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Youboughtit wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:57 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:54 pm

Youboughtit wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:51 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:49 pm They need a better cleanup
They have a better option than Miles in McGreevy
And if Walker/Gorman don’t start hitting consistently they need to be sent down and replaced with a more reliable bat.
Put best team on the field…..stop playing development dreams and “contracts”
The central is there for the taking!

Is it? Wait until the other teams get healthy like the Cardinals have been all year and the Cubs add at deadline. Then we can see.

This team needs to make moves to solidify starters and possibly add at deadline instead of throwing in the towel for the season……like they planned to do coming into the year. It’s on BDW/MO

So don’t sell all these pending FA and Aranado that could add to the future for a chance at the last WC? I disagree. The goal is the WS and they need superstars. Adding to a team like this is the recipe to stay in the 12-15th best team in baseball range.

Youboughtit wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:51 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:49 pm They need a better cleanup
They have a better option than Miles in McGreevy
And if Walker/Gorman don’t start hitting consistently they need to be sent down and replaced with a more reliable bat.
Put best team on the field…..stop playing development dreams and “contracts”
The central is there for the taking!

Is it? Wait until the other teams get healthy like the Cardinals have been all year and the Cubs add at deadline. Then we can see.

Futuregm2 wrote: ↑14 May 2025 22:01 pm

Youboughtit wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:51 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:49 pm They need a better cleanup
They have a better option than Miles in McGreevy
And if Walker/Gorman don’t start hitting consistently they need to be sent down and replaced with a more reliable bat.
Put best team on the field…..stop playing development dreams and “contracts”
The central is there for the taking!

Is it? Wait until the other teams get healthy like the Cardinals have been all year and the Cubs add at deadline. Then we can see.

Winn, Gorman, and most importantly Herrera have all gone the IL this season. We were missing Herrera for over a month. We've been mostly healthy, but it's not like we haven't been missing arguably our best hitter for a month.

Will the Cubs do that? We'll find out. Maybe we'll run right past them. They have gotten ridiculous performances from scrubs like Carson Kelly and Colin Rea. Not to mention one of their best pitchers, Matthew Boyd, hasn't pitched more than 80 IP since 2019. Only a matter of time before he gets hurt.

cardstatman wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:43 pm You don't know how good you are until late May.

So we should know on Friday. It is foolish to discuss it today.

cardstatman wrote: ↑14 May 2025 21:43 pm You don't know how good you are until late May.

So we should know on Friday. It is foolish to discuss it today.

• It is absolutely flukish to have had no major pitching injuries this far into the season

• It is flukish for the bullpen to give up no runs for 23 innings in a row

• It is flukish for Steven Matz of all people to suddenly do a half convincing Koufax impersonation

• It is flukish for 60% of the starters to be outperforming their projections

AZ_Cardsfan wrote: ↑15 May 2025 05:56 am This team is much better than I expected even with Gorman and Walker sucking. OK, on the negative they have not experienced serious injury issues yet and that is how a team is measured over a long season.

But I do love the emergence of Winn, Noot, Donovan, Herrera, Scott. That is a core of a team right there.