Erick Fedde’s NIGHTMARE Outing DOOMS The St. Louis Cardinals | Top Prospect JJ Wetherholt News!

Erick Fedde’s NIGHTMARE Outing DOOMS The St. Louis Cardinals | Top Prospect JJ Wetherholt News!

Oh, Cardinals drop a stinker to the Pirates and everyone is calling for Eric Fetty’s head. Plus, we do have some positive news, some big news, good news about top prospect JJ Weatherhole. This is Locked on Cardinals. You are Locked on Cardinals, your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast, part of the locked on podcast network. Your team every day. Hey there, Cardinal fans. I’m JD Hafford and I am your host for Locked on Cardinals, part of the locked on podcast network covering your team every day. You can follow me on Ax JD Sports Radio, the podcast available on AX as well at l_cardinals. We’re on YouTube, uh, Tik Tok, Instagram. Look for Locked on Cardinals. You’ll find us. This is a show serving Cardinal Nation and giving the best fans in baseball all of the info about the birds on the bat. Today’s episode brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. If you bet on the Cardinals on Monday, you were a loser. Just like our Cardinals. Yeah. After a weekend, they brought so much promise to people’s lives. Made us all feel real good about ourselves. We’re like, “Yeah, we’re back.” how quickly things can change after the Cardinals get embarrassed in Pittsburgh after running into the buzzsaw of Andrew Heene and Spencer Horowitz. That’s right. You know those guys, right? No. Oh, you didn’t know that dynamic duo in Pittsburgh. Oh, well, you’re not alone. Most people don’t. And that’s because normally those two guys are not dominating teams like they did the Cardinals on Monday night. But that is what happened. Cardinal showed up into Pittsburgh to face Pirates team that granted just blasted the doors off the New York Mets outscored them 30-4 in a sweep over the weekend. And I warned you yesterday that giving a team like that confidence, it can go a long way. Normally the Pirates are not a really good hitting team. Normally the Pirates outside of guys like Paul Skins and Mitch Keller aren’t a great pitching team, but things have come together quite well for them in the last four days and the Cardinal were just the next team to get kicked in the teeth by them. Uh did have some people saying this is uh has to do with um you know Dave Parker’s passing and you know the spirit of Dave Parker and they’re you know they’re feeling inspired by this. Maybe that has something to do with it. It was uh sad to learn of Dave Parker’s passing, of course. Uh but the Pirates are playing inspired ball, man. Andrew Heeney had the boys baffled at the plate. Soft contact, swinging at balls out of the zone. It was rough to watch. It was not a whole lot of fun. And it’s uh you know, another soft tossing pitcher that the Cardinal just can’t seem to figure out. And what makes it sting even more is that it’s not like Heene has been doing this to everybody uh over the season. and he’s had some good games this year, don’t get me wrong. But his previous two games, he got destroyed by the Tigers and the Brewers. Seven runs in each of those games. Like, they just manhandled him. And then the Cardinals come in and watching them just get bedazzled by what he was tossing up there after hitting so well in Cleveland, too, was very, very frustrating. It was not It was not enjoyable. The Cardinals managed just four hits on the night. They were getting no hit by Heene until Victor Scott’s single in the sixth inning. Uh outside of that leadoff walk to Brennan Donovan, which I kept forgetting about and kept tweeting last night about how it was like a perfect game. Apologies. I kept forgetting that Brennon Donovan walked to lead off the game. Um the Cardinals didn’t have a base runner until Victor’s base hit. So give some credit to Heene who was quite crafty. Uh the sinker w was really dancing last night. Normally it averages 31 in of vertical movement. Monday he was getting 34. Um, that’s a big difference, guys. How big is three inches? How big of a difference can that make? Uhhuh. Uh, led to a lot of the soft contact. Sometimes sometimes the pitchers are just on. And I mean, we’ve seen it just flip the script and we’ve seen it where Miles Michael, notoriously a very hitable guy over the last few years, will go out and throw some absolute gems out of nowhere. That’s what the boys got from Heene on Monday. So, they got really, really good Andrew Heene on Monday. My uh my buddy uh John F from Locks on Angels, we were talking about it last