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Cardinals Get Swept Right Out of Canada · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up guys? Welcome back to three up three
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  down. As always, I am your host
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  Jackson McNeil live from the Charlie Marlow channel here on
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  YouTube. You can also find me on TikTok.
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  JB MDM2 just finishing up another football Sunday and
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  football Saturday. My football teams both won well
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  officiated fair games. That's all I have to say about
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  football. Let's talk baseball.
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  Not a great weekend for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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  I would say I was holding out hope, but the season is actually
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  over. I know I've kind of been doing
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  this bit with you guys since like mid-May, but I really
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  actually think it's time to call it quits.
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  Not on watching lots of things to change going forward.
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  We got lots we can get into. We're going to talk, you know,
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  going forward this next month. We can talk young guys, prospect
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  rings, fall league. We might even talk football TBD.
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  But right now we got to visit the series in Toronto.
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  But we're going to finish with a nice sentimental look back at a
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  great former Cardinal. Our first down is hitting with
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  runners in scoring position. I, I, so I'll admit I was
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  traveling Friday. I missed the game.
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  I, I, I looked at the box score, watched the condensed game, 2
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  for 19 with runners in scoring position.
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  I actually didn't think it was possible to go 2 for 19 with
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  runners in scoring position. And then yesterday over three,
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  today over 5, It does not make sense how this team is that bad
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  hitting with runners in scoring position.
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  I just do not get it. I, it just doesn't compute it.
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  It doesn't make any sense. They are so much worse with
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  runners in scoring position than they are without.
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  That said, we are going to come back to that.
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  But that was our first down runners in scoring position.
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  Our second down, Kyle Gibson, like I've been telling you guys
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  for weeks now, it's like every time you're kind of like, man,
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  that option, I think we got to pick it up.
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  He kind of goes out and lays an egg.
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  I, you know, the game in Toronto.
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  It's hard to totally blame him because our next down, Pedro
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  Pajes dropped a ball that absolutely should have been
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  caught. I think Wynn rushed the throw a
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  little bit. He rushed the throw a little bit
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  and he skipped it, but it was very playable and Pajes just
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  couldn't find the ball. He had like 6 steps.
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  I I just don't understand the point of him playing.
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  I'm sorry, I don't get it. I know that the guys say that
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  he's a good receiver and all that, but he can't hit and he
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  can't catch and he can't throw guys out on the bases, which all
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  three of those things are things that this team has a problem
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  with. I talked about it last week, I'm
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  talking about it this week. It's got to be Contreras and
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  Herrera next year. I they cannot and they better
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  not carry 3 catchers. They have got to find a way to
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  get, you know, more value somewhere else on the roster by
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  third or fourth down. I guess we kind of dare doing 4
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  downs and three downs today. Riley O'Brien.
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  I, I just, I don't, I don't know what they see in this guy.
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  They DFA Armstrong, who they traded a first round pick for
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  Dylan Carlson. Now I, I think Carlson
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  absolutely needed a change of scenery at that point.
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  It wasn't working. He wasn't playing, he wasn't
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  hitting better than any other outfielder on the roster.
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  So I don't, I don't really fault the Carlson for doing it.
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  But then they they get to September 1st and they just let
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  Armstrong go for nothing so they can get a look at O'Brien.
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  And he hadn't pitched in a week. He goes out two innings, 2
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  earned, 4 hits. I like, where is his ER as 11?
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  And I know he hasn't pitched a ton, but I don't think he's had
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  a scoreless outing yet. And yeah, he's got good stuff.
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  But dude, you got to get guys out, man.
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  It's not, it's not like it's not rocket science.
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  But yeah, anyway, let let's get into the UPS.
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  We're going to finish with a sentimental note, but let's
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  start with Matthew Libertar. This is a guy who Friday night
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  goes 3 innings, 3 scoreless innings and gets them into
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  extras and they can't get him a run, which is brutal.
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  He needs to be a starter. I, I don't know what the deal is
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  with, you know, and to be fair, to be fair to the Cardinals,
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  Matthew Libertar has not performed very well as a
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  starter. I think he had that one great
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  start against Tampa last year where he, he, I think he gave
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  him 8 scoreless, you know, but, but besides that, Matthew
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  Libertar is not, has not given them a reason to be like this
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  guy needs to be a starter. But the stuff plays and the
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  stuff plays deep in the games. He's got 4 pitches.
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  I, I just think they need to find a way.
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  They need to, they need to, whatever they need to do this
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  offseason with him. He needs to do with his guys.
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  You know, he needs to be a starter.
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  The stuff plays too well. I, I used to feel the same way
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  about Ryan Helsley like 3 or 4 years ago.
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  But clearly he, he needs to just be on the mound in any capacity.
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  He is. So that's fine, but Libertar
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  needs to be a starter. They gave up real stuff for him
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  and he has been a very valuable reliever this year, even though
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  they have yanked him all over the place.
