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CurtOne

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #165 on: April 03, 2018, 12:08:07 pm »
This will make him popular!

With those who can't stomach Cardinalnation.

BearHit

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #166 on: April 03, 2018, 12:40:02 pm »
He was in somebody's doghouse

Bennett

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #167 on: April 03, 2018, 06:20:42 pm »
MILWAUKEE -- The St. Louis Cardinals placed Jedd Gyorko on the 10-day disabled list and recalled prospect Harrison Bader from Triple-A before a game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.

Gyorko left Monday's game in the seventh inning with a strained right hamstring. Greg Garcia will fill in at third base.

Jes Beard

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #168 on: April 04, 2018, 07:18:56 pm »
http://www.bleachernation.com/2018/04/03/wow-cardinals-of-tommy-pham-has-some-extremely-candid-words-for-how-the-team-treated-him/


If you look at his minor league stats, they were not exactly calling out too loudly for him to ever be in the majors.

At 25, as a AAA OFer he hit .264 with a .678 OPS in 106 AB, and in 188 that year at AA he hit .301 with a .910 OPS in 163 AB.

At 26, as an AAA OFer he hit .324 with an OPS of .886 in 346 AB, and got a callup to the Cardinals, hitting .268 with an .824 OPS in 153 AB -- in other words, when he did well in the minors, he got called up, got some playing time, and did reasonably okay, but did not set the world afire.

The guy really has nothing to complain about regarding how the Cards used him or called him up.


ben

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #170 on: April 23, 2018, 09:12:36 am »
It's still April.

Robb

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #171 on: April 23, 2018, 11:33:37 am »
Let them crow, it will be all the sweeter when the Cubs destroy them later, preferably clinching in St Louis again with Darvish dominating.

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #172 on: April 23, 2018, 12:21:48 pm »
Mikolas 6 ERA in 2 games against the Brewers, 1.28 in 2 games against the Reds.

His contact percentage of 82.4% is 12 worst in the majors and that is with people swinging at 39% of pitches outside the zone.  My guess is that as the league catches up to him they are going to make him come into the zone more and his zone contact percentage of 92.5% will catch up to him.  Only Felix, Godley, Blach and Chacin have higher zone contact percentages. 

Of those 4 pitches on Godley is really doing well.  He is also the only one of the group.  Godley's outside zone contact percentage is 37.9%.  The rest of them have an outside zone contact percentage of 59.7%-73.7%.  Mikolas has a 68%.

CurtOne

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #173 on: April 23, 2018, 01:08:57 pm »
Yeahbut how's he doing with RISP?

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CUBluejays

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #176 on: July 02, 2018, 01:39:58 pm »
From Bleacher Nation.... Here’s Mozeliak’s entire comment on Fowler. Just wow:

“It’s been a frustrating year for everybody involved. Here’s a guy who wants to go out and play well. I think he would tell you it’s hard to do that when you’re not playing on a consistent basis. But I’ve also had a lot of people come up to me and question his effort and his energy level. You know, those are things that I can’t defend. What I can defend is trying to create opportunities for him, but not if it’s at the expense of someone who’s out there hustling and playing hard. And really I think everyone just needs to take a hard look in the mirror, and decide what they want that next chapter to look like. And in Dexter’s case, maybe taking a brief time out, trying to reassess himself, and then give him a chance for a strong second half is probably what’s best for everybody. I’m hopeful to touch base with him in the near future and decide what makes the most sense, but clearly he’s not playing at the level we had hoped.”

http://www.bleachernation.com/2018/07/02/cardinals-president-publicly-calls-out-dexter-fowlers-effort-energy-and-hustle/

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #177 on: July 02, 2018, 01:46:22 pm »
Wow

CurtOne

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #178 on: July 02, 2018, 01:50:45 pm »
The Greatest Fans in the World have been down on him from the word GO.  Mozeliak is covering his own ass my echoing the fans.

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Re: St. Louis sucks
« Reply #179 on: July 02, 2018, 01:54:36 pm »
This belongs in Politics, but I heard that stuff about Jason Heyward his first two years from the Cubs too from a few random Cubs fans I'd bump into.  Seems like a struggling black player gets that tag a lot easier than a struggling white one does. 

I'm not sure what's going on with Fowler this year, but there was definitely no reason to question his energy, effort, and hustle during his time with the Cubs, much less his first season in St. Louis.  I have a hard time believing he just all of a sudden decided this was the year he was going to quit playing all out.