How The Cardinals WASTED A Golden Opportunity

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1. Coming from a Cardinal fan myself, wasting it isn’t the best way to describe it. 2023 sucked for sure, and I think age has a lot to do with it. Goldy was 36 in 2023, and Arenado is still good

2. Bloom is not in charge yet, he is focusing on the farm system this year and then he will officially take over for 2026.

3. As a diamondback fan who never recovered after the goldy trade let alone the disassembling our 2017 squad I've never recovered from the way stl wasted his final prime years

4. entertaining as usual! Thank you.

5. Cardinals are focusing on rebuilding the front office and player development system this offseason. Next season is just about letting the young guys play that they already have, and whatever happens, happens.

6. The cardinals potentially wasted their time with a future HoFer 3rd baseman in his prime along side several other really good players in a mediocre divison…and yet they STILL are better off than the Rockies

7. Bro went from saying Pujols was 48 to 57 😂😂😂

8. The Cardinals once had one of the best farm systems in all baseball. They had several prospects, a lot of good players in development, and a system pumping more out.

   Then, they started trading their farm system players away. Stopped investing in the farm system. Stopped drafting good talent. Stopped developing their pitchers.

   You know, like the White Sox. I've wondered since about 2017 if Reinsdorf secretly bought the Cardinals…

9. One thing you forgot to mention is Yadir Molina. His leadership got them through the last decade. The year he retired? The cards fell off a cliff. He had more of an effect on the team than just his bat and calling skills behind the plate

10. It was amazing to see them in 2022 lead that win streak. Then the Phillies happened and Paul and Nolan did absolutely nothing. Then 23 and 24 happened. They had great moments, but it wasn't enough. Screw you Mozeilak

11. Arenado is unquestionably the best defensive corner I’ve seen in history, and if the baseball gods can save him from Trout Syndrome, it’s gotta be LA. 🤷‍♂️ He’s already thumbin on the roadside with an “LA or BUST” sign. Gods let it BE! 🙏😮‍💨

12. Bloom will do to the cardinals what he did to the Red Sox
    Sun 500 most of the time

13. Blueface the rapper?? 😂😂😂

14. Arenado played at Coors field. That's probably why his OPS+ was low those years.

15. Same video for the Blue Jays after the 2025 season

16. As a Cardinals fan I have so many thoughts… 2022 was supposed to be our year. Everything was going perfect and it was incredible, except for Goldschmidt. If you look at Goldies game logs in 22, he fell off a cliff as soon as September hit. The only reason we actually made the playoffs and got to the 90+ wins was just on the back of Pujols magical run. He carried all the runs we needed to win games in September. Goldy stopped hitting completely as soon as September hit. I think the "wasted" idea is a 50/50 blame. Goldnado didn't show up when we needed them the most. Arenado is like 1/20 in the playoffs in those 2 years. He just didn't do anything. Goldy fell off too. They should carry 50% of the blame, and the office just didn't suppled the pitching the modern game was needed. The FO brought in 2 MVP perennial players, and they just didn't show up when they were needed the most. I think about the difference in the Dodgers 23 and 24 post seasons. The Dodgers got swept in 2023 in the NLDS because Mookie and Freeman didn't show up and did nothing when it was needed the most. They won in 2024 because Freeman and Mookie showed up. When you're paying MVP players MVP money, they gotta come through. Small addition. No Yadi. He led the team, and was the face of the team. Goldy & Arenado couldn't step and be the face of a franchise. They'll succeed when there are other players that are the faces of the organization. < Die Hard Cardinals Fan

17. Watch him go to the Mets

18. the Cards wasted a huge year from Pujols, who, at age 78, still crushed a lot of homeruns…

19. As a cardinals fan.. I dread watching this video.. heartbreak

20. The Rockies hate winning lol

21. As a giant cardinals fan our front office has been pretty bad. We've had no pitching for so long now it's sad

22. Im so glad my team is in a easy division… i mean we still cant win and i honestly thought our biggest threat was the cards but glad they found themselves choking just as much lol

