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Answering Your Cardinals Questions! · Kenny Wallace Media

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What's up everybody? Charlie Marlow here jumping on,
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going to continue to answer your Cardinals questions.
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Last week, Brendan Schaefer and I answered a bunch of them, but
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there's a ton. So I figured I'll answer some
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more and then later this week, Brendan and I will get on again
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and hopefully answer all the questions.
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Also, I'm testing out this new microphone here, so hopefully it
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sounds good, but let's get right to it.
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All right. Hope everybody had a great
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weekend. I'm just going to pick up where
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we left off last week. OK, I'm going bottom to top.
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This is from Pablo Hermes. He says 4 new statues should be
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created soon. Albert, Roland, Yati and Wayno.
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What pose would you use for each?
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Where do you place them? First of all, I think you're
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going to have these statues kind of where all the other the
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smaller statues are. I guess that would be what?
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That's third baseline, up near up near the left field, corner
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of Busch Stadium. So, OK, let's look at the
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different poses. First of all, I think now maybe
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you don't agree with me. I think Yachty and Wayno's
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should be together. I think that should be the hug
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after the final out of the 2006 World Series.
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That would be cool. Remember, also correct me if I'm
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wrong. Don't you only get a statue if
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you're in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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That's where we all love Wayno, but he's probably not going to
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be a baseball Hall of Famer. Does he get a statue?
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He probably deserves 1, so maybe you have the statue he and yati
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hugging. I like that.
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This is just right off the top of my head.
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I haven't put too much thought into this.
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Roland is just such a kind of old school, just a hard hat
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baseball player. I always thought of Roland when
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he hits the bomb, he hits the home run.
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He puts his head down and just runs.
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Now, I don't know if you can make a compelling statue of a
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person running with his head down, but that's what I think of
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when I think of Scott Rowland. I think Albert is the tough one.
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Albert, so many big moments, so many home runs.
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Obviously the Brad Lidge 700 homers, but I feel like Albert
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has to be hitting. He has to have a bat in his
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hand, maybe kind of that Albert pose with the bat where he's
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finished his swing. He's about ready to kind of
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throw it a little bit. Not a bat flip that.
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That's the first thing that comes to mind for me.
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What do you guys think? I think that's a good, fun
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question to start it off. All right, Putty chains.
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Does the extreme love that Randy Flores gets from Cardinals fans?
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Does that make sense? He has been drafting for eight
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years and is responsible for the foundation of a team that was
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sixth worst in MLB. He seems to have gotten a lot of
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mileage out of a few good draft picks.
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I think overall Randy Flores has been very good with the draft.
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You also in this conversation we do have to discuss the fact that
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for years the Cardinals drafted and developed so much of their
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own pitching. We haven't seen that near to the
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levels they know that in recent years.
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Randy Flores it seems doesn't seem.
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I mean it shows has shifted to some of the high end position
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players, especially the high school guys and if you look at
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some of them already bearing a lot of fruit, you can go back to
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Nolan Gorman, Jordan Walker, Mason, win a high school guy.
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You look at that one draft the COVID draft where you have look
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only what 5 rounds you get, Jordan, Walker, Mason win Tink.
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Hence those are all high school guys.
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Hopefully Tink hence works out. I think it's a fair question
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though. They have.
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They have a lot of high end position players they need to
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get back to, to basically stockpiling pitching year after
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year, to have guys at the upper levels who can come in, help in
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the bullpen, give you a start. That's what the Cardinals have
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been lacking the last several years, in my opinion.
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That's what they had back in the day when they're making those
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runs 11 to 15. And it wasn't just drafted guys
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but just think of Carlos Martinez.
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Think of I mean relievers, Kevin Seegerist, Trevor Rosenthal,
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even a Seth Manis. But Lance Lynn, Michael Walker,
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Shelby Miller just churning out pitching seemingly year after
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year Cardinals need to get back to that.
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Also from what I've seen the the Cardinals current minor league
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system isn't in fantastic shape. So that's a that's a fair
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question. Also the future of Randy Flores.
