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There are 51 games left in the season including today.
If the Cardinals play .400 baseball the rest of the way that will end up being a 74 or 75 win season.
I had thought 78-83 back in April.
It’s not the total wins that bother me in 2026 – it’s the fade after a strong start that leads me to not feel good about future seasons.
Instead of growing into the season and improving as it went along its been just the opposite.
I really think Liberatore is about as good as he’s going to get.
He’s pitched a ton at the ML level.
Just add him to the very long list of #4 and #5 starters / long relievers that the Cardinals seem to be so good at developing.
Do we really think there is going to be a hard cap OR a ‘hard cap’ that can be exceeded by paying a luxury tax? There’s an enormous difference between those two things.
If May is traded then Matthews moves in. If Dobbins is also being considered then yeah although if Romero is also traded Liberatore to the pen fills the lefty vacancy that would leave.
I think he might just be pitching for his rotation spot today.
2023, 2024, 2025, & 2026 – 4 years of sub-par baseball; each season a unique story of futility.
If any team needs there to be a 2027 season it’s the Cardinals. All their young players desparately need to play and not sit for a year.
Well, since the loss on June 11 to end that 6 game winning streak the team is 17-29 and have fallen to 3 games below .500
That is 6 weeks of mostly bad baseball.
I guess they aren’t too far off the pace of the 78 to 83 wins many predicted at the beginning of the season but the way they’ve gotten there casts plenty of doubt on the future.
They have not ‘grown’ into the season they have regressed and pretty badly.
So I guess a lot of this falls on two main things: A putrid offense and a putrid bullpen.
Bullpens can be built / rebuilt in a single offseason but I’m not too sure what to think about the lineup. There’s not a lot to hang your hat on there as far as thinking the offense is going to click with what they have on the roster and at AAA.
Would Gorman’s salary go up for sure? Is it possible that an arbiter might decrease his pay based on performance?
Seems like one year recently we were loaded with lefty starters and had 2-3 more in the pen.
we got ONE lefty in the pen now?
Svanson…..
I think it will be.
Likely an asset dump incoming; hopefully Bloom gets a good future MLB player back for each one traded.
It’s hard to say. They’ve been wobbling for about 6 weeks though.
Walker hasn’t hit a dinger in a long time. Will he get to 30? At one point 40 looked like a real possibility.
Will be interesting to see what happens at the trade deadline.
53-53. Back to .500.
It would have felt better if they had stared slowly and then improved to claw back to this point.
As it is….
I mean, maybe there was simply no one else he could use today in that spot other than Svanson.
I just dont understand why Svanson is in StL.
If he would agree to it, I think Herrera can play 1b and is a good enough athlete to play LF.
Other than an older player I don’t like the idea of someone being full time DH because I like being able to rotate guys off the field while keeping their bat in the lineup.
Well, the fade will make the upcoming trades easier to take.
They need to trade May, Stanek, Romero, and maybe even Nootbar and if they were solidly in the playoffs then it would be much more painful when it happens.
As it is – these guys are out of gas so they can get a look at some more young players and improve their draft position for next year.