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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
okay, so I could see Mo being scared of getting stuck with Murphy. He is a risk adverse GM as I can remember. To the detriment of the team.
You dont know how the chemistry would have been affected. You "think" it would be "this" based on the evidence of past performance and personality. And I'd agree, seemed like a low % guy that would cause an issue in the locker room. However.............. ya never know.
We are winning not because of adding top shelf talent but team chemistry. Teams, especially baseball teams get on winning runs so many times because of team chemistry. 2011 we were flailing around and we got this infusion of bullpen guys that meshed with the current players and went on a run. Boston in 2004 etc. etc.
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Boston in 2004 had Manny, Ortiz, Schilling and Pedro. Varitek put up an .870 OPS and Damon had arguably the best year of a near HoF career.
Let's pump the brakes on the "Boston was a plucky underdog that won with chemistry' conversation. Boston was incredibly talented and won because Julian Taverez piped a cockshot to Mark Bellhorn.
The 2011 squad had Pujols, Berkman, Holliday and Molina along with Chris Carpenter knowing it was his last ride and laying it all on the line. There was a ton of talent on that squad as well.
Adding more talent is only a mistake if the talent in question is Jonathan Papelbon or some other miscreant with a history of being a shitheel. Daniel Murphy is not that shitheel. He's a hardnosed ballplayer who's won in October and who's demonstrated a wealth of skills offensively that would've helped this team.
If Mozeliak didn't put a claim in due to concern over the clubhouse, then he'd better by God be right. Because if the extent of his backbone was firing a clearly inept field manager, then JD will be right and the Cardinals are poised to be an pretty decent also-ran for the next 1/2 decade or more.