Re: ESPN analysis of Contreras trade
Posted: 24 Dec 2025 08:55 am
I know who the free agents are. Since you stated that there were free agents out there that they could go get, I figured you would have somebody in mind. Obviously you don’t so your whole point is moot.CCard wrote: ↑24 Dec 2025 07:34 amDo your own research jack. Go to google and type in current list of free agents.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑24 Dec 2025 02:13 amSo you don’t have anybody in mind. If you don’t like who Bloom traded for or signed, who do you like. I need names.CCard wrote: ↑24 Dec 2025 00:39 amThere's any number of free agent pitchers that would be much better than Mikolas or Pallante was. Other teams sign them, why can't the Cards? Instead they go for the low hanging fruit. Lynn at the end of his rope and Gibson and the end of his rope and Fedde who didn't have a lot of ropt to begin with. Take that money they wasted and get a decent to really good pitcher. You might have to kick in a few more bucks but then you give your team a fighting chance in a short series. As for hitting, there's people out there that are better than anyone in the outfiel and now in the infield also.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑23 Dec 2025 21:16 pmWho would you like to see them sign that would make them competitive in 2026?CCard wrote: ↑23 Dec 2025 19:37 pmYou can build whatever team you want and once in the playoffs they can be bounced by a lesser team. The Cards weren't favored in any of their recent WS champion years. There are enough good players out there to make the Cards competitive, but they won't play for free. Competitive doesn't mean only on the field, you have to be competitive off the field too.Stlcardsblues wrote: ↑23 Dec 2025 17:45 pmCompeting to try to sneak into the playoffs is the wrong direction. I watched them try that over and over again. They need to build a team that can go deep into the playoffs.CCard wrote: ↑22 Dec 2025 20:58 pmInstead of cutting (gutting) payroll, if they had added a couple of pieces they would be in contention for the playoffs. But you're right, now this team is in danger of losing big. Minor league pitchers most likely won't carry this team and they just traded away 20 home runs and probably their best hitter. Yeah, it's going to get ugly unless some young people really step up.Stlcardsblues wrote: ↑22 Dec 2025 16:23 pmI keep seeing people say that this team will be better than some think and in the 75 to 80 win range. I would love to know what they see that has them this positive.
I see a 95 to 100 loss team. This doesn’t mean that I feel the rebuild is the wrong direction (as I mentioned before I completely disagree with how Mo and DeWitt messed up this franchise, but they left it no realistic path to get back to winning that doesn’t involve a rebuild).
It’s time to stop with the putting a mediocre product on the field hoping to go on a magical run. There were no couple pieces which were going to fix this unless DeWitt put a serious infusion of cash into payroll to compete at the top of the free agent class. And even at that the Mets showed that doesn’t always work.