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For the first time in 20 years, #57 takes the mound for St Louis. And it happens at Wrigley where DK didn't take that Sunday start.
From the best I can tell, it's the first time one team has one three straight NL PotM since 2006 when the Phillies won three straight with Utley in July and Howard in August/September
For the first time in 20 years, #57 takes the mound for St Louis. And it happens at Wrigley where DK didn't take that Sunday start.
From the best I can tell, it's the first time one team has one three straight NL PotM since 2006 when the Phillies won three straight with Utley in July and Howard in August/September
For the first time in 20 years, #57 takes the mound for St Louis. And it happens at Wrigley where DK didn't take that Sunday start.
It couldn't go on forever. It's just a fluke it happened at Wrigley.How do the Cardinals fans on here feel about this?
Stepping into a major league clubhouse for the first time can be an intimidating experience for any rookie. For Juan Yepez, who joined the St. Louis Cardinals on May 3 after spending the first month of the season in Triple-A Memphis, he was about to join a locker room full of some of the biggest stars in the game. Fortunately, he had a friendly face waiting to greet him as he walked through the visitor's side of Kauffman Stadium ahead of his major league debut a day later -- Albert Pujols.
"You look around, there's all these future Hall of Famers we have," Yepez said earlier this week. "But when I got called up in Kansas City, the first guy who saw me was Albert. He gave me a huge hug, said it was good to have me here.
Pujols has been many things to the game of baseball: Slugger. MVP. Gold Glove winner. World Series champion. But in his final season, mentor is the role he is embracing more than ever. Even in a leadership-laden Cardinals clubhouse, no one commands more respect than the 22-year MLB veteran. Now, as a part-time player, Pujols has more time to spend working with the team's younger players.
How Albert Pujols is using his final season to mentor a budding St. Louis Cardinals slugger
When StL signed Albert I think most of us were looking at his ABs Avg and OPS. His greater impact may well be in helping the young players shorten their learning curve. Perhaps even teaching them how to avoid the pitfalls that occur so often when baseball adjusts to attack a player's weaknesses.
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I don't mind it, baseball(sports) is goofy in this way. Just happenstance that it happened in Wrigley.How do the Cardinals fans on here feel about this?
It is pretty funny.It's become a running joke on the Bally Sports Midwest broadcasts that they show Yepez and Pujols sitting next to each other in the dugouts and it looks as if Yepez is just talking Pujols' ear off.
I no longer question anything Edman does. This guy always seems prepared and has a plan. He reminds of Skip Schumacher but even more talented. This guy knows what he is doing. I would not be surprised to see him as a MLB manager some day.Our birds like many teams make pitchers we've never seen before look like world beaters, so why do we have Edman and Donovan first pitch picking? I know Edman's average on first pitch picking is up there, but this is a guy we need to grind. Got into their pen yesterday and a double header today, make him work.
With that being said, I'm now standing in my kitchen stuffing my face and these guys have the scouting report.
I think dodging the Gorman base hit threw his timing off. This caused him to miss 3rd. So he had to go back.What happened with Sosa base running at 3rd? Heard some chatter but wasn’t watching live.