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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jordan Walker is going to be a star for the Braves after Mozeliak trades him to Atlanta for a 35-year old reliever.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ForTheLou?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ForTheLou</a> X <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BravesCountry?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BravesCountry</a> <a href="https://t.co/KxRWVXkVy0">https://t.co/KxRWVXkVy0</a></p>— Andrea Katherine (@AndreaKatSTL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndreaKatSTL/status/1828631992834932792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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I'd still like to see Chaim Bloom get a shot.
He left the Red Sox a gold mine. You should check out their Worcester Triple-A team with Roman Anthony, Kyle Teel, Kristian Campbell, Marcelo Mayer. It's absolutely loaded. Check out Campbell, a fourth round pick out of Georgia Tech that is reminding me of Mookie Betts-lite. Like St. Louis with Witt, Boston's John Henry has gone cheap, but Bloom still managed to put together a strong player development core. I haven't even mentioned their big league young studs like Triston Casas, Wilyer Abreu, Ceddanne Rafaela. |
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Bloom can GTFO with everyone else. He also made a horrendous trade of Betts to LA. |
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Though the rumor is Mo staying AND a declining payroll blamed on fans "not being loyal " |
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They have a handful of 50 FV prospects. You know what 50 FV projects to be? An Average MLB player. You know how often those kind of prospects even achieve average results? Like 10%. |
Bloom was a Mo hire right? Sorry, but he's guilty by association. I want every bit of Mo stench removed from Busch.
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Pham just got DFA. Walker back up.
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That said, Anthony looks special, Teel might be damn good and Campbell looks like he may be the kind of player we hope Wetherholt turns into and they got him with a comp pick. With Anthony, Mayer, Teel, Campbell and Montgomery, the Sox have 5 guys who are probable top 50 prospects this off-season. Now is that 'special'? Eh...hard to say. If three of those guys are top 25 guys, it's pretty close. It's not the monster that Baltimore managed to put together, but it's a top 3-5 system pretty easily, IMO. Because it's showing a LOT of forward momentum. Guys like Montgomery and Campbell have been coming on really hard. I'll say this - I'd put it over any system in the NL Central. And Bloom really didn't get a ton of time to finishing polishing it up to his vision. There's a really good chance the next contending Red Sox team is built on the back of Bloom's efforts in rebuilding that system. |
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And he really hit well from the moment he got back to Memphis. Tells me that, despite his prolonged pause in St. Louis, some of those changes may have actually stuck. Usually a week of stasis will break a mere hot streak. But if there were genuine mechanical changes that led to his better play in early August, those would surface again when he got an opportunity. They did. Can we please play the damn kid? And keep Turner Ward away from him? |
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The Red Sox were ranked seventh overall in farm system rankings this month by MLB Pipeline. |
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He has done well age relative wise to the levels he is playing in but I don't see standout tools. |
Jordan Walker is 0-for-4 with three strikeouts today.
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WOW, so the win today against the Yankees is the first in 60 years.
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Didn't they sweep the Yankees a couple years ago during that 17 game winning streak?
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For the first time since 1964, the Cardinals have won a game at Yankee Stadium 🤯<br><br>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLB</a>)<a href="https://t.co/bPfZdDhliM">pic.twitter.com/bPfZdDhliM</a></p>— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1829969941711503391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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Their refusal to spend on pitching for a true #1 (Gray isn’t a#1 and is older than signing a guy under 30) and inept development is catching up to them. So they go like 83-79 this year. What ****ing happens in the off-season? More of the same shit with the FO saying they improved from last year. I’ll be at the game today wearing black for the funeral in the bleachers. |
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That’s the swing Walker needs! Hopefully they don’t screw him up again.
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When they've lost Ramsfan, they lost the fan base
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Game was fun to see the Yankees get their ass kicked but went against me wanting to see the Cardinals lose. |
Pages looks like a beer league softball player but has two homers today lol.
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Anthony is now #2 (behind Caminero, who's going to graduate) Mayer -- 11 Campbell -- 25 Teel -- 26 Montgomery isn't rocketing up like the rst of them, but he's moved up to 61. I predicted 3 top 25 guys in the update and damn near got 4 (Teel will move into the top 25 in about 2 weeks when Caminero graduates). I also said they probably have 5 top 50 guys and just missed with Montgomery not quite breaking into it. But when you have 4 guys in the top 25 and all of them are in AAA, it's hard to say that isn't a pretty loaded system. |
Man I miss those 2001-2011 days. Even when he came back as a shell of himself from that era, he still managed somehow to reach 700. He was my favorite player since Bob Gibson.
This version of the Cardinals are a disgrace to the uniform. Not the players fault. Front office and ownership is the root cause of our issues. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Albert Pujols on his favorite tee drill & objective, today on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLBCentral?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLBCentral</a>:<br>- Tee on outside corner (on the black)<br>- Drive the ball the other way, hit line drives; *NOT* hit the top of the cage. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shegone?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#shegone</a> <a href="https://t.co/rUlRcLGG1c">pic.twitter.com/rUlRcLGG1c</a></p>— Tony Wuench (@twuench) <a href="https://twitter.com/twuench/status/1831031433248596007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script |
I still think Laypeople and broadcasters are getting this more wrong than the overwhelming majority of high level coaches.
