:sulk: to much truth here.

DeJong is walking in Memphis....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stlcards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#stlcards</a> have optioned shortstop Paul DeJong to Triple A-Memphis, per <a href="https://twitter.com/katiejwoo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiejwoo</a>.</p>&mdash; KMOXSports (@KMOXSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/KMOXSports/status/1524113957618962435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The Pirates suck but thank God we aren't the Reds.

Im truly shocked they had the balls, especially with Sosa rehabbing.

Offense is still shit. 11 strikouts in 7 innings so far.

yeah, they let Carpetber bat .190 for 2 years before they put him on the bench.

Guess it’s an improvement that Dejong only killed the lineup for a year. But, why is Gorman still in AAA?

I heard the broadcast propaganda straight from the front office, we can’t mess with our defense by degrading two positions by moving Edman to SS. How about upgrading your offense? Hey, Mo have you seen the box scores lately?

Cardinals have a new relief pitcher - Albert Pujols.

And Pujols will finish his career with a 36.00 ERA lol.

Albert pitching was both awesome and horrible. Lol just a reminder that sports are suppose to be fun.

Albert pitching isn't even the weirdest thing in baseball today

Hope these kids live up to the billing. Others have not, Dylan Carlson, and many others come to mind.

Little early to be giving up on DC, who was never really viewed as anything more than a solid outfielder anyway.

It’s about time. I think Gorman can hit >.200. Seems like 1/2 our lineup is hitting <.200. Liberatore can pitch better than our worst pitcher. In what reality are they not on this team?

Impressed they are making changes

Athletic article from Woo

NEW YORK — For Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore — best friends since grade school and the top two prospects at their respective positions in the Cardinals’ farm system — the question was never if they would eventually be called upon to produce at the big-league level. It was only a matter of when.

That moment is finally here.

Gorman will start at second base in his major-league debut Friday against the Pirates. Liberatore, St. Louis’ No. 1 pitching prospect, will make a spot start on Saturday for his big-league debut. Gorman ranks No. 17 overall on The Athletic’s Keith Law’s top-100 prospect rankings and Liberatore is listed at No. 36.

“The decision (to bring up Gorman) was once we realized we had a playing opportunity for him, we decided, given his performance at Triple A, that it was time,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said in a phone call with The Athletic.

For both players, performance and opportunity dictated these callups. Gorman has been lighting up the Triple-A circuit, leading the league with 15 home runs, and Liberatore has demonstrated much better command of his four-pitch arsenal, holding a 3.83 ERA over seven starts for Memphis. Until recently, however, both players wouldn’t have necessarily seen much playing time with the way the Cardinals’ roster was constructed. The middle infield was crowded and the team had multiple designated hitter options, and with Jordan Hicks being deemed a starting pitcher at the beginning of the season, the rotation was full as well.

But things have changed dramatically for the Cardinals over the last two weeks. It started with the organization optioning All-Star shortstop Paul DeJong to Triple A on May 10. Rookies Juan Yepez and Brendan Donovan have emerged as everyday players for the Cardinals, and their defensive flexibility creates plenty of options for manager Oli Marmol to tweak the starting lineup each day. This became even more important when starting left fielder Tyler O’Neill, who is battling a brutal slump over the first seven weeks of the season, landed on the 10-day IL with a right shoulder impingement after Thursday’s walk-off loss to the Mets.

With an active roster spot available, and Yepez, Donovan and Corey Dickerson all able to play left field in O’Neill’s absence, the opportunity for Gorman swung open. He is expected to be the club’s everyday second baseman, with 2021 Gold Glove winner Tommy Edman sliding to shortstop. The two will be the predominant middle-infield options for the immediate future. Edman, who played shortstop in college at Stanford and in the minor leagues, has been taking reps at shortstop before games over the last week, but hasn’t played the position during a game this season.

“I’m excited for the opportunity and I’ll be prepared,” Edman said to The Athletic in a text message. “I’m very comfortable at both positions up the middle so it shouldn’t be a difficult transition.”

Goldschmitt going good

You guys didn't need to score 18 runs today.

Just 10 runs would have sufficed.

We pitched Yadi to allow your team to feel better about yourself. :)

Jordan Hicks sucks. He is erratic at best. He should be pitching in the minors or not at all.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The New York Yankees announced today that they have signed three-time All-Star INF Matt Carpenter to a Major League contract and added him to the active roster.</p>&mdash; New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1529913528244654100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

For what purpose?

~snicker

Take the 40 fly balls he hit 5 feet short of the track in Busch Stadium and turn them into 30 homers.

That’s the absurdity of that stupid short RF porch. It could genuinely make Matt Carpenter a productive hitter.

Honestly hope it works out for him.
That would be wild
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Then he comes back to Bush for a farewell season and hits .200. :rolleyes:

Wont have to stress about the shift I guess.

If working out for him ensures that he never dons the BOTB again then he can have a late-career surge that puts him in the Hall of Fame for all I care.

I simply never want him in this uniform again. The rest is academic.

