Surely no one from Missouri will tweet something incredibly stupid this year: The 2016 St. Louis Cardinals

i appreciate pitchers whose batting stances involve a leg kick

he used to be a SS back in the day

bobby? 2B

aledmys diaz, 5 for 5!

if he can only learn how to be a better SS, :D :D

wonder what it will take to get him out of the 8 hole

although it always seemed apparent hazelbaker's success is (was) a fluke, for some reason i have like full-on aledyms fever right now

viva el birdos ‏@vivaelbirdos 1 minute ago
Aledmys Diaz wRC+ of 267 leads MLB (Manny Machado 2nd)
Aledmys Diaz SLG of .875 leads MLB (Bryce Harper 2nd)
BA and OBP 1st, too
min 50 PA

omg aledmys diaz

wong has to be really nervous right now

anyway his BABIP of .500 will proooooobably regress but for now O_O

@Cardinals
.@EliasSports says Aledmys Diaz is the first MLB player to debut in the modern era to have a batting average of .500 through 50+ career ABs.

Wong's ISO is still 0.00.

Among hitters with enough PA's to qualify, there's only one other player at 0, and that's Chase Headley.

Aledmys Diaz O_O

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChI7d34WIAEcLB5.jpg

i keep waiting for the floor to drop out from under him, but enjoying it while it lasts. obviously the BABIP won't stay like this forever but he's making legitimate hard contact in nearly ever PA, so it's not totally flukey either

http://i64.tinypic.com/4zw2uw.jpg lol xposts

http://i.imgur.com/4TcPWft.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/4TcPWft.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/4TcPWft.jpg

looks like he has a mustache coming out of his nostrils in that pic

<3 aledmys

that's a Hornsby-like start, i'm sure enough to get him elected as an All-Star by TBFIB.

Fangraphs examines Diaz and other hot debuts of the decade

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/pitchers-cant-seem-to-get-the-aledmys-diaz-out/

this prooooobably won't last, but at this point, 4 of the top 10 in avg. flyball distance are cardinals, including moss at #2, piscotty at #4, holliday at #7 and hazelbaker at #10. (heyward is last, at #233, which means he is a bad baseball player)

http://www.baseballheatmaps.com/graph/distanceleader.php

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15434472/st-louis-cardinals-looking-allegations-pitcher-carlos-martinez

.500 with +39 DIFF

This is a funny starting lineup.

Yadi's playing 1B (i'd rather just see him get a rare night off, especially with adams, moss, piscotty, and holliday all capable of playing 1B)

never put piscotty at first

interesting stat on the broadcast just now

they've scored 7+ runs 13 times, most in MLB
they've scored 1 run or less 9 times, second most in MLB

and that lines up with the experience of watching them so far this year. either blowouts against bad teams or incredibly frustrating near shutouts.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/51231442/v660805583/?game_pk=447291

it began with such promise

fyi pete kozma is hitting .172/.274/.237 for the yankees' triple-a club

his best ISO in several years

*drudgesiren* Matheny pulls head out of 2014 stat sheet *drudgesiren*

Jenifer Langosch ‏@LangoschMLB 3m3 minutes ago

#STLCards, who have gotten an awful .186/.270/.333 slash line from their cleanup hitters, try Piscotty in the spot tonight. Diaz to bat 2nd.

but...Piscotty isn't a big first basemen?

?!!??!

although on second thought, maybe matheny can use Piscotty at 1B tonight. then all will be right in the world

looks like Peralta is expected to get rehab work in at both SS and 3B. hoping they go for something like:

Diaz: SS
Peralta: 3B
Carpenter: 1B
Keep one of Moss or Adams, and trade the other.

maybe peralta should get some work at 2B as well

btw reyes is making his first start for memphis on sunday; maybe waino heard the footsteps last night

Marp at 1B today. Matheny reads ILX!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kxwJES7yA

featuring the world's most unbearable play-by-play announcer

omg you're not joking. holy shit, that guy

that was satisfying

they're really into dumping the gatorade on each other this year aren't they

cardinals acquire Jose Martinez from KC for cash considerations. Jose Martinez is the son of Carlos Martinez, which sounds absolutely amazing but it's the former MLB outfielder Carlos Martinez, not el gallo. he won the AAA batting title last year and had a wRC+ of 177, but he's 27 and has never played in the big leagues.

unrelated, and not blaming his recent 0 fer 17 entirely on this, but hey matheny why don't you give aledmys diaz a game off every once in a while. he's played pretty much every game since he came up

gotta run those kids into the ground

he'll give him two days off, relegate him to pinch-hitting for a few days, then put him back in the 8-hole. diaz is not allowed to hit anywhere except for 8th or 2nd.

adams is hitting .316/.374/.561

why do u hate him

I don't big city, I would just like to get some return on him while he's hitting .316/.374/.561

Or hell, same deal with Brandon Moss.

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-news-analysis-mlb/2016/6/1/11828806/stephen-piscotty-plays-guitar-dislikes-advanced-metrics-wants-to-save

Stephen Piscotty is smart. We have heard all about his Stanford background since he first graced a baseball field wearing the Birds on the Bat. We know he does not like chess, but what other things interest this smart guy? Mark Saxon of ESPN has the answers and one of them is not advanced metrics:

"It bothers me for some reason. I just don't like it and I don't really understand any of it. I just think it takes away so much of what it means to be a well-rounded ball player. I just think of these Little League kids and everybody's talking about these complicated statistics and it's really just about going and playing and competing."

"I get that you play 162 games and the computer can help you out and I think baseball will find a balance for that, but I think it's definitely shifting in a way that is overblown."

Stephen Piscotty is not smart.

wong optioned!

wow, that's the right move but i'm very surprised! at least wong will get some playing time there. i expected that the situation would be resolved by some sort of mid-season trade, or worse, by letting matheny handle it via his famed lineup construction skills

he's killing the ball in memphis, of course. and played center field last night!