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Nice to see everything sorted out and organized. Eleven players who OPS’d .950 or above in June sounds good. But it’s hard to evaluate something like that without a standard of comparison. I am not asking that someone should figure out how many other teams had 11 players who OPS’d .950 or above. Just commenting.
If there’s a third baseman that can be acquired, I think the Cardinals should really push hard to get him. I’v seen at least three balls roll right understand Nlaze Jordan’glove glove. Winn sees a ground ball headed for Jordan and runs behind him to get the ball in case Jordan can’t pick it up. We’d have been a lot better off we’d have kept Arenado. We are paying him anyway. But then, who would have thought Gorman was going to be such a bust?
On another note, if they trade Romero, it’s nice to see that Gastelum, TCN Pitcher of the Month, can get RH and LH batters out equally well.
If they trade Nootbaar, they ought to be able to get just about any prospect they want. Boston could use some outfield help and they like they are loaded with promising pitching prospects. The trouble is that the Red Sox are buried in the AL East, and might not want to trade.
The Brewers haven’t picked higher than 17 in the last 5 years. Their system overall is just plain good. I think the Cardinals system is much improved and may be one of the top systems. As always time will tell.
I hate to think of Yadi in any uniform but a Cardinals uniform. But I think it’s inevitable that he’s going to be wearing another uniform someday soon. Given the circumstances the Angels now seem most likely.
All I had to do was open up my 2026 TCN Prospect Guide and, as Brian said, the fully detailed report was right there. I’m going to pull my Guide out and find out if there are any other Mason Molina types that have emerged.
For me it has been as if Mason Molina came out of nowhere. So I decided to look up his history and post what I found in case there are others wondering where the Cardinals got him.
Mason Molina came from the Rangers in a trade for Phil Maton at last year’s (2025) trade deadline. So he’s been with the Cardinals for a little less than a year. Maton was a very good reliever for the Cardinals and was just as good for the Rangers. Along with Mason Molina the Cardinals got Skylar Hales who is now is at Memphis and not showing much, 1-2 with 7.71 era and 1.98 whip. Mason Molina, OTOH, just got promoted to Memphis after impressing at Springfield. He was at the Rangers low A team when we got him, then finished the rest of 2025 at the Cardinals high A team in Peoria. In 2026, after only pitching 21 innings at Peoria in 2025, the Cardinals promoted him directly to AA Springfield, where he pitched 69 innings this year, 2026, before now getting promoted to Memphis. He turns 23 years old this coming July 8.
Torres in the lineup is fine with me. I like him. He plays hard. But not at 3B. He is clearly not a third baseman. I guess Oli just wanted th throw him out there to see what he looked like. To me that signaled that Oli couldn’t care less about getting into a playoff game.
PS – My previous post on this matter got deleted. I had reservations myself that someone might add more to it rather than what was saying. Thanks for the help.
And he is collecting $20,546 per day for the entire 365 day year. The Rays are paying him $7.5M for 2026 and another $7.5M for 2027, this, after the Cardinals gave him $12M/year for three years.
Call me a ‘company man’ if you must. But I really like the Owners’ proposals although I can’t see how it would all fit together. For sure, there’s going to be a work stoppage. History tells us that the owners will start wetting their pants over what the work stoppage is costing them and give in to whatever Boras wants. When you think about it, the Owners really don’t have much of a chance. They have to pay salaries for 350+ employees regardless if they are generating any significant revenue, while the players are millionaires with only themselves to support. And the few who might be feeling pinched can just move back in with their mom and dad during the stoppage.
Yeah, Ixan Henderson is in that same bucket. Rotation help is on the way but it might not arrive in time to get the Cardinals a playoff game.
Per Wednesday’s With Walton and Reis, Kyle thinks Hjerpe may be the top ranked prospect in the organization. The trouble is that he’s only been throwing 20 pitches per outing so far. Kyle thinks Hjerpe will be up to 40 pitches in about a month. So after 2, or maybe 3 innings, it becomes a bullpen gme.
So far, so good for Leahy. If he can make it all the way there 3rd inning that will be an improvement.
I still enjoy Arenado’s defense.
1td- I agree with everything you said about Wetherholt. In fact, I think it applies to the current entire lineup of Cardinals. They play with a selfless enthusiasm that is rare.
