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At least it wasn't Heyward
Posey catches NL Rookie of the Year honors
I said all along that Garcia would have to keep up the pace he was on during the first half, and he didn't. By late July it was no longer credible to say he had an ERA in the low 2's. By August it had climbed up over 2.5, where it stayed for much the remainder of the season. By the end he was a very longhsot for the award, instead of the slam dunk that I had hoped for, and predicted if he had kept going at his previous pace. For some reason, midnight for the Cardinals pitching staff fell in middle August, and no one but Westbrook was effective.
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Re: At least it wasn't Heyward
I smell revisionist history. On August 23 you scoffed when Tk suggested that Posey might prevail over Garcia
Then on September 3, you declared the award Garcia's
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Re: At least it wasn't Heyward
Well-deserved. Despite my reticence to give props to a guy who allows himself to be called "Buster," it's no coincidence that team went from pretender to contender once he arrived.
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Re: At least it wasn't Heyward
forsberg_us wrote:
I smell revisionist history. On August 23 you scoffed when Tk suggested that Posey might prevail over Garcia
Then on September 3, you declared the award Garcia's
and he then allowed 9 runs over 14 innings and didn't throw again for the last 3 weeks of the season.
You are taking things out of context and overlooking one thing, which is that by that point I was clearly playing cheerleader to a club's dying hopes, and sept 3rd was one of the last moments for any optimism at all. I won't apologize for wearing my Cardinal cap a little longer than some on this board:
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