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Mo went for high floor, Bloom goes for high cieling. Plus Mo did not apper to recognize where aa career level. Far too many acquisitions where a player wass on the downside of his career, and went further down as a Cardinal. St Lois media and team fans making Mo look better than he was. Of cours DeWitt could have caused some of tha. But Mo was better in his early years than his latter years. We will see hiw the angek gig turns out. The Adell trade will be a good insite.
Is name of third player from the Diamondbacks available. Checked the other 4 guys and looks like Bloom is once again going for upside potnential.
The Frias kid is very interesting. Little experience, 18 years old according to BB Encyclopedia. Very impressive numbers but all at the lowest levels
Be interessting what Kyle and Brian say about the new guys Wednesday tomorrow morning. Suspect they will talk about Rodrigues as well. Would like to know why they stopped playing Luna and Rojas in the Dominican. They were both killing it. Possible cameo in Palm Beach next month and getting ready to bring stateside with visas culture and language etc?
Virtually no one is a slam dunk but he has shown a real ability to make adjustments and His bat is so quick and he is so strong that he is a strong possibility.
At AA he had a few strong games then a deep slump, average below the Mendoza line then he began to hit again but mostly singles and doubles because he hits the ball so hard that any gap hit goes to the wall. Now he is hitting home runs again and has 16 for this year
If he continues to improve I suspect he will get a dose of AAA in September. I hope he can play something besid catcher. He will get to the majors quicker something other than catcher. I would not want him to be exclusively as a DH. He is pretty athletic and has extremly quick hands.
Since the draft was so late I suppose that only limited if any draftees will make thier debut this season
Does anyone know a source for DSL player stats. In yesterday’s game they played 6 players hitting over 300 and 3 with OPS of more than 1.000. Luna in limited play is over .400 with OPS of 1.577.
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Mayb Pallantekey question. Who do we have outside of Winn, Weatherholt, Walker, and maybe Herrera would be considered valuable to a buying team.
If you watched Brian’s Wednesday podcast you saw that all of them were very positive about tis draft. I really like it too. For qa change we went for the high cieling guys, those with high 90’s fastballs and those with high athletisism and or high exit velocity. And aloot of plus defenders. It is looking forwart instead of looking back.Now we need to get them signed.
Was suprised to see Callis rank our draft that high. My impression is that he was not pro-Cardinal wen with Baseball America.
I trust our player development organization. I think Bloom has loaded the system with coachin g that recognizes and develops players with the very best. I base that on the improvment of so many of our prospects during this minor league season.
You can bet that they have some involvement in evaluating draft prospect. Otherwise it is a waste of talent. The big load is with the scouts and tech guys but I would be suprised if the coaches are not involved with the evaluations.
I think Baseball America does a better job of evaluating than MLB pipeline and BA has radical changes in rankings from week to week. I also read an artical advising young players to go to a school than has the ability to measure the tech stuff. I think the spin rates,exit velocity and bat speed among other things techy are also important. Also I suspect there have been scouts eyes on most if not all we pick.
From the 25 draft and the trades they have made it appears that we now have an organization that is looking more for guys well below thier ceiling in development versus those who are near thier floor. Mo was just the opposite. If you look at the progress of the 25 draft group vs the 24 group you will see a difference.
Add Soriano to those that could be traded. I don’t think Stanek would draw much attention but I certainly wouldn’t mid seeing him go.
On another matter is the Condon we drafted related to Chalie Condon, a Rockies prospect
Mo clearly was for quantity over quality. Relying on the Cardinal’s past history of uncovering hidden gems. No place for them to hide now days with the tech that ha emerged in scouting.
It appears that Bloom is more of a quality over quantity guy which has clearly been demonstrated in trades and the international program.
Therfore I expect the Cardinals to go for the highest cieling guy available when our turn comes up. Even a high school pitcher. He will have to go for some low cost guys to allow them to sign the highercieling guys.
It would be interesting to analyse Blooms years with the Rays and Red Sox to get a sense of what he may do.
I know a lot of people are loving Ollie now but why would he bring in Svanson with the score 3-3. We are 8-13 in games decided by three runs or less in games he has pitched and he has an ERA oer 6.60. I agee that Ollie has improved as a manager butEJCEC IS THE ONLY RELIEF PITCHER WITH MORE than 2 innings the last 3 days and Stanek the only one with more than one the last two days.
And when are going to send Svanson back to Memphis bring up Mathews or Dobbins
and sent Libby the the pen.wITH THE SCRE 0-0 IN THE 9TH INNING, WHY BRING IN THE WORst relief pitcher you have out of 8. 7.00+ ERA
I have stated that I will not trash Olli but I feel it was a mistake for Mo to make him a manaager when he did, and unfair to Ollie as well,
I have gone on record that I was not going to trash Ollie again. I feel that he has improved in his lineup decisions and somewhat in bullpen decisions.
I also feel that the coaching staff that Bloom has put together deserves a lot of credit for what the team and our entire system is becoming.
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Two questions:
Why did Ollie pull McGreevy when he did. It appeared that McGreevy was upset with being taken out.
And why did he use two of the 3 worst pitchers we have in an 8 man bullpen in a close game?
Of course he has won 350 major league games more than I have.
He also has lost 341 more than I have>
Don’t understand why the media is so in love with Ollie. Here are reasons I think we would be better with a different manager:
He is obsessed with platooning.
His lineups are better this year but he still has a slow guy,Herrera, batting second. Yes his OBP is .037 higher than a fast guy Winn, but the difference is probably made up with the number of times Herrera has been hit by pitch.
He has 3 bullpen pitchers that he has used 38.2 innings for pitchers that have given up 34 earned runs and used three other pitchers 37.1 innings who have only given up 13 earned runs.
Because of his platooning bent he often takes a pitcher out with two outs and only a base runner on first to get his handness his way. This exposes the departing pither to an earned run that he has no control over and often backfires as the opposing hitters often do something productive anyway.He has given 124 AB’s to Urias Fermin and Saggesse while limiting Chrch to 63. Add to that Church is fast and an excellent fielder.
The Cardinals have won a lot of comback games this year, but Ollie rarely used one of his best bullpen pitchers in a close game in late innings, often is seeing a narrow deficit grow larger.
He benches multiple regulars because of platooning. One game Weatherhold, Gorman, Church because of a left handed starter. Brought them on late in the game but none of them produced anything.
This is my last rand against Ollie. But I believe in putting the best team on the field, barring injuries. I understand this is a rebuilding year but Stanek and Urias are not young guys.
