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Re: Former Cardinals Watch
If you replace Bader with Pham, Goldschmidt with Voit, and add lynn into the rotation, the bWAR increase is 4.0 ... enough to put them in 1st place.
Not that it would work out like that, but just saying. It would also take a couple million off the books.
Not that it would work out like that, but just saying. It would also take a couple million off the books.
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Breyvic Valera came to the plate with a man on 2nd and 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th last night. His team trailed by a run. And he hit a walkoff double. Think about that.
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Except that Voit would be on the bench or in the minors and Carpenter or JMart would be playing 1B. I am glad that Voit is finding some success but it was pretty obvious he was not going to get regular playing time in St. Louis.AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:If you replace Bader with Pham, Goldschmidt with Voit, and add lynn into the rotation, the bWAR increase is 4.0 ... enough to put them in 1st place.
Not that it would work out like that, but just saying. It would also take a couple million off the books.
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Agreed. Musical chairs with Carpenter is more of the issue here to me. Plus Gallegos is one of Mo's better moves in the past half decade.CardsofSTL wrote:Except that Voit would be on the bench or in the minors and Carpenter or JMart would be playing 1B. I am glad that Voit is finding some success but it was pretty obvious he was not going to get regular playing time in St. Louis.AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:If you replace Bader with Pham, Goldschmidt with Voit, and add lynn into the rotation, the bWAR increase is 4.0 ... enough to put them in 1st place.
Not that it would work out like that, but just saying. It would also take a couple million off the books.
I knew he wouldn't repeat last year's 5 WAR season at third base. I know WAR doesn't really shift with infielders, especially ones who are below average at 3B and average at 1B defensively. But making him play that position plus relying on similar offensive output was what I questioned. He was already bad at it before, now he's older and still bad at it and has to work extra hard on the hot corner, and taking focus off the work he needs on his batting side.
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Oscar Mercado is up to an .871 OPS with 4 homers and 6 steals in 30 games so far with Cleveland. I'll give a free subscription to GRB Classic (tm)* to anyone who can name either player we got in exchange for Mercado without looking it up.
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Re: Former Cardinals Watch
How about a lineup of traded Cards? This is just off the top of my head, don’t have time to do research right now so add to / fill in the blanks.
C Kelly
1B Voit
2B
SS
3B
LF Grichuk
CF Pham
RF Piscotty
OF Mercado
OF Sierra
P Weaver
P Alcantara
P Gallen
C Kelly
1B Voit
2B
SS
3B
LF Grichuk
CF Pham
RF Piscotty
OF Mercado
OF Sierra
P Weaver
P Alcantara
P Gallen
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Re: Former Cardinals Watch
SS could be Aledmys Diaz, who has an .831 OPS in part-time with the Astros.Radbird wrote:How about a lineup of traded Cards? This is just off the top of my head, don’t have time to do research right now so add to / fill in the blanks.
C Kelly
1B Voit
2B
SS
3B
LF Grichuk
CF Pham
RF Piscotty
OF Mercado
OF Sierra
P Weaver
P Alcantara
P Gallen
Another SP would be Marco Gonzalez and his almost perfectly league average 99 ERA+.
3B, of course, is Brett Wallace. RIP Brett Wallace.
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Re: Former Cardinals Watch
David Freese at 3B too maybe and Diaz at SS. Valera at 2B? Eliezer Alvarez has no service time yet. We've sucked at developing MIs. Depends on if the rules are including controlled years prior to trade or not. Josh Lucas and Sam Tuivailala as RPs.Radbird wrote:How about a lineup of traded Cards? This is just off the top of my head, don’t have time to do research right now so add to / fill in the blanks.
C Kelly
1B Voit
2B
SS
3B
LF Grichuk
CF Pham
RF Piscotty
OF Mercado
OF Sierra
P Weaver
P Alcantara
P Gallen
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That tells me the Cards have still been very good at drafting and acquiring players, since they don't have room on the roster for these players.Big Amoco Sign wrote:David Freese at 3B too maybe and Diaz at SS. Valera at 2B? Eliezer Alvarez has no service time yet. We've sucked at developing MIs. Depends on if the rules are including controlled years prior to trade or not. Josh Lucas and Sam Tuivailala as RPs.Radbird wrote:How about a lineup of traded Cards? This is just off the top of my head, don’t have time to do research right now so add to / fill in the blanks.
C Kelly
1B Voit
2B
SS
3B
LF Grichuk
CF Pham
RF Piscotty
OF Mercado
OF Sierra
P Weaver
P Alcantara
P Gallen