This idea that coaches are teaching guys to 'swing up' as part of the launch angle revolution isn't right. Launch angle is little more than a re-labeling of things that Ted Williams was touting 50 years ago. It's about bringing your bat on the same plane as the pitch. Not because you're trying to lift the ball necessarily, but because you're trying to stay in the hitting lane longer and that's only going to happen by coming at the same attack angle as the pitch (rather than trying to time your downward strike INTO the attack angle). That's what the 'knob first' approach creates. And that's what Albert is teaching here. You get the knob into the zone first and then your hands can make fine adjustments as you're swinging to change the angle of the barrel as it comes through the zone. Now I have no idea what the Cardinals are teaching. I think Mabry and Matheny had it COMPLETELY wrong and were teaching exactly what the most dour dissenters claim the launch angle folks are teaching. But the vast majority aren't saying "hit the ball into the net in the cage" - no, most of them are still teaching middle/pull, knob first, adjust to the plane. All Pujols is talking about here is a consistent first stage. On any pitch you throw a guy with that particular setup and attack, his hands are going to come to the and then its the finish and his hands/eyes that allow him to get on plane with the ball (or stay inside it, etc...) and drive it. Telling someone like Walker to focus on launch angle isn't telling him to hit pop-ups. It's telling him to stop 'chopping wood' like guys my age were taught. "Strike down on the front of the baseball to create backspin and loft..." just requires such pristine timing that it isn't going to work for most guys. But knob first to keep the barrel behind, then drive through the baseball with your finish is a 'true' launch angle discussion. And that's absolutely what Walker needs to be taught. If he isn't, you're going to waste all that talent. |
Here's a photo of Pujols on a HR.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWlTAJqX...jpg&name=small Folks wanna act like Pujols is saying 'swing flat and up the middle' but he's not. That's clearly not what he did here. He led with the knob and the hands came down right where he's showing, then you can see that he drew them in, opened his hips and swung UP to match the plane of the incoming pitch. More fans simply don't understand 'launch angle' much and so they've come to hate the concept. They're wrong. If you were to characterize this as "How Ted Williams was teaching guys to hit decades ago" they'd love it. And Bonds really revitalized it with the added step of actually 'looping' the barrel of the bat behind his hands as he brought them down to create additional whip. |
To anyone that will tell you that 'launch angle is hooey' -- show them this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRruuJEV...jpg&name=small There's simply not better visual representation than can be made of what the good launch angle guys are trying to explain. And this was from Ted Williams book "The Science of Hitting" published in 1970. This isn't new. It's not witchcraft. It's the right way to do it. Nothing Pujols says in that entire MLB segment actually runs opposite to anything the launch angle guys say. All he's talking about his his first movement. The rest of it...well, you can see by the photo of his swing. He does EXACTLY what Williams and modern acolytes of his will tell you to do. |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eight players from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/STLCards?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#STLCards</a> system have been named to the Glendale Desert Dogs roster for the 2024 Arizona Fall League season:<br> <br>INF Thomas Saggese (MLB) (No.4)<br>C Leonardo Bernal (AA) (No. 9)<br>OF Nathan Church (AA)<br>LHP Alex Cornwell (AAA)<br>RHP Matt Svanson (AA)<br>RHP Trent Baker… <a href="https://t.co/B2nyzVLwcj">https://t.co/B2nyzVLwcj</a></p>— Cardinals Player Development (@CardsPlayerDev) <a href="https://twitter.com/CardsPlayerDev/status/1838963674557399550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Lord - we're sending organizational chaff like Matt Svanson to the AFL?
Yeah, that says about what needs to be said about the state of our system. |
Gotta try something, since the organization doesn't seem too interested in playing in the MLB fall league anymore.
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Butters and Carey absolutely giddy that they can get to 81 wins...
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chaim Bloom To Take On Larger Role In Cardinals' Front Office <a href="https://t.co/68SK22ds14">https://t.co/68SK22ds14</a> <a href="https://t.co/QfsWsgUHlv">pic.twitter.com/QfsWsgUHlv</a></p>— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a href="https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1839690193638425081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Dude has plenary authority over all of baseball ops. HE chose that direction that led to the implosion of our player development system. And idiot assholes like me pointed this out EIGHT YEARS AGO. When the Cardinals were still winning 90-100 games/season many of us were saying "Hey guys...uh...do you notice that our minor leagues usually kinda suck?" |
It has not been a fun year. Burn all of management and start over.
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Can someone post the entirety of that article? My subscription with the Athletic ran its course
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I cancelled once before after another political story they ran and told them why, they basically hit me back a few months later with a $20 for a year offer so reupped for 1 year. Ended up cancelling again. **** that rag as I told them I don't go to sports news sights to read about politics. |
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No worries I sense Matt Carpenter like extensions for Arenado and Goldschmidt coming soon.
