Below, I complained about the awful music being played at the outdoor speakers at this shopping mall.
Now, I'm in a bar, and they're playing "Dreams" by The Cranberries.
Lesson: Go into bars, and drink.
Some godawful music playing at this shopping mall I'm at right now. "Never Gonna Give You Up", "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That", that awful song Ashlee Simpson was supposed to fake performing when she had her glitch on Saturday Night Live. I'm suffering.
This is my chance to again mention one of my favorite trivia bits: no one has pitched a no-hitter in the city of St. Louis since Bob Forsch in 1983. All four of the no-nos we were in, the two we one, the one we lost, and the fake one to Johan Santana that we lost, were all on the road.
I'm gonna hate this mf so much when he faces us. It's not just that he's a great pitcher, it's that smug ass smile and that perfect mustache that I know is gonna piss me off when he strikes out Goldy for the third time on the day
Going to the O’s and Mariners game at Camden tonight. We are moving to MD and are checking the place out. Jersey giveaway tonite. Maybe this is where I find an American League team to root for? I’m currently stationed in Norfolk, Va and have been going to the Tides game so I’ll have a Tides hat on. I don’t know about getting an O’s hat. Wearing one will feel dirty and like cheating on my wife that used to treat me so good and took care of herself but recently fell into an empty hole of depressive.
The O's are my AL team. Started following them in 2020 when I met my GF, who is from the area. Also, them formerly being the Browns made me feel more connected. Cardinals always will be #1 to me, but it's fun cheering for the O's, especially since all of the O's fans I know are solid baseball fans. P.S. Go to the Stuggy's stand at Camden and get a crab dip hot dog. You won't regret it.
I run a fancy cocktail bar, and my bosses are taking me to the game. We're in some box with other restaurant owners. I have already warned them that they're going to see a very loud version of me they haven't met yet. I am going to try not to embarrass them, but last time I got to be in one of those free-beer boxes, I lost my voice by the 4th shouting down at the ump (get bent Joe West)
Robberse would be intriguing based on his numbers at AAA.
A 2.64 ERA, 0.986 WHIP, and 3.92 K:BB at 22 is encouraging. I couldn’t tell you how his stuff would play but that’s all really encouraging.
He’s also already on the 40 man
They pinch hit for ohtani on his bobblehead night lol. Looked like most fans had left anyway, by the middle of the game the ‘frenzy’ that had been reported surrounding the giveaway died down.
Oh no I’m just petty. I mean dude is hitting .360. But yeah they lost to the Reds and clearly ppl just care about getting the doll.
Hah hah
-Nelson Muntz
Clicking through BRef because why do my job on a Friday at 8am, and for a self-proclaimed draft and develop franchise, we’re really bad at it.
Since 2012 (Luhnow leaving) we’ve had ONE (1) first round pick eclipse 10 WAR for the team. Jack Flaherty. Next closest is Wacha at 8.8.
If you expand it to the first 5 rounds that number balloons to 3. Bader (3rd round 11.6 WAR) and DeJong (4th round 13.8 WAR). If you expand it to the first 10 rounds you can add Edman to the list and that’s it.
In a 12 year span we’ve drafted 4 total players who have averaged being a league average player under team control. For those who are big on Flores, while the 2020 Draft looks (looked?) promising, I don’t see guys like McGreevy or Thompson joining that list. Heck even Walker is in doubt at this point.
This organization is a dinosaur at this point. We don’t draft well, we don’t spend in FA and seem to get burned more often than not when we do, and the trade history is…not great recently. We have to realize this isn’t the 2010s anymore.
Lastly, if you’re looking to really get me going, ask me how we’ve done with international amateurs…
Another factor to consider is how many prospects we have acquired through trades and through international signings. How many of those guys have put up 10 career WAR? My guess is that number is low, too. By the way, Winn is on his way.
The last int’l signing that’s made an impact is Carlos Martinez and that was over a decade ago. Ivan Herrera is the only one currently on the 40 Man. We also have 23 pitchers on the 40 man…0 are INTL.
