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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Join Date: Aug 2017
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Politically Incorrect
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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From 9-2 with the best record in baseball to 13-14 after a wonderful 4-12 run that including being swept twice. Trying hard to push you Cards out of last place. Hahahaha Like that Tom Petty song: "And I'm free Free fallin' Yeah, I'm free Free fallin'" |
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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Paul Skenes is still in Triple-A despite having 34 K and 5 BB in 17 IP. I don't think the Pirates have quite enough to compete with the Reds, Cubs and Brewers, but they do look better when Skenes arrives to join Jared Jones. |
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Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Be nice if our 25 mil a year pitcher wasn't hurt so we could get this scrub out of the rotation. But everything Mo does is a disaster.
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Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Hey DJ, Hamas and anyone else that breakdown swings, was the hell has happened to Arenado?
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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But he had good plate coverage and a willingness to attack anything hittable and drive it. Made him an excellent RBI guy. Now he just looks older. And to compensate I think he's gotten MORE aggressive because, unlike when he was younger, he's not going to punish that first hittable pitch he sees. He may mis-hit it a bit so just in case, he's gonna expand his zone and try to attack a pitch he may not have in the past. And finally the frustrations of losing have him pressing and selling out for power. I don't think it's anything mechanical. I think he's gotten older, he's gotten frustrated by poor performance and as a consequence he's just gotten awfully damn aggressive in his approach. But if you want a far shorter answer - watch him play defense. He's not the best defensive 3b in baseball anymore. Or the NL. Or the even the NL Central. You could convince me that he's not one of the top THREE defensive 3b in the NL right now. And that's not approach. That's just age. His athleticism has just wanted. |
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Comfortably Numb
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Virginia
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Now, I think he has started to age (not uncommon for eyesight to start to change in your early thirties) and it's such a fine edge in baseball that you see him struggle. I really thought they should have tried to move him at the deadline last year. Some contender would have overpaid on his recent history. He could still recover, but the signs of decline are starting to show. |
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Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Thats what it looked like to me. Just age. A little late getting to balls he normally would. He seems to be just a little late on the swings. Aging comes for us all. Looks like its coming for him now, as far as his athletic career. |
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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Manny Machado? Ryan McMahon? Austin Riley? I just looked! *The 2023 Fielding Bible voting had Arenado at seventh overall among MLB third basemen behind KeBryan Hayes (1), McMahon (2), Chapman (3), Riley (4) and Machado (5). |
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Hayes is #1 with a bullet. Chapman as a probable 2, McMahon at 3 and maybe Arenado at 4 (I still think Riley is a butcher). Machado should be great but doesn't seem to give a shit about baseball. I think 7th overall is pretty harsh but even with a bounce back, I struggle to get him past Hayes or McMahon and Chapman has a history of elite defense in his own right. He's just not the guy he was. Happens to everyone. |
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Diablo Negro
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Maybe Arenado opted to stay in STL because he knew he could suck and people would still wash his balls unlike if he went to a new team. Lowered expectations make for an easy life. |
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Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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So far the openening day festivities on the pregame show are nothing but nostalgia because that's all this franchise has to offer.
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Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Skip got a bigger ovation than Oli
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