night on MLB game night and he was like, “This is what Heeney does.” Like, he’ll throw these incredible games and you’re like, “Oh my gosh, look at this guy.” And then he’ll get pummeled a couple times and then he’ll have a couple okay games, then throw another beauty, and then he’ll get pummeled again. It’s just kind of what he does. Um Cardinals happen to be in the way of the the really good game for Heene. Uh pitching side of things for the Cardinals, it was another disappointing performance by Eric Fetty, who for the second time in as many starts gave up a leadoff home run in to the opposition, which you know obviously is very deflating. Uh his last start it was Ian Hap for the Cubs which led to an eight to nothing butt whipping and now it’s another leadoff home run. This time to Spencer Horowitz who let’s be honest he’s no Ian Hap. Like I know Ian Hap hits the Cardinals very very well but he’s a solid player. Uh Spencer Horowitz is not somebody that most people plan around when they’re looking at the lineup for another team. Um and he had a big night and this led to a seven to nothing pasting by the Pirates. Um things actually could have been worse as the Pirates rattled off those three straight hits to start the game. They get the home run, then it’s a double, then it’s a single and before that line drive comeback or the Fetti snares turns to the double play. He settled in for a couple of innings where things weren’t so bad. But in the fifth inning, the Pirates opened up a big old can of whoop ass single bunt, which was a single as well, which always when that happens, you’re always like, “Oh gosh, here we go.” Which is why I wish the Cardinals uh could learn to bunt a little bit better and do that kind of stuff to the other teams once in a while. But single, bunt, single, double by Horowitz again, which knocks in both runs. He had three RBI’s on the night. Uh you get a fieldielder’s choice. Uh then single, double, intentional walk, single, single, before a double play ended the misery of that inning. And before you knew it, it was seven to nothing. And the game was over with the way the bats were looking. Uh Fetty goes five innings, seven runs on 10 hits, and the the one home run to lead off the game. And if you were uh thinking to yourself that, wait a second, didn’t Fetty just get creamed as last time out, you’d be correct. In his last two starts, he’s gone just eight and two/3 innings, allowed 14 runs on 18 hits with five walks, four home runs, and two strikeouts. That’s it. That is what we call one ugly ass line. Now, before you crucify Fetty, because I know you want to, and everybody does. I get it. you start labeling him as the worst pitcher since sliced bread. Please note that since the beginning of May and before these last two very stinky starts, I know Eric Fetty wasn’t pitching all that poorly. Now, the metrics say that this was bound to happen, but I’m going to share some numbers with you and show you why that these games um that in the last two that Fett has gotten pounded on, it hasn’t really been the norm. And the Cardinals are going to be relying on Fetty to turn it around in July. This is going to be imperative to what the Cardinals are going to be doing in the next couple of weeks. We will talk about it all coming up next on Locked on Cardons. Ever check your bank account and wonder where did all my money go? Well, think about it. Between dining out, your online shopping, entertainment, whether it’s going to sporting events, whether it’s going to plays, whether uh comedy shows, whatever it may be, it’s easy to lose track of how much money you’re actually spending. 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Uh but the Cardinals are attached to this Fetty train for better or worse here in the month of July because he’s either going to be a part of their trade deadline plans or he’s going to be a key part of them trying to make the playoffs. And as brutal as these last two starts at Ben Fetty’s overall numbers paint a better picture for his 2025 season. And before I get into this, I’m not trying to convince you that Eric Fetty is some Sai Young award-winning guy, that he’s an all-star caliber guy. I’m not I’m not doing that. I’m just giving you some numbers for you to think about and maybe you’ll be a little nicer to what Eric Fetty is. See him for what he is supposed to be, not what you wanted him to be. Because from May 4th to June 19th, Fetty made nine starts. Okay, so we’re going to just kill off those last two starts that he just made. Nine starts May 4th to June 19th. So