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#571 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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He’s going to be a very good player with them. There was no reason for him NOT to be here. I said it from the time he was in AA on this very board - the kid is a ballplayer. And Shildt proved it. His development that year was fantastic. Then we fired Shildt and Carlson (and really the entire organization) fell to shit immediately thereafter. **** John Mozeliak and his pride. He caused all of this. |
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#572 |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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Pitcher of the Weekend
Quinn Mathews, LHP, St. Louis Cardinals (Double-A Springfield): 7 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 11 K. The incredible 2024 run for Mathews continued as he put up another dominant outing in the Texas League and raised his MiLB leading strikeout total to 168. Seen as a limited ceiling, advanced college arm when the year began, he’s now in the conversation as one of the elite arms in minor league baseball. Mathews’ most recent stretch has been the best of a stellar year, allowing just 2 earned runs in his past 24 innings of work. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/p...ugust-18-2024/ |
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#573 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Walker back down to Memphis.
Wait - taking a streaky player who has never demonstrated a platoon split of any sort and calling him up to platoon didn't work? What were the ****ing odds?!?!?!? Nobody with a brain in their heads thought that was a smart decision. Alas, the combined brainpower of the Cardinals front office couldn't power an Easy-Bake Oven. |
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#574 |
Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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As soon as they trade Walker he'll turn into Barry Bonds.
This organization could probably find a way to turn Juan Soto into Jeff Francoeur. |
Posts: 16,356
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#575 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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I genuinely believe there's MVP caliber skills in there for the organization that can unlock them.
It's not this one. And he's not an EASY fix. You can't just trade him anywhere and see him succeed. But if they trade him to a team with a good staff, they'll get a shitload out of him. They won't, though. Mozeliak simply can't. Not until he's burned through all his options and run his value into the core of the earth. You try to land that plane until it hits a mountain if you're John Mozeliak. And if they fire Mozeliak and broom EVERYONE (and I mean down to ****ing Rookie ball), they'll find someone that can get him turned around. But it's not this organization as currently constructed. They simply have no idea what they're doing. |
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#576 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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By the same dumbshits that brought him in the first place.
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#577 |
Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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LOL Gorman these morons can't do anything right
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#578 |
Consuming CP souls
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: U.S.A.
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Walker would be a ALMVP candidate in Tampa in 2 years
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#579 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Remember when we signed Holland 5 years ago and the dude showed up at about 3 bills? You KNEW he’d ****ing suck. It makes me wonder if they ever lay eyes on these guys before throwing a contract their way. |
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#580 | |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Up and sits him against LH pitching and bats against RH pitching. Am I right? I thought I heard that on a broadcast this weekend. |
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#581 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
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So they brought up Walker only to give him all of 12 ABs while they waiting for Carpenter to return? Baffling as usual.
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