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Several years ago I expressed how I didn’t want the Cardinals signing Cease because of inconsistency. Boy was I wrong. He’s been one of the better pitchers in baseball since.
Who is going off the 40-man? New Scrabble?
I would guess Romero, Stanek, or May is leaving the 40-man to make room in a trade prior to that point. Maybe they have a backup deal already worked out?
I apologize Willie for continuing to poke at you and others. You have consistently maintained that JJ is just “ok”.
Hitting leadoff, walking over 10% of the time, striking out under 16% of the time, getting on base at about a 35% clip, hitting 9% above league average as a young rookie, running a positive WAR in baserunning, playing statistically the 5th best defense in all of baseball, hitting 16 homers as a 2nd baseman, and running the 11th best overall FWAR in baseball all while running a below average batting average on balls in play, suggesting that he’s been unlucky and probably is better than he’s shown.
We will see if he can come through here . . . Come on JJ!
Folks will say Andre was bad today if he takes the loss, regardless of the offense.
Never mind that since JJ just homered making Pallante back in the ok category despite him not doing anything else.
However, Wetherholt is bad because .254 isn’t .280.
I am all for a little more balance. The system today is dramatically out of balance. Some teams have a strategic advantage over others and not just in a slight way or even a significant way. Some have monumentally more assets than others. I’m not sure a cap solves that issue. A floor probably does help, but doesn’t address the disparity issue. There probably does need to be some better profit sharing, but also some structure around what owners need to spend to retain ownership. As with most problems, both parties are part of the problem. Hopefully they find a good solution for the fans, but that may be too much to expect.
I loved this one. Good look into a little bit more about who Tai Peete is. Thanks Steffen and Brian!
I was fairly certain Dobbins would get sent down after this game. But perhaps he stays up and takes Liberatore’s rotation spot and Libby moves to the pen once JoJo is traded. Maybe?
Walker smacks the first pitch he sees from the new reliever. I thought it was sneaking over the LF wall. No dice as it’s caught up against the wall to end our chances. 2 innings to go, but this one doesn’t look good.
If the wind had been blowing out to left as strongly as it was earlier, I believe it’s a tie ballgame.
No one warming so Dobbins at least gets to start the 8th. He’s been solid. He probably only allows one run if we didn’t have the infield in earlier.
Got a couple runs on a walk to Walker, a single, and a double. Kudos to Torres with a real nice pinch hit double. It’s a ballgame again even though it feels like we’ve been pummeled due to the hit column.
I wish I had a dollar for every time Burleson hit a grounder to 2B. It’s like Matt Carpenter all over again!
Tons of ground balls through the infield for hits from the Cubs tonight. I’m not sure if it’s luck, poor positioning, or just good hitting. That last one got right by Winn because he was playing in, allowing two more to score. 5-1 Cubs in a Cubbies hit fest tonight.
Cardinals super lucky Suzuki stood there forever on strike 3 as the ball went about 35 feet away from Herrera who ran it down and threw Suzuki out at first.
Liberatore lasts 2 2/3, leaving after a single and then a second walk to PCA. Didn’t want him facing Bregman again with 2 on.
Correction. Suzuki was next, then Bregman. Either way, Libby terrible tonight vs righties.
Agreed Marilyn. While everyone thought it would be Leahy moving back to the pen (including me), Liberatore sure looks like the weak link. The fact that we need left handed relief and that we have Dobbins and Matthews makes it a real possibility after the trade deadline. I’m not saying I think that will happen, but it’s a possibility.
The Ferminator, in CF tonight with the lefty on the mound and Church struggling to hit anything, hits a no doubter home run to left to put us back down only one.
And Bregman hits Liberatore’s first pitch into the stands in RF. The wind may have kept that one fair. It’s gusting pretty good towards LF.
Liberatore giving up a lot of hits early. Fortunately, he picked off PCA in the first to save one run and possibly more.
I told my wife before Wetherholt’s AB that he’d been trying to pull everything lately and so then he comes out and hits an opposite field single. That was refreshing to see.
