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Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 09:18 am

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

What drives your negative obsession with Noot? I'm being serious...you're typically fairly reasonable EXCEPT when it comes to this particular player.

Yes, he's oft-injured. That has to change. But when healthy, he's a good player. Not a Superstar, possibly never an All Star, but on this team???? A good player.

He runs well and is a fine corner outfielder. He's not great in CF, but he's not awful either. And...he gets on base.

With almost 1,200 MLB ABs he has a line of:

.246/.348/.425/.774/115

And this is while he's fighting injuries. The .348 OBP plays on this team! Heck, it's around a top 15 NL number!

And yet...you do nothing but criticize. I don't get it? A healthy Noot is a huge plus at the top of a lineup. So what is it? If it's the injuries, fair enough. If something else, please explain.

ecleme22 wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025 11:36 am I don’t mind him LO in ST if he needs the PAs…

Ronnie Dobbs wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 11:19 am

ecleme22 wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025 11:36 am I don’t mind him LO in ST if he needs the PAs…

This, although I have a feeling they're going to carry it over into the season again.

But Noot and Donovan should be hitting first and second. Set them and forget it. It's not like this lineup has been scoring a ton of runs with Winn leading off, so I don't know why they are so stubborn with keeping him there. And I don't know if it's coming from Oli or the FO, but either way it is another example of this organization trying to jam a player into a certain role no matter the result.

sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 11:15 am There has been no one yet to endorse whether non at lead off. I ask again. How can we be so wrong and one man so right.

Blows my buzz.

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 10:41 am

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 09:18 am

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

What drives your negative obsession with Noot? I'm being serious...you're typically fairly reasonable EXCEPT when it comes to this particular player.

Yes, he's oft-injured. That has to change. But when healthy, he's a good player. Not a Superstar, possibly never an All Star, but on this team???? A good player.

He runs well and is a fine corner outfielder. He's not great in CF, but he's not awful either. And...he gets on base.

With almost 1,200 MLB ABs he has a line of:

.246/.348/.425/.774/115

And this is while he's fighting injuries. The .348 OBP plays on this team! Heck, it's around a top 15 NL number!

And yet...you do nothing but criticize. I don't get it? A healthy Noot is a huge plus at the top of a lineup. So what is it? If it's the injuries, fair enough. If something else, please explain.

I do not criticize players.
I am not "for" nor "against" anyone in particular.
Ever.
I simply do a fair, unbiased analysis in every instance and then arrive at the correct baseball decision.
FACT is, Lars the Human Sushi-baar (he always leaves the team and fans with any empty feeling) is now entering his 5th MLB season.
He is a corner outfielder who has never hit 15 HR in a season, never driven in 50 runs, has never scored 75 runs (and only once exceeded 53), never has more than 426 AB's (his 2nd best was a paltry 348), and has only managed to start 315 games in the past 4 seasons.
Only a fool - such as Super Slo Mo - would continue to expect Mootbaar to ever become a reliable, effective, productive key roster piece at this point.
He isn't.
He will never be.
The misplaced repeated opportunities being given to him is nothing more than the repeated similar idiocy the team displayed with DeJong, The Paper Tyler, and The Poser.
All were epic failures with the Cardinals, despite a brief flash here and there.
Mootbaar is the same.
Nothing personal against him.
Probably a good guy (although his seriousness about the game is certainly questionable).
But he has failed.
Long past time to move on.
The CORRECT BASEBALL DECISION is to trade him - and that has been true for the past 2 years.

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 12:18 pm

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 10:41 am

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 09:18 am

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

What drives your negative obsession with Noot? I'm being serious...you're typically fairly reasonable EXCEPT when it comes to this particular player.

Yes, he's oft-injured. That has to change. But when healthy, he's a good player. Not a Superstar, possibly never an All Star, but on this team???? A good player.

He runs well and is a fine corner outfielder. He's not great in CF, but he's not awful either. And...he gets on base.

