Takes 8-3 to avoid losing season

[Ozziesfan41]

The franchise guaranteed a losing season on July 31.

Better get some pitching between now and April 2026.

Was the July 31 decision really a bad one? What does the team gain winning 83 games and missing the playoffs then losing the pitchers to free agency for little to nothing?

A .500 team throwing in the towel with 2 months left in the season. Mr Bloom brings that East coast mentality to St Louis. Perhaps he will impress in the off season but at the moment show me.

No one saw the Mets 14-27 collapse coming and if they say they did they are lying. It would have been dumb to keep maton helsley and matz and it they kept helsley instead of trading him to the Mets the Mets would be 4-5 games better and the cardinals would be worse because oli would keep running him out there

[hmoss859]

76-86 sounds about right

[Imperial Capitalist]

With 73-78 record, the Cardinals would need an unbelievable finish to reach .500 . The odds of that aren't much better than winning the Powerball .
More laughable might be ending with a winning season of 82-80 , that takes a 9-2 .
More likely MAY (noticed MAY in caps) be a 4-7 finish to end at 77- 85 .

Last year's record in 2024 was 83-79
Two years ago Oli Marmol's team was 71-91
It appears for the last three years the cumulative W-L will be a losing record .
Chaim Bloom has a tough task to turn the franchise around.

It would be great to see the Cardinals make a successful run at .500. It would send the club into the offseason on a high, and an added air of confidence going into ST. Could someone kidnap Fernandez please?

They played above their station in May, going 19-8. It left them statistically tied for the 2nd WC spot. And they went from 8 above .500 on 5/31 to 5 below it as of last night.

They went 15-11 last September, posting their best winning % of the season, by month, to finish 4 games above .500. And they're going to have a worse record in 2025.

I don't see the "high" at work in any of this.

None of that is relavent to the present. As of 9/16/25, finishing the season with a flourish to achieve .500 would provide a psychological high to the organization, going into the offseason.

Lol..

None of it's relevant because it doesn't square with your present-day [nonsense].

[Red Bird Classic]

I honestly thought this was where we would be........I had no illusions that this team was good enough to do much better than .500. I'm okay with where the rebuild is at. If Goldy and Arenado had not fell off the cliff so, so fast......we could have been in a decent place the past 2 years. Sometimes even the best of plans do not work. I thought when we acquired those 2, we would go deep in the playoffs. But.....when you make those kind of investments....and they don't work out....you land where we are. It's called life....it happens.

Good point. When you aquire two arguable HoF corners, still in prime, you’d expect more.

Arenado was 30 when we got him. Goldy was 31. Neither was in his prime if you're measuring it narrowly (26-29). Even if you stretch it (say 25-31) then both players were at the tail of their primes.

The Cardinals got more than they should have expected from Goldy, and about what was expected from Arenado.

[Hazelwood72]

Hopefully, they go 0-11.

Hopefully, that increases their draft position.

And most hopefully, the poor finish combined with the fact we have fewer answers now due to the poor handling of "runway" distribution than we did at the start of the season, this will convince Bloom that Oli is simply not the man for this job and send him walking in October.

THIS right here is the correct philosophy. As I’ve said on here before, this franchise needs a deep cleansing Triple H Enema. What’s a Triple H Enema? Hot, high, and helluva lot.

#MoMustGo
#OliMustGo
#FloresMustGo
#DustyMustGo