two months really. Five and two/3 innings is what he averaged in those games. So close to six, which is the goal. RA at 2.81. Now the complete game shut out against the Washington Nationals helps immensely with those numbers. Just like really good games help, the really bad games make things look worse than they probably are. Heck, I mentioned yesterday uh how just three bad starts from Sunny Gray have made his numbers look way worse overall than he’s really pitched. And again, I’m not trying to convince you that Eric Fetty is anything special. I don’t believe he is. He’s not. He’s not. Eric Fetty is not a sexy pitcher. He does not strike out a lot of guys. He does not have amazing VO. His best pitch is a sweeper. Okay. So, it’s easy to see why he would fall out of favor so quickly with Cardinal fans. He’s one of those guys that when he’s doing well, you’re like, well, he’s supposed to, but when he gets killed, you’re like, he is terrible. Because he just doesn’t look like a guy that’s supposed to be all that good in the first place. But for what, $7.5 million is what they’re paying Eric Fetty this way, very serviceable pitcher to have in your rotation. The Cardinals aren’t a team that’s going to go out and spend a lot of money and go line up for Sai Young award winners. They’re not going to go and pay Otani and Yamamoto and Sasaki and Snell and Glass. Now, they’re not doing that. Most teams are not doing what the Dodgers are doing. So, the expectations that the Cardinal should have all of these god tier pitchers in their rotation, it’s it’s not real. It’s not going to happen that way. And if you can find a guy like an Eric Fetty for $7.5 million to give you what he normally does, that’s that’s a serviceable pitcher. You want better. I get it. I I wish there was somebody else who was better and available right now that isn’t like, you know, 22 years old and still making their way up through the minor league system. I wish that’s what we had, but they’re not ready to expose any of those young guys to the major leagues just yet. So, Eric Fetty is what we’re with. That’s what we got. Just like we got Andre Palante, just like we got Miles Michael, these are the guys we have right now. Um, Eric Fetty has had four really bad games this year. Six earned against Boston, seven earned against Milwaukee, last two against the Cubs and Pirates, which when you go back and you look, I hate that he’s getting killed by our divisional opponents. That’s not fun. If you’re gonna get smoked, get smoked by like a inner league team. Stop doing it in the division, right? Uh but that’s 27 of his 47 earned runs against coming in four of the 17 starts that he’s made, which tells me on a positive side of things, you can look at it as a negative, too. But on the positive side of things, that 13 of 17 games, he’s given you a pretty decent chance to win the RA in those 13 games at 3.21 if my math is correct. I believe it is. I used a calculator. Uh, and then six of those 13 games he earned quality starts. Again, I’m not convincing you that he’s a stud and that the Cardinal shouldn’t strive to have better pitchers than Eric Fetty. I’m not saying that. But you got to find value out there if you’re going to be a team that’s not going to spend a lot of money. You know, if you’re going to spend the way the Cardinals are spending and appears they’re going to be spending for a little while, you have to find value in guys. You have to be able to find veterans who can give you decent starts and give you a chance to win more times than not. So finding value in an Eric Fetty at his price tag of 7 and a half million, that’s that’s actually good business. It just sucks that he’s gotten his butt kicked the last two games. And it sucks that you had to give up a fan favorite like Tommy Edmond for him. And that that’s a stinger as well for fans. And I get it. But that’s kind of my case for the Eric Fetty stuff right now. He he’s better than I think we give him credit for, but he’s not great by any means, but he’s certainly better than what we’ve seen the last two games. So hopefully he gets back on track soon because if they’re going to use him as trade bait, he’s got to be better because his stock is going right out. like he’s not doing himself or the Cardinals any favors for not only this year, but Fetty, you know, he’s going to be a free agent. He’s gonna want to sign a contract and get paid. Like he doesn’t want to suck and have like another one-year deal coming his way or something cheap like that he got from the White Socks when he came uh back