So much this. For everyone complaining about no moves, it was the right thing to do. I went into today fully expecting Gorman or Carlson to get moved for some shitty starter.

yeah **** that. Carlson or Gorman for Trevor Bauer or something similar?:BS:

That counts as a hit with RISP. No run scored but time to celebrate.

Cardinals scouting department must be really bad at their jobs.

Happ swings and misses like 70% of the time on high fastballs with a <.050 ISO in the upper 3rd and they just get him to swing at strike 2 helmet level and come back with a low curveball on the next pitch.

I think Mikolas was trying to waste it and it just didnt have the depth on the break he needed. It wasn't a truly bad pitch but its wasn't supposed to be hittable and it was so that's what happened.

Ya but there's really no need to even set him up. He was demoted because you can just feed that pitch to him one after the other and the worst that will happen is maybe once in a blue moon he'll bloop one down the line but the most likely result is that he will strikeout swinging. It got so bad last year that he just stopped swinging to the point of having the lowest swing% of any batter in the game by a mile.

Apparently Greinke was interested in coming to stl

That would have been nice

Yeah, sort of like Scherzer. That would have been nice, too.

The management of this team needs to ****ing die. :#

Depends on what was asked? Whats the rumor that we would have had to give up?

Houston had to give up a Top 100 player who is hurt. I'm willing to bet if we took on more salary, we would not have had to give up Gorman or Carlson.

A prospect overrated by our administration that wouldn’t ever amount to anything anyway

Who?

I dunno, pick a prospect that this group is high on

Odds are they’ve overrated them

Cardinals couldn't have justified it, to be honest.

To match the Astros package, they'd have had to give up something like Gorman, Woodford and Fernandez. And they'd have had to take on $100 million in salary.

The Cardinals can excuse doing one of the above but not both. Not with their system being as ungodly mediocre as it is and the team not really being championship caliber anyway, even with Greinke.

The Astros can make that move because they're loaded at the major league level AND have a farm system that is both deeper and has a higher end than ours.

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