So far the Cards have done nothing but dump salary

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Re: So far the Cards have done nothing but dump salary

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Yawn 🥱
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Re: So far the Cards have done nothing but dump salary

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Web7 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2025 23:05 pm
ecleme22 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2025 23:01 pm
Web7 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2025 22:54 pm Except Weby is almost always right …. I told you 10 years ago Mo was ruining this franchise and of course, I was attacked for saying that ….. this is a salary dump…… They are not getting anything to build around… Maybe the lefty in the first trade… But he is far from a sure thing… Wake up people this is not going to be fixed for a very long time unless they start spending money
“Bloom is trading for players I’ve never heard of and don’t know anything about! That means the trades are bad!”
We (drat) sure are not getting top prospects
How many times have the Cardinals top prospects worked out? When was the last time their 1st round pick became a true start? Ted Simmons?
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TXCardsFanX wrote: ↑20 Dec 2025 08:34 am Trying to compete ever year is exactly what got the Cardinals into the lukewarm years we endured. If you don't have unlimited funds (which still doesn't work for many teams), sometimes you gotta go through a rebuild period.
The Sonny Gray trade was a good bet. If May plays well, we might be able to flip him at the deadline for a top prospect.
I would say philosophically going from a stance of attracting Hall of Fame bound managers to in-house options, with zero qualifying credentials because the nerds in the boxes arrogant thought they knew better, was more likely the problem.

Again, we used to go after guys like Whitey, Joe Torre, & Tony LaRussa. Then, we strayed away from Terry Francona for HS Coaches, guys who never played professionally, and whatever you want to consider Oli Marmol.

Francona, who had multiple World Series titles under his belt and today is only 66, would go onto manage the Indians through one of Cleveland’s best periods of baseball. In his first year w/the Reds, he steered them into the playoffs after their worst stretch as a franchise, where they missed the playoffs 10/11 years
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Re: So far the Cards have done nothing but dump salary

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45s wrote: ↑20 Dec 2025 11:09 am Unloaded some bad contracts……

and you are opposed to this because???
We just don’t have the trash cans to pull off the results
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Web7 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2025 22:54 pm Except Weby is almost always right …. I told you 10 years ago Mo was ruining this franchise and of course, I was attacked for saying that ….. this is a salary dump…… They are not getting anything to build around… Maybe the lefty in the first trade… But he is far from a sure thing… Wake up people this is not going to be fixed for a very long time unless they start spending money
10 years ago, they won 100 Games. Then they’d add Paul Goldschmidt who had a spectacular career including a MVP, Nolan Arenado for a sack of potatoes, and even bring back Albert Pujols for one of the most epic send-offs in baseball history.

Are you trying to suggest that you predicted COVID, too? The season before COVID struck saw them in the NLCS, losing to the eventual World Series Champion.
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BleedingBleu wrote: ↑22 Dec 2025 05:16 am
Web7 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2025 22:54 pm Except Weby is almost always right …. I told you 10 years ago Mo was ruining this franchise and of course, I was attacked for saying that ….. this is a salary dump…… They are not getting anything to build around… Maybe the lefty in the first trade… But he is far from a sure thing… Wake up people this is not going to be fixed for a very long time unless they start spending money
10 years ago, they won 100 Games. Then they’d add Paul Goldschmidt who had a spectacular career including a MVP, Nolan Arenado for a sack of potatoes, and even bring back Albert Pujols for one of the most epic send-offs in baseball history.

Are you trying to suggest that you predicted COVID, too? The season before COVID struck saw them in the NLCS, losing to the eventual World Series Champion.
Thanks for showing us your hobby of cherry picking…..
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