What a huge waste of natural physical talent trapped in a mental midget brain.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Former All-Star pitcher Carlos Martínez was suspended for 80 games Friday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. He was released by the Giants and Red Sox this year, and played for the Cardinals from 2013-21.<a href="https://t.co/PTVPm8aE8t">https://t.co/PTVPm8aE8t</a></p>&mdash; AP Sports (@AP_Sports) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1530312926179074049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Tommy Pham bitch slapped Joc Pederson over a fantasy football beef last night:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...me-altercation

That's hilarious. I hope Pederson cried.

Because his walk up song is a Turnpike Troubadours tune and NYC needs exposure to real music.

Just make everyone walk out to New York New York

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Welcome to Yankee Stadium, Matt Carpenter!!! A two-run shot in a four-run 1st!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YANKSonYES?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YANKSonYES</a> <a href="https://t.co/KEzUaIEx2G">pic.twitter.com/KEzUaIEx2G</a></p>&mdash; YES Network (@YESNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1531780563555655680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Goldy is locked in

I wonder if people are still pissed about Luke Voit

Holy shit Cardinals just had one of the dumbest plays ever. Sosa could have scored easily and took the lead. Forgot to step on third.

the Cardinals base running has been one of the most positive and consistent parts of their game this year.

But that was the bonehead plays of the year. There wasn’t even going to be a throw home. :shake:

I wouldn't call it a bonehead play, but certainly a major physical error. He had to pause slightly to make sure he wasn't hit with the ground ball and then has to be thinking he needs to "haul ass" to score. Just the slightest hesitation like that can throw off your rhythm in catching the base just right on the inside corner. It's a blunder, but I think it was more physical than mental. He was amped up to score and it showed in his execution.

You watch Goldy scoring the go ahead run in the 10th and he is really gauging his steps before touching third...because he could... the ball was going to rattle around in the corner. Had he missed third it would be a bonehead play, because he had all the time in the world. Sosa had to think this was going to be bang bang at the plate after he had to hesitate. It doesn't excuse the miscue, but it helps explain what probably happened.

God damn, Yadi is bad

I was worried about Pujols bringing the team down. Yadi has fallen off a cliff.

He’s a guy you’d DFA without blinking but/for his organizational cache. C is a real problem. Knizner is looking overmatched as often as not as well.

Wonder if Yepez could pry Danny Jansen out of Toronto. Doubt it, but with Gabby Moreno seemingly ready to be promoted, Jansen could get squeezed out by Moreno and Kirk.

Went to Thursday night and last night's game. Great atmosphere as always and glad we could pull out a victory. Hard fought battle throughout the series

We were there Friday and then the day game on Saturday so we got the split.

Man, you just couldn't have asked for a better day for baseball on Friday. Sunny, 75 degrees, light wind blowing out to RF - beautiful day.

But Wrigley is still a shithole. Though Cubs fans seem to have become more tolerable now that they are again resigned to being irrelevant.

The weekend, as per usual, turned into an excuse to eat way too damn much food, though. I've took like 8 shits yesterday after gorging myself Friday and Saturday night. And of course breakfast at the Eleven City Diner before heading out to the park is always a real risk in its own right - but that place is just so damn good.

At the games for the next two days. Had the Thursday game too but a damn wedding in KC made me change my flight.

Pujols still looks like a bad ass in person.

Yeah, when we were in Chicago last week and saw him in person I had the exact same thought.

“Damn - guy still LOOKS like he can play…”

Definitely looks more formidable in person.

On that note - Zack Thompson was easily the most impressive of the young arms I saw. I wasn’t blown away by Liberatore and both Oviedo and Woodford looked as mediocre as ever. But Thompson had a fair amount of life on his stuff that I wasn’t really expecting.

During warmups. Looks like all Cardinal fans.

Yadi with a strikeout!!!

A scoreless inning pitching for Yadi lol

Been a terrible series in Tampa this week. Need to turn it around. We finally get our hitters going and now it’s the pitchers who are shitting the bed.

When you're running Naughton, Oviedo, Wittgren and McFarland out there to pitch a game you should probably expect to give up 11 runs.

It's just ridiculous.

Still blows my mind that this team went through what it went through with its pitching staff last year, added Steven Matz and thought 'well this is good...'

They needed to add at LEAST 2 starting pitchers and a 3rd guy who could be a viable swing reliever but still spot-start (who isn't some Japanese import who's almost certainly a Bond villain. Drew VerHagen has a volcano lair somewhere, I am certain of this).

How - HOW - are we finding ourselves in a position where Oviedo is on the big league roster again? He shouldn't even be in AAA right now. He hasn't developed a single bit in the 3 years we've been calling him up and every time he comes up its the same shit. And he has some of the worst body language you'll ever see from a pitcher. You know why? He knows he has no business pitching at this level. He has no idea how to get through an AB up there without hoping someone swings at a junk slider or blasts a slider into someone's glove. He realizes he's drawing dead and he's miserable. As any one of us would be. And next year he'll be out of options so we'll almost certainly end up DFAing him because we absolutely can't roster him for a full year. But we won't send his ass to Springfield to work on fastball command and sharpening up his secondary offerings like we should.