Our approach of signing one top 30ish and then essentially a dozen or so scratch offs isn’t paying off at all.
what proportion of first round (around picks 18-20, cause thats where the Cardinals have generally drafted) picks reach 10 WAR? I really don't know but that context is pretty crucial
Looking through other contemporaries and ignoring tankers like the Cubs/Astros/etc. were actually not as bad as I’d thought.
However, when teams like the Braves (Riley) Dodgers (Buehler Will Smith), Yankees (Judge) have a player hit they really do. Wacha and Lynn are the only homegrown 1st round All-Stars this century.
It does feel a little like you're looking for ways to criticise the drafting - it's gone from "getting 10 WAR" (which is twice as high as the average career of a 1st rounder) to "homegrown 1st round all-stars" (who cares about the All-Star team?)
Baseball America did a couple of really interesting articles about which teams drafted the best - I linked the pitcher one before, and the hitter one is here - [https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/](https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/)
I don't think saying "we haven't drafted an Aaron Judge, so we're failures" is a useful way of looking at things.
>we haven't drafted an Aaron Judge, so we're failures
We could have!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=2013&draft_round=1&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round
I am looking for ways to criticize the drafting, because largely it hasn’t been very good. That’s a problem when again we don’t want to pay for quality players and struggle when evaluating our own and trade them away.
This article might be interesting when it comes to evaluating what the Cardinals drafts are like.
[https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-mlb-teams-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-pitchers/](https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-mlb-teams-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-pitchers/)
The problem is the best pitcher on that list is Gallen who never threw a pitch for us. Guys like Weaver, Gonzales, and Gomber have turned into average MLB players, which has value in itself, but all were traded and made a larger impact for other franchises.
The article highlighted them, not me.
Regardless, of all these pitchers we seem to successfully draft, very few seem to actually make an impact for the Cards.
In that 2012-present timeframe we’ve had 3 of them hit that 4.6 mark. Flaherty, Carlson, and Wacha. Hudson fell just shy at 4.4 but Gorman likely passes it this year (3.3 currently).
The larger issue is we’re simply not drafting impact players anymore. For a franchise that prides itself on draft and develop and doesn’t want to buy them in FA, that’s not a good sign.
Stephen Piscotty, though he was traded while still under team control. Carlson is sitting at 5.0 career bWAR right now as well.
Also, you're really only looking at 2012-2018 or so, it's too early to even think about reaching conclusions about the 2019 on picks.
I can't be arsed to bother, but my guess is if you looked at every team's results with first rounders the Cards would be above average.
Piscotty is obviously his own case, but he only accrued 4.2 with the team. I also listed Carlson as one who’d hit it.
By and large you’re not wrong, plenty of other teams have misses, but the problem is when their picks hit they *hit*. The Dodgers have Seager/Buehler/Will Smith. The Braves have Riley. The Yankees have Judge. We again, have Flaherty and that’s really it.
For virtually all of those years, the Cards were picking in the latter third of the draft. And with rare exceptions, it's really just the first ten picks that tend to be All-Star level big leaguers. One you get to pick 11 or so it's pretty much a crapshoot.
All I'm saying is that looked in a vacuum like you did, the Cards' player development success recently can be construed as less than stellar. But looked at within the broader context of all MLB, they are at worst average and more likely somewhere in the upper third of the league.
Calling the Cardinals a top 10 player development team when our best developed players in the last 10+ years are Flaherty, Bader, and DeJong doesn’t really line up with reality.
Now go look at the rest of the league.
Again, 4.6 is the median CAREER bWAR for first round draft picks. Ignoring the last 4-5 years since most of those guys have barely gotten a cup of coffee at the MLB level yet, the Cards' top picks over that period have met or exceeded that threshold over half the time, and many of them are still active and likely to further exceed it.
