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Instant Reaction: Cardinals Sign Matt Carpenter · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up everybody? Charlie Marlow here.
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  You probably know by now heck, you clicked on this video.
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  You see it on the ticker. Cardinals signing Matt Carpenter
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  to a one year deal. What do you guys think about
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  this? I don't know.
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  Make it make sense for me. I'm trying to figure this one
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  out just like you. Full disclosure, I was working
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  out, had a couple errands to run, got my parents coming into
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  town, had to buy a couple snacks and beer and all that.
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  Look at Twitter. Matt Carpenter coming back to
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  the Saint Louis Cardinals press release was out.
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  I'm not going to read that for you, but Ken Rosenthal on
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  Twitter tweets out Carpenter deal is for $740,000.
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  Source says the Braves are responsible for the remainder of
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  the $5.5 million guarantee. So there's the good part right
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  there. It's very cheap for the
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  Cardinals, 740K for Matt Carpenter, according to Ken
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  Rosenthal. When I saw this press release,
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  I'm thinking why I got nothing against Carp by the way,
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  whatsoever. Looks like the Cardinals are
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  bringing the the old band back together.
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  But I'm thinking, how does this make sense?
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  I would think with Mason Wynn, a young shortstop unproven as a
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  hitter, you would want to back up infielder to be able to play
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  shortstop. Especially if Tommy Edmond is
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  now mostly an outfielder. And I'm thinking Matt Carpenter,
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  where does he even play? Can he still play the field?
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  So this is, this is me being honest.
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  We're going to find out together.
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  Instead of doing my research 1st and then doing the video, I'm
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  just going to do my research on the video because I honestly
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  can't remember if Matt Carpenter even played defense last year
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  for the San Diego Padres. So let's find out together.
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  All right, baseball reference. Here we go.
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  Matt Carpenter. Also, I didn't even remember how
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  Matt Carpenter hit last year. OK, so I think we all remember
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  that he went buck wild with the Yankees in 2022, but then he got
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  hurt. So he only played 47 games with
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  New York in 2022. We all know.
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  Look, his last three years with the Cardinals were really,
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  really bad. But it's OPS.
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  Plus with the Yankees in 2022 was 216.
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  His OPS was 1138. He had 15 bombs.
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  Hit 3O5412 on base, 727 slug in 2022 with the Yankees, and
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  that's in 47 games. Remember.
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  OK, last year, not so good with the San Diego Padres and 81 OPS
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  plus. So he's 19% below league average
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  as a hitter. Played in 76 games, batted 176
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  on base 322. We know the man can always walk.
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  He'll always find a way to walk. His OPS was 641.
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  I don't get it folks. I don't get it.
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  So this is his age. 38 season for Matt Carpenter.
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  He just turned 38 in November. Obviously we all know played for
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  the Cardinals for a long time, 11 seasons.
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  He was great with the Cardinals. How many All Stars?
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  3 All Stars What 1. Silver Slugger in 2013 had that
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  amazing year in 2013 where he led the league in runs with 126.
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  Led the league in hits with 199, Led the league in double S with
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  55, Led the league in walks the following year, 2014 Ninety five
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  walks. Led the league in double S, 2015
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  with 44 double S This guy's gotten MVP votes with the
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  Cardinals. 4th in the MVP in 2013, 12th in 2015, ninth in
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  2018. But that's a long time ago,
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  folks. I don't know about this one.
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  What do you guys think? Comment.
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  Like, subscribe. Let me know what you think.
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  And as I'm being honest with you again, I didn't remember how
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  Matt Carpenter hit last year. I actually thought he hit better
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  than he did once. I just read the stats.
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  Not very good. He's entering his age, 38
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  season. And also let's look at defense
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  because I'm thinking to myself, can this man still play the
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  field at all? Can he play any first base?
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  Was he mostly ADH? So let's look at the last couple
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  years. OK?
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  So first let's go back to 2022 with the Yankees.
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  So 20/22. He DH 16 times.
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  Wow. He actually played outfield 15
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  games. Played right field in 12 games
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  in 2022, Played first base in five games.
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  So what I see left field three games, third base actually
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  played two games. So essentially DH.