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  He spot starts, he throws 3 innings, he gets left.
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  He's only, you know, it's, it's a weird role for him.
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  I want he needs an established role.
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  And I think next year I'll I'll be really curious to see how
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  they treat him in the spring because they always bring like
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  two or three guys to camp that they're like, like, you know,
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  are going to be relievers. Zach Thompson's been in that
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  role. Libertar has been in that role,
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  but they, they, they're like you're a starter dude and then
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  you they get like one start and then they immediately just go
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  into the reliever program. So I really hope he can, he's
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  able to add strength, do what he needs to do physically to become
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  a starter because the stuff plays And I, I just think having
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  him in the pen is, I don't want to say the waste because it's
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  not there's value there, but the stuff is starter stuff.
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  My second up Tommy Edmond Dodger, Tommy Edmond.
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  I'm really happy for Tommy. Last three seasons 212223 Tommy
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  averaged 150 games. 2022 Tommy Edmond and all my Immaculate
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  grid players will know this was a six WAR player.
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  He was awesome. He's had 30 steals twice this
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  year for the Dodgers. He's hitting over 300.
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  He's got 5 homers in just 25 games.
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  He's OPS ING over 800. You know this is a guy that can
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  play all over the field. He's a Gold Glover at second
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  base. He should have won a Gold Glove
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  in 20/22. He was hurt by the fact that
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  they were yanking him all over the diamond.
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  But I'm really happy to see him playing well.
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  That is a guy that is just like, he's a really good dude.
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  I thought he got dealt a little bit of a raw hand.
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  I still don't totally understand what happened with his wrist
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  this year. Clearly, there was, you know,
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  the team didn't say that he had surgery and they said it was
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  super minor. And then you've got reporters
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  saying the scar is the length of his forearm.
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  So I'm not a doctor. My orthopedic friends weigh in
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  below. What do you guys think happened?
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  Do you need that long of a cut anyway?
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  I'm happy for him. I'm glad he's playing for a
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  winner. He's a winning player.
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  I do. I think his injury and the
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  setbacks are really, I think the ankle is actually the only
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  reason he didn't stay in Saint Louis.
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  I I really think he would still be a Cardinal if he hadn't
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  sprained his ankle when he's rehabbing The rest My third up
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  Matt Adams Big City, Slippery Rock University, one of the gems
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  in the 2009 draft, which you guys will remember Shelby Kelly
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  Rosenthal, Adams Carpenter, the one of the greatest drafts of
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  all time. Jeff Luno retired.
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  He's retiring a Cardinal. I think that's really cool.
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  This is a guy that moved to Saint Louis, lives in Saint
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  Louis to this day, got himself a bring in 2019 with the
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  Nationals, had two really solid years with the Cardinals before
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  his body kind of started to give out on him and they kind of
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  wanted him to play the outfield sort of but that you know, that
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  his playing time was super weird.
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  But this is a guy that was a huge piece.
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  He had two massive home runs in the playoffs.
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  I would argue that. So he had the one off Melanson
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  in the 2013 NLDS game five that clinched the game.
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  It was over. Melanson hadn't given an Homer
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  to a lefty in like 3 months at that point.
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  I mean, left, he owned lefties and and City hit that ball to
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  the moon in the bottom of the eighth.
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  And then obviously, which I think this is probably the last
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  truly great moment for Cardinals fans that the 2019 run
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  notwithstanding, this is probably the last truly great
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  playoff moment was that Homer he hit off Kershaw to basically
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  clinch the NLDS in 2014. I mean, Kershaw had I think in
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  his life has now given up three homers on his curveball to
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  lefties and City has one of them.
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  And obviously it's the biggest of the three.
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  So I'm really happy for him. But let's dive into Matt Adams
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  stats and compare them to the 2024 for Cardinals 2013.
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  You guys will remember that team was dynamic offensively, ton of
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  good players, peek Matt Carpenter, peek Yachty or
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  Molini. You had Carlos Beltran still
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  hitting really well. That team with runners in
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  scoring position slashed. This is not a joke. 334 O2 463
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  that is an 865 OPS with runners in scoring position.
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  That's like, that's like 2022 Nolan Arenado every time there's
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  a runner in scoring position. Let's talk about 2024 runners in
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  scoring position overall as a team, 220-630-2335.
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  That's a 637 OPS. They are 200 point.
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  They were 200 points better in 2013, 2013 Matt Adams, which was
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  the best year of his career by the numbers, 329-370-4553.
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  That's insane. He's 300 points better than the
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  Cardinals this year. They miss him.
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  They miss guys like that. Winners.
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  I hope they can figure out a way to get back to it.
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  Thanks for watching, guys. We'll be back soon.
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  We're going to start talking young guys and the future.