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8/12 Gamecrap
Is Worley fat, or is he wearing a uni that's three sizes too big?
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I wish you guys could see my shocked face.
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Apparently Tyler Greene is better in a low-pressure environment in front of 100 people because he's off to a pretty good start. He just lined a pitch to center field then coasted in to second.
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Where is everyone at?!
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Winning the World Series really obscured the fact that the Cardinals got nothing for Rasmus. I hate to keep harping on this, but left-handed pitchers with mediocre control are not guys you covet in trades.
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Walks kill ...
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don.rob11 wrote:
Walks kill ...
.....among other things.
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Winning the World Series really obscured the fact that the Cardinals got nothing for Rasmus. I hate to keep harping on this, but left-handed pitchers with mediocre control are not guys you covet in trades.
I will agree that the team dosnt have one good left handed pitcher on the roster. Skip might be the a real option.
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Lance Lynn's last five starts have included a .301 BAA with a 6.5 SO/9 and 4.5 BB/9. He's getting fewer swinging strikes and a lot more line drives. If the Cardinals insist he's not out of gas, then they're admitting that he's not a finished product as a starting pitcher.
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I didn't see much of the game, but I've seen enough of Furcal at this point. He's obviously hurting, and kudos to him for trying to gut it out, but he's not helping the team by going out there every day. It's not just that he's hitting .120 in August and under .200 since June. He's not playing defense. He couldn't make a 60 foot relay to third base to get Utley in the first inning, and he couldn't make a routine play to get Pierre to end the 11th inning.
I know Descalso was something like 0-for-18 going into yesterday's game, but I'd go with platoon of him and Jackson at short and tell Furcal to take a couple of weeks off or however long he needs to heal.
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The Pierre play good as if he was playing to deep considering there was two outs, a runner at third and a guy with good wheels at the plate.
Not only does Pierre have wheels but he is slappy mic slappson. You got to figure he isnt going to do much with the pich. Hell even Al stopped slobbering over George Brett and Bob Gibson long enough to predicted it.
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"Greene is 4 for 10 with a homer and 2 doubles"
He's gone from being the 25th player on the Cardinals to one of the best hitters on the Astros. I don't know how Luhnow gets out of that mess. They might be worse than the Tigers in the early '00s. At least the Tigers had some prospects and a seasoned general manager. The Astros have guys other teams didn't want. All Luhnow has really done so far is load the lifeboats.
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"You got to figure he isnt going to do much with the pich."
It was a good at bat. He wasted a couple of sliders on the outer third and he almost managed to dump one down the third base line. Ideally, you'd probably want to dust him with a fastball and then come back with the slider, but Browning's heat isn't going to intimidate anyone.
And letting Rollins take third base was as damaging as anything. You just can't let that happen. I can't believe there wasn't one person in a Cardinals' uniform who didn't prepare for that possibility.
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It is just the effects of having only two trust worthy pitchers in the pen. This team inst prepared to for extra innings or close games.
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"Greene is 4 for 10 with a homer and 2 doubles"
He's gone from being the 25th player on the Cardinals to one of the best hitters on the Astros. I don't know how Luhnow gets out of that mess. They might be worse than the Tigers in the early '00s. At least the Tigers had some prospects and a seasoned general manager. The Astros have guys other teams didn't want. All Luhnow has really done so far is load the lifeboats.
Well, the Astros presumably have an owner that will spend money, so they aren't really in the Pittsburgh/KC/Florida realm of being in peril. I like what Luhnow has done. Those players he gave up were pretty worthless, and at the very least he cleared them from the books. It'll take a few years to start developing prospects that can help them. I imagine they're in for a few years of 100-loss seasons, but this is what happens when you ignore the draft to the extent the Astros did.
They already have a solid middle infield duo in Lowrie and Altuve. Getting Lowrie was a steal, and not the type of move I expect from the alleged geniuses in Boston.
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"Greene is 4 for 10 with a homer and 2 doubles"
He's gone from being the 25th player on the Cardinals to one of the best hitters on the Astros. I don't know how Luhnow gets out of that mess. They might be worse than the Tigers in the early '00s. At least the Tigers had some prospects and a seasoned general manager. The Astros have guys other teams didn't want. All Luhnow has really done so far is load the lifeboats.Well, the Astros presumably have an owner that will spend money, so they aren't really in the Pittsburgh/KC/Florida realm of being in peril. I like what Luhnow has done. Those players he gave up were pretty worthless, and at the very least he cleared them from the books. It'll take a few years to start developing prospects that can help them. I imagine they're in for a few years of 100-loss seasons, but this is what happens when you ignore the draft to the extent the Astros did.
They already have a solid middle infield duo in Lowrie and Altuve. Getting Lowrie was a steal, and not the type of move I expect from the alleged geniuses in Boston.
The Carlos Lee trade was perplexing. It wasn't a salary dump because they're still paying a chunk of change. It was just a dump. He's not a RBI machine anymore, so it's not like they would have gotten someone else's top prospects, but they could have at least gotten someone else to pick up the tab.
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