What do you think the leading cause of our recent surge is?
May 21, 2023
What do you think the leading cause of our recent surge is?
25 comments
Burger phone.
Pitching getting better, and players getting hot at the plate
Devil Magic 😈.. duh.
Nolan
Edit: take your pick
I changed my background for meetings in Teams to Busch Stadium. No need to thank me.
Regression to the mean. Basically, we were never actually that bad.
– Arenado wasn’t actually a .600 OPS guy. Now that he’s hitting, we’re scoring a lot more runs.
– Contreras wasn’t as bad of a hitter as he started.
– The rotation isn’t good, but they were never 6.00 ERA bad. Mikolas has rebounded to expectations, Flaherty was never an 8.00 ERA guy, we don’t have to start Woodford anymore, etc.
– We’re getting a lot luckier. Through the losing, our run differential looked a lot more like a mediocre team than the worst team in the league. We were playing meh baseball and getting atrocious results. That wasn’t going to continue.
Regression to the mean
This team clearly needs a grandpa figure.
Ending the game with more runs than the other team
Hitting is contagious.
The lineup is somewhat stabilizing. Arenado/Gorman are going for POTM. Goldy is a 900ops rock..WC since mid April is rocking a mid 800ops. Dejong+edman are on pace for 8war combined. Woody isn’t getting starts, Miles/Jack/Libby/Monty are actually a solid 2,3,4,5. And honestly outside of 12 games vs Yanks, Stros, Rangers, Dbacks…we have one of the easiest schedules in baseball. Take away that Tigers sweep…were pretty much exactly where we need to be. Add a Cobb/Giolito/Bieber/Lazardo/Marquez… call up ZT, Zuniga to pen. And we have legit shot at a NLCS berth
Gorman and Contreras raising the ambient testosterone level in the clubhouse just by hanging out.
I knew our offense was good, but I didn’t realize until I saw the tweet in the article that our offense was *that* legit. That’s nuts, at least top 3 across the board. If the offense sustains that level, then maybe all we need is low-ceiling pitching. Although a sneaky move or two at the deadline for some pitching support would be really good — we have pieces we can ship.
Paul Goldschmidt spoke to the team. There’s a reason he doesn’t talk much. Such power would cause rifts in baseball.
Replacing Taylor Motter with Paul DeJong
Arenado mashing is to me the single biggest difference. Having an MVP-caliber hitter in your cleanup spot vs having a guy who was hitting like a backup catcher in the cleanup spot is such a huge difference, particularly when the main problem with the offense was driving guys in. The starting pitching has for the most part gotten better as well. Not drastically better, but good enough.
I don’t want to say that it’s all thanks to me but…it was just about 2 weeks ago that I said they really need to string together some wins. And it looks like they took that remark to heart.
They are who we thought they are.
Pitching is the weak spot. A new coach, new catcher for the first time in 2 decades, and half the staff out of spring training for the WBC. They’ve actually been decent for most of May. I think they should trade for bullpen help, and the management of the pen is one of Marmol’s weakest points.
April was so bad that I think they’re going to have to win play .650-.700 the rest of the year, but the NL central is weak.
Every team has a shitty stretch. Our’s (hopefully) was at the start of the season.
Well I think it’s because the Cardinals are scoring more runs then the other team scores in a game.
Return of the Rally Squirrel. Might not have worked that game but he was telling us good times are ahead
Wainwright came back and settled down the team. Good veteran leadership. I think Molina has been doing this for years. Hopefully he is the next Cardinals manager.
The burger phone
Wainwright morale in the dugout.
We weren’t as bad as we thought we were. We were very unlucky and had some rough pitching. Bad combo
25 comments
Burger phone.
Pitching getting better, and players getting hot at the plate
Devil Magic 😈.. duh.
Nolan
Edit: take your pick
I changed my background for meetings in Teams to Busch Stadium. No need to thank me.
Regression to the mean. Basically, we were never actually that bad.
– Arenado wasn’t actually a .600 OPS guy. Now that he’s hitting, we’re scoring a lot more runs.
– Contreras wasn’t as bad of a hitter as he started.
– The rotation isn’t good, but they were never 6.00 ERA bad. Mikolas has rebounded to expectations, Flaherty was never an 8.00 ERA guy, we don’t have to start Woodford anymore, etc.
– We’re getting a lot luckier. Through the losing, our run differential looked a lot more like a mediocre team than the worst team in the league. We were playing meh baseball and getting atrocious results. That wasn’t going to continue.
Regression to the mean
This team clearly needs a grandpa figure.
Ending the game with more runs than the other team
Hitting is contagious.
The lineup is somewhat stabilizing. Arenado/Gorman are going for POTM. Goldy is a 900ops rock..WC since mid April is rocking a mid 800ops. Dejong+edman are on pace for 8war combined. Woody isn’t getting starts, Miles/Jack/Libby/Monty are actually a solid 2,3,4,5. And honestly outside of 12 games vs Yanks, Stros, Rangers, Dbacks…we have one of the easiest schedules in baseball. Take away that Tigers sweep…were pretty much exactly where we need to be. Add a Cobb/Giolito/Bieber/Lazardo/Marquez… call up ZT, Zuniga to pen. And we have legit shot at a NLCS berth
Gorman and Contreras raising the ambient testosterone level in the clubhouse just by hanging out.
I knew our offense was good, but I didn’t realize until I saw the tweet in the article that our offense was *that* legit. That’s nuts, at least top 3 across the board. If the offense sustains that level, then maybe all we need is low-ceiling pitching. Although a sneaky move or two at the deadline for some pitching support would be really good — we have pieces we can ship.
Paul Goldschmidt spoke to the team. There’s a reason he doesn’t talk much. Such power would cause rifts in baseball.
Replacing Taylor Motter with Paul DeJong
Arenado mashing is to me the single biggest difference. Having an MVP-caliber hitter in your cleanup spot vs having a guy who was hitting like a backup catcher in the cleanup spot is such a huge difference, particularly when the main problem with the offense was driving guys in. The starting pitching has for the most part gotten better as well. Not drastically better, but good enough.
I don’t want to say that it’s all thanks to me but…it was just about 2 weeks ago that I said they really need to string together some wins. And it looks like they took that remark to heart.
They are who we thought they are.
Pitching is the weak spot. A new coach, new catcher for the first time in 2 decades, and half the staff out of spring training for the WBC. They’ve actually been decent for most of May. I think they should trade for bullpen help, and the management of the pen is one of Marmol’s weakest points.
April was so bad that I think they’re going to have to win play .650-.700 the rest of the year, but the NL central is weak.
Every team has a shitty stretch. Our’s (hopefully) was at the start of the season.
Well I think it’s because the Cardinals are scoring more runs then the other team scores in a game.
Return of the Rally Squirrel. Might not have worked that game but he was telling us good times are ahead
Wainwright came back and settled down the team. Good veteran leadership. I think Molina has been doing this for years. Hopefully he is the next Cardinals manager.
The burger phone
Wainwright morale in the dugout.
We weren’t as bad as we thought we were. We were very unlucky and had some rough pitching. Bad combo