard to compensate for everything else that is going wrong.
The team definitely has been downgraded defensively in the outfield but not enough to be causing these problems. We had good outfield defense before because we had Bader out there and he covered a lot of ground that our current outfield is not able to do. Bader was just multiple levels better than anyone else we had, but that is water under the bridge, he’s gone.
Carlson is fine, he is an average to slightly above average CF. He could take better routes on occasion, but that can be improved. What can’t be improved is his speed, which isn’t elite. The bigger problem for him is at the plate. Playing him everyday in CF has the tradeoff of lack of production against RHP.
Regardless, as Sarris said, we have a pitching problem. The lack of offensive production can be improved by playing better, as multiple players have themselves expressed multiple times.
#STLCards manager Oli Marmol said the plan for now is to have LHP Steven Matz start on Sunday vs. the Detroit Tigers.
Matz, who is 0-4, is scheduled to throw a bullpen session today and work on the shape and sharpness of his curveball. That pitch has been a problem for weeks.
— John Denton (@JohnDenton555) May 4, 2023
And the “under-talented rotation” is whose fault exactly?
Firing the manager for players who aren’t doing their job makes no sense whatsoever.
Any time a team plays badly the first person that everyone turns on is the manager. More often than not it is not the fault of the manager.
Has Marmol always made good decisions? No. I would bet he would agree with that.
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Marmol didn’t put this roster together. He can’t make the offense play better or the mediocre pitching staff not be mediocre.The fact is the offense didn’t score enough and we don’t have the shut down pitching to compensate for that.
It’s damn frustrating. I feel it just like everyone else. But it is what it is and the team just has to play through it.
Nothing wrong with fans expressing their frustration. The owners and the front office need to hear it as well as the team.
Also I disagree about Helsley. He had a slow start but he looked good tonight. Helsley just has better stuff than Gio.
Also Gio has a history of doing this. Think back over the last couple of seasons about how many times he blew it in the ninth.
The offense just has to score more runs to compensate for the not very good pitching.
Until they do that this will keep happening.
It was good to see Carlson hit a RHP. His numbers against RHP have been horrible. I hope this is a trend and not a one-off.
I believe (but Brian is free to correct me), that if he goes on the 60 day IL he remains with the Cardinals but he is not free of the Rule 5 requirements. Should he be out the entire season, the Rule 5 requirements will remain for the 2024 season.
Jake Woodford will be available out of the Cardinals bullpen starting tomorrow.
The team is evaluating next steps for improvement and usage for Steven Matz. Marmol stopped short of saying he’d definitely make his next start.
— Jeff Jones (@jmjones) May 3, 2023
Aside from being the most entertaining player on the team (which in these times is sorely needed) he has a very good eye for the strike zone and he has the highest walk percentage on the team by a large margin. In other words, he gets on base. Have to get on base to score runs.
We could use more Lars Nootbaars
So I have heard. I have no reason to question what he says he has been told.
The whole thing answers some questions in my mind. Pitching used to be a strength some time ago but it clearly is not now and hasn’t been for a while. Some of that is a draft issue of course, but I have often wondered if our development staff are asleep at the wheel.
I saw that earlier. Some people were questioning the veracity of it. I don’t know Schwendel, but Sarris is a straight shooter.
If that is the case, it sounds like that kind of disconnect needs to be addressed. If the Cardinals are going to rely on the minor league system for pitching on the major league team, and all signs point in that direction, everyone needs to be on the same page. Pitching has been and still is the glaring weakness.
Yeah, Lars is the best of our current outfielders. Carlson can’t hit RHP so he has limited usefulness. O’Neill isn’t being the good O’Neill, and Burleson is the worst defender of the bunch.
We don’t do anything but wait for the offense to play better.
The rotation is mediocre, that isn’t changing. Maybe Flaherty figures it out and gets better. The rest are what you see now. They can play at the margins, like bring up Liberatore and send down Woodford, but with Waino coming back I don’t see the need for him unless someone gets hurt. Matz isn’t going anywhere.
The bullpen is the only place for movement and that generally happens anyway in a good year.
Too early for trades, so just wait it out.
Making Marmol a sacrificial lamb accomplishes nothing.
Bader still doing his thing.
Harrison Bader makes the grab: pic.twitter.com/d93CjNtBD2
— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) May 3, 2023
Well of course it could have been moved. They didn’t want to because why would they? It’s not like fans won’t still come to games and that is the only thing they give a bleep about.
“Turning baseball players into billboards is repulsive.”
We agree on that observation.
‘The team is in last place, but look, we give you a corporate advertisement to ease your worries and give you hope for the future”
The obtuse insensitivity is off the charts.
#stlcards will reveal an advertisement on their jersey sleeve this afternoon (4 p.m.) at Busch Stadium. The company will look familiar.
It's the same one who appears on #stlblues jerseys.
St. Louis-based wealth management company Stifel will be featured on jerseys, per source.
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) May 2, 2023
Investment Bankers. Yeah, that will get your juices flowing.
The tone deafness is staggering.
