What Can You Do With A Noot?

[Melville]

Long past time for a Noot canal.

[Bomber1]

The team needs to maximize value everywhere. In Noots case his value is at a low ebb. Better to keep him and hope he comes back next year and plays well. Either good enough and stays healthy so you can think of him as a starter going forward or at least enough to create some trade value.

This is akin to throwing good money after bad.

Similar to Carlson who they hung onto for just long enough to DFA the clown they traded him for less than 2 weeks after the trade.

[Carp4Cy]

Seriously. What can you do with a Noot? Can you play him? He’s not a bad player. He’s also not really a good player. For all the promising metrics he started with (and still possesses?) he has never developed into anything better than he started as. His stats season by season are eerily similar. He’s just older and more expensive. At some point you have stop digging to find a metric you like and ask, does he pass the eye test?

Seriously. What can you do with a Noot? Can you trade him? There are some teams that like (liked) him, but his surgery muddles the picture. The recent reporting from Derrick Goold about the Rangers interest in Noot seems like old reporting and not something that currently exists. If it does still exist, it seems the Cardinals are at a sell-low point in the process, but maybe that’s where things are at, and maybe it’s still a good idea.

What can you do with a Noot?

How about this...what do you replace a Noot with this year?

If I had my way, I wouldn't have to think twice- Herrera to LF. If you send Noot on, you stop fooling yourself into thinking you might have something when you don"t.

I think the best option and hope would be to keep him and hope and pray he stays healthy through the deadline. Any deal you would make now, would just be robbing yourself of value.

Hanging on to players whose trade value is low because their trade value is low is not a recipe for success IMO.

Gorman’s trade value is low because he has played poorly.

Walker’s trade value is low because he has played poorly.

Nootbaar’s trade value is low because despite all the hype about swing speed, hard-hit %, etc, he has played poorly besides being hurt a lot. Plus the fact that he’s clueless on the bases doesn’t help his value.

At some point you need to admit the player is not who you thought they were or would become.

Gorman -already there IMO

Walker- 1 more year to get it right.

Nootbaar - passed the point before 2025 even started.

Two of the biggest problems for the organization is that we can’t seem to develop players at the MLB level to reach the potential we thought they showed in the minors. And second that it takes them an average of four or five years to figure out the player can’t get better.

[slimjay63801]

The crazy part is last April he started out as the best leadoff hitter in baseball. If Noot can be more consistent as that guy we’d all want to keep him. Not sure why his batting eye got worse during the summer.

It was his heel bothering him.

LMAO!! Too funny....