Chaim Bloom announces he will be retaining Oli Marmol for the 2026 season
September 30, 2025
Chaim Bloom announces he will be retaining Oli Marmol for the 2026 season
30 comments
dang
I’m ok with this.
Cardinals: Out with this Mike Shildt guy! He only got us to the NLCS and made 3 straight postseason appearances! He’s an awful manager!
Also Cardinals: We need to give Oli more chances despite having more under .500 records than playoff appearances!
The Cardinals are not a serious organization.
Figured this would be the plan…not mad at it
I mean, whatever. We’re gonna be terrible next year anyway
99 L incoming……….
Oli’s bullpen management has been a huge plus for this team since he took over
Gross
He knows the Cardinals aren’t going to do anything next year, so why pay two managers? If Bloom makes a few moves and gets a couple fresh faces players next year then there’s no lockout for the 27th season, then they will announce a new manager.
Fine by me. I feel like he has grown a lot since making some poor choices early on. I think their record in comparison to the run differential shows he is likely making good decisions. He doesn’t make the roster.
Fuckkkk. So much for actual change with this organization. Bloom is already off to a bad start.
Whelp, there goes any hope in a winning team next year…
Everyone knows how this works. New GM/baseball ops keeps lame duck manager as a fall guy for when patience starts to run dry.
I’m okay with this. Might as well make him the whipping boy for the terrible season we’re going to have.
They’re going to be pretty bad next year either way. Let Oli take the lumps.
I’m fine with it. 2026 better be a 500 year at the least though.
People that want Oli fired perplex me to no end. They seem to only think ‘ORG BAD! MUST REPLACE ALL OF ORG!’. Like….why throw the baby out with the bathwater? What kind of great players has Oli been given? By nearly all metrics, our W-L record was WAY outperforming the output our roster was giving….that speaks to a good manager.
You people can point to him being in charge during this losing streak all you want but he’s not the one that puts this roster together.
Was Joe Torre a good manager or a bad one? He sucked at STL but then was a HOF level one at NYY. So which is it? Did he suddenly just become magically good bc he moved to NY? No. He got a better roster which allowed his managerial skills to show through.
Regardless who the manager is, people need to be prepared for a 90 loss team next season if they make all the trades that have been talked about.
The early to mid 90s were bad, but not that bad.
First day of Bloom and already complaining about his manager decision and gloom and doom about the future.
But, why?
I see a team that is very poor at baserunning, fundamentals, and even knowledge of the rules. And the “we’ve outperformed our pythag record!” is a thin reed to hang an argument on.
And, yes, everyone should be fired on general principle. Failing to fire Oli is a signal that the housecleaning we all hope for isn’t going to happen and little is going to change. Maybe other things will change, but this was the first big decision Bloom had to make and he chose to stand pat.
Sacrificial lamb. I’m fine with that the more I think about it.
I’ve been an Oli hater in the past. But honestly he’s grown some. He did best with what he had, which wasn’t much. Not a huge fan of his lineup construction, but I think he’s done a pretty decent job managing the bullpen.
Mistake. Start fresh.
Already Fail
I know the whole situation with the team sucking isn’t completely on Oli. But I really feel he needs to go now. I feel it will make the fanbase a little optimistic. If you hire a Molina or Pujols, that would probably get people to start going to Busch again.
this doesnt bother me at all but id like to once again voice the opinion that bloom doesnt matter, things will stay the same until ownership changes. we are fucked for the forseeable future
30 comments
dang
I’m ok with this.
Cardinals: Out with this Mike Shildt guy! He only got us to the NLCS and made 3 straight postseason appearances! He’s an awful manager!
Also Cardinals: We need to give Oli more chances despite having more under .500 records than playoff appearances!
The Cardinals are not a serious organization.
Figured this would be the plan…not mad at it
I mean, whatever. We’re gonna be terrible next year anyway
99 L incoming……….
Oli’s bullpen management has been a huge plus for this team since he took over
Gross
He knows the Cardinals aren’t going to do anything next year, so why pay two managers? If Bloom makes a few moves and gets a couple fresh faces players next year then there’s no lockout for the 27th season, then they will announce a new manager.
Fine by me. I feel like he has grown a lot since making some poor choices early on. I think their record in comparison to the run differential shows he is likely making good decisions. He doesn’t make the roster.
Fuckkkk. So much for actual change with this organization. Bloom is already off to a bad start.
Whelp, there goes any hope in a winning team next year…
Everyone knows how this works. New GM/baseball ops keeps lame duck manager as a fall guy for when patience starts to run dry.
I’m okay with this. Might as well make him the whipping boy for the terrible season we’re going to have.
They’re going to be pretty bad next year either way. Let Oli take the lumps.
I’m fine with it. 2026 better be a 500 year at the least though.
People that want Oli fired perplex me to no end. They seem to only think ‘ORG BAD! MUST REPLACE ALL OF ORG!’. Like….why throw the baby out with the bathwater? What kind of great players has Oli been given? By nearly all metrics, our W-L record was WAY outperforming the output our roster was giving….that speaks to a good manager.
You people can point to him being in charge during this losing streak all you want but he’s not the one that puts this roster together.
Was Joe Torre a good manager or a bad one? He sucked at STL but then was a HOF level one at NYY. So which is it? Did he suddenly just become magically good bc he moved to NY? No. He got a better roster which allowed his managerial skills to show through.
Regardless who the manager is, people need to be prepared for a 90 loss team next season if they make all the trades that have been talked about.
The early to mid 90s were bad, but not that bad.
First day of Bloom and already complaining about his manager decision and gloom and doom about the future.
But, why?
I see a team that is very poor at baserunning, fundamentals, and even knowledge of the rules. And the “we’ve outperformed our pythag record!” is a thin reed to hang an argument on.
And, yes, everyone should be fired on general principle. Failing to fire Oli is a signal that the housecleaning we all hope for isn’t going to happen and little is going to change. Maybe other things will change, but this was the first big decision Bloom had to make and he chose to stand pat.
Sacrificial lamb. I’m fine with that the more I think about it.
I’ve been an Oli hater in the past. But honestly he’s grown some. He did best with what he had, which wasn’t much. Not a huge fan of his lineup construction, but I think he’s done a pretty decent job managing the bullpen.
Mistake. Start fresh.
Already Fail
I know the whole situation with the team sucking isn’t completely on Oli. But I really feel he needs to go now. I feel it will make the fanbase a little optimistic. If you hire a Molina or Pujols, that would probably get people to start going to Busch again.
this doesnt bother me at all but id like to once again voice the opinion that bloom doesnt matter, things will stay the same until ownership changes. we are fucked for the forseeable future