over from overseas. He’d like to do better than that, I’m sure. So, um, you know, he needs to get back on track or he also needs to be back on track so the Cardinals can continue to to to make a push for the playoffs. He he’s got to get back to being the unsexy but solid guy that he has been most of the time this year. I know the three and eight record is ugly. Some of those games are not his fault that the team just didn’t score runs when he pitches, but these last two games were were were awful. They were awful and it just can’t happen especially against divisional opponents. So doing it against the Cubs and the Pirates and seeing that he also had that problem with the Brewers. Only the Reds left to complete the uh the the the four teams in the division to uh beat him up. So hopefully that doesn’t happen. But um I will also say that it pleases me to know that at least I think I know that neither Eric Fetty or Miles Michaelis will be back with this team next season. Both will be free agents. Hopefully they’ll be replaced by younger, more exciting arms that are ready to tackle the major leagues. Takoma Roby, Michael McGrevy, Quinn Matthews, and maybe some other people. Maybe somebody else steps up. Maybe they sign a free agent. I don’t know. But um next year it should look different. But I know getting through this right now where you’ve got some very hitable guys that are still on the rotation. I know it’s not a whole lot of fun. But the Cardinals are doing the best with what they got on this transition year, whatever you want to call it. And so far as a team, they’re doing well enough to to be in a playoff spot at the moment, which is a lot better than a lot of people thought they’d be. Um, how about more positive news about Cardinals top prospect JJ Weatherhole? Got some news about him. We’ll talk about it next coming up on Locked on Cartons. Summer sports are in full swing and whether you’re all about baseball under the lights, golf on the green, high stakes soccer action, football not really that far off. I know it’s July now. They’re going to start the camps and stuff and then boom, September will be here in uh hello football. College football will be back. So, uh not too far off. 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He’s got five home runs, 27 RBI’s, and 13 stolen bases. does a little bit of everything and that’s over 57 games thus far and he’s been on a freaking tear in June. In June he hit .356, two home runs, 10 ribbies, six stolen bases, 19 walks. The on base percentage is at 500 in the month of June. So every other at bat he’s on base. That’s crazy. And that tells me the walks is telling me that he’s ready to move up to to AAA Memphis because he’s not uh chasing the crap that you see in DoubleA. And I shouldn’t say crap, but I’m just saying they throw more strikes. The the higher you go in levels, the more strikes they’re going to be throwing, but the nastier the stuff is going to be. Lower levels tend to walk more people. They don’t throw as many strikes, and they get people to chase more, which leads to bad habits. Seeing 19 walks in in the month of June tells me he’s laying off that garbage. He’s not falling for it and taking advantage of it by getting on base, but when it is in the zone, smacking the hell out of it at 356. Um he’s also leading the team to victories because as Dererick Gould pointed out uh stltoday.com uh nice little thing that he put out there um that last year after he got drafted uh he went on a tear where he hit 468 15 RBI’s in his final 11 games to lead Palm Beach to the Florida State League title which you know yeah cool right now he’s also led double Springfield to the first half division title. and guaranteed them a Texas League year end playoff birth. That is being a leader. That’s being a captain. That is, you know, having a a a winning culture around you that wherever you tend to fall to, that is where winning begins to start happening. And that is a great trait to have. You know, when you talk about guys like uh like Derek Jeter and people get in the arguments about, well, he was overrated and this and that, but just winning followed him with the teams that he was on with the Yankees. Like winning, it was just part of his DNA to be a winner. And that feels like what’s going on with JJ Weatherhal where it just he brings a winning mentality to the whole thing which is going to be great when he gets up to the show at one at some point whether it’s uh next year or sooner. I I don’t know maybe something could happen at the end of the year. Um but that