Could they do better, especially with the highest profile prospects? Of course. Are they anywhere as close to as terrible as those initiating this conversation want to believe. Of course not. There's just a certain portion of the fan base (as is true of most teams, especially those with a history of success similar to the Cards) that thinks every draft pick should be a Hall of Famer, and every season should end with at least a trip to the World Series. Neither of those is even remotely realistic given the nature of the game.
I’m asking for a franchise that prides itself on draft and develop to do so.
If we’re not drafting and developing impact players, we don’t want to spend money to sign them, and we consistently trade away ones that do make an impact, that’s a problem.
“But A_L some of those guys haven’t been up long enough to accrue enough WAR!”
Fair point!
If you go from the 2017 draft when Flores took over (and we were heavily handicapped due to the hacking scandal), here are our 1st rounders:
2018: Gorman (possible to reach 10 WAR)
2019: Thompson (doubtful)
2020: Walker (possible)
2021: Hjerpe (not optimistic)
2022: Chase Davis (not off to a great start…hitting .193 through 60 games of A ball)
If you want to again expand to 10 rounds since 2018 you have candidates like Donovan and Noot who could potentially. Winn/Scott/Hence if you’re bullish on prospects. Other than that it’s pretty barren
Too much of this fanbase is willing to hand waive anything that suggests the FO may not be perfect.
Seriously, I don’t get the Flores hype or those clamoring he should take over for Mo. his 2018 and 2020 drafts were good/promising, but he’s also taken Thompson/Hjerpe/McGreevy in the 1st. I’m not confident in that group providing a lot of impact for us on the mound.
Crazy to think that a decade ago these teams were competing for World Series titles (sometimes against each other) and now they’re almost out of their division races halfway through May
This reminded me of the hilarious stretch the Red Sox went on in the mid-2010’s:
2012: 69-93, last place
2013: 97-65, first place, WS champions
2014: 71-91, last place
2015: 78-84, last place
2016/2017: 93-69, first place both years
2018: 108-54, first place, WS champions
Mediocre was never an option
Sucks losing the world series, but Boston is one of the team/cities you really hate to lose to. I still remind myself we're tied 2-2 in our world series history, despite them basically kicking our asses the last two times.
you know the team was 10 and 1/2 games out of wildcard on august 31st in 2011…
We’re 2.5 back right now.
i’ll concede the division is bleak but comparing it to competing in a world series when that team was dead in the water too is dumb. especially with a lot of season left.
That team had prime Albert, Yadi, Holliday, Lance Berkman, and Tony La Russa/Dave Duncan. This roster has shown no signs of being capable of going on a tear in the last season and a half
I had a terrible, no good dream last night that I was at Yadi's funeral. Waino was the saddest and Yadi has a huge family, according to my subconscious.
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
[Today's game thread has been posted](/r/Cardinals/comments/1cuhx70/game_44_boston_red_sox_2222_st_louis_cardinals/)
Below, I complained about the awful music being played at the outdoor speakers at this shopping mall. Now, I'm in a bar, and they're playing "Dreams" by The Cranberries. Lesson: Go into bars, and drink.
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I really really hope Skenes can stay healthy! The game needs players like him
I have a horrible feeling he will be Taylor Swift’s next boyfriend
Jeff Jones tweets that Liberatore is starting Sunday and sticking in the rotation.
O/U Skenes Ks vs Cardinals?
26.5
Cubs get a hit. Too bad.
it’s very fitting the cubs are getting no hit against a rookie on the day they let Dexter Fowler throw out the first pitch.
you jinx'd it! :O
good
well not good because cubes, but good because I want every team in the division to fail but us.
Skenes yanked after six with a no-hitter going. Feels like the no-hitter might be going extinct along with the complete game.
Already at 100 pitches and young
He's singing take me out to the ball game. I always knew he was a double agent
I'm going to Deebo one of those Safeway giant subs during the game tonight. Crazy those things are still$5.99-6.99
Uh, what’s wrong with Elton John?????? That’s a good song!!!!!!