With almost 1,200 MLB ABs he has a line of:

.246/.348/.425/.774/115

And this is while he's fighting injuries. The .348 OBP plays on this team! Heck, it's around a top 15 NL number!

And yet...you do nothing but criticize. I don't get it? A healthy Noot is a huge plus at the top of a lineup. So what is it? If it's the injuries, fair enough. If something else, please explain.

I do not criticize players.
I am not "for" nor "against" anyone in particular.
Ever.
I simply do a fair, unbiased analysis in every instance and then arrive at the correct baseball decision.
FACT is, Lars the Human Sushi-baar (he always leaves the team and fans with any empty feeling) is now entering his 5th MLB season.
He is a corner outfielder who has never hit 15 HR in a season, never driven in 50 runs, has never scored 75 runs (and only once exceeded 53), never has more than 426 AB's (his 2nd best was a paltry 348), and has only managed to start 315 games in the past 4 seasons.
Only a fool - such as Super Slo Mo - would continue to expect Mootbaar to ever become a reliable, effective, productive key roster piece at this point.
He isn't.
He will never be.
The misplaced repeated opportunities being given to him is nothing more than the repeated similar idiocy the team displayed with DeJong, The Paper Tyler, and The Poser.
All were epic failures with the Cardinals, despite a brief flash here and there.
Mootbaar is the same.
Nothing personal against him.
Probably a good guy (although his seriousness about the game is certainly questionable).
But he has failed.
Long past time to move on.
The CORRECT BASEBALL DECISION is to trade him - and that has been true for the past 2 years.

He's been hurt. A lot.

But....

HE GETS ON BASE! Period.

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 14:49 pm

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 12:18 pm

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 10:41 am

Monsieur De Treville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 09:18 am

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.

What drives your negative obsession with Noot? I'm being serious...you're typically fairly reasonable EXCEPT when it comes to this particular player.

Yes, he's oft-injured. That has to change. But when healthy, he's a good player. Not a Superstar, possibly never an All Star, but on this team???? A good player.

He runs well and is a fine corner outfielder. He's not great in CF, but he's not awful either. And...he gets on base.

With almost 1,200 MLB ABs he has a line of:

.246/.348/.425/.774/115

And this is while he's fighting injuries. The .348 OBP plays on this team! Heck, it's around a top 15 NL number!

And yet...you do nothing but criticize. I don't get it? A healthy Noot is a huge plus at the top of a lineup. So what is it? If it's the injuries, fair enough. If something else, please explain.

I do not criticize players.
I am not "for" nor "against" anyone in particular.
Ever.
I simply do a fair, unbiased analysis in every instance and then arrive at the correct baseball decision.
FACT is, Lars the Human Sushi-baar (he always leaves the team and fans with any empty feeling) is now entering his 5th MLB season.
He is a corner outfielder who has never hit 15 HR in a season, never driven in 50 runs, has never scored 75 runs (and only once exceeded 53), never has more than 426 AB's (his 2nd best was a paltry 348), and has only managed to start 315 games in the past 4 seasons.
Only a fool - such as Super Slo Mo - would continue to expect Mootbaar to ever become a reliable, effective, productive key roster piece at this point.
He isn't.
He will never be.
The misplaced repeated opportunities being given to him is nothing more than the repeated similar idiocy the team displayed with DeJong, The Paper Tyler, and The Poser.
All were epic failures with the Cardinals, despite a brief flash here and there.
Mootbaar is the same.
Nothing personal against him.
Probably a good guy (although his seriousness about the game is certainly questionable).
But he has failed.
Long past time to move on.
The CORRECT BASEBALL DECISION is to trade him - and that has been true for the past 2 years.

He's been hurt. A lot.

But....

HE GETS ON BASE! Period.

Does he?
In the past 3 years a designated starting outfielder, he did not reach base at all in the 152 games he missed.
.000 OBP in roughly 600 opportunities to reach base.
Period.

imetsatchelpaige wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025 10:16 am
8 or 9

Melville wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025 08:10 am Scott at leadoff.
Mootbaar on the bench or traded.
Correct baseball decision.