In the event of Rapture all other teams will be Left Behind: the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals

got no gripe with the bucs either tho

randy flores is yr new scouting director

wow, good ol' randy flores! i didn't even know he was still involved in the organization tbh, not that i follow that side of things too closely

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/bIdvTa2nysZFbkVUNXvSJxEoXAI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4018788/WAR_FROM_PLAYERS_AGE-25_AND_YOUNGER.0.png

heyward, grichuk, wong, piscotty
wacha, martinez, rosenthal, siegrist

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-sabermetrics-analysis/2015/9/1/9237583/cardinals-have-the-most-productive-young-players-in-mlb

padres second oldest fml

or 'lowest', i guess

infinitely better than the tigers!

This team is pretty good. No idea wtf Nats were doing with their bullpen but cool by me.

moss with a BOOMING HR to right!

dan thinks it was the longest HR to right in Busch III's history

454 ft, it seems. man, that was absolutely crushed way into the upper deck. i can't imagine seeing a 480 ft HR in person

giancarlo stanton, somewhere, remains nonplussed

St. Louis Cardinals ‏@Cardinals 14 minutes ago
Current Cardinals Lineup:
Cruz 3B
Piscotty LF
Bourjos CF
Socolovich RHP
Moss 1B
Stanley C
Jay RF
Reynolds 2B
Kozma SS

fun fact from ozzie's inning in the booth in the midst of an otherwise dreadful beatdown: he has a 4 handicap in golf! that's pretty amazing, but if anyone could pick up golf after retirement and get that good, it would be him. i can imagine his dexterity just transferring over to club control

/ozzie fanfic

i'm not ready for the cubs to be good

yeah

oof

their hitting...speed...defense...youth...
oof

i guess i'm not sure of their speed/defense but based on the beatdowns from the last two nights they appear to be there

/ozzie fanfic

I never did link to that series of Matheny-entire-pitching-staff pr0n, but i don't want to soil anybody's browser history.

matt adams!

so grichuk is playing center despite a messed-up shoulder because they 'want his bat in the lineup'

first inning he runs down a rizzo hit in the gap, has to flip to heyward to throw the ball back in

WTF

too bad Bourjos and Jay are both injured...oh wait, they're not! why is Grichuk starting in CF?

seriously, out of all the matheny fuckups, this has to be #1

was he just hoping no one would hit it to him, somehow?

he did hit a homer tho, so his wing can't be THAT bad

players that are above Bourjos in the CF depth chart, according to Mike Matheny

- early season Jon Jay with a bum wrist who can't hit and has a ISO around .050
- randal grichuk (admittedly this turned out reaaaaally well while he was healthy)
- tommy pham
- recent Jon Jay with a bum wrist
- randal grichuk with an arm in a sling

- a cool looking stick that matheny found during a float trip last spring

did bourjos sleep with Matheny's wife or something?

lester scores from second on a hit up the middle because grichuk can't throw

grichuk is showing a lot of grit by toughing it out, and matheny is upping his clubhouse cred by showing faith in him

if they go 12-12 they won't win 100!

Remember when we were skipping starts because it was good for the team long-term...

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/COfNEfJVAAATQjH.mp4

bullet dodged

yeah, piscotty saved matheny's ass today

"Matheny, when asked after the win if he would continue to use a compromised Grichuk in the outfield, said he is "not going to rule it out."

MM is so fearless

recall when TLR did that with Pujols he said if it resulted in Pujols getting re-injured they should fire him.

also, TLR was replacing the immortal Miguel Cairo with 2003-era Pujols so it was at least plausible that Pujols would be able to make it up with his bat, whereas MM is using Grichuk to replace Bourjos/Jay/Pham. in CF. *shakes head*

gonna take a minute to imagine 2003 Pujols at 1b on this team. *dies*

“He was the hottest hitter on our team and we needed him there,” Carpenter said. “The goal in this deal is the same thing it was then: You hope he drives in more than he gives up. It didn’t work out that way (Wednesday) but if we continue it will. That was just bad luck.”

Tailspin. Pitching regresses and offense is terminal. The team looks more like you'd expect given all the injuries. Getting ugly.

but will it matter? do they end up in the WC game and lose it?

still 81% for the division

Getting Holliday and Adams and Grich back would obv help. Cards can't match #1 starters vs either Cubs/pirates so they really need to hold on to 1st.

holliday activated from DL, although he's not in the starting lineup. and Adams is back, and starting at 1B tonight.

we need some of these pirates/cubs games to go 46 innings.

that was maybe my favorite carlos martinez game of the year.

8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, fastball around 98/99 throughout the game and touching 100mph. he hit a legit double off the wall when the rest of the offense couldn't get anything going. he picked someone off. and then that incredible play on the bunt (clip here: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/643973899202359296/photo/1)

wonder how many homers Pham will have to hit to surpass Jay on the Matheny chart

I'm just listening to the game while I'm working but I must have missed something, why are the Cardinals so mad today?

it seems Dan Haren hit Carpenter w/ a pitch (head?)