How Chaim Bloom Reset the Cardinals Future in One Offseason

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1. …….1908 Here we come! Look it up kids! 😂👎

2. I love what Bloom has done. Also with the MLB strike taking all of 2027 season I'm sure, the Bloom project is so smart.

3. Whenever we have a successful core of long term players to root for, I hope the fans never forget Katie Woo’s journalism. Without her piece, we may still be talking about “patience” and mediocre veteran contracts for too much money. Thank you, Katie.

4. I see your Kurt Warner book on the background. That was a good time in St Louis.😊

5. Let Chaim cook! The Brendan Donovan trade is the dish he’s plating for the entire league to taste, and I’m looking forward to seeing what he serves. This is the signature move of the offseason.

6. I'm a little nervous about the offense.

7. Bernie – The thing you said about Bloom showing respect to the veteran players is key. The Cardinals haven’t really been give the hometown discount in a while. Players don’t want to come here. By Bloom showing this level of respect to his veterans I believe it will help the Cardinals to get back to becoming a destination team. Winning again will also be a big factor in this as well but, we are a couple years away from that.

8. As long as Miles doesn’t get resigned we are off to a positive start.

9. Bloom is proving he is changing the way the Cardinals operate, in a good way.

   Hated to see Willy go, but it was necessary in a rebuild.

   I was getting really nervous about seeing a busted Nado go out every day because Ollie would refuse to bench him. But he convinced Nado to take a trade, and Dewitt to eat money to make it happen (same with Sonny).

   We’re in a freaking rebuild!!!

   He has bumped up our farm system rating like 15-18 spots in a calendar year, that is impressive, and Donny hasn’t been dealt yet.

   Time will tell if all the new blood he has brought in on the coaching/development/scouting/analytics etc… side will result in the ability to actually develop talent again. We have real talent, and it’s young, it’s the development part that has been such a failure.

   Hopefully they can turn around Gorman and Walker, if they start playing up to the ability they showed a few years ago this rebuild will not be as long as originally thought.

   Just hoping that he is moving slow on getting a new manager in. Let Ollie be the lame duck in 26, and bring in a new manager after the CBA is settled.

   So far so good, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

   Good stuff Bernie!

10. I have lost all interest in the Cardinals after this past season–I predict this will be the worst team in the National league in 2026, if not, the worst in all of MLB. And I live in Colorado now, past 15 years, so, I know bad baseball thanks to the Rockies.

11. I'm kind of excited to see what this new year will bring. I still think their success (or lack of) will be tied to their bullpen. I think offense will be about the same with a possibility of being better. A lot depends on the success of Walker, Nootbar, Gorman and Victor Scott II. Winn, Burlson will be about the same and I expect good things from Herrera. Starting pitching? About the same I expect. The bullpen will be the key.. Thoughts?

12. The future looks bright.

13. Nobody likes seeing their team go through a rebuild, but I also didn't like seeing what transpired the past couple of seasons where they basically half-assed a lineup and told us they were going to spend money, only to say the market got away from them. They spent some money, but at the end of the year, they still missed the playoffs and played well enough to not get the top picks. I feel more confident now that there is actually a plan in place and that Bloom and his team can build this the right away.

14. A blank canvas is a good analogy Bernie.

15. Cards need a veteran rh hitting OF in the worst way.

16. Can't fully reset without resetting the manager. I'm never going to budge on this.

17. Time to trade Brendan Donovan to Boston for Ceddanne Rafaela, Kyson Witherspoon, & Harold Rivas.

18. Chaim is doing a great job so far. True we might not be very good next year but when we do get good we won't have a ceiling on how good we can be. With Mo we were stuck in the 78 to 87 wins every season and getting quickly eliminated in the Wild Card round. Not sure if we'll get to where we need to eventually since nothings a guarantee. But at least we have the possibility of being better just good enough to sneak into the playoffs.

19. According to ESPN article they judged Cardinals acquisitions last in the central. Cubs and Pirates have made the best moves, in their opinion, of course.

20. i think your accounting is strange. So your saying 118 million for three players and now we only have to pay their teams 59,000 and they play for someone else. You and Bloom look at those numbers and see a 57 million saving? Instead of a 59 million loss.

21. Baseball is dead.

22. If this is a "tear-down" and "reconstruction", why isn't Herrera on the trading block? He's at his peak, he's cheap (attractive for trade partners), he'll never have more trade value than right now, and by the time the Cards are competitive again, he'll have zero trade value! And since it's a complete rebuild, why clutter the roster by holding on to Gorman & Walker, who have had plenty of "runway" for their alleged "potential" to be realized? I'm sure we could get at least an 8th round low-prospect pitcher for both of them…the same we got for Arenado. Get those three off the roster and let the real rebuild begin. The longer Gorman & Walker (continue to) under-perform this season, they'll be worth even less.

    I assume we'll let Gorman throw errors from 3B while leading the majors in strikeouts, and have Walker bumble around the outfield while grounding out all season, instead of having JJ hold down third, Saggese at 2B, and Church/Baez in RF? That's a much more compelling lineup for Cardinal fans to watch play out, instead of seeing the same bums play at the same sad level we've seen the last 3 years.