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I think for a while we thought could he be the guy who who is
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the succession plan to John Mozalak.
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You got Michael Gershar there and now of course you have heim
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Bloom as well waiting in the wings.
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OK, Gray Bush 314 says. Had we signed Lance Lynn after
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the 22 season, wouldn't we all be ecstatic knee surgery and
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spring training that year and struggled his first handful of
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start. His last twelve starts had a
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2.45 ERA. 23 was an anomaly for Lynn.
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If Lynn pitches closer to career norm, a rotation will be a plus.
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Yeah, overall I agree. If you look at Lance Lynn's
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career ERAI think it's is it pushing for.
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I'll look this up right now. I think it's like 3.8 something.
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Last year was obviously really bad for Lance Lynn.
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Let's check it out because my memory is not as good as it once
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was. Lance Lynn?
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Yeah. Career ERA 3.74.
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So last year 5.73. The year before, 20223.99,
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really good, 20212.69, Yeah, I don't think Lance Lynn is going
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to be nearly as bad as he was last year pushing a 6 ERA if he
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can get anywhere close to four. So the 3.99 he was in 2022, the
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3.74 that he is for his career. I do think Cardinals fans will
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be ecstatic about that now as he gets older.
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Look, is it more and I'm just focusing on ERA here.
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You know, if it's a 4243, even up to 4-5, I don't think we can
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complain that much. But if he throws 180 innings, if
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he's striking out about a batter per nine innings, so obviously 9
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per nine innings. So I'm talking about a strikeout
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per innings pitched. If he's close to that, I think
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that's a pretty Dang good signing for a one year deal for
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the money involved. All right, Illini Frank, talent
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evaluation. No one is 100%, but the MO
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administration has made some significant misses in assessing
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their talent, 100%, and we've talked about this a million
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times. Obviously, with the outfielders
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trading away Randy Rosarena, we bring up Adolis Garcia.
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You have somebody like Elaine Thomas, not so much, that's the
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Jon Lester deal and and look, you, you can nitpick all of
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those, but to me it's more about a bunch of a bunch of misses.
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We'll see what happens with Tyler O'Neill.
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That one was a little different because I feel like that
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relationship got to the point where it was irreparable with
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the Cardinals. But just big picture, the fact
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that a lot of these outfielders have left and been really good.
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Now some other teams passed on them as well, but it's more
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about the Cardinals either not giving these guys the correct
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opportunities or picking other guys over them.
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Like if you go back in the day when they when they essentially
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didn't give Randy Rosarena a chance.
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Adolis Garcia, a little bit of a different discussion.
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He was a late bloomer and a lot of these guys are.
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But at the time the Cardinals were going with Tyler O'Neill
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and Harrison Bader. You understand why they made
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those choices. But they were, especially for
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Rosarina, the wrong, the wrong choices there.
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Even somebody like Dylan Carlson where it now seems like they've
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they've held on to him too long, it appears where he doesn't have
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the trade value he would have had three years ago.
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Remember a couple years ago. We're kind of joking and and
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nobody knows if this was really true.
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But if the Cardinals were ever really in serious on Juan Soto
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and if if Dylan Carlson was the guy the Cardinals wouldn't part
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with, we'll look now a year and a half or so later.
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Dylan Carlson is the 4th outfielder and if he has a bad
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season he's going to have zero trade value for the Cardinals
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and then so pitching wise Illini Frank was asking about talent
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evaluation. This also it all goes back to
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the other trade that we talk about time and time again.
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It's Randy Rosarina that trade. But the other one is Marcelo
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Zuna, where look, you did draft or and or develop couple really
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good pitchers. Sandy Alcantra, Zach Galen.
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But then you traded them away and those guys blossomed and
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bloomed in other organizations. So yes, you got drafting and
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developing, but also you have to know who's in house.
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You have to know your guys better than anybody.
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John Mozalak said that right after Randy Rosarena first went
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crazy in that postseason a couple years ago.
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That's the first thing he said in his press conference.
