Cardinals get Russell Branyan

[NonProfitCow]

More details to come...

 

 

But this is sure gonna look good in the lineup...:roll:

 

AVG .198 | HR 9 | RBI 24 | OBP .316 | SLG .458

 

Teams this season to date

 

Padres (Released July 28th)

Indians (Released Aug 9th)

Phillies (designated for assignment on Aug. 28th)

 

The Cards are his fourth team in the last 35 days.

[apete6]

He already beat us singlehandedly once this year (ruining Zs gem)

 

I project at least 2 more game winning HRs in the 4 game series in STL.

[UK1679666180]

Hmmm....

 

Him and Ankiel are very similar hitters except MLB has figured out Branyan.

[Post Count Padder]

Imagine what his OPS would look like if wasn't hitting below the Mendoza line. I suspect he'll haunt us at some point in September.

[Backtobanks]

He'll probably homer off of Trachsel in the DH game.

[Andy]

2000 with Cleveland: .871 OPS

2004 with Milwaukee: .849 OPS

2005 with Milwaukee: .868 OPS

 

I point this out because these are his best three years in the majors.

 

He has gone over .330 in OBP once (2005). Gone over .500 in slugging twice (last time 2004).

 

His OPS+ has been better than 100 4 seasons in a row, counting this year (he's at 104, unbelievably enough).

 

If this sounds like the crafting of a post for the "Cardinals get great production from bad players" thread, well, that's because that's exactly what it is.

[chuckywang]

That Cardinals jersey will automatically raise his average by 50 points....smart move by Branyan.

[TruffleShuffle]

he's actually underrated; i think it's a good move by them.

[Bote McBoteface]

Sometimes I think the Cardinals purposely get crappy players just to irk us when we have to watch those players perform ridiculously better than they ever have in their careers.

[badnews]

I've always been a big Russell Branyan fan. When he's going good he strikes out 40% of the time and like 80% of his hits are XBHs.

 

I'm way past the stage where I laugh at anything the Cardinals do. In late July, the Cardinals were 29th in team ERA and 27th in runs scored, and were 10+ games out. Their lineup looked like junk, their pitching rotation was an "AAAA" looking Braden Looper, Todd Wellemeyer, Kip Wells, Adam Wainwright, and an 0-10 (at the time) Anthony Reyes. They had Aaron Miles, So Taguchi, Juan Encarnacion, David Eckstein, Adam Kennedy, and Yadier Molina larding up their lineup doing absolutely nothing. Carpenter and Mulder were gone; Rolen and Edmonds were not the same guys by far.

 

How the hell are they so close to us? Ask me if I'm laughing now.

 

Russell Branyan should be picked up on everyone's fantasy team. 8 home runs in September.