Willson Contreras will be All Right for the foreseeable future

[squally1313]

Because he fractured his left arm in a pretty nasty catchers interference. 

[cl smooth]

 

[Derwood]

Moving him closer seems to have been a poor tactic. How fuccking stupid

[Thusly Boned]

Hate that for Willson, especially since it seems that he was closer to the plate by team mandate. Latest in a long series of bad looks for the Cards. It would have been a ridiculous thing to say only a few years back, but the Cardinals are a very poorly run and managed team right now.

[soccer10k]

Did Mikolas throw at Martinez at some point or does he only do that with Cubs players?

[Derwood]

8 hours ago, soccer10k said:

Did Mikolas throw at Martinez at some point or does he only do that with Cubs players?

No, see, the Cubs hit the catcher on their follow through, while Martinez hit him on his actual swing. TOTALLY DIFFERENT

[CubinNY]

10 hours ago, Thusly Boned said:

Hate that for Willson, especially since it seems that he was closer to the plate by team mandate. Latest in a long series of bad looks for the Cards. It would have been a ridiculous thing to say only a few years back, but the Cardinals are a very poorly run and managed team right now.

Especially the managed part. 

[Guest234]

Marmolization - not a good look!

[Thusly Boned]

6 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Especially the managed part. 

For sure, but I think it's top down at this point. Mozeliak sucks. Their roster construction is bad, and I think they have become stuck in organizational complacency and have refused to make obvious changes when they should have been made out of stupid "We're the Cardinals, we don't rebuild/retool" pride.

Now they're stuck with an old roster and their young guys just aren't panning out. And in a reversal of pretty much all of recent history, players who are being brought in to STL are getting worse, and players being shipped out are getting better.

And then you add in the incompetence of the on field/clubhouse management, and it's a mess. The shine is off, they just aren't the model of organizational excellence they have been for most of the last 30 years, and the people that seem the least aware of that are in their front office. Team statements seem almost delusional.

History tells me that I may end up having to eat these words, but the Cards are down bad.

[CubinNY]

5 minutes ago, Thusly Boned said:

For sure, but I think it's top down at this point. Mozeliak sucks. Their roster construction is bad, and I think they have become stuck in organizational complacency and have refused to make obvious changes when they should have been made out of stupid "We're the Cardinals, we don't rebuild/retool" pride.

Now they're stuck with an old roster and their young guys just aren't panning out. And in a reversal of pretty much all of recent history, players who are being brought in to STL are getting worse, and players being shipped out are getting better.

And then you add in the incompetence of the on field/clubhouse management, and it's a mess. The shine is off, they just aren't the model of organizational excellence they have been for most of the last 30 years, and the people that seem the least aware of that are in their front office. Team statements seem almost delusional.

History tells me that I may end up having to eat these words, but the Cards are down bad.

Agree. They lost a lot of the upper level player development and executive staff and Mozeliak has not been able to replace them.

[JHBulls]

. Solid Arrested Development reference. 😂