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We need to know our guys in house better than anybody else,
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OK? Liam says.
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I don't see how this roster is any better than last year's.
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This is an interesting question or comment.
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I'm going to do a whole video on this coming up this week because
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I got another, another comment that I thought was really
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interesting. So first of all, position
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players essentially the same. I think we can agree on that for
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the most part. It's all about the pitching,
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pitching, pitching, pitching, as we know.
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Now this other comment, and I'll grab it for you this week, but
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essentially, as I've been saying, I think the Cardinals
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have improved. This person basically said,
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well, how have they improved if if in the bullpen you're saying,
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OK, they they add Andrew Kittredge and Keenan Middleton,
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but they're also replacing Jordan Hicks and Chris Stratton
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and start to look at the numbers, is that really that
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much of an upgrade and then go also to starting rotation?
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And again, I'll really get into this later this week, but I
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think it's an interesting point. Look at the the pitching they've
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added. Let's just let's just kind of
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replace on paper. OK.
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So we have Lance Lynn, we have Kyle Gibson, we have Sonny Gray.
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And they're essentially replacing from last year, Jordan
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Montgomery, Jack Flaherty and Adam Wainwright.
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So just kind of superficially, let's think about this.
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Jordan Montgomery was a freaking stud.
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OK, so now Sonny Grey was better last year, but I think it's fair
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to say Sonny Grey, Jordan Montgomery pretty, pretty close.
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Top end guys, ones, twos, whatever you want to call them.
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And then I think it's also fair to say, look at Jack Flaherty's
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numbers with the Cardinals. I know he fell off with the
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Orioles, but Jack Flaherty's numbers with the Cardinals, Were
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they that much different than Kyle Gibson's numbers with the
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Orioles? Except for the win loss record.
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Kyle Gibson had a really good win loss record, but I think
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it's fair to say that's kind of similar.
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And this also now innings are going to be important here.
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Innings are going to be important.
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We can't just focus on ERA, but that's also where I hate to
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always harp on this. Adam Wainwright was just so
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awful last year. Now he's pushing what, 7 1/2 ERA
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lanceland was pushing a 6 ERA last year.
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Let's be real about this. Adam Wainwright isn't in the
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rotation towards the middle till the end of last year if the
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Cardinals aren't out of the race and if he's not going for 200
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wins. So it's pretty easy to upgrade
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from what what Adam Wainwright gave you last year, Lance Lynn,
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if he can push that 4.5 ERA, whatever it is, that's a
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significant, significant upgrade from Adam Wainwright, 7 1/2 ERA,
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whatever it was. Especially he's giving you 3-4
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inning starts and some of those. But I think when you kind of
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look at it more so on paper and you say, OK, Monty and Sonny
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Gray kind of the same Flaherty and Cal Gibson, kind of the same
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huge upgrade you would think from Lynn, from Wayno to Lynn.
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But I think it's an interesting question.
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So I understand why somebody like Liam says I don't see this
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roster is any better than last year's.
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I think that's a fairpoint, even though I disagree.
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I'm trying to also move around, so I'm covering up this light
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behind me. OK, Vance Lloyd.
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Hot take team starts off on fire.
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NATO, Goldie and Gorman lead the league in bombs after the first
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40 games. So NATO, Goldie, and Gorman all
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are up there leading the league in bombs after the first 40
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games. I would love if that happened.
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Doubt it. Remember Cardinals?
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You know early in the season bad weather guys usually get going
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as it gets warmer into the summer. 1st 40 games, you're
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talking April, May, you can see these guys starting to surge.
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Probably May, June, you know, or June, July, August.
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But I love the the positivity. I think.
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I think NATO and Goldie both have much better years than last
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year. Gorman, it's all about health.
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We know that with Gorman, if Gorman can stay healthy and play
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100 and 45150 games, I mean he's going to hit over 30 homers for
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sure. Could he get to a 40?
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But he's got to stay healthy. The back is clearly an issue.
