Hard agree.Fat_Bulldog wrote:Just skip Wainwright when you have the opportunity. Like today for example.
These are reasons why Matheny is such an inferior manager.
Hard agree.Fat_Bulldog wrote:Just skip Wainwright when you have the opportunity. Like today for example.
Fine. DFA him and bring up Flaherty.dmarx114 wrote:Guys, if Waino is in the rotation, he can't be skipped like some 22 year old number 5 starter. You don't treat an all-time great/$20 million a year/leader of your team player that way.
He won't be DFA'd. He would just be DL'd with a fake injury or sent to the bullpen if he can't contribute as a starter.Fat_Bulldog wrote:Fine. DFA him and bring up Flaherty.dmarx114 wrote:Guys, if Waino is in the rotation, he can't be skipped like some 22 year old number 5 starter. You don't treat an all-time great/$20 million a year/leader of your team player that way.
File Waino's use/role decision under [expletive] I don't care about.dmarx114 wrote:He won't be DFA'd. He would just be DL'd with a fake injury or sent to the bullpen if he can't contribute as a starter.Fat_Bulldog wrote:Fine. DFA him and bring up Flaherty.dmarx114 wrote:Guys, if Waino is in the rotation, he can't be skipped like some 22 year old number 5 starter. You don't treat an all-time great/$20 million a year/leader of your team player that way.
But more to the point, Waino's use/role is not solely a Matheny decision. This goes up to Mo.
He was great 2009-2014. Since then? He could have been easily replaced by better younger talent.dmarx114 wrote:Guys, if Waino is in the rotation, he can't be skipped like some 22 year old number 5 starter. You don't treat an all-time great/$20 million a year/leader of your team player that way.
You kidding? He's the highest paid pitcher. NO high paid Cardinal is sat for a better, younger, lower paid player with an upside. That's just the Cardinal way. (see Matt Holliday)Fat_Bulldog wrote:Just skip Wainwright when you have the opportunity. Like today for example.
We sacrificed how many wins due to this dumb logic, I wonder?Medwick's_Ghost wrote:You kidding? He's the highest paid pitcher. NO high paid Cardinal is sat for a better, younger, lower paid player with an upside. That's just the Cardinal way. (see Matt Holliday)Fat_Bulldog wrote:Just skip Wainwright when you have the opportunity. Like today for example.
Notice the lack of response to your and my posts? You should have been around here 3 years ago when I made this point on Holliday, and last year on the slow, bad baserunning, below average fielding, .240 hitting walk machine that's our highest paid infieder, Carpenter.Big Amoco Sign wrote:We sacrificed how many wins due to this dumb logic, I wonder?Medwick's_Ghost wrote:You kidding? He's the highest paid pitcher. NO high paid Cardinal is sat for a better, younger, lower paid player with an upside. That's just the Cardinal way. (see Matt Holliday)Fat_Bulldog wrote:Just skip Wainwright when you have the opportunity. Like today for example.
Holliday was barely above replacement his last two seasons with the Cardinals and Wainwright has been awful for awhile. FIP trend climbing up to 4.40 now. In four seasons he's given us basically what he gave us for 2014 alone.