Mickey Moniak?

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Mickey Moniak?

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Would you trade for him?

Plus bat - he hit .802 OPS at Anaheim a couple years ago, so its not just a Coors effect. He defense struggled mightily in that huge CF, so he might be ripe for yet another change in scenery.

Heading into his first year of Arb, so Montfort might want to go cheap and flip him for a prospect, but still plenty of years of control left. He'd be a huge upgrade over Walker. He's also somewhat of an upgrade over Gorman on K rate, with much higher average.
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Carp4Cy wrote: 14 Oct 2025 22:51 pm Would you trade for him?

Plus bat - he hit .802 OPS at Anaheim a couple years ago, so its not just a Coors effect. He defense struggled mightily in that huge CF, so he might be ripe for yet another change in scenery.

Heading into his first year of Arb, so Montfort might want to go cheap and flip him for a prospect, but still plenty of years of control left. He'd be a huge upgrade over Walker. He's also somewhat of an upgrade over Gorman on K rate, with much higher average.
No harm in looking at Moniak. I doubt Bloom is placing a high priority on trading prospects for incremental improvements to the MLB roster.
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2025 his OPS
against righies .857
against lefties .598

2025
Home .946
Away .680
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2025 his OPS
against righies .857
against lefties .598

2025
Home .946
Away .680
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Isn't he essentially Lars Nootbar on his best days?

No thanks.
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Basil Shabazz wrote: 15 Oct 2025 07:36 am Isn't he essentially Lars Nootbar on his best days?

No thanks.
From the looks of it, he’s Nootbar with Grichuk’s walk rate.

The only way I want MM is if he’s in a throw in on a much bigger package.
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He’s one of the worst fielders in baseball and hasn’t shown he can hit major league pitching outside of Coors. I could spend the rest of the morning trying to find a worse idea than this one, and I’m not sure I can find anything.
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He competes with Burleson and Walker in the top 10 worst defensive outfielders in baseball. I don't know if that's just a small sample size from his time in Colorado or not, but he's been bad the last two years.

Also, he played CF mostly in Anaheim in 2024, but only played a couple hundred innings there in 2025 for Colorado.

I like him though if we aren't planning to play Burleson, Herrera, and Walker in the outfield too. Grabbing Moniak would probably mean we need to trade Burleson or Herrera, which I don't see happening.
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The cardinals have enough hitters who suck at hitting and getting on base they don’t need to trade prospects for another
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Carp4Cy wrote: 14 Oct 2025 22:51 pm Would you trade for him?

Plus bat - he hit .802 OPS at Anaheim a couple years ago, so its not just a Coors effect. He defense struggled mightily in that huge CF, so he might be ripe for yet another change in scenery.

Heading into his first year of Arb, so Montfort might want to go cheap and flip him for a prospect, but still plenty of years of control left. He'd be a huge upgrade over Walker. He's also somewhat of an upgrade over Gorman on K rate, with much higher average.
LMAO...no.
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Ace wrote: 15 Oct 2025 07:55 am He’s one of the worst fielders in baseball and hasn’t shown he can hit major league pitching outside of Coors. I could spend the rest of the morning trying to find a worse idea than this one, and I’m not sure I can find anything.
He hit .802 in Anaheim 2 years ago. Plenty of better options but Considering we just endured a full season of Walker in RF, he's a big step up.
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HorseTrader wrote: 15 Oct 2025 07:31 am 2025 his OPS
against righies .857
against lefties .598

2025
Home .946
Away .680
What was Walker's away OPS?
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Carp4Cy wrote: 15 Oct 2025 09:58 am
HorseTrader wrote: 15 Oct 2025 07:31 am 2025 his OPS
against righies .857
against lefties .598

2025
Home .946
Away .680
What was Walker's away OPS?

What was your home OPS? Ohhh we weren't talking about that and I wasn't talking about Walker. So if you want his away OPS, look it up
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Cards do all right with the initials MM

Matt Morris
Marty Marion
Mark Big Mac McGwire
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MrPostman01 wrote: 15 Oct 2025 14:59 pm Cards do all right with the initials MM

Matt Morris
Marty Marion
Mark Big Mac McGwire
What about Miles :roll:
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MrPostman01 wrote: 15 Oct 2025 14:59 pm Cards do all right with the initials MM

Matt Morris
Marty Marion
Mark Big Mac McGwire
He would turn out to be miles mikolas that’s a bad MM
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