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OK, Dewallett, Inspector, Cheddar, Thon and Joyer. 83 win
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projection seems about right. They'll be 12 and 14 in a 26 man
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payroll ranking. Also to be expected is a 2021
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type year. Assume they spread the wins out
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in a more normal distribution. No insane winning streak.
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A success or not good enough. 83 wins is not good enough, in my
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opinion at all. I think also we need to look at
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these rosters differently because the roster will look
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different after the trade deadline if they're in it.
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So let's just say the Cardinals are projected at 83 wins, which
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I think is fair. Whatever you want to throw out
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there, 8384858687. I I don't even know if I'm ready
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to give my win total yet. Not that it matters, but I
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haven't really thought about it. You have to kind of look at the
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schedule and all that, see what other teams in the NL Central
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are doing. But let's say that 83 win
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projection is accurate. OK, so you're you're basically
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one game above 500. OK.
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If that's the case, if the Cardinals are right at 500 or
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one game above at the trade deadline, about a hundred, 110
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games in whatever it is, let's say they're 56 and 55 or
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something like that. Well, the Cardinals, after
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missing the play offs last year, should absolutely add, which I
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think they will. You'll probably need to add a
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starter, you'll probably need to add a reliever, and all of a
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sudden maybe that 83 win projection now becomes 878889
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whatever the win total is, to get a playoff spot.
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So I think that's the way that we can look at this.
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Let's see, Mitchell Sharp says. Do you guys think the Dewitts
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are thinking about selling the team in the next five years?
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I don't at all. Why would you, Why would you
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sell the team, especially with with Bill DeWitt the third, a
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young guy, if he is the chairman down the road?
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I would think you keep that in the family.
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I know there are tax implications for all that.
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We saw that with the Rams. Remember when when Lucia passed
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and you had what? No, no, no, no, sorry.
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When Georgia. When Georgia passed, Lucia
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didn't pass. I haven't.
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I haven't checked that, but I don't think she did.
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But Chip and Lucia then taken over.
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You had all those tax implications and then that's
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when they sold it off. At first you thought it was
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going to be to Shah Khan and then of course Stan Cronke jumps
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in there. So I don't know all the tax
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ramifications. I would think the de Witts want
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to keep it in the family. A lot of people are asking me
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about that. Remember, Remember back when
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when Mike Shannon said that on air towards the end of his
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career and like everybody talking a little bit?
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OK, Will, this is Will Nix, who gets the bulk of save
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opportunities? Will Marmol have a dedicated
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closer or will he use relievers in highest leverage positions?
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Will Blake continue to coach by spreadsheet or will eyeballs
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have any input? I think the first question is
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easy. Who will get the bulk of the
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save opportunities? It's Ryan Helsley.
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Easy. If he's healthy, you got to
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think if he's healthy he's getting 30 plus saves.
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I do think Marmol is new school when it comes to mixing and
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matching. So you got to think Helsley gets
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gets the most. But then you have guys like you
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have KITT Ridge, you know, Could you see KITT Ridge with five
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saves, whatever it is, you have Keenan Middleton.
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I looked this up last week. I believe he has fifteen career
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saves. Gio can go in there.
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I know you don't love Gio as your closer, but every once in a
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while in a match up situation maybe, maybe Ryan Helsley's down
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in terms of not being able to be used that particular night.
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And then also you have the the match up situation, yeah, match
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up. Maybe you have a situation where
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you want a lefty in the 9th and somebody like a JoJo Romero,
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Zach Thompson, who knows his role.
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What about Matthew Libetour? So again, I think, I think that
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Helsley Helsley gets 30 plus saves if he's healthy.
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Everybody else falls in line with, you know, a couple 12345
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for all those other guys, right? That'd be fine.
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OK, Ryan says Charlie and Chafe. Sorry, Chafe's not on this one.
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But we love B Chafe. Do you guys feel the front
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office and ownership truly believe last year was a fluke?