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  But man, he actually played fifteen games in the outfield in
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  2022. But let's look at last year.
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  Because again, 2022 is with the Yankees, 2023 is with the San
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  Diego Padres. He is ADH for 55 games.
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  Last year he's a first baseman for 13 games.
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  Matt Carpenter is. We're looking at starts.
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  So he started 48 games as the DH for the Padres and he started 10
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  games as a first baseman, I would think.
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  I mean, could he could he ever just for a game or two, play
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  third still, maybe for a game or two.
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  But I doubt you want that any more than than just that.
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  Remember, you got Brendan Donovan.
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  He can move all over the infield, be your super utility
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  guy who can also hit. So can Matt Carpenter, at age
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  38, still play some some first base?
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  Can he be a backup first baseman to Paul Goldschmidt when he
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  needs a rest? You can bring in the left-handed
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  hitter, do a little. I'm not calling this a platoon,
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  obviously, because Goldie's going to play the majority.
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  But every once in a while, if there's a tough righty and
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  there's some numbers where where Goldie needs a day, maybe Goldie
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  DH is whatever it is. Matt Carpenter can play a little
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  first base, so Matt Carpenter can DH.
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  But man, you also have you have a veteran team where a lot of
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  these guys you're thinking are going to be DHS in terms of
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  getting Nolan Arenado off his feet, getting Paul Goldschmidt
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  off his feet. How about Wilson Contreras and
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  and and what if Ivan Herrera also becomes a really good
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  catcher and all of a sudden Herrera's catching a decent
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  amount of games and and Contreras will still catch
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  obviously hopefully the most games.
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  But is Wilson Contreras going to DHA?
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  Bunch of games? How?
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  How many at bats can you really find for Matt Carpenter?
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  I mean, pinch hit type guy, what do you think?
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  Obviously it's very cheap, so it is what it is there.
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  I'm just trying to, I'm trying to make it make sense from a
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  roster standpoint. And let me look by the way, I'm
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  trying to think of guys like Arenado and whatnot, like how
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  many games they DH Ed, I know I looked at this couple years ago.
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  OK, so Arenado last year, DH Ed, 15 games.
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  Let's look at Goldie, Paul Goldschmidt.
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  So I'm just trying to kind of carve up DH opportunities for
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  the Cardinals to see if Matt Carpenter can slide in there a
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  little bit. So Goldie, DH21 games.
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  So between those two that is 36. You're getting close to 1/4 of
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  the games. DH by those fellows right there.
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  Let's look at Contreras, Contreras, Wilson Contreras,
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  which you got to think also that he will DHA little more because
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  Kisner was your typical 50 game backup in a typical healthy
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  season. We had John Mozelac on the radio
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  show Hot Take Central 590 The Fan.
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  He doesn't want Yvonne Herrera to be that.
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  Hopefully he plays more. I don't know how many games that
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  is, but Wilson Contreras DH30 games last year.
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  So just between Goldie Arnado and Wilson Contreras, if my math
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  is correct, that's 66 games DH. You can rotate a bunch of other
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  guys. So Matt Carpenter, I mean, you
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  can you can find a couple games for MDH, but I don't know this
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  one, this one doesn't really make sense from a roster
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  standpoint to me. I understand the nostalgia and
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  Cardinal fans are going to be mad for me.
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  Even saying that Matt Carpenter was a great Cardinal for years
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  and years and years, the last three years were really rough,
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  even felt bad for the dude. He was making a lot of money,
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  but still he was. He was not hitting.
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  Fans were pissed. I was happy to see him go to New
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  York and turn things around and be good.
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  I don't know. I just, I don't understand this
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  mood from a from a roster standpoint.
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  I get that it's cheap. I'm not going to complain too
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  much. I guess anything you get, if
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  there's any type of positive for Matt Carpenter, it's all good.
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  I just feel like you have so many good young position players
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  fighting for at bats, even at the DH spot.
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  Look at somebody like Dylan Carlson.
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  If every once in a while he's playing outfield, but you got DH
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  to go around, Brendan Donovan, he's going to be bouncing all
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  around the infield. You got a bunch of guys who kind
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  of played different positions, mix and match with the outfield.
