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I will say I’m pleasantly surprised with this team, here’s to hoping it continues with a royal butt whipping of KC today.
They won the middle leg of the battle of the cellar. The rubber match tomorrow to fall back or extend the distance from the bottom.
I didn’t make that mistake CIF. I said they played well for three games but I was skeptical it would continue. It took six games to show their true colors. I really want to be positive again. It sucks knowing how bad they are right now. The schedule the rest of April doesn’t get any easier. So it could be and likely will be ugly before the warm days of May arrive.
Graffeco very clearly isn’t ready
Neither is the guy he followed. Wait on second, he was never that good but the Cardinals overpaid him based on one lucky year.
Say what you want, but this team played a great three games to start the season. It’s a long season, but that is what it takes to flip the narrative. I’m still skeptical, but for a weekend that was fun for once.
John “Groundhog” Mozeliak saw his shadow this morning indicating another long winter season for the St. Louis Cardinals.
In other news, who had the Mavs trading Luka Doncic on their bingo card or the trade taking less than a week to consummate? It just goes to show you can accomplish anything when truly motivated to do so.
Back to the boring winter that is the St. Louis Cardinals do nothing approach to “retooling” their system.
The Mets had no issue giving his front-line free agent of this cycle over 700 million dollars. Seems to me they aren’t interested in overpaying for Alonzo, who has seen a slow decline in his production metrics the last couple of years. That’s just being prudent. I’m no fan of Boras, but MLB needs to negotiate an off-season deadline on deals. There isn’t enough urgency to agree to deals and get business done prior to the start of spring training. That needs to change.
Lol, it was supposed to be it not just. Y’all are killing me with it lol. Some winter fun for a change.
On a positive note, we just avoided two months of any Mo transactions.
Don’t freaking jinx just, jj.
Everyone talks about the TV rights deal and the potential lost revenue from gate and concessions, but how do these rats stand to profit from their gambling LLC in BBV which was subsidized by tax payers. Not a dime of that soon to be realized money machine that BDWIII was adamant to have will go to support the product the Cardinals put on the field. But all is good on the bottomline and that’s all that matters.
Technically Mo is still the boss but in reality Bloom is the guy rebuilding the player development system and he is relatively new.
Bloom isn’t the savior some of you think he is. He failed in his last gig majorly. Again what makes anyone think these guys can get it right? Blind loyalty isn’t doing it for me.
Sorry to be so negative. I really hate the fall off. It was painful to sit in an empty stadium in August. I’d never seen it so bad in person. This thing is really not in a good place. It’s doubly different watching the money being spent by other franchises. The game has changed dramatically.
There’s a story on ESPN today about the top 10 pissed off fan bases. The Cardinals clock in #9 on the list and for good reason. In the story it says the Cardinals haven’t signed a free agent to a 100 million dollar deal since Matt Holliday. Say what you will about free agents but the top guys are usually those dogs you need to win at a high level. You can’t piece meal this thing.
The Cardinals had success and rested. As the saying goes what got you here won’t get you there. My problem isn’t rebuilding the player development system. My problem is who is charged with doing it. They failed, been failing, and that’s who you trust to fix what they messed up? That’s why I have very little hope this thing gets done and done right.
BW, I fully understand everything in your post. I just don’t buy any of what the Cardinals are peddling and judging by attendance not too many people do.
Talking about technology, we’ve seen post on here for years now making fun to the calculators and computer geeks running the franchise. What the hell else technology could they employ at this point? At some point maybe they should listen to actual baseball people and not the Harvard trained geeks. Doubling down on “technology” isn’t going to help one bit.
This franchise is indeed in a death spiral. It’s been in one for a long while now and it isn’t just a player development issue. It’s a rot from the top down issue and very few have the stones to say it out loud.
Can someone point to how much they’ve spent so far on this player development thing they claim they are doing? We’ve heard this song and dance before. They already know the budget for drafted players. That’s locked in. Same for international signing bonus pool. They aren’t really spending that much more on support staff. So where’s this great investment they claim to be doing? It’s laughable anyone still buys their bs, but i guess they do.
I’m still stuck on how someone is supposed to fix something (minor league system) they don’t control when the individual running the big league system can’t or won’t do his part to help. Those two things seem to be working in opposite directions. It’s a sad satire at this point. The best thing to do would have been a clean break from Mo to Bloom, but they couldn’t even get that trade right. What a mess.
I think the argument is that management isn’t going to try to compete in 2025, so why not shed some salary.
So a better question would be’why doesn’t management want to try to compete’?
They dodged a bullet by not extending Goldy a year ago. Why not at least make a token effort a fielding a 85 to 90 win ball club. If it doesn’t work, you shed salary at the trade deadline and regroup.Or how about this, take payroll as low as you can get it and SELL the team. It’s clear they can’t compete or desire to compete for the level of talent it takes to win at a high level. The game has passed them by and deeper pockets are at the poker table now. They need to cash out and quick.