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I just hate to see them appear so cavalier that it won't happen
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again. Almost like they couldn't
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possibly see a scenario where the Cardinals have another
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losing season. I think they can definitely see
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that scenario happening. But I do think, big picture,
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they believe last year was a fluke in the sense that
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everything that could go wrong went wrong and they were banking
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on a lot of ifs in starting pitching.
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Remember John Mozalak even said that as a lot of median fans
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were questioning last offseason. Hey, you don't have enough
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pitching. And he said, look, maybe, maybe,
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maybe six months from now we'll look back and say I made a
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mistake. Well, John Mosalak and the
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Cardinals did make a mistake there.
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So that's where the certainty with the innings, even if you
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don't love Lancelin and Kyle Gibson, they at least have, you
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would think as much certainty as you can get with innings with
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Lancelin, Kyle Gibson and Sonny Gray.
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But look, after you have a bad season like that now, is it more
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in your brain that this can happen again?
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Yes, but I do think, big picture the Cardinals, I I believe it
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was a bit of a fluke. I do think that they neglected
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the pitching, which everybody brought up, but I do think they
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thought they had enough to get to the trade deadline like in
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previous years when they added Hap, Lester, Quintana and
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Montgomery and all that. I I think that was the strategy
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and it just didn't, it didn't work.
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It blew up in their face. OK, great value speaker.
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If Yadi ever becomes manager, how many seasons could he go
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without a playoff series win before the fan base turns on
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him? This is a really interesting
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question. What do you guys think about
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that Now? Will the fan base ever really
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turn on Yadi? They'll always love him.
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But man, if you start mugging games, as Tony Larusso used to
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say, mugging games, if you have losing seasons, look, there's
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going to be a lot of complaints. Doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter who it is. Yadi's beloved, but that's a
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great question. Let's say hypothetical.
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Let's say Yadi takes over after this season.
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Let's say let's say Ali does win 83 games, but they don't renew
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his contract. Yadi takes over.
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So at this point though, also part of this conversation would
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be that the Cardinals wouldn't have made the playoffs in the
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previous two years. To me, that's the only the only
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way Yadi takes over in 2025, if this even happens.
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Is if the Cardinals don't make the playoffs in 2024, coming up
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this year. So that's also part of this
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hypothetical. If Yadi takes over.
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OK, you'd think a manager gets a clean slate, but Cardinals fans
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would be pissed because they wouldn't have been to the
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playoffs in 2324. So if Yadi would take over a
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team that had been to the playoffs five straight years or
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whatever, it was like like let's say Matheny.
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Matheny takes over the Larussa teams and they're really good.
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Don't win a World Series, but they get to the NLCS World
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Series. NLCS hundred wins.
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So he builds up some equity before he has the, what, 2 1/2
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bad seasons before he's fired. And look, Matheny probably
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wouldn't have got those 2 1/2 seasons if he didn't have the
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NLCSS and the World Series appearance before that.
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So that's a great question. I think after one year, after
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one season of Yachty being the manager if the Cardinals OK.
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So the question though was without a play off series win.
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So I guess they could still get to the play offs.
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If Yadi got to the play offs in the first year they didn't win a
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series, people aren't obviously calling for his head but I think
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let's say yeah and also see if they get to the play offs.
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It's kind of a different story, but I think if Yadi were to not
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win a play off series in two seasons, but then it's hard to
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say because if he gets to the playoffs both years, I don't
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know. I think the better question is
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if they don't make the playoffs. I think if if if Yachti made the
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playoffs one of his first two years, people aren't going nuts.
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But in year three, if the Cardinals haven't made the
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playoffs, people are nuts because again, that would be
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five straight years of no playoffs.
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But if he made the playoffs one of the years or both but don't
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win a series people aren't going crazy.
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Look the expectations have been brought back down.
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We wanted the Cardinals. This is unfortunate but we
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wanted the Cardinals to get past the hey, 88 wins, maybe win the
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Central. Maybe get a wild card first
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round playoff exit. We wanted more than that last
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off season but the Cardinals were so bad in 2023.
