How Good Can The Cardinals Be?
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- On 590 The Fan KFNS, Bernie Miklasz talked all things St. Louis Cardinals & MLB with Andy McCullough of The Athletic.
For full radio shows & podcasts of every segment go to 590thefan.com
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Thanks, Charlie, for the video
ACE! All Bernie!
The last two games including the split with the braves where Libby Dominated, Helsley looked kind of weak even though he picked up the saves..Helsley couldn't get that 102 fastball going.. Michael Siani sure looked good..
Thinking the run will continue. Especially as Noot (extended)//Edman have yet to contribute. Thinking Gorman will figure it out. Getting excited about the depth of our line-up. Imagining Walker as a power force off the bench in the playoffs. They MUST take the division. Don’t think about wild card. Will like to see more elite depth in Pitching. The guest on the Cubs; “They’ve stopped scoring points.” 🙄True baseball insider. 😁
Thanks for the end of the night listen Charlie!
I like the whole thing about changing the DH position to a Courtesy batter type position. When you take out the starter. You lose it ... I wish the NL would of done that instead of going full DH ... Also, robo strikes and balls. Keep the umpire back there. Just take stikes and balls out of his responsibility ... could lower the mound as well ... none of these solutions are gimmicky.
Also, and for the last time I promise: the makeup of pitching staffs and organizational development both are artifacts of a bygone era. Trying to develop 90-100-pitch pitchers and 20-pitch pitchers today does everyone a disservice. 'Stretching out' starters over a period of years or months or even weeks in the milb is a recipe for disaster and is being borne out even as we speak. imo.
If there is any defensible reasoning behind the practice, it is this: Spending four or five years in the minors learning to "become a starter" saves teams a lot of $$$$$ in the long run, and that's a good reason as far as it goes, when it works. I mean, using Tink Hence, for example, as a 20-pitch pitcher for his first year and a 30-pitch pitcher his second year, etc., with an eye to being a starter when his arm is actually ready will likely end up costing the team his services at free agency--unless he is signed for the long term in the interim.
The crapshoot of finances aside, would you rather have Gallegos pitching the seventh inning this year, or Tink Hence? Would you rather have Hence pitching the 6th and the 7th next year, or 'some guy' who, bottom line, just isn't good enough to start the game, or finish it either?
In da future, cameras will be hooked to AI, if they aren't already, to judge the effectiveness of pitchers, i.e. the speed and consistency of their windup, their velocity and command to gauge their stamina, and determine just how many pitches they should be expected to throw in an outing.
Affectionately, I call such a system 'the yAdI'.
So, where is Yadi, anyway?
If the game is now a pitching dominant,that is just the way it is,you can't artificially change it.
Charlie!
Joe!
The cardinals are doing enough to hang around.. they know and we know this current bullpen and rotation isn’t sustainable.. they won’t trade for any bats.. if they do I’ll be beyond shocked.. they have Noot and Edman waiting.. as well as their big righty bat in Walker Mo referenced waiting in Memphis… as of now there aren’t many quality bargain bin arms out there that Mo goes after so we will see what moves are made to make the playoff push
Can someone please explain as to why Ryan Tapera is still on this 26 man roster and I haven’t seen this man pitch once.. also if Gio implodes again.. those two imo have to go immediately!
He’s not on the 26 man roster
Want to solve 'the problem'? Install roboumps and watch offenses take over the game. Imagine hitters not having to worry about overwhelmed (and some incompetent) home plate umpires making phantom strike calls, especially on low, outside pitches that they might as well flip a coin to call.
How many swings and misses and soft contact happen because a pitch is 'too close to take'.
Then the pendulum will swing too far the other way, and pitchers will beg for another solution to 'the problem'--this time in their favor.
Somewhere along the line some intrepid pioneer will discover that velocity is not the answer we thought it was and pales in value to command--location and movement, etc.--and even 'hideability'.
The next great generation of pitchers will discover tai chi and yoga, and whatever, and even learn how to make the ball come from different angles and locations out of the background of the body, rendering the ball invisible to hitters until it's too late. imo.
Just saying...
Agree 100%. My kid is 8, been in Taekwondo since he was 5 ... I did it specifically for this reason. To me, the movements in TKD seem to translate well to baseball.
I remember how odd and effective Fernando Valenzuela's delivery was. He probably could have worn a blindfold and thrown strikes.
As far as the tai chi and yoga, Steve Carlton was doing it in the 70's. As far as the different angles and locations, that too has been used in the 70's with guys like Luis Tiant and Kent Tekulve. Baseball has always tried different gimmicks, some work for some players some don't. Remember Mark Fidrych talking to the ball and smoothing the dirt on the mound?
@@dennishaas4745 If you think of tai chi and yoga as gimmicks then you just don't understand.
As for Lefty, I would recommend massaging jars of uncooked rice to anyone. I think?
@@therealthirdman1 If it was standard practice why aren't more players adopting these ideas you mentioned , it is nothing new? If it works for some pitchers, good for them, but if these are so effective why don't more players and teams use it in player development?
Lets be honest here. Gorman .194 Carlson .198 Crawford .196 Goldy .231 Carp .231. Right now no one on the team is hitting above .300
still have the weakest hitting outfield in the league. If they want to compete with Brewers are even get to the wild card and win... they have to trade for a good hitting outfielder. Edman (if he ever comes back) and Noot are not exactly great hitters (sometimes not even average)
Need a # 5 pitcher, and another very good hitting outfielder.
I still believe that when September rolls around, the Cardinals will be either a game or two over .500 or a game or two under .500, and will not be a playoff team.
Hmmmm, I think they'll get a wild card
Love your Manfraud comments. Stop screwing with the game jack ball
Let's not start high-fiving each other just yet. We'll see how they're playing in August and September.
Gotta be buyers first
Yes, let's see how these older players hold up and I can't believe the bullpen stays this good .
Charlie! You guys should get Bernie on Hot Take Central
The cardinals reaching the postseason is a win in the front office mind, "We just cant have a repeat of last season" mindset. That mixed with injury, player regression/devolpment, salary, the cardinals wont make a real push till 2026.
Playoffs are a crapshoot. That’s a fact. Reaching the postseason is all you can do. 95+ win teams get bounced every year to lesser teams.
@@Samir-3737 yes its a crapshoot but they have no insentive to build a post season team. The cardinals are the one team over .500 with a -run diff, their only goal is redeem last year.
Their goal is to be the 2024 diamondbacks
@@boschlosser10 "hey if we manage to be the diamonbacks from last year great, we just cant have a season like last year"
God love ya, Bernie, but you get winded talking. Get healthy my man.
Thank you for putting this up. YT is easier to use than yall's website.
Anyway, when Bernie says "listen to" the nerds what he really means is "defer to your betters" - the performative open-mindedness is phony, a schtick. The saber revolution that ruined the entertainment value of baseball (take a bow, nerds, and your enablers like Bernie) was actually a class war between baseball lifers ("dinosaurs") who were largely high school educated, the grizzled scouts types, the guys who washed out of AA ball but stayed in the game, and the professional managerial class (often literally ivy league dorks). The PMC won the conflict in both the front office and media theaters, and the result is an unwatchable sport to everyone who didnt, like me, grow up with it before it changed.