OT: OT: Lets Go Cardinals! (All Baseball Talk Here) Part 2
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I'm glad they're finally playing Burleson. He's done nothing but hit, and now he's making good choices with what pitches to swing at. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing him at first base while trading Goldschmidt.
Center field is going to look pretty bad with Edman having a setback, though; I'm not at the point where I want to trade multiple good young players for Robert, but Siani can't hit worth shit (fantastic defender, though), Nootbaar is always hurt, and Scott isn't ready (even though he's doing a bit better, having stolen twenty bases). Fortunately, Chase Davis is actually hitting extremely well at the moment, and Jordan Walker is still ridiculously young. I don't think the future outfield is that big a worry, even if the current one is a huge weakness.
I know this is going to sound very controversial...but I would not draft Hagen Smith, Chase Burns, or Trey Yesavage with #7. There's absolutely no way I draft a pitcher that highly, not when we're rarely this bad, not when you can find potentially elite pitchers literally everywhere (for example, Spencer Strider was a fourth-round pick), whereas elite hitters are usually high picks. Give me Konnor Griffin or Bryce Rainer there. I think either could be an elite third baseman, and then you could save money to get another high schooler (possibly a pitcher) in the third round (or even another in the fourth round).
Center field is going to look pretty bad with Edman having a setback, though; I'm not at the point where I want to trade multiple good young players for Robert, but Siani can't hit worth shit (fantastic defender, though), Nootbaar is always hurt, and Scott isn't ready (even though he's doing a bit better, having stolen twenty bases). Fortunately, Chase Davis is actually hitting extremely well at the moment, and Jordan Walker is still ridiculously young. I don't think the future outfield is that big a worry, even if the current one is a huge weakness.
I know this is going to sound very controversial...but I would not draft Hagen Smith, Chase Burns, or Trey Yesavage with #7. There's absolutely no way I draft a pitcher that highly, not when we're rarely this bad, not when you can find potentially elite pitchers literally everywhere (for example, Spencer Strider was a fourth-round pick), whereas elite hitters are usually high picks. Give me Konnor Griffin or Bryce Rainer there. I think either could be an elite third baseman, and then you could save money to get another high schooler (possibly a pitcher) in the third round (or even another in the fourth round).
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I don't watch any games at all, but is Gorman really as bad as the numbers suggest? And I don't mean just his batting average.
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For the life of me, I can’t understand why Dylan Carlson insists on being a switch hitter. He is so much better from the right side (.293/.363/.442/.805) than he is from the left (.219/.301/.360/.662) that I have to think some of that success would carry over to righty versus righty. He just seems to have so much better plate discipline from the right side, too, which is validated by his walk rate being slightly higher and his K rate slightly lower from the right side.
Agreed. You would think Cards mgmt would have a chat with him and tell him they want him to hit only right-handed for awhile and see how he does. At this point he's got nothing to lose. His playing time is minimal and being a consistent hitting right-handed bat might be his path back to increased playing time.
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Kinda lukewarm. He's good, obviously. But I really wanted Kurtz, Caglianone, or one of the top 2 pitchers. Other teams had them equally high, so we got fair value but I don't think he's a huge steal. Really sucks that we moved down in the lottery, otherwise we would have been guaranteed one of them.
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I hate this pick so much more than the Colin Ralph pick. And I hated the Colin Ralph pick.
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Toolsy middle infielder who makes incredible contact and hits to all fields. Love the sound of him but I don’t watch college baseball. Saw a stat that he only whiffed on 6% of pitches in the zone this season which seems impossible given the talent of D1 pitchers. Prospect guys I follow are ecstatic so I’m pretty excited. Feels like he and Winn up the middle would be pretty sweet.
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Two major hamstring injuries in the calendar year, is small and slight, and I don't think he has any carrying tools other than his bat, which already has little power as is. You want a lesser Luis Arraez, Wetherholt's your guy.
He's a "safe" pick, and I hate safe in this part of the draft.
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I don’t doubt that. But I wanted upside, especially drafting so highly.
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I have seen multiple people compare his upside to Chase Utley, how much more upside do you want?
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The big thing is probably where does his power end up. If he's a 20+ HR guy, he's going to be a stud for us.
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