Posturing.

What would really surprise me is if the Yankees don't go out there and look to bolster that #2 spot in the rotation. They have soooooo muuuuuuch organizational capital. But what they don't have is a genuine #2 starting pitcher.

If they can't get the Mets to deal across town, sure would seem to make sense to give the Rays a call on....TWIST....Blake Snell. I know folks are saying Archer but I would want no part of a do or die game with Archer. You really have to have far too much fantasy stock of his to understand, but Archer is a prototypical 'pitch well enough to lose' guy. No no no, 1000 times no.

But let's say the Rays want Justus Sheffield, Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar for Blake Snell. That's obviously a ton for the Yankees to give up, right? But why wouldn't they do it?

The obvious concern would be the short term hole they create at 3b with Andujar but that's an easy fix - go get Moustakas for the Loaisiga kid who just had a nice cup of coffee then you throw gobs of money at Machado to play 3b in the offseason.

You line up Severino, Snell and Tanaka in a short series and you have 3 guys with potentially knockout stuff backed by one of the best bulllpens in baseball, all of whom present distinctly different looks so you could scramble your short series opponent and keep their timing off.

I could see the Brewers making a move. They have a history of giving up prime prospects for rentals. This could be their year to win the Central and avoid the wild card. They have a good team already.

If I'm a Brewers fan, I'd like to see them go for it. Its been 30+ years since they went to the NLCS. They are good fans. They deserve to go to the NLCS and WS.

Munoz is absolutely close to an all-time bad fielder.

He's as bad as any infielder presently playing. And while he doesn't do the small 'braindead' things that Martinez does, he doesn't execute relatively simple plays on a routine basis.

Munoz is far far worse than you're giving him credit for. His range is abysmal, he has bad hands and his instincts are poor. Like I said - he isn't quite Martinez bad, but he's not nearly as far away as you're claiming.

And you may not like Gyorko, but there's no reason to like Munoz any more than him. While it's a small sample, your argument that Jedd 'does it when it doesn't matter' simply doesn't hold up - to this point in the season he's been the best high leverage hitter on the team; a 1.059 OPS in high leverage situations.

As for your argument that 'he'd be an everyday player if he was an everyday player' - I hope you understand how ridiculous that was to even type when you're talking about a team with Mike Matheny in charge. Jedd's been worth roughly 6-8 wins over his almost 1200 PAs in a Cardinal uniform. In what universe does that not qualify as an everyday player? Oh wait, the one where Mike Matheny is in charge and refuses to use his players well.

The fact that he's not playing everyday isn't an indictment on him, it's an indictment on Matheny. Moreover, it hardly seems relevant when you're using it to talk him down in favor of another player who isn't a major league starter.

Finally - why should we wait for him to regress when Gyorko is just as hot as him over the last 2 weeks and we KNOW Gyorko is a better defensive player? They've been virtually identical over the last month as well. Offensively there is next to nothing to support the idea that Munoz is a demonstrably better option than Gyorko. Not in the short term, not in the long term.

Defensively it's night and day - Munoz is absolutely as bad as you'll find on the left side of a major league infield right now. He's miserably terrible. He makes Aledmys Diaz look like Rey Ordonez. He's AWFUL with a glove on. Offensively they're a wash.

Gyorko deserves to play.

Molina is for shit this year, as our local cubs fan JD likes to point out, with stats. Molina is going to make the All-Star team. He got robbed for his first year or two because catchers seem to get grandfathered into the All-Star game. So I could see it as payback for the start of his career. But, I digress......

There is more to this game than WAR and stats. I have eyeballs. I watch every game. Maybe not the whole game, every inning. I skip ahead, get distracted with other things etc. But, he just doesn't impress me. I know its anecdotal and my opinion. Your responding with stats that I don't understand like yourself. I'm not the only one. I would wager that the majority of Cardinal fans are not impressed with Gyroko.

Never said Molina is shit. He's been about as average as average can get for a few years now, but you still talk about him like its 2012 and he's pushing for MVP honors.

I gave you one stat that's a damn benign one; I intentionally stayed away from stats for that very reason - didn't figure I'd need to parry something as simple as OPS in high leverage spots.

Your eye is lying to you. And if a majority of Cardinals fans are not impressed by a guy who has shown over the last 2 seasons to possess both GG caliber defense AND 30 homerun power, I'm disinclined to attempt to educate them because they're simply not paying attention. Most of those same fans probably thought spending $20 million/season on Hosmer was a good idea and that Fowler's dreamy smile made him worth a 5 year deal.

Jedd's a good ballplayer and if you hadn't already convinced yourself otherwise your eyes would support that notion.

Gyorko has a chance to be our best infielder defensively and offensively. The fact that he's got less than 200 ABs on the season is a fireable offense for Meathead.

https://deadspin.com/i-can-t-get-eno...wit-1827443647

Damn. This guy hates us.

You have had your own players that you hate, just allow me my own.:)

I think he might be a Cubs fan but usually trolls Cards fans in the past and they take the bait.

Either that or a butthurt Mets fans still pissed about 2006.

This is funny though:

That’s fantastic. Imagine your boss emailing you a ****ing fortune cookie slogan every night before you go to bed. “Dave, I want those TPS reports on my desk by 10 a.m. sharp. Also, character is not forged in the mountaintop but in the valley.” What a complete ****ing pud. I would purposely strike out in every at-bat just to own him.

Its just awesome that we have to interject race into every single ****ing facet of life.

Yea Fowler is unpopular in Stl because of his race. Just like Gibson, Magee, Brock, Ozzy, etc.....

Deadspin is the Buzzfeed of sports journalism.

Posey out of All-Star game with sore hip. Yadi in.

Before JD comes in with some kind of trash Yadi talk......

Posey: 285/367/412/780 with 5 bombs and 27 RBI in 313 PA
Yadi: 278/320/495/816 with 13 bombs and 38 RBI in 231 PA.