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Nice. Thanks for sharing.


“We are turning into the pirates!!” lol

It was on MSN.

At times these stories are a little farfetched. But we can hope this is true. I also read where they lost 12 minor league players to free agency.

Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

Sorry, if this is a repeat. I was in Park City, Utah for a week when this OP came out quite a while back. I had other things going on besides CT at the time.

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

If they can mix in a 180-200 million dollar payroll with an elite farm system they can hang with anyone.

They don’t need to outspend, just have a healthy balance done correctly.

Any info on Ellisat, Young and Flores?

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

Hopefully that instead of the grooming facility for DFA players anymore

Banner29 wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 09:15 am

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

If they can mix in a 180-200 million dollar payroll with an elite farm system they can hang with anyone.

They don’t need to outspend, just have a healthy balance done correctly.

Exactly. This is what I've said for 2 years yet half the posters here insist on a false dichotmy of only focusing on prospects OR Mo's way of bandaid rostering the MLB.

ecleme22 wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:37 am Nice. Thanks for sharing.


“We are turning into the pirates!!” lol

Hoist the jolly roger

Banner29 wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 09:15 am

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

If they can mix in a 180-200 million dollar payroll with an elite farm system they can hang with anyone.

They don’t need to outspend, just have a healthy balance done correctly.

Or, we can trade our remaining major league talent and go full SEE WHAT WE HAVE!

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 13:19 pm

Banner29 wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 09:15 am

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

If they can mix in a 180-200 million dollar payroll with an elite farm system they can hang with anyone.

They don’t need to outspend, just have a healthy balance done correctly.

Exactly. This is what I've said for 2 years yet half the posters here insist on a false dichotmy of only focusing on prospects OR Mo's way of bandaid rostering the MLB.

100% correct. Can you imagine adding Cease, Tucker and and Suarez to the 2026 roster?

TheFantasyStud wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 22:47 pm

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 13:19 pm

Banner29 wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 09:15 am

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025 08:53 am Yep. The Cardinals are now officially the Dodgers and Yankees player grooming facility.

If they can mix in a 180-200 million dollar payroll with an elite farm system they can hang with anyone.

They don’t need to outspend, just have a healthy balance done correctly.

Exactly. This is what I've said for 2 years yet half the posters here insist on a false dichotmy of only focusing on prospects OR Mo's way of bandaid rostering the MLB.

100% correct. Can you imagine adding Cease, Tucker and and Suarez to the 2026 roster?

A repeat of 2019-2022 half-(donkey) contention and Cards are back to where they’re at now bc impatient fools like yall want a shortcut to the front of the line. This has been explained ad nauseam by posters smarter and nicer than me but thick skulls can’t be penetrated easily.

I don't know what all these columns and values mean in the fangraphs link.

Most of the columns are sortable. Did one of the sorts make the Cards #1.

Can anyone explain it to me? I'm 84 and pretty dense.

Think I understand how the $283M is derived.

It’s the team’s number in a column times the Column ‘worth’ in the header.

Example Card’s have #3 in column 45FV Pit value $4M (3 x 4M = 12M).
The sum of all the resultant values = $283M).
I’m guessing that the #3 is the number of players that qualified for the column.

I assume that the 45FV is the rating of the player’s tools is some manner.
What I don’t understand is exactly what makes up this rating column.

I guess,there aren’t any minor league players rated as a 70FV

Can anyone clarify this a little bit? Anyway it looks good that Cards are first.