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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.

If Jim Edmonds and Scott Rolen aren't getting into the HOF neither will Hunter and Donaldson.

I was surprised what happened in Minnesota. Down here in St. Louis we had a white officer kill a black man after other officers alerted him that he had the officer's son's stolen credit cards in the black man's possession. Then the police got a retired judge who found the officer not guilty on the judge's last case on the bench. The Black police officers association opposed this miscarriage of justice, but, not the white mafia-like officers association. Then we had protest and our St. Louis officers' beat an undercover agent and injured him I believe damaging his hearing sent to observe the peaceful protests. That has been sent to a Grand jury, but, look who is in the White House and who heads the Civil Rights division. All of our white officers are complicit in this travesty. Some who would speak up would be in jeopardy from the union. It is like we can't do anything about it as if the police force is above the law. I am still shocked about Minneapolis. And just a third degree murder charge. Civilians would get charged with a first degree murder for intent. This behaviour undermines the rule of law.

If I was an opposing pitcher: 1. Killebrew 1969 2. Carew 1977 3. Morneau 2006 4. Mauer 2009 5. Versalles 1965 As an opposing pitcher the one batter I fear was Killebrew for well over a decade. Carew hits a lot of singles and is a great hitter, but, he doesn't score as many runs in the 1970's with the number of times he gets on base so we can contain him except for 1977 when he put together a great season. 2006: Joe Mauer in his walk year hit a career high 28 Hrs and hit .365. I'm a pitcher I am more intimidated by seasons from Bench, Campanella, Piazza, Gary Carter as hitters. After the big contract, in the second year starts becoming a 60-70 run scoring and 55-65 RBI guy while moving to 1B. 2009: Morneau can drive in runs so top RBI guy. Too bad about concussions. 1965: Versalles Was 5th or 6th on team in OPS+. Made 39 errors at SS which won't get you playing time today. Oliva should have received award in a year they pick from a team going to WS he was hard to get out. Versalles has to rank among the worst MVPs of all-time. He led league in striking out as well in 1965.

Minor league players are more important than the rest of our laid off workers. Honestly, the wealthy MLB players union only gives lip service to other unions. They care less about minor league players. Curt Flood fought for player's rights. Like wow. Its not like that reverbated to the other workers in our country. If your employer say the FBI tells you to go to another field office can you say no and get the media's attention? No. This makes a good story. But, seriously there is going to be another 3 million jobless claims tomorrow.

When they resume the virus won't be over with in this country. They are just trying to flatten the curve so the hospitals won't be overrun. Has measles truly gone away, you should still be vaccinated. So they resume in May do you think there will be 1000's in the stands without a vaccine? With 20% unemployment? I miss the diversion. I wish they would broadcast previous years games in which they don't tell you the exact date so the outcome is still a mystery.

The only starter that any opposition player from a team that is above .500 worries about facing the Twins is Berrios. I wish Bailey was back in my division. Odorizzi is a good 5-6 inning pitcher who is beneficial to a team with good mid-inning relief. Hill at 41 years wouldn't be in the major leagues if he had been traded to a last place team instead of being serviceable by the Dodgers. Maeda wasn't traded by the Dodgers because they thought he wasn't replaceable. No wonder why I like the NL. Pitching is better except for Colorado which no pitcher can figure out.

The way this article reads the Dodgers don't know they traded off a great talent. The reason why the Dodgers traded off the cost-controlled pitcher is because he is just so-so. He had over a 5 ERA on the road for the best team in the NL.

Don't you have 3 years left of control over Berrios? Looking at my team's history of pitching extensions. We extended Jaime Garcia despite his previous arm injuries. He was injured often, but, came back well one season with 20 starts in 2015 with a 2.43 ERA and 129 inning. The 2016 season was 10-13 with a 4.67 ERA as the Cards miss the wildcard by 1 game. Somehow Atlanta thought they saw value and they traded John Gant for him. Got value out of that injury riddled pitcher. Then the Cards extended Wainwright 5 years to keep him from going FA. He got $95 million and won 19 games the first year of contract then went his Achilles tendon and arm injuries as he was no longer himself. Did get him on year extensions incentive laden. Our starting pitchers and relievers are always getting injured. We got a 1 year contract out of Kyle Lohse who went 15-5. So he and Boras agreed on a 4 year $40 million extension on last day of season. First two years arm injuries. Last 2 years record was quite good with a 16-3 season. But, unlike you Twins fans gushing over him I never thought he would dominate a good playoff team. We were smart not to re-sign him after his last contract with us. Miles Mikolas got a 4 year extension after signing a good 2 year contract coming back from Japan. He has a sore tendon this spring in his arm, but, apparently not damaged. 4 years starting this year for $68 million. Hopefully back after a couple weeks on April. But, will he be injured plagued over next four years. They gave him an extension after going 18-4 in 2018 and going 10-0 on the road. The Cards won 17 of his 32 starts last year while he went 9-14. Extended him too early before last season started. I guess they wanted payroll certainity. The Cards couldn't buy out Boras client Lance Lynn as he went through 3 down years with TJ surgery and weakness at the end of his fourth season. I still wonder about his continuing good seasons with Texas. And the same with closer Trevor Rosenthal as his arm went kaput needing surgery and Boras kept him from getting an extension. His comeback last year was a disaster for some team. So my bottom line on Berrios you are not likely to recoup value from hard throwers over that many years. It sucks losing them to rehab. The only FA the Cardinals missed out on was Matt Scherzer who is my from hometown. I talked to his aunt and she said he would have deferred $15 million a year for the Cardinals who were coming off 100 win season. Groan. Odorizzi grew up 30 miles from here so there was speculation he could sign here before accepting QO which was surprising. Not sure his arm history.

Good article. But, because Maeda at soon to be 32 hasn't had TJ surgery while Brusdar has doesn't mean Boston didn't have real concerns.

Isn't Revere's OPS+ 83 for his career? And Span is like 103? There are many OFers that come up all of the time that put up those numbers. Those 2 OFers can't drive in many runs.