St. Louis Cardinals 2022

pruman91 said:

I just finished listening to "" The Best Podcast in Baseball " first published on August 17th , 2022 with Cardinals GM Michael Girsch and Derrick Goold..
It is almost 49 minutes long but well worth the listen ...........Entertaining and informative into all the different aspects of what being a Cardinals front office position is and how he came to be the 13th GM in Cardinals history............................I had not had much of an idea or opinion regarding Mr. Girsch , as Mo gets all the headlines , but after listening to the back and forth between him and Mr. Goold I have a better understanding of him and all the scenarios of front office responsibilities as it pertains to the team I love on the baseball front....

Girsch seems to be a highly intelligent individual and now I have a greater grasp on the behind the scene's goings on of how a trade is constructed and finished up...........

If you haven't listened to this podcast then I highly recommend it , and as I said earlier , it is almost 49 minutes long , but to me the time flew by as I imagined and tried to understand how , what and who make these trade deadline decisions......

JMHO.........................

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He may be the GM but all decisions and moves are made by Mo

illini0440 said:

He may be the GM but all decisions and moves are made by Mo

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That's what i tell my Harem...................You may be the NL's but all decisions and moves are made by pru..................................

(psstt, sometimes it's that way , most of the time it's not )..........lol......................I love having a Harem......................I really really do.......................

• Carter Chapley

First Pitch is scheduled for 6:45 at Busch Stadium.
The number five prospect in the Cardinals minor league system has been called up from AAA Memphis and could make his major league debut tonight against the Washington Nationals, though he is not in the starting lineup. He is expected to be at the ballpark before game time.
The 2020 second round pick would be the first of that draft class for the Cardinals to make his big league debut, beating top prospect Jordan Walker and No. 2 prospect Masyn Winn.
Burleson has been on a speed run of the minor leagues, where in 2021 he went all the way from A to AAA in just 100 games. At AAA Memphis, Burleson has been one of the best hitters in minor league baseball this season, hitting .331 with a .905 OPS, 20 home runs and 86 RBI.

Manager Oliver Marmol indicated he was excited and curious to see what the 2020 draft pick could do in the major leagues, and said he would get ample opportunities to prove himself. He will like play either corner outfield spot as well as DH.
Marmol described Burleson as "hitter-ish", and as someone who can give you a competitive at-bat every time, noting that he does not strike out often.
In order to make space on the 40-man roster and 25-man roster, Connor Capel was designated for assignment, and Dylan Carlson was placed on the IL with a left thumb sprain.

Cardinals lead the nationals 1-0 going to the top of the fifth.........Goldie gave the cardinals the lead with his 35th home run into the second deck down the left field line....

I am still so amazed that the cardinals acquired Montgomery or more to the point WHY the yankees traded him.......Still early in his Cardinals career but i would think that MO and the FO will engage some talks about an extension even with him already under contract for next season......

Glad to see Alec Burleson finally getting the promotion to the big leagues.............Maybe he gets to make his debut tonight as a pinch hitter or get the start tomorrow in the day game series finale.....

Could we see a Cardinals outfield next year of Jordan Walker in left , TON in center and Burleson in right ???????............Exciting to me as a life long Cardinals fanatic to see new blood being infused into the major league lineup....................................It really really is ..................................

yadi just doubled in the bottom of the 5th and I fully expected the ball boy as he went to gather yadi's equipment to have some oxygen for Yadi to help him catch his breath ...................Run Yadi run.....................................

How about John Daly?

BillyBob1 said:

How about John Daly?

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I liked those shorts he had on and the beard is elite.......................JMHO....................

pruman91 said:

I liked those shorts he had on and the beard is elite.......................JMHO....................

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Did you like the shorts or really really like them?

BillyBob1 said:

Did you like the shorts or really really like them?

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Sorry ...........I really really really liked them.........I added an extra really to compensate for my lack of one in my original wardrobe post.........I really really did......

pruman91 said:

Sorry ...........I really really really liked them.........I added an extra really to compensate for my lack of one in my original wardrobe post.........I really really did......

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That’s better!

An excellent example of baseball being a game of inches....The ball hit by Hernandez for the nationals was inches away from bouncing into the Cardinals bullpen for a ground rule double and not scoring Cruz with the tying run ....But alas, it was not to be and that triple spoiled an otherwise excellent outing for Montgomery............I am so glad we got Montgomery and his performance has me excited for the rest of this year and hopefully many years to come....

Read an interesting post in the Cards Talk nightly minor league update thread. DeJong goes to Memphis and finds his groove, then after 10-12 games back in the bogs, he is a total mess again. Hudson is sent down and immediately has a great outing. The poster wondered if this is due to the pitch clock. For both batter and pitcher, the player can't be thinking too much, not enough time to get lost in his own head.

I know one of the complaints the team had with Hudson was taking too much time between pitches. Last night, 8 2/3 IP, 8 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K.

Just curious what everyone thinks.

jmwillini said:

Read an interesting post in the Cards Talk nightly minor league update thread. DeJong goes to Memphis and finds his groove, then after 10-12 games back in the bogs, he is a total mess again. Hudson is sent down and immediately has a great outing. The poster wondered if this is due to the pitch clock. For both batter and pitcher, the player can't be thinking too much, not enough time to get lost in his own head.

I know one of the complaints the team had with Hudson was taking too much time between pitches. Last night, 8 2/3 IP, 8 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K.

Just curious what everyone thinks.