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Cardinals need to get on this one.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Miami manager Skip Schumaker told Marlins players tonight he will not return to the team in 2025, sources told ESPN.<br><br>He immediately becomes the top available manager and will be a coveted free agent this winter. News, free and unlocked, at ESPN: <a href="https://t.co/HOhTzfzghC">https://t.co/HOhTzfzghC</a></p>— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1839898844739387475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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So that's nice. |
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He starts to make shortsighted decisions to save his job. If we'd have moved on from Mozeliak when I wanted to, the new blood makes the long term decisions 5+ years ago that the honeymoon period allows him to make and we aren't in this position. This is all born of God-awful leadership and nothing more. |
Being in a situation where you're hamstrung by Oliver Marmol should be enough to cost you your job, but for some reason Mo is bullet proof.
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I remember a time when the Cardinals were the best managed team in the league. That time appears to have passed.
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I don't want a former Cardinal....period
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I cannot wait to never watch Goldschmidt again.
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Chances are we will still have Mo and Marmol for one more year.
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Save Our Cardinals?
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Whats the industry's take on Chaim? We lucky to have him? or who knows? no thanks?
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Haven't watched more than probably 30-40 innings spread over a few dozen games this year. It's just not worth my time. There's no reason to root for this team. |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cardinals To Part Ways With Paul Goldschmidt This Winter <a href="https://t.co/o9ndKphTSY">https://t.co/o9ndKphTSY</a> <a href="https://t.co/WxcOEn8UYX">pic.twitter.com/WxcOEn8UYX</a></p>— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a href="https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1840471376265712060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Watching the presser this afternoon, one thing really does stand out ---
I absolutely hate these mother****ers. Every last one of them. The fact that Bloom will sit up there with these pricks makes me hate him by association. You can all eat shit. All of the shit. |
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I don't understand why they wouldn't just promote Bloom and can both Mo and Girsch. This tippy toe around the problem is surely going to be a massive failure. |
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That's the dynamic. They aren't firing Mozeliak because BDW is checked the **** out, BD3 is a clueless child and Mozeliak calls his own shots these days. |
"We had 83 wins and this was an exciting product..."
Y'know what, DeWitt? Nevermind. Next year just skip the presser. If this is what you have to say, just shut the **** up. Go back to gumming Werther's and let your dipshit son go ruin your entire organization via open antagonism on sports radio. Man, I really loathe this organization. |
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Which I don’t mind. Personally would’ve hired someone else than Bloom as he’s guilty by association and he got a horrible return for Mookie. |
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They gave up quite a bit of prospect capital with including Price in the trade. And greatly reduced the number of teams willing to make the move because most don't have the financial wherewithal to eat Price's contract. So with fewer potential trade partners and a massive financial liability in tow, they weren't gonna get a haul for Betts. And frankly, Connor Wong is a pretty good player. But yeah, Jeter Downs looks like a bust. Sometimes when a deal is that mediocre from the jump, it says more about the player than the deal. I argued this very point when I said that the Cardinals didn't 'fleece' anyone on the Goldschmidt or Arenado deals. When all the trading team can get for their star player is a pile of mediocre prospects, that means NOBODY in the league was willing to step up with a top 25 sort of guy. I think his hands were tied in the Betts deal and the league knew it. So he just couldn't develop a market for him. That all being said - **** him anyway for hitching his wagon to these guys. |
I went to Albert's first game back so I could cheer him. I hope Goldschmidt's team comes to Busch next year so I can buy cheap tickets on the secondary market to boo the piss out of him.
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I couldn't quite get there. I'm not going to root for these guys, but I'm not going to go into the stadium and cheer for the OTHER guys either. And in the end, simply being there is a tick for Mozeliak and even if it was only showing up to boo his dipshit organization, they don't care. Asses in the seats are asses in the seats. |
Ultimately I think this is just lipstick on a pig.
They're going to cut payroll and they don't have a way to sell it to the fans. So they're going to call it a 'Youth Movement' and then tell everyone "hey guys, come see the young Cardinals and the return of our player development machine!!" It's really just nothing more than them spinning their pending payroll productions. Its so they can say "Hey guys, we told you we were going to invest in our minor leagues..." And then they talk about nothing more than their new facility in Jupiter, as though that has SHIT to do with minor league player development or the development of young players at the big league level. It's all bullshit. Every single bit of it. |
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I know his hands were tied because Henry wanted to cut payroll, but that doesn’t excuse the shit return he got. Either way, this is a signal that the Cardinals want to be more like the Rays and Brewers than the Dodgers and Astros. Investing in minor league infrastructure while reducing MLB payroll is a bullshit way of saying we aren’t winning shit and weren’t going to win shit and don’t feel like spending as much as we can to have a contending product. |
Farhan Zaidi gets shitcanned - Mozeliak gets a retirement tour.
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The other didn’t do shit. |
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Contracts are both up for Mo and the idiot manager net year, right? Why isn't this a situation where Dewitt hires this guy to do the deep dive into what's wrong with the minors? Who's the problem? What needs to be implemented. Then in 2025 Bloom becomes GM and he brings in his own manager and minor league staff thats on board with his modernization of the minors? I wanted Mo gone like 4-5 years ago. So him not being fired sucks big time but we wanted Pioli gone years before he was actually fired. |
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