23. Cardinals to cut payroll yet again, even after getting a tv deal done.

24. Who is your favorite team

25. Pujols was on da juice

26. I’m a Red Sox lifelong fan since the 80’s. The series in 07 where the Rockies got dog walked is really my only reference for the ‘Rockies don’t want anything to do with winning’ comment 😂😂😂

27. That’s a shame

28. As a Cubs fan seeing the Cards gets Arenado/Goldy for practically nothing around the same time we had to trade off Bryant/Rizzo was as grueling to watch as that 83 win ‘06 team and the “twice down to last strike” ‘11 team both win it all.

    Good thing we’ll always have 2016.

29. As a die hard Cardinals fan, this was the worst team we have ever had since I have been alive. Which I guess is a blessing to have your hometown team be so good all these years but man, this hurt. It’s terrifying to think this is signs of things to come. I’ll never abandon ship and will go down with the entire franchise but I really hope the front office pulls their head out of their ass.

30. the cardinals and arenado were never in a golden opportunity and a blocked trade isnt wasting a golden opportunity.

31. I’m sorry dude they caused the failure the two good years we made the playoffs they didn’t hit. So sick of saying we blew it they blew it maybe more.

32. Im part of the high percentile thats not subscribed lol. Don't need to anymore most of the videos will eventually show up on your feed.

33. Lmao Blueface catching a stray in a baseball vid 😂
    As a Phillies fan, I always enjoy revisiting that 2022 WC round.

34. Just wanted to drop by to say frick the Cards!

35. As a Dodger fan, this pleases me. 😉 Fuck the Cardinals.

36. Bloom gave the dodgers mookie fycking betttssssssss

37. The Cardinals turned two generational talents into one of the biggest missed opportunities in baseball. Instead of building a dynasty, they ran it into the ground. Classic case of mismanagement killing potential greatness.

38. Weird as heck. I stayed up all night figuring out that impedance was a massive issue with my QC

39. It feels this organization just doesn’t care. And they play in the worst division in baseball. Boring team. Still feels weird Arenado is a cardinal.

40. Cards Nation have known this for a long time. We needed a rebuild 5 years ago. If I remember I thought a HOF pitcher named Max Scherzer was wanting to come and play in St Louis? Maybe with him, Pujols, Goldschmidt, Molina and Arenado could have done enough to get past a WC? But No the genius GM places too much trust into guys like Mikolas and Matz. Mo has got to Go!

41. Hey thanks for this video it needed to be said out loud, and it makes it really cool that you listened to my comment on your stream a while back.

42. Firing Mike shildt was a dumb move it’s not on Goldschmidt or Arenado it’s the terrible management that they are under.

43. 21 and 22 could've been WS teams but instead these guys came up empty when it mattered.

44. I’ll be honest… they didn’t show up in the playoffs. Yes, we wasted the years they were here. But we also just have to acknowledge that when we needed the cornerstones in the playoffs they laid eggs.

45. I need a positive brewers content video…I’m still down from last season lol

46. Thanks for a Cards video, it’s amazing how many creators never feature them.

47. the problem is teams are paying players the most money for the worst years of their careers statistically.

48. I’m a Yankee fan I have no idea who this guy roots for but this is the best MLB channel on YouTube I don’t miss one vid from this kid absolute masterclass

49. OPS+ adjusts for league-wide offence as well as park factor. Busch in 2022 was the 4th hardest park to hit in while Coors is the easiest park to hit in by a sizeable margin every year, hence Arenado’s OPS+ being the highest of his career in 2022 despite having higher OPS’s in Colorado.

50. Arenado and Goldschmidt a wasted era? Look up Rodriguez, Griffey, Martinez, Buhner, and Johnson. Talk about winning nothing with everything.