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I'm lamenting the sudden downward spiral of tonight's game first and foremost , but I think there is some value in this line of thought about the pitch clock.......
But to be clear PDJ and Hudson have not ever been the poster boy for consistency while in the big leagues.....Part of it surely has to do with wanting to impress and get back to the show ASAP , but as we see in PDJ's play , his minor line production was against lesser talented players and his true identity of good field - below the Mendoza line batting is the true description of his play this season and last season also.................
Hudson is a walk waiting to happen and I bet if he was honest to the question of control that he has NO IDEA where the ball is going once it leaves his grasp.....

I'm ready to move on from both of them and i think Mo & the FO is also.....JMHO

Derrick Goold
The trouble the Cardinals invited by waiting to generate any sustained offense Wednesday night and helping their opponents along with some misplays was giving the team with the worst record in the majors a chance to build a lead.
They still had enough to overcome it.
Absent for eight innings and momentary ugly in the eighth inning, the Cardinals stirred in the ninth for five runs to steal a 6-5 walk-off win against the last-place Washington Nationals. Tommy Edman drilled a double that carried over the reach of the Nats’ left fielder and allowed two runs to score and flip a game that seemed destined to be a dud. The Cardinals scored three runs in the ninth inning against Nats right-hander Kyle Finnegan with two outs.

The rally was kept alive by Yadier Molina’s RBI single with two runs that put the tying run at second base and the go-ahead run at first. Rookie Ben DeLuzio replaced Molina at first and sped home on Edman’s double for the Cardinals’ seventh walk-off win of the season.
In another superb start, Cardinals lefty Jordan Montgomery spent all of his 6 2/3 innings preserving a scoreless tie or protecting a one-run lead, right up until his final pitch. Washington hit that 98th pitch for a game-tying triple to chase the lefty from his start. The Nationals then spun three Cardinals’ miscues into four runs to pull away and create a cushion that was not tested until the bottom of the ninth. St. Louis native and former Cardinal Luke Voit’s 424-foot moonshot came in the middle of a four-run rally that pushed the Nats to the lead they lost in the ninth.

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The Cardinals have been known in the past as a never say die type of club and tonight solidified that description to a T..............................I am a die hard fan but this 9th inning rally was magical and shows that this season is more about winning a WS title as Yadi and Albert are set to retire.......

The brewers must be crying in their Malt 45's tonight as they slipped to 9.5 games behind the Redbirds......I like it .................I like it a lot......

I really really really really really do............................................

This season in MLB, Teams losing by 4 or more going into the bottom of the ninth were 0-817. The cardinals were the first to win in a walk-off comeback fashion with that deficit. Wowzers

I'm stoked about the Cardinals.........................


I really really am ...............

Derrick Goold

One of the Cardinals’ breakout prospects who hit his way into their plans for the coming season will be presented a run of starts to see if maybe that future is more immediate.
Alec Burleson, riding a .331 average at Class AAA Memphis, arrived at Busch Stadium shortly before game time Wednesday and is expected to make his first major-league start Thursday. With a stretch of games against right-handed opponents, the Cardinals see a chance to measure the left-handed-hitting rookie against big leaguers and determine whether he has a place on a postseason roster.
“My hope is to see him quite a bit in the lineup over the next couple of weeks, and there’s opportunity to get him in there in different spots,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “We’re built to be OK and get him in. ... (He’s) just a hitter, man, a pure hitter.”

A spot on the active roster opened for Burleson after switch-hitter Dylan Carlson underwent exams Wednesday morning on his sore left thumb.
Carlson’s hand has been bothering him for a month, Marmol said, and may have contributed to the young outfielder’s struggles at the plate. Intensified soreness led to an MRI taken Wednesday that revealed a sprain. Carlson has been prescribed at least four days without swinging and will miss at least 10 days on the injured list. In his absence, Tyler O’Neill is positioned at center field — and Burleson will get looks at designated hitter or the corner spots.

7th walk-off win of the season.

With some of the wins they've had this season, I don't know if I'd put it as best win of the season but it's one of the better ones.

IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:

7th walk-off win of the season.

With some of the wins they've had this season, I don't know if I'd put it as best win of the season but it's one of the better ones.

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Edman's double, possibly catchable by the left fielder (Alex Call?), reminded me, in reverse, of David Freese's triple past the glove of Nelson Cruz in the 2011 World Series.

dgcrow said:

Edman's double, possibly catchable by the left fielder (Alex Call?), reminded me, in reverse, of David Freese's triple past the glove of Nelson Cruz in the 2011 World Series.

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My favorite part of the Freese triple is that the only reason that Cruz doesn't catch that on the fly is because he had actually moved in a little more shallow because he wanted to be able to run in for what he thought was going to be their World Series celebration.

pruman91 said:

I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO CRAZY FOLKS.....GO CRAZY !!!!!!!!!

THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEW..........................................................................

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I went to bed. Got a surprise this morning.

As I hope we make a long run, WS OR BUST! Keep losing Toronto. Don't like the idea of a possible though slim chance of having to play 3-4 games without PG and NA.

Not sure anyone else would lose as much. Admittedly, LAD, SD and Philly haven't had to travel there, so we don't know who they might lose. (Other than TJ Realmuto, who makes no bone about not being vaxxed.) If the ChiSox wereto make it Dylan Cease wasn't earlier this year.

illini0440 said:

He may be the GM but all decisions and moves are made by Mo

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Man u just know about everyone and everything... Are you really Mr Rodgers

Big Jack said:

Man u just know about everyone and everything... Are you really Mr Rodgers

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Involving sports in the midwest maybe.....other than that I am useless lol