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Bertz Knoxville Smokies

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Super happy for Strasburg right now. Obviously beating the Cards is great, but I want to see what kind of chaos his opt out causes. Plus, I feel like his HOF case was not commensurate with how good of a career he's had, and these postseason heroics are realigning things more properly.
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Super happy for Strasburg right now. Obviously beating the Cards is great, but I want to see what kind of chaos his opt out causes. Plus, I feel like his HOF case was not commensurate with how good of a career he's had, and these postseason heroics are realigning things more properly.

 

he would be stupid to opt out

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Super happy for Strasburg right now. Obviously beating the Cards is great, but I want to see what kind of chaos his opt out causes. Plus, I feel like his HOF case was not commensurate with how good of a career he's had, and these postseason heroics are realigning things more properly.

 

he would be stupid to opt out

Huh? He’d be stupid not to. He easily would get another 1-2 years and another $30-50 mil over what he has left, he has 4/90 left. He’d easily get 5/120 or 6/135 or so.

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Super happy for Strasburg right now. Obviously beating the Cards is great, but I want to see what kind of chaos his opt out causes. Plus, I feel like his HOF case was not commensurate with how good of a career he's had, and these postseason heroics are realigning things more properly.

 

he would be stupid to opt out

Huh? He’d be stupid not to. He easily would get another 1-2 years and another $30-50 mil over what he has left, he has 4/90 left. He’d easily get 5/120 or 6/135 or so.

 

Do you forget all of the health issues he's had? Would he gamble on a new deal, or take the guaranteed money? I'm not convinced he gets 5/120

17 Seconds Chicago Cubs

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Cardinals went 5-2 against them this year, including 3 of 4 at home and have home field advantage. With Anibal Sanchez starting game 1. This won't be a cakewalk. Especially since it'll set up where Wainwright only pitches at home.

 

Cardinals beat Scherzer twice this year.

 

none of these things mean anything, I dont understand why people cite stuff like this in baseball

Beating Scherzer twice does mean something, lol. Sorry you can't do "small samples!!!" to things like that. That guy wrecked almost every one he faced.

 

Since Jeff Albert (came over from Houston) became the primary hitting coach, the Cardinals have had the 4th best offense in baseball.

 

Nationals, like the Braves, have a crap bullpen. You need that to win in the playoffs. Cardinals will just hack fouls and take take take until the 5th-6th when starters are lifted and feast on their pen. Just like we did Atlanta.

 

I don't put a lot of stock into WAR for pitchers when the stat doesn't consider weak contact/ground balls. And that's the moneyball market efficiency that Cardinals were all-in on. Mikolas, Waino, and Hudson are all groundball specialists. The whole staff is. With Edman and Wong and DeJong in the infield... it'll be smooth sailing barring crazy BABIP luck. Cardinals are the best postseason team remaining with HR/FB rates too. We keep the ball in the park in a homer-crazy league. That's how you win. That's how we'll beat the Nationals.

 

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he would be stupid to opt out

Huh? He’d be stupid not to. He easily would get another 1-2 years and another $30-50 mil over what he has left, he has 4/90 left. He’d easily get 5/120 or 6/135 or so.

 

Do you forget all of the health issues he's had? Would he gamble on a new deal, or take the guaranteed money? I'm not convinced he gets 5/120

No I obviously haven’t forgotten. He’s awesome when healthy and he’s healthy now and balling in the playoffs, someone will pay him. He’ll get at least somewhere in the Yu or Corbin range of contract if he opts out (or just has the Nats tack on some years/money to not opt out).

17 Seconds Chicago Cubs

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he would be stupid to opt out

Huh? He’d be stupid not to. He easily would get another 1-2 years and another $30-50 mil over what he has left, he has 4/90 left. He’d easily get 5/120 or 6/135 or so.

 

Do you forget all of the health issues he's had? Would he gamble on a new deal, or take the guaranteed money? I'm not convinced he gets 5/120

 

he doesn't give you many full seasons but he hasn't made less than 22 starts in any of the last 8 seasons and is always very good in them. his health history isn't as bad as darvish and he's also better.

gflore34 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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none of these things mean anything, I dont understand why people cite stuff like this in baseball

Beating Scherzer twice does mean something, lol. Sorry you can't do "small samples!!!" to things like that. That guy wrecked almost every one he faced.

 

Since Jeff Albert (came over from Houston) became the primary hitting coach, the Cardinals have had the 4th best offense in baseball.

 

Nationals, like the Braves, have a crap bullpen. You need that to win in the playoffs. Cardinals will just hack fouls and take take take until the 5th-6th when starters are lifted and feast on their pen. Just like we did Atlanta.

 

I don't put a lot of stock into WAR for pitchers when the stat doesn't consider weak contact/ground balls. And that's the moneyball market efficiency that Cardinals were all-in on. Mikolas, Waino, and Hudson are all groundball specialists. The whole staff is. With Edman and Wong and DeJong in the infield... it'll be smooth sailing barring crazy BABIP luck. Cardinals are the best postseason team remaining with HR/FB rates too. We keep the ball in the park in a homer-crazy league. That's how you win. That's how we'll beat the Nationals.

 

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Was listening to the board cast last night, color announcer was talking about the Cardinals offensively being the worst of the remaining teams. Think were seeing a little of that, thus far, got to give the National' pitching a lot of credit.

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none of these things mean anything, I dont understand why people cite stuff like this in baseball

Beating Scherzer twice does mean something, lol. Sorry you can't do "small samples!!!" to things like that. That guy wrecked almost every one he faced.

 

Since Jeff Albert (came over from Houston) became the primary hitting coach, the Cardinals have had the 4th best offense in baseball.

 

Nationals, like the Braves, have a crap bullpen. You need that to win in the playoffs. Cardinals will just hack fouls and take take take until the 5th-6th when starters are lifted and feast on their pen. Just like we did Atlanta.

 

I don't put a lot of stock into WAR for pitchers when the stat doesn't consider weak contact/ground balls. And that's the moneyball market efficiency that Cardinals were all-in on. Mikolas, Waino, and Hudson are all groundball specialists. The whole staff is. With Edman and Wong and DeJong in the infield... it'll be smooth sailing barring crazy BABIP luck. Cardinals are the best postseason team remaining with HR/FB rates too. We keep the ball in the park in a homer-crazy league. That's how you win. That's how we'll beat the Nationals.

 

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It's going to shock everyone but guess who has not been active since 7 hours before game of the NLCS

 

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NotSoSober ACL Cubs

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what happened to the umps? gameday is saying there was a big switcharoo

Jeff Nelson ( i think that's who it was) took two foul balls right in the noggin. concussion protocol time

minnesotacubsfan Chicago Cubs

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what happened to the umps? gameday is saying there was a big switcharoo

Jeff Nelson ( i think that's who it was) took two foul balls right in the noggin. concussion protocol time

 

 

WAS IT OFF OF SANCHEZ'S BAT

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