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It seems like we've lowered the expectations back to hey let's
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just make the playoffs. I think that would be looked
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upon by a lot of fans and media, unfortunately, as a success in
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in 2024. OK, Thomas Gawain, I already
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asked that question. My bad.
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Who will replace Tyler O'Neil? It's the strongest cardinal now.
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I think I said Miles Michaels. I did that one last week.
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Hanky. Did we get Lance Lynn because we
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needed pitching or because we need to keep the cat happy?
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Can Descalzo pinch hit this year?
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His Contreras are starting shortstop so just a joke, a joke
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question, which is fine, but I'll move on.
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We do love the fact that Lance Lynn is with the team though,
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not just for pitching, but he does.
22:56
He does bring some fun to the post games.
22:58
Hey you need that and the pregames you need that during
23:00
162 but you also need to win. It's easier to have fun when
23:04
your team's winning. Rob Sheik I would like to hear
23:08
some conversation around Trevor Bauer and why he would be a good
23:11
fit for a one year deal to re establish himself and the MLB
23:15
cards are again trying to convince us that this rotation
23:17
is good. I am not convinced I get that.
23:20
It seems like, look, I said this last year, even Trevor Bauer, he
23:25
he paid his penalty. You know there is a process.
23:28
I'm not saying I love the dude. I don't know everything that
23:30
happened. Also with with different women.
23:34
We know about the one woman where it looked like, you know,
23:36
through her text that she was trying to get money from Trevor
23:39
Bauer. There's other women who have
23:40
accused him. I don't know the situation,
23:44
these things with sexual assault.
23:46
I wasn't there. I I don't like to pretend like I
23:48
have a real hot take on this. It does seem like that he paid
23:53
his penalty through MLB. He sat out, what, close to two
23:58
years he pitched last year in Japan.
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I don't know the fact that he doesn't have a deal now, though.
24:05
Is he essentially being blackballed from Major League
24:07
Baseball? It kind of looks like that.
24:09
But again, I also don't know what else Major League Baseball
24:12
knows in their investigation. I'm not going to pretend to know
24:15
what they know now. If more information comes out,
24:18
I'll give you a better take on that.
24:20
Graham STL If you got to add 1 player to the roster via free
24:25
agent signing, who would it be? Take into account the predicted
24:29
contract length and value. I'm thinking Jordan Montgomery
24:32
or Phil? Is it Mayton?
24:33
The reliever? Monty will have more value in
24:36
innings provided but lengthier and more expensive commitment.
24:40
Yeah, got It'd be nice to have one more front end of the
24:44
rotation. Starting pitcher like Jordan
24:47
Montgomery, Somebody like Phil Mayton Matan, I don't even know
24:51
how it's pronounced, but somebody like that you can pick
24:53
up at the trade deadline a reliever like that.
24:56
So that's not a that's not a huge ask.
24:58
I mean having another guy would be great, but what the Cardinals
25:01
really need on paper is the front end of the rotation guy,
25:05
Somebody like Jordan Montgomery, but also if he gets a seven-year
25:08
deal, I'm not necessarily saying that's going to be a fantastic
25:11
deal. So I understand why the
25:14
Cardinals with a Snell or Montgomery, but I want to answer
25:19
the question, if you got to add 1 player to the roster via free
25:22
agent signing, who would it be? Can I go if I go back in time I
25:27
understand that Yamamoto basically got to be out of the
25:31
Cardinals pay range but he was the guy that made sense to me
25:36
because he's young. I I I agree giving A7 year deal
25:41
to an Aaron Nola Jordan Montgomery Blake Snell.
25:44
If they get those type of deals and you're paying them from ages
25:46
like 312345678, whatever it is. That's why I like Yamamoto.
25:52
The prospects of Yamamoto, even though his deal became crazy
25:56
high, is you don't see really, really talented starting
26:00
pitchers like that going to the market at age 25 or whatever he
26:03
was. So I'll bank on the guy that's
26:05
25. So my answer to that is
26:07
Yamamoto, because look, there's just a lot less risk.
26:11
There's always going to be risk with a huge deal.