I’m sure glad those rumors about Albert hitting the juice while in St. Louis turned out to be absolutely false. MLB and the players association have put an end to that. Still, when I look at the size of many of the Dodgers players as they stand in at the plate, I have to do a double take. How old is Freddy Freeman, BYW? I’m pretty sure Goldy hit 40 this year. I know he’d love to get a ring before he retires, and I wish him the best. It’s amazing how a change to a different team can revitalize a player.
Every team would like a big time power hitter But that kind of player is almost always untouchable. And don’t we already have that player in Josh Baez? Besides, where would we even play him? I don’t want to undervalue Nootbaar veteran presence, and I think it’s too early to say that Nathan Church is not our best option for CF. I’m okay with leaving Baez at Memphis for all of 2026. That way he can still work on learning the strike zone during the inevitable, IMO, work stoppage. What this team really needs is at least one more 2 or 3 starter to go with May, an emerging Pallante, and possibly the up and coming Matthews. And there are other Cardinals pitching prospects that are about ready to show what they can do. I’ll go back to my aforementioned proposal. See if we can trade VSII for a proven middle reliever, or two. Then let’s see how far these young players can take us. Realistically, it’s going to take some really tough play for any team to beat the Brewers because of their pitching.
Agree on that heads up defense by Pallante.
Thanks for coming is averaging about 15 pitches per inning. I sure hope he can get through 6 innings with 15 pitches, or less.
I keep getting impressed by Nathan Church, also, offensively, for sure. But I like his defense also. It seemed to me that VSII was continually letting the ball hit the ground a few feet in front of him or let the ball hit the bottom of the outfield wall and bounce back to him. With determined effort he could have caught some of those balls, IMO. He’s good enough to play at the major league level, so he’s tradable.
gscottar – Please get a new crystal ball, or maybe, just clean and shine the one you have. We’d be fighting to stay out of last place by the end of the season if we made all those trades you suggested. The only player that I think there’s a chance of being traded is May. Missing just one playoff game could cost the Cardinals hundreds of thousand dollars. If the Cards are in contention, my opinion is that none of the players you mentioned will be traded. The only trade I could see happening would be maybe trading Scott for a proven reliever which, obviously, would be a buy rather than a sell.
6M$?/yr by today’s standards is still cheap. Millions of dollars to any baseball player is excessive. I’ve been saying that for years. The Cardinals’ team is playing for fun and for each other. That’s the way the games should all be played. The White Sox seem to be doing that, too, now. Let the young guys become rich, but it doesn’t have to be absurdly rich. If the new CBT by the owners can be implemented, that could possibly happen The details would still have to be worked out. But with the combination of all team player salaries divvied up and distributed evenly, then every MLB player gets treated evenly, then Boras and no team gets to pirate a player away from another organization at will. Of course, there are details that would have to be worked out. But this would really, really change the game if I’m understanding it correctly. If would bring more even competition and a more exciting game.
I’ll try to figure how the numbers could work in terms of dollars per team and per player. But I would welcome come other opinions other than ‘its impossible’.
The Brewers sure have a lot of confidence in their talent evaluators. I look at the Dodgers and some of their prodigious glutes and legs and even their upper bodies, and the way they lean forward on their toes in the batters box. Then I wonder…I just wonder. And there are players like Mookie Betts or AAron Judge who sign mega contracts and who play like super stars for a few years, and then become average or less. It’s almost always blamed on injuries, even though these players rarely return to previous form. And then there’s Paul Goldschmidt posting a line of 600/600/600/1200 for the Yankees ins 2026 at nearly 40 years old. Makes you wonder. At least with the Brewers they,re only risking about $6M/year to find out if he’s as good as they think he is. Our own Jordan Walker should squeeze as many millions as he can out of the Cardinals and their fan base until he hits free agency and is ready to claim that 40M$+/yr.
If Mtathews is really ready, some. of our middle to late inning relief problems could be settled by replacing Liberatore with Mathews and letting Liberatore pitch two or three innings of relief, IMO. Libby has bee pretty good for two or three innings.
Liberatore is definitely a middle reliever, not a starter. Lately, it’s been looking like Matthews is ready. Maybe it’s time to find out. Oli has been demonstrating all season that he is willing to bring AAA guys up for a tryout, or send a player down when needed. When TLR needed help somewhere, he was only satisfied if the front office got him a player who had already compiled stats and a substantial track record. That was one of the things I didn’t like about him.
