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Adding to the Bader debate, I’ll be looking for better base running and for his situational defense to improve. Bader got picked off a lot and overran bases. For defense he’d throw to the wrong base a lot. None of these issues were improved upon as the season ended. So I’ll be watching to see if Marmol picks up on this since Shildt did not. I sometimes wondered if Shildt was really watching the games or if he often got bored and zoned out.
As we all know errors don’t mean much in baseball as they tend to favor offense. So we have to really look at the fundamentals and look objectively at plays to get better. Just because they didn’t call an error doesn’t mean there wasn’t one made. It’s sickening to me that the play by play and commentator will often look the other way or make excuses in favor of their marketing. This way the fair weathered fan won’t know their defense really made a mistake. It’s dumbing down the fans and should be quite insulting to them.
I haven’t figured out how to reply to individual posters, the reply button doesn’t seem to work:
‘What does everyone think the odds are that at some point mid-way through the 2022 season the Cards are forced to release Pujols?’
Since this is his final year and a good bye tour, I believe if he was really that bad they would just play him less. On the other hand, they played Matt Carpenter even when he was costing the Cardinals wins. Mo even put him in the 3 and 4 hole in which I was incredulous.
I feel like he wouldn’t want to honor that 10-year commitment just because of the way he left. If Albert really was insulted by the contract he was offered from the Cardinals before leaving, I don’t see how he would want to commit to the Angels after how they parted ways.
I remember an interview Albert did a few years where he said he would go into the Hall of Fame like Larussa did with no cap, but this was before the Angels kicked him out the door. Albert seems to be a man of principle or at least that is how he is portrayed.
Hicks lacks control and throws a lot of pitches. I’m not convinced he has a reliable secondary pitch that can work off that fastball. Without that 100 MPH doesn’t mean much. How could he be a starter?