Wittgren is first on the team in games pitched and is rocking a 1.7 WHIP w/ 10 BBs to 11 Ks in 22 innings - befitting a guy with an ERA over 6 (frankly, it should probably be higher).

TJ McFarland is 4th and has a WHIP near TWO!! With an ERA over eight.

Just a HELL of a team you've built here, Moe. And it was just so damn obvious to anyone that looked at this roster in the spring. The staff was a complete shit-show and that's all it ever had a chance to be.

I cannot for the life of me understand how John Mozeliak still has a job.

I looked at who was starting last nights game and didn't even bother to tune it.

Yeah, there’s little utility in tuning into these ‘piggyback’ games because both the starter and the bulk reliever suck.

The only guy we have that could take that bulk reliever role and handle it adequately is Thompson and ultimately they should just start him.

This team is carrying 14 pitchers and maybe 8 of them are big league caliber. It really is embarrassing.

Honestly they’re better off throwing Yadi out there every 5th day. **** it

McFarland didn’t even know how many outs there were. They are spending too much time partying and or at the beach? 90% of the team haven’t even shown up.

Hudson and Mikolas pitched great games and gave us a chance to win. Maybe it’s a MLB issue but we sure could use some more consistent hitting.

Damn Rays.

Who would have thought running the same team out there as last year would produce similar results?

Right now we are super fortunate that the Brewers have shit the bed too. That's not going to last though. They really need an arm at the deadline but they are going to pump up Flaherty coming back like he can pitch more than 3 starts without going back to the DL.

Maybe they’ll win 17 in a row again to make an immediate unceremonious exit from the playoffs.

There's always hope! And as long as Mormol doesn't ask Mo for pitching or disagree with his assessment of the needs of the club he will have a job.

Sounds like Flaherty is back and starting tomorrow.

Great! At this rate he can probably squeeze in another stint on the IL before the All-Star break

Mikolas no hits thru 8

Don't Jinx it!

God Dammit!!!

That's lame, if Bader wasn't in he catches that ball

It’s like he has never watched a baseball game. Never talk about a no-hitter. :D

Flaherty was less than sharp. Hopefully he gets it going.

Honestly - I hope he gets run by the 3rd of every game.

There are few things I enjoy more than watching Flaherty get hit.

**** that guy.

I always felt that way about Mark Mulder. I can't stand that ****ing guy.

Still can't believe we traded Haren for that ****ing clown. :shake:

Had this very conversation this afternoon.

I think there was a unanimous consensus that we'd ALL rather have a beer or play a round of golf with Mulder. And nobody even marshalled a half-hearted argument to the contrary.

But when the discussion turned to 'who would you rather root for' things were a little more split. And not half-assed rooting, either - you'd have to buy the jersey and give him the Staylor/Frank Clark treatment. Full-throated adulation.

I reluctantly went with Mulder because again - I never took JOY in watching Mulder suck. I was mostly just frustrated by it and hoped he'd improve the next time out. That gives me just enough to root for him.

Flaherty, OTOH, I just cannot stand the guy.

I recall Mike Shannon on the radio one afternoon just totally going in on Mulder for not pitching inside enough. He said something to the effect of Mulder being scared to throw inside. I thought it was hilarious.

In fairness to Mulder - as painful as it is - Mulder wasn't a high 3/4 guy, especially not after he hurt his shoulder in Oakland.

When he was right, he could get his arm up enough to come inside. But when that arm started barking, his release got lower. And when you're a guy throwing 86 mph (no bullshit; that's what he was throwing in year 2 and 3 here) with a low release point, you really can't get inside against off-handed hitters. The pitch sweeps right through the hitting zone and will get blasted.

Mulder annoyed me, but in 2006 and 2007 he was just a sitting duck. Throwing inside wouldn't have done him any good. His best hope was to nibble away and hope guys got themselves out because coming inside was just a really good way to turn around and track another liner into the gap.

Why don't you like Flaherty?

Aside from always being hurt he is a pretentious dickwad who cant STFU about things he knows little to nothing about or is just flat out wrong on most of the time. He sounds like a 13 year old girl on twitter most of the time.

Edit: That's MY reason for disliking the guy.

Like politically? I don't follow him on anything no clue what he talks about.

He is a hard core SJW on social media. Like really really hard core and says some really stupid shit in the process. For example he called out the Ray's players who didn't want to wear the rainbow patch for pride month on their jerseys like it was an obligation.

I've tried to chalk it up to being young.

He’s the most aggrieved 6’5” mid-20s millionaire with matinee idol looks in the history of mankind.

Dude went to an exclusive prep school in Southern California with 2 other first round picks on his staff and claims to have been oppressed because he’s black.

Yes. He claims he’s been the victim of systemic racism. Please do take another look at the guy and tell me what’s wrong with this picture.

He is ALWAYS complaining about something. He’s just the worst example of your entitled, woke, perpetually unhappy shitheel.