team down in Springfield’s got an impressive group of players that the Cardinal are hoping will have an impact at the major league level in the future. Uh Leonardo Bernal, uh very highly rated catcher. Obviously, you know, Tink Kent’s uh outfielder is Joshua Vayaz, former firstrounder Chase Davis is starting to show some uh show some pop and become the guy that they thought they were drafting out of college. Then you got uh Memphis, the pitching is really the highlight of things at Memphis with Taka Roby, McGrevy, Matthews, uh another highly rated catcher and Jimmy Krooks. Uh Nathan Church is having a nice year. You had Thomas JC and Jose Fermine were down there. They’re now up with the Cardinals. Cesar Prito looks like he could be a nice bench guy. So, it’s a solid group coming up and the Cardinals will obviously continue to try to add to that and uh could be doing it as soon as the end of this month when they make a decision on whether or not they’re going to sell some pieces away uh at the trade deadline. And you know, obviously there’s going to be a lot of people interested in names like hopefully Eric Fetty will be one of those names that people still uh wish to have on their teams, but Ryan Hell’s, Phil Mton is a guy, although I’d like to keep him. Uh you know, his his stock’s pretty freaking high right now. Um so we’ll we’ll see what they end up doing with some of these guys. Steven Matz, uh is that another guy that’s going to be shipped out? I mean, his contract is expiring as well. But right now, as of today, on July the 1st, the Cardinals are trying to make the playoffs and those guys are still on this team. And after last night’s turd, again, I say this after every time they have one of these games where it just looks like nobody showed up, where it’s just a zombie squad out there, you flush and you move on. Flush, wipe, move on. get you a dude wipe and clean everything and get out of whatever that was that you saw last night because Paul Ske is coming to the mound tonight at PNC and the Cardinals better be ready. The Cardinals have had a decent amount of success against him in it’s a short career so far for Paul Ske, but he’s still such a special talent that expecting to continue to do well against him is probably wishful thinking. Eventually, he’s probably going to get you. Uh let’s hope it’s not tonight. Let’s hope it’s not tonight because the Cardinals could could use a bounceback game uh after what we saw last night and the series is on the line. Paul SK beats them tonight. They’re going to lose the series to the Pirates. And that is something that coming into the series, you’re like, that’s not even something I’m thinking about. But they’re a hot team right now. And they showed it on Monday night. Um, and now you not only do you got to beat Paul Sches, but you got to slow down the Pirates bats who have just been mashing the last four games. Andre Palante will be assigned with that task, which not a great matchup. I’ll be honest with you, considering opponents are hitting 260 against Andre this year. That is the 12th highest batting average against among starters in baseball. Against a team that is hitting everything right now. Fetty, by the way, uh, right next to him now at 258. Matthew Liberator in the top 20 as well. Opponents are hitting 252 against Libby. I would not have guessed that, but uh not going to be an easy task tonight. Got to take this one very very seriously because we don’t want to lose this this series against Pittsburgh. Not in the division. Uh that that that a big no no. Not to the last place team in your division. That can’t that can’t and shouldn’t happen, but you’re going to have to get through skins to do it. So no easy task, but that is why they play the games. All right. Thanks for making lockdown on Cardinal your first listen every day. Uh make your second listen and it’ll be game night. I’ll be on there again tonight with John from Locked on Angels. We’ll go through all the games at Major League Baseball. Uh if you haven’t given me a follow yet, I would love that. That would be great. Follow us uh on X at L Cardinals and at JD Sports Radio, Tik Tok and Instagram at lockdown Cardinals. Been seeing a lot more fans rolling through that Tik Tok. 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– Pittsburgh Pirates Punish Erick Fedde
– Andrew Heaney Dominates The Offense
– Fedde Gets Blasted Again
– Is Fedde Really This Bad?
– Trade Deadline Talk
– JJ Wetherholt Going To All Star Festivities
– Future Has Promise

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