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Arica and Acuna both did Jordan a favor swinging at his first pitch. Down goes his ERA. He’ll be under 10 one of these days!
Looks like they are just letting Hicks pitch through his issues. But he’s starting to really run up his pitch count.
Nick Anderson did a fantastic job of hitting all the edges/corners and moving the ball around. Very tough on us. Glad we’re likely getting someone else next.
Hicks can’t be sent to AAA. So either he figures it out, gets released, or gets traded. I’m hoping for the former. They changed how he’s throwing his breaking pitches this year so it may just take a little adjustment time. But it sure has been ugly so far.
Euro, I hope that’s not their plan!
All of those ERAs are likely inflated. But Mikolas is the only one that I’m sure is inflated. The rest could be real or close to reality.
It took Jordan 6 pitches to get one in the zone.
But I’m not giving up hope on him. He’s been effective as a reliever. Just had a bad stint as a starter.
Stlcard25 – that last one he gave up to Acuna probably could have been caught. I’m fairly confident that Bader would have gotten it. But still, it’s a long long fly ball that you don’t want to see.
All right then. Well, at least 2 innings from the great Andre P then. Begin to stretch him out. It’s going to be important later. Just like last year.
Nice job by Thompson to befuddle the Braves for an inning and 2/3.
Hmmm . . . Sticking with Thompson. That wasn’t the plan I just drew up and sent to Ollie. Must be a communication breakdown.
2/3 of an inning for Thompson. 3 innings for Pallante. Then Gallegos makes his first appearance and saves an 8-6 game after we go ahead in the 8th. That’s how I’m drawing it up.
I’d love to see Pallante pitch 3 innings tonight and begin to stretch himself out. After Liberatore, I think he’s the next best choice. Better than Hudson.
So if Flaherty is hurt and Woodford isn’t the answer, who do they go with besides Liberatore in the near term? Hudson? Stretch out Pallante?
Mikolas will be fine. Montgomery will be at least average. And I think Matz will be good if he stays healthy. But I’m worried about Flaherty and Wainwright and I just have very little confidence in Woodford. But on the plus side, Liberatore looks really good. I’m crossing my fingers that Graceffo and Connor Thomas will be ready in a few months as well.
I know. But he’s really never been very good. I do like the way they’ve been mixing up his pitches better than in the past – trying to maximize his better pitches. And I was really hoping he may have made enough changes to be serviceable.
I was excited to see Woodford that I’m always hearing about on this site – how great he is and how Ollie is so crazy not to let him pitch. But now after watching 3 deep flies plus a ground rule double and a few singles mixed in – in the first 2 innings I’m thinking our Cardinal Nation scouts need to re-evaluate why they think he’s so good. Small sample size I know, but it’s really ugly watching the Braves tee off on him.
