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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1783851" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-reoccurring-carousel-of-center-fielders-turns-to-dylan-carlson-can-he-stick/article_4c013fdc-1b45-5de2-a69a-a7f895ecb439.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>The outfield wall isn’t as deep and the turf isn’t as broiling or, obviously, as artificial, but looking out from the Busch Stadium dugout toward the position he played so well for so many years, Cardinals coach Willie McGee saw more similarities in center field than changes.</p><p>The route to remaining there feels the same.</p><p>“Shoot, our center field was 414 (feet), 385 to the gaps, but I don’t think it’s all that different, to be honest with you. You’ve still got to go catch the ball,” McGee said. “I think it’s just an athletic position. If you can play, you can play. I was told if you can catch the ball, hit .250, steal some bases, you’re going to play for a long time. You got a guy who can hit the ball, hit .250, catch the ball, steal some, run the bases well? He’s going to play a long time.”</p><p></p><p>Well, there is that difference.</p><p>Runs as the Cardinals’ center fielder have become shorter.</p><p>Dylan Carlson emerged from the trade deadline as the Cardinals’ current and preferably future center fielder, the latest in a line of young outfielders who have had center cleared for them by the Cardinals trading the guy ahead of them. In the coming weeks, Carlson will start his 50th game of this season in center, nearly matching his starts there a year ago. He will be the sixth Cardinal in the past 15 years with at least that many starts in two different full seasons. Four of the previous five were traded. No Cardinals center fielder has had more than two seasons with at least 100 starts in center since Jim Edmonds had his seventh in 2007.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em><strong>That’s a remarkable turnover for a franchise that could boast a lineage of five — that’s five total — steadfast, everyday center fielders who covered a majority of innings there from Terry Moore’s debut in 1935 to Edmonds’ departure in 2007.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><strong><em>“It was,” manager Oliver Marmol said, “steady.”</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>----------------------------------------------------</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>The bolded above just blew my mind.......5 CF's in 72 years in steadfast play............wow</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1783851, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-reoccurring-carousel-of-center-fielders-turns-to-dylan-carlson-can-he-stick/article_4c013fdc-1b45-5de2-a69a-a7f895ecb439.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] The outfield wall isn’t as deep and the turf isn’t as broiling or, obviously, as artificial, but looking out from the Busch Stadium dugout toward the position he played so well for so many years, Cardinals coach Willie McGee saw more similarities in center field than changes. The route to remaining there feels the same. “Shoot, our center field was 414 (feet), 385 to the gaps, but I don’t think it’s all that different, to be honest with you. You’ve still got to go catch the ball,” McGee said. “I think it’s just an athletic position. If you can play, you can play. I was told if you can catch the ball, hit .250, steal some bases, you’re going to play for a long time. You got a guy who can hit the ball, hit .250, catch the ball, steal some, run the bases well? He’s going to play a long time.” Well, there is that difference. Runs as the Cardinals’ center fielder have become shorter. Dylan Carlson emerged from the trade deadline as the Cardinals’ current and preferably future center fielder, the latest in a line of young outfielders who have had center cleared for them by the Cardinals trading the guy ahead of them. In the coming weeks, Carlson will start his 50th game of this season in center, nearly matching his starts there a year ago. He will be the sixth Cardinal in the past 15 years with at least that many starts in two different full seasons. Four of the previous five were traded. No Cardinals center fielder has had more than two seasons with at least 100 starts in center since Jim Edmonds had his seventh in 2007. [I][B]That’s a remarkable turnover for a franchise that could boast a lineage of five — that’s five total — steadfast, everyday center fielders who covered a majority of innings there from Terry Moore’s debut in 1935 to Edmonds’ departure in 2007. [/B][/I] [B][I]“It was,” manager Oliver Marmol said, “steady.” ---------------------------------------------------- The bolded above just blew my mind.......5 CF's in 72 years in steadfast play............wow[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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