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It would be your typical St. Louis “do nothing” move. I would rather see them sell than do a lame move like that.
My prediction is the Cardinals do a big flat nothing today and watch the Cubs run away and win the division by 15 games.
I don’t neither Nunez or Devers are the answer for them this year. They could still use a 3B upgrade.
If we get Donaldson we could trade Gyroko to the Red Sox. They still need an everyday 3B.
I also like the Lynn and Carp to the Yanks idea. If we are going to re-load we might as well go all in and do it right. I wish we could find takers for Fowler and Leake also but I know that won’t happen.
Matheny had better tread carefully here. This has all of the makings of “losing the clubhouse”, which usually spells doom for a manager. If the team is forced to choose I bet they choose keeping Yadi over Matheny.
I say we punt on this season by seeing what we can get for Lynn, Oh, and whoever else might have some value, then try again for 2018. Except this time, we need to have a SERIOUS off season instead of the usual low hanging fruit, path of least resistance, and nibbling around the edges approach that we usually have.
My biggest disappointment is in the front office thinking that the team they assembled was going to be a winning team. Many of us posted on here during the off season and during the Spring that we were being too complacent and that we didn’t have a big bat and that the bullpen seemed shaky. Unfortunately those issues have proven to be true.
I find it a bit disingenuous for Mo to trash the 25 guys in the club house when he didn’t do his job in the off season.
The process repeats. If I click on a thread it logs me back in but if I go back to the open forum it logs me out, which makes it difficult to determine the time and date of the most recent posts. It could be something peculiar to my computer, I don’t know.
I am having difficulty staying logged in. I can log into the home page but when I click on the forum page it logs me out. Strange.
This team is so dismal right now it is driving me nuts. I think I need to step away for awhile and let them do what may.
I think the Cards are actually interested and motivated to do a deal for Stanton. When you look at some of the contracts being thrown around for guys like Upton, Cespedes, etc…, Stanton’s contract might not look so bad in a few years.
I think the big hurdle right now is Miami’s ownership status is in a big pile of limbo. I doubt a big deal like Stanton can be approved until their ownership status is resolved and who knows when that will be.
Too bad Mags Sierra doesn’t have the sample size to justify staying with the big club when Grichuk and Piscotty come off the DL. I guess a .429 avg and nine game hitting streak isn’t good enough. If he raises his average to .600 can he stay? We all know that Piscotty’s .236 avg is preferable.
Chitown, I think your ideas are very reasonable and probably line up with what DeWitt, Mo, and Girsch are thinking based on their recent comments. I get the feeling we are going to be active the next two weeks and they have said repeatedly they will look to move short term assets for long term assets but also be “open minded” about all scenarios.
As a side note I read where the Cubs, after getting Quintana, are now after Sonny Gray. Surely they are going to have to deal from their MLB roster eventually, right? How many freaking top MiLB prospects could they have left? It irritates me that they can make trades w/o giving up guys like Schwarber, Baez, Russell, or Happ.
I’m a big fan of Grichuk also. I actually think he is more valuable to this team than Piscotty right now. If they both got 550 AB’s I think their lines would be:
Grichuk: .240 avg 25HR 80 RBI
Piscotty: .260 avg 15HR 70 RBII know Grichuk will strike out more but I still like his line better. I think he is a better defender and has more speed, and costs less.
Going year to year doesn’t prevent players from putting food on the table. If the players perform they will be paid well through the arbitration process but they have to keep performing each year until they reach FA.
1. Any update on how to mark threads as “read”?
2. Do the threads notate which threads we have posted in?
Personally I’m not a fan of locking up younger players long term either. I know that teams love the cost certainty but in many cases the players flop. I think this could be due to various factors. It could be the pressure of a big contract or it could be complacency due to a big contract. I prefer the year to year arbitration process.