26:13
What did he get? Did he get 12 years and 300 plus
26:16
what? Whatever the deal was, I can't
26:17
even remember with the posting fee, but you're getting him from
26:21
age. I mean, we're talking super
26:23
prime 2567893123, whereas with these guys like Montgomery,
26:30
Nola, Blake Snell, you are getting the back half of their
26:34
careers where it could, it could get ugly.
26:37
Let's see, we have Graham non Cardinals related with this one.
26:42
Well Charlie acknowledged there is a difference for Hall of Fame
26:44
voters when it comes to steroid era PED usage and then Manny A
26:49
Rod using after the rules were in place and their subsequent
26:52
suspensions affecting their Hall of Fame case.
26:55
I understand that people look at it like that.
26:57
I just personally don't. I understand and acknowledge the
27:00
difference. To me, if you use you knew
27:03
before you weren't supposed to do it and and you knew after the
27:06
fact. I understand you had different
27:08
rules, but those guys knew beforehand they weren't supposed
27:11
to be using performance enhancing drugs.
27:14
So I throw them all in the same bucket personally, if you want
27:18
to look at them differently. I get it.
27:19
I wouldn't if I was a voter. That's my thing, Graham.
27:22
I understand that some other voters look at it differently.
27:25
That's how I would look at it. If you used performance
27:28
enhancing drugs and your numbers basically reflect that, whether
27:31
it was before or after you benefited from them, I'm going
27:34
to look at you all the same. OK, Aaron Mullins, here's more
27:37
of a bold prediction. The only starter with an ERA
27:40
over 4 this year will be Gibson who hovers at like 4.2 and the
27:44
rest of the rotation is surprisingly decent.
27:46
I can see a world where Mats has a strong bounce back gear.
27:50
I can't remember if we already answered that one.
27:52
I tried to go in order, but hey, I can see that I can see that.
27:57
So again, let's say Sunny Gray is around 3313233.
28:03
Whatever it is. Again, are they going to be over
28:07
4? I don't really care.
28:09
Like it'd be great to say they're under 4, but is there
28:12
really that big of a difference between 3.9 ERA and 4.1 or 4.2?
28:17
Just just be healthy. Give them innings and and hover
28:23
around somewhere 4/4 and 1/2. If Kyle Gibson and Lancelin do
28:27
that, we should all be happy about that.
28:30
That's basically what you can expect from those guys.
28:33
If they're anything better, it's great.
28:34
Sonny Gray is the guy that needs to be a front end of the
28:37
rotation starter Steven Matz, who knows.
28:41
He just has to stay healthy too. OK, let's see, Where do you
28:46
expect, barring any addition, any additional changes to the
28:49
roster, the Cardinals to be at the end of the season, win wise,
28:54
I still think they're going to get back.
28:55
If you had to ask me right now, which you are, I still think
28:58
they get back to like that 88 wins, but they do it in the
29:01
fashion I said earlier, which is your 500 ish, You're going to
29:06
need to add, You're going to add a starter and a reliever at the
29:09
deadline. You're going to be around 500
29:11
and you're going to push that 88 wins, probably make the
29:14
playoffs, probably win the Central or get one of those wild
29:16
card spots. It doesn't seem like a lot of
29:18
teams in the Central are really, are really trying this year.
29:23
OK, let's see. My buddy Mike from Chicago wants
29:25
Edmonds clubhouse stories. I wasn't even here for the
29:29
Edmonds years when he was a player.
29:31
Although a Love Jimmy Ball game. Great, dude.
29:33
Very funny. OK, well, let's see.
29:37
Cardinal 70. When will Brendan actually
29:39
finish his facial hair? Oh, that's mean.
29:41
You know what? I'm not going to do that when
29:42
Brendan's not even on the podcast here.
29:44
So, all right, here's the deal I'm going to end.
29:48
We're right there around 30 minutes.
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Part of the reason doing this, I wanted to clean up and and
29:53
finish some of these questions. Actually, did I get almost all
29:56
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29:58
them. So now I feel bad.
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