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  Again, I don't think we're going to see Carpenter at all in the
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  outfield, but but it's not the craziest thing because he did
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  play a little bit outfield in New York, as we mentioned two
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  years ago. I mean, could he play a couple
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  games at at third base, maybe a couple, mostly DH, mostly first
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  base obviously. So I don't know.
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  You know, you knew something was coming though with this James
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  Nail move. Where where did he sign?
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  Was it? I know somewhere in Asia, Kia,
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  A-Team, that's Kia something. So in the James Nail, I'm
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  looking it up right now. When the James Nail news
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  happened, you thought the Cardinals were going to do
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  something. Today.
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  I think most people assume probably a reliever.
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  Where's he going? James Aubrey Nail is an American
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  professional baseball pitcher for the Kia Tigers of the KBO
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  League. Of course, the Korean Baseball
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  League. So James Nail, who's from Cape
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  Girardeau, is headed there. So that opened up the spot for
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  Matt Carpenter on the Rooster. I don't know, man.
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  And ladies, I just don't get it. I don't get it.
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  I'm not mad about it. I don't really care that much.
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  But I don't think it makes sense.
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  What do you think? Am I wrong?
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  Do you like the nostalgia? Do you like that they're
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  bringing the band back together, Getting the band back together
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  with Lance lens back? I mean, Yadi's a coach.
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  Daniel Discalzo's a coach. I don't know.
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  I don't know. And I know I'm not saying a lot,
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  but so I'm trying to process how this makes sense.
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  If it's just the veteran guy, you want veteran leadership
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  couple ABS here and there little pinch hit opportunity.
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  I don't think we saw anything in 2023 based on the stats that
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  Matt Carpenter is going to have a a great year.
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  I mean you can understand why coming off 2022 the Padres gave
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  him a shot because he was amazing and then he got hurt.
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  I don't know folks, I'll I'll keep this short.
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  I'll keep this video short. Breaking news I got a lot to do.
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  It's my daughter's birthday by the way it's her 6th birthday so
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  I'm we're trying to do birthday stuff also but Matt Carpenter
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  one year deal. It's not very much money as I
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  mentioned earlier Ken Rosenthal 740K, the Braves are paying the
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  remainder of the $5.5 million guarantee.
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  And real quick, before I, before I go, I'm just going to search
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  Twitter. And by the way, did anybody
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  break this story? Because I got a press release
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  and I saw the the tweet from the Cardinals.
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  I don't know if any reporter actually broke this story.
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  I'm just gonna. I'm searching Matt Carpenter to
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  see if there's any news on this. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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  one year contract, blah, blah, blah, blah, Matt Carpenter,
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  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right, That's all I got.
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  Maybe we'll talk more over the weekend.
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  Probably not, because my parents are in town, so I probably won't
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  be doing a ton of work. But Matt Carpenter, he's back,
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  he's 38 years old. Kind of fits with this team,
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  right? Everybody's old.
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  Well, at least the starters are. Got some good young position
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  players. But Carp, old Goldie, old
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  Arenado, older. It is what it is.
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  I don't know how this really helps the 2024 Cardinals on the
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  field. I don't know if he even plays
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  the field. Maybe a little for space.
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  I'm not mad about it. I don't care that much.
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  I'm not a hater. I just don't know if it makes
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  any sense. I understand you get an infield
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  that can play back up shortstop. I understand you want a
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  left-handed hitter if he can kind of play a little first
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  base. But then again, you got, I mean
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  you got some left-handed pop with Nolan Norman with Lars
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  Newbar with Brendan Donovan, switch hitter Tommy Edmond,
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  switch hitter, Dylan Carlson. I don't know folks make it make
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  sense. What do you think?
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  I don't get it. Maybe you guys get it better
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  than me and comment and let me know what you think.
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  Peace out. Have a great weekend.
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  Happy birthday to my daughter who will not be watching this
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  video. Happy birthday to any of you if
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  it's your birthday as well and see you later.
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  Matt Carpenter back with the Redbirds on a one year deal.
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  Peace out.