17.5 million a year baby. not like signing a 42 yr old pitcher to a minimum base salary with INCENTIVES for performing well would have been the proper way to handle him or anything. i will never doubt bowtie boy again, he knows best.
Unfortunately, he's going to be one of those guys who is remembered for hanging around a year too long.
just put him in the bullpen now and get him 2 wins that way. he checked out last september anyways and only cares about his paycheck and promoting his music/singing at this point.
I get what you're saying but his situation is nothing like Sanders'. He's 42. I wish he would have hung it up with Yadi and Pujols and the Cardinals focused on getting some effective pitching in the offseason instead of signing him. One good starter in his place could have changed the dynamic of the team. His retirement party has come at a great cost.
I'm sure trying to get to 200 wins was part of it too. Season's lost so they may as well try to make it happen at this point.
Not really. The mlb draft is a lot more hit or miss than the NHL draft. If you go back a decade there are a lot more misses than there are hits in the top 5. That being said the better the draft pick the better talent you can pick on paper but it doesn't always end up that way
Gorman last year, Walker this year, Winn is the next one up. Cards fans love giving up on young players then crying after they go off after they are traded.
There was an older guy I work with who’s a big fan yesterday going on about how they should trade him. I’m like dude, he’s 21 lmao. For young highly rated hitters in this organization, if they’re not Pujols 2.0 they’re automatically busts.
Also Walker hasn't played the outfield that much in the Minors. He was a 3rd basemen in double AA and only then started to get some playing time in the outfield. Dudes trying to learn how to handle major league pitching as well as learning a whole new position on the fly
I'm too lazy to look up more in-depth data, but one stat I found with a quick search was that ~65% of MLB 1st round picks play a game in the MLB but over 90% of NHL ones do. If you look at the top 5 or 10 players picked, you'll find that even the biggest busts picked in the top 5 like Patrik Stefan or something are at least playing multiple full seasons in the NHL. In MLB, there are lots of top 5 selected players who don't even reach the majors.
It's just silly reading comments labelling Walker a bust and things like that while these guys are excited we chased the upside picking Chase Davis in the draft. Walker is YOUNGER THAN DAVIS OUR 1st ROUND DRAFT PICK this year! But no one is calling Davis a bust because he's in A ball right now. It's still like a 98th percentile outcome for him but Walker still has the Aaron Judge upside based off how hard he hits the ball and he's shown that in the majors, he just needs to adjust that launch angle to get it into the air more. And Judge didn't play in the majors until he was 24.
