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I think Yadi has been a great catcher but you bet your ass I would trade him for almost anyone who got 6+ WAR yearly. Stop judging Cardinal fans by fringe Twitter and newspaper forums lol. There's plenty of smart ones that are ready to see the Yadi era end soon. Including me.

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.

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.

The only thing more predictable is that he’ll be a fringe major league player next year and slash like .210/.280/.360 2.1 fWAR in limited playing time most of the season isn't "fringe" lol. 110 wRC+ as a floating type between 3B/2B/RF is more than okay. Gets lots of value from speed and defense.

You realize he was injured all year, right? Losing a year of development to injury time is not a point in a player's favor. Yeah, duh But acting like those numbers mean jack in a handful of games is silly. He will be up here by 23. Pretty standard age to come to MLB. Not concerned.

Our top 4 prospects are all position players so I'm sure I'll be fine. You do realize our #4 prospect according to you, Montero, just put up a .552 OPS and K'd in 29.8% of his PA over a full season of AA ball, right? The farm lacks high end upside outside of maybe 3 players. You realize he was injured all year, right?

Our top 4 prospects are all position players so I'm sure I'll be fine.

10-0. Goldy's second shot of the game. 7 RBIs for him alone. New hitting coach Jeff Albert is paying off.

Except they have no defenders or bullpen

Counting on young pitchers to not have their arms fall off is not a recipe for long term success. Cubs fans who remember the dusty baker days may be a little too sensitive to this, but it’s still true. Meh. Hudson doesn't overpower and Flaherty has nothing in his delivery or injury history that says he will drop off the map. He's only getting better. Hicks is getting his Tommy John out of the way now so he will be good. Reyes already got his out of the way, so anything from him is a bonus. No offense, but the Cardinals don't operate like the early 2000s Cubs on any level so I think we'll be fine in how we forecast for the future. We've been a contact-pitching team since DeWitt bought the team. We rely on defense and contact. And it works long term, demonstrably. Plus...

As good as Jack Flaherty is, Dakota Hudson has been just nearly as effective. Hudson has a 0.9 fWAR. But is 15-6 for a reason. Generates the weakest contact in baseball. Fangraphs needs to figure out how to quantify that in their WAR calc. Both young cornerstones of the rotation. In less than two years the team’s regulars will include Flaherty, Carlson, Hudson, Hicks, Gorman, Knizner, Fernandez, and possibly Reyes, Wong, Edman, and Bader too. Great young core to work with. High output from Goldy and Carpenter will be bonuses.

Yes, BestFansStLouis compiles some truly awful fans' takes. Racist and otherwise. I don't know anyone like that and they are an awful, small subgroup of fan I never encounter, thankfully. But the whitest thing on earth is Wrigley-goers dancing to "Go Cubs Go" and I can find plenty of examples of racist Cubs fans tweets/Facebook comments by using a search term. Not hard. I'm glad this has devolved into a "no your city is more racist" when we all know Chicago's dark history and current and treatment of African Americans. I would think you'd be smart enough not to want to enter that low tier city-pride mudsling.

Yeah that's why the whole city loves Ozzie, Lou, and Gibby like no other. Perhaps you forgot how they were in their playing days? This ownership is fickle about the "brand" in a lame way, no doubt. But they'd traded off other people who were similarly picking at the fabric who were white like Rasmus and Rolen. You guys have the whitest, mayo, loafer-wearing fanbase around. Obvious "difference" between Wrigley and Guaranteed Rate fan demos.

Tommy Pham was traded because we have a fragile owner who didn’t like him firing off to the media about the organization. Zero to do with rebuilding. Silly you think that. Plus we had to make room for Tyler O’Neill and Bader one way or another. Trading one of the team's best players who didn't make anything for O'Neill and Bader is certainly a strategy. No argument here but it was ownership call. Not a rebuilding move. I don't think any Cards fan I know liked that trade. Now nor when it happened.

Tommy Pham was traded because we have a fragile owner who didn’t like him firing off to the media about the organization. Zero to do with rebuilding. Silly you think that. Plus we had to make room for Tyler O’Neill and Bader one way or another.