Our prospect just crushed Sheffield at the Futures game

Royals fever - catch it

Sorry bud, my teams crushing MLB pitchers.

Red Sox fan?

Close, but not quite.

He’s a stinking Cubs fan.

Rosenthal lights the Cardinals up on the Athletic.

Today’s press conference showed that the Cardinals once were considered a model franchise, is now just another desperate team.

Figures

He doesn’t believe in mid season firing?

It absolutely makes sense. Guys drop in prospect rankings all the time because of injury, because other players impress and move up the list. Marty Schottenheimer isn’t calling the shots on these lists, so injury can cause a guy to drop.

Alex Reyes even fell - he was a top 3-5 prospect who dropped into the back half of the top 10 and even into the teens in some lists after the injury.

Florial’s “3 season’s at A+” include all of 8 at-bats in2016 at age 18, 75 in 2017 at age 19, and 134 this year at age 20. That’s not a large enough to say anything about his stat line (other than he has good plate discipline and needs to work on his k rate - BB and K rates stabilize in a sample like that).

And judging prospects at extremely young edges and low levels by their statistics is faulty logic. Ask anyone who works on scouting minor league prospects. Sit in on a chat. They’ll all tell you the same.

Especially “toolsy” prospects like Florial - who had power grades of 55, 60 (FV) entering this season. Just about any write-up about him talked about 30 HR/30 SB potential.

He’s absolutely nothing like Billy Hamilton.

:clap: Thanks for the info.


I know your not a Cardinals fan but if you could come around and just talk about baseball related stuff, DJ and Hamas join in..... we'd all be smarter about the game of baseball.

He is okay as AA rival fan. He trolls and talks smack but at an acceptable level that it doesn't go being a douche.

Athletic blows

Rosenthal has cred with me. He doesn’t post shit for click bait. His info he posts is usually solid. It was more of an opinion piece on the state of the Cardinals anyway.

Pay no heed. He's a big fan of spouting off half-baked ideas with only a micron of support, like the idea that Justus Sheffield is "dominating AAA," when his K rate is below 9 and his walk rate is hovering around 4 in less than 60 innings.

Saxon's piece on Hicks/Norris and the quotes he got from Matheny are very likely what ultimately finished Mike Matheny.

The Athletic still has writers that do actual spadework, as opposed to the guys that work for the local newspapers that can't afford to risk alienating the front office and losing their access.