MLB: ***Official 2019 St. Louis Cardinals Season Thread***
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I understand the frustration when a player seems to have your number. There have been many Cardinal players over the years that have done a fair amount of damage to Brewer pitching, but those guys are generally good people (btw, your ball club has a great history of player development and some really good and classy players) and I would NEVER advocate trying to disable those players (and possibly their career). Just my two cents.
I don't know, there is something going on, looking at the brewers difference in homeruns between home and away is like 3-1. Like I said before, generally I am not a fan of hitting someone, but sometimes enough is enough. I would feel the same way if they drilled one of ours.
Again, I am not saying hit him in the head, or ruin his career, but the Brewers players almost seem like they know what is coming and are swinging from the heels. Drill one in the ribs, start a fight, and go on from there. Its baseball, you pounded us the last two games, that does not mean we like it or going to take it.
The record for most HRs against a single team in one season is 14 by Lou Gehrig in 1936 against Cleveland. Yelich has 7 HRs against the Cards this year in 6 games. If they keep pitching to him, he'll destroy that record.
God, we needed that win against the brewers. Interesting stat, at the conclusion of this series, the cards will have met the brewers for 41% of their scheduled games played so far. That is way to many, they will have played 10 of the total 19 times in the first month of the season.
The cards have played the crew 8 times now, with tonight being the first in Busch. Yelich has 13 homers on the season, all at home, and 9 against the Cardinals.
The cards have played the crew 8 times now, with tonight being the first in Busch. Yelich has 13 homers on the season, all at home, and 9 against the Cardinals.
I feel really good about where the Cardinals are at right now. There are obviously still concerns about the rotation, but I still think they'll get it figured out by the end of the season. Martinez coming back could certainly help shore things up there.
The bullpen has looked good, and the offense has been fantastic as of late. They've shown the ability to score in bunches in a variety of ways, whether by hitting bombs or by playing small ball and taking the extra base on singles. That ability is something we hadn't seen as much under Matheny. It will be interesting to see if some of these guys can keep it up for a full season, especially Fowler. It's great to see him playing well again, though.
The bullpen has looked good, and the offense has been fantastic as of late. They've shown the ability to score in bunches in a variety of ways, whether by hitting bombs or by playing small ball and taking the extra base on singles. That ability is something we hadn't seen as much under Matheny. It will be interesting to see if some of these guys can keep it up for a full season, especially Fowler. It's great to see him playing well again, though.
Agreed. Great to see Fowler having success. I had considered him dead weight on the roster, so any production they get out of him is a big bonus. Nice to see Wong keeping up his production too. If he can maintain even a league average or slightly above league average offensive production, he is a hell of a weapon. Dejong is hitting like one of the best players in the game right now, which is bound to slow down. However, Goldy is still not hitting consistently, which will come as the season goes on. If Carp, Goldy, Dejong, and Ozuna all start to click at the same time, watch out.
The thing I like most so far about the Shidlt era vs. Matheny is we see much more intelligent aggression on the bases. With Matheny, it seemed like his message was to go as hard as you can, all the time on the bases. The result of that was running into stupid outs all the time by trying to take an extra base when it didn't make sense. With Shildt, it seems like the players are much smarter about when to push vs when to be patient on the bases.
Cubs fan here. I understand schedules can’t be perfect but seems pretty dumb that Brewers and Cardinals will face 10 times before Cubs/Cards play each other. Hell the Cubs play the Diamondbacks 6 times within 9 games in April and they’ve yet to play the Cards, Reds, and only once against both MIL and PIT. Feel like not much thought went into it
4 in a row, a game up on the Buccos. Hopefully Bader's hammy isn't too serious but Martinez is raking right now, it'll be tough to take him out of the lineup if he keeps hitting like this. The 5-8 spots have been really pulling their weight this series.
Great start by Wainwright, hopefully the bullpen can hold on. Homers from Yadi and Ozuna. Ozuna is quietly having a pretty good year, 9 HR and 21 RBI, not a bad month so far.
I have been pleasantly surprised with the start to this season.
Just think where we would be if we stopped pitching to Yelich after the 3rd homer
His home and away splits are the worst of any player I can think of that is not a Rocky. Great series and we do not see them again August.
First place looks pretty good.
Agree, but have been hoping the rotation settles in the way most of the batters have
On another note...
I’m starting to wonder just how soon Nolan Gorman will make it to the Majors. .325 and six homers—making better contact early in his career than I would have thought for a HS slugger. Good thing they just signed Carpenter through 2022?
Marcel Ozuna...dude is having the year we thought we'd see last season. Being healthy is obvious making a difference but having Goldy in front of him doesn't hurt either. I think so far teams have risked letting both Ozuna and DeYoung beat them instead of Goldschmidt, both have been taking advantage of it.
There’s a slight chance that you may have been a wee tiny bit premature on both of these.
Fowler I still say isn't worth it, he has gotten hot before. Hicks I will gladly be wrong on that.
