cardsfan

No kidding too out of touch. The I am a HOFer was pathetic. His two oldest daughters sued him from his first marriage that he totally abandoned them to his first wife while doting on his second wife's kids says something especially after starting an animal foundation. I was surprised that he didn't go for McGraw's 2nd place managerial wins and waited 9 seasons to make a comeback. About 700 wins could have been had. Tony Larussa please retire.

Cruz got caught once using steroids. It wouldn't surprise me me again.

I don't see normalcy until 2022 baseball season.

I'm hoping Odorizzi considers his home town.

I doubt it.

Because of many things can you count on these 3? Last year you were harping on Homer Bailey after he had a good month. Then Odorizzi and Rich Hill. Maeda was traded by the team who has had the best pitching staff since integration, the Dodgers. Berrios needs to dominate first division teams. Pineda well caught with PEDs. The last team that could count on 3 pitchers and the pitching coach went to Baltimore and failed was the Atlanta Braves. My team since 2000 has had 4 different starters with less than 5 Cardinals starts from the prior 3 years with the team. Averaged almost 20 games above .500 from 2000-2019. Maeda fails after the All Star break which ever team knows.

I never read about any of your minor league pitchers coming up to make an impact. As I pointed out last year there were many awful teams that lost 89 or more that you hit over 200 HRs off of their pitching and less off of the better teams. This wasn't an anomaly. You need a better model for pitching as thinking Homer Bailey, Rich Hill and Odorizzi was going to dominate good teams. You should look at Maeda's second half numbers as he becomes a reliever. Where's the minor league pitching prospects? Good pitching stops good hitting is the old cliche.

Last year when the Twins won 101 games they were 7 below .500 against teams who were above .500. Shouldn't this have been an opportunity last offseason to say you know you keep those players that do well against winning teams and trade those who do not to see what we can get. Why because you have to face those teams from other divisions that are beating up bad Central division teams. I'm not sure, also, the love for Maeda. First half very good in his career second half bullpen pitcher. The Dodgers aren't stupid. Looks like Garver has little trade value now. Nelson Cruz my favourite player of yours who could have caught a game tying triple in the 2011 World Series makes me wonder if he returned to the juice. Josh Donaldson is always a rupture away from a career ending season. Minor league pitching ddevelopment emphasis. Homer Bailey I expected that. Rich Hill well he will be 41. I would get you pitching from Maeda with that contract. Oh, well my team has young pitching with arm surgeries every year. Keep bringing up more. I'm surprised Berrios isn't hurt ever in this era.

18 games in a row. Thats hard to believe as my team has nationwide announcers believing the Padres with no good pitching left are the eventual WS winners. Developing pitching every year. Good pitching almost always stops good hitting.

I came over since you are playing my team and saddened by my childhood favourite ballplayer, Lou Brock, dying. Eddie Rosario reminds me of Moustakas. I thought he was on his way of being groomed as your second baseman someday, but, obviously his defense or another player put him back in the OF. Last year he received an MVP vote like who would DFAd him after 45 games or at the end of this whacky season? His OPS is around .800 though I don't believe it would be as high in the NL because we have some ballparks that are are fair to pitchers as Yankee stadium is a joke and the AL Central last year was awful with the Tigers, Royals and White Sox. One more year or some prospects that will pan out or a QO after next season. But, like several FAs he may go all out and have a .880+ OPS season instead of a .780-.800 season and you wonder what is he going to command on the open market when he declines your Qualifying Offer. Look at the Moose's start with Cincinnati. They gave him a big contract to play in that HR happy park and I'm sure the fans will likely stay frustrated. If Rosario had the intensity like Pete Rose, who does as Rose drank a lot of leaded coffee which is why he ran down to first base when he walked in the old days, he would definitely get higher MVP votes. His boneheaded plays get pointed out by fans which is what lack of focus or intensity? Rose is a bad example, but, he was the most intense player in his day. My Lou Brock when he stole 118 in 1974 at age 35 when I was 9 was the most intense and intimidating player that year as Rose had a slight offseason before leading the Big Red Machine to 2 titles. Intensity, Eddie. You can make a lot of money. Rose didn't know when to let up as his outside life caught up to him. No way is he DFAd or if you trade him you will have seller's regrets. Those awful long term contracts might bite too.

34 year old 4 year $92 million sure looks good now.

I told you.

Are there any rich owners that care for their fans as much as they do their own ego? We here renamed German street names during WW1 to other names. We are changing names of a street named after a slave trader and a school named after an obscure Confederate general. Yes, we should get rid of military base names named after traitors who left the union. Should Germany name bases after Hermann Goehring. What I found interesting was we read about in our school's history books Northern carpetbaggers coming down south as evil people trying to get political offices. What we didn't read about was over a million slaves out of 5 million died within a few years afte the Civil War. I want our Fathers to quit lying about our history. When 1 million slaves died shortly after the war that is a significant event in our history. Or why Truman desegregated the army before the 1948 election with black WW2 soldiers being spit on and attacked. The Southerners would rather wash German POW's uniforms and not black soldiers uniforms during the war. I want the history of the church's involvement in racism and not forgotten. I as a white guy was proud to support the Ferguson, MO protesters against the white power structure against many whites I know. They should have hog whipped the power structure who I'm sure some were good family man.

I'm a National Leaguer. I hate the DH.