Katie Woo on Cardinals front office shakeup, offseason fire sale | Foul Territory

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1. I fear that Katie was unwittingly duped into forwarding a false narrative from ownership by her sources. This organization is swimming in revenue. They can absolutely bump up spending on player development significantly without cutting MLB payroll and still be extremely profitable. In terms of revenue the closest comp to the Cardinals is Atlanta. The Braves have a great development system and do not go cheap on big league payroll.

2. Sell DeWitte.

3. sounds like the cardinals don't give a crap about the 2025 season.

4. Good. Screw the Cardinals.

5. My sister was offered a ticket to a Cardinals baseball game in St. Louis, but she's not a baseball fan.
   I'm a Toronto Blue Jays fan myself.
   Go, Jays, Go!⚾️🇨🇦

6. Katie Woo turns everything she touches to gold

7. The question is where has the money gone? We rank in the middle of the pack as far as payroll. How have other teams maintained payroll and invested at the same time? Ownership chose this path

8. Payroll going down next season same as my interest

9. I don’t get the hyper around lars nootbar can’t stay healthy and isn’t even that good when healthy

10. Im.not subscribed either. But i did leave this comment for you

11. Cards are in this position because of the dewitts, Mo.
    They take zero accountability for this collapse.

12. It is always on Bill DeWitt. They don't wanna spend any more money than they have to. It is sad that the St. Louis Cardinals are about to be relegated to the roll of the Miami Marlins, Kansas City Royals & others who grow minor leagues, and then trade them for prospects when they get good enough to make money.
    I know that's not what they said yesterday, but that's what it sounds like is about to happen. If you want to keep winning, and wanna keep fans coming to the ball park, you invest in the minor leagues, and you also try to improve the big league team to compete this year. But that's not what they care about.
    They just wanna hold onto as much money as possible.

13. Katie is quite the looker. Are can I not say that in the new WOKE society?

14. Bloom will do to the Cardinals what he did to the Red Sox
    In other words he will ruin them.

15. Makes sense to keep Mo next year and give Bloom an opportunity to roam the minors. Would be hard to do if he was running the big league club. I've been a fan for 60 years, witnessed peaks and valleys. The Cardinals will be ok.

16. I still see no good reason to not appease a chunk of the fan base by replacing Marmol now.

17. Katie Woo knows her stuff and has her finger on the pulse of Cardinals fans. I love her reporting!

18. But they weren't really "winning". They were making the playoffs, but they haven't had a legit chance to win a WS for over a decade.

19. Katie touched on it but should have expanded on it. The Cardinals have been drawing 3 MILLION fans for years. If spent properly they had enough resources to pay the big league club AND have a first-class development program. They never did go after 'whale' free agents. They should have had enough to do both so the question remains, Katie, just where did all those resources go?

20. Ah, and ownership has taken STL fans for granted. They will not travel across entire states to see low-payroll dreck. This is what the end of an era looks like, kids. Hubris and deceit bring a once-proud franchise to its knees.

21. Why does everyone refuse to point out that Mo is/was the problem.