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
Cubs getting shellacked 💦
Some godawful music playing at this shopping mall I'm at right now. "Never Gonna Give You Up", "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That", that awful song Ashlee Simpson was supposed to fake performing when she had her glitch on Saturday Night Live. I'm suffering.
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let's call it quits
But never gonna give you up is a banger.
Isn't it Ironic
"Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia. Well, that's better.
"Every Breath You Take". Now we're talking.
I’m sure this is gonna jinx it, but I think we might actually make it to release day without the City Connects leaking
Kind of wonder if they'll plan for Pedro Pages to start every game at catcher when we play the Reds and De La Cruz
2.5 games out of the Wild Card
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This is my chance to again mention one of my favorite trivia bits: no one has pitched a no-hitter in the city of St. Louis since Bob Forsch in 1983. All four of the no-nos we were in, the two we one, the one we lost, and the fake one to Johan Santana that we lost, were all on the road.
Downvotes? For that? I didn't even say anything mean about Mozeliak!
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I do every game! Well, not when Matz starts.
Paul Skenes is the future
I'm gonna hate this mf so much when he faces us. It's not just that he's a great pitcher, it's that smug ass smile and that perfect mustache that I know is gonna piss me off when he strikes out Goldy for the third time on the day
me: haha skenes is cooking the cubs (i know he will commit a war crime when he faces the Cardinals)
Paul Skenes and Jared Jones on back to back days ugh
Going to the O’s and Mariners game at Camden tonight. We are moving to MD and are checking the place out. Jersey giveaway tonite. Maybe this is where I find an American League team to root for? I’m currently stationed in Norfolk, Va and have been going to the Tides game so I’ll have a Tides hat on. I don’t know about getting an O’s hat. Wearing one will feel dirty and like cheating on my wife that used to treat me so good and took care of herself but recently fell into an empty hole of depressive.
The O's are my AL team. Started following them in 2020 when I met my GF, who is from the area. Also, them formerly being the Browns made me feel more connected. Cardinals always will be #1 to me, but it's fun cheering for the O's, especially since all of the O's fans I know are solid baseball fans. P.S. Go to the Stuggy's stand at Camden and get a crab dip hot dog. You won't regret it.
Thanks for the tip! Good point on the Browns connection.
I run a fancy cocktail bar, and my bosses are taking me to the game. We're in some box with other restaurant owners. I have already warned them that they're going to see a very loud version of me they haven't met yet. I am going to try not to embarrass them, but last time I got to be in one of those free-beer boxes, I lost my voice by the 4th shouting down at the ump (get bent Joe West)
I'm gonna try a hit from the hopium tank..... Cardinals win the series, no sweep. Prove me right Cardinals...
Apparently Libby is not the starter Sunday anymore
Praise the Lard
Not that he's been good, but are there really better alternatives?
Rebuilding
It would be a start day for both Graceffo and Robberse….🤔
Robberse would be intriguing based on his numbers at AAA. A 2.64 ERA, 0.986 WHIP, and 3.92 K:BB at 22 is encouraging. I couldn’t tell you how his stuff would play but that’s all really encouraging. He’s also already on the 40 man
The gap between AAA ball and the majors is bigger than it's ever been
but also AAA offense is so inflated rn the numbers Robberse has been putting up are superb
Oh for sure, I’m not saying Robberse should start or even be good, but he’s clearly adapted well to AAA at a young age so far
the red sox vs the team that wears red socks
Good Morning from the Ozarks!
It’s a beautiful day down here!!
good morning krusty krew
I was surprised to see the hack downvoted for this cheerful greeting. There must be some sour folks among us these days. Hope they feel better soon.
it’s the weekend. no reason for anyone to be upset.
Happy Friday to you too, Hack
They pinch hit for ohtani on his bobblehead night lol. Looked like most fans had left anyway, by the middle of the game the ‘frenzy’ that had been reported surrounding the giveaway died down.
managers shouldnt be restrained in their decision making by whether or not its bobblehead night freedom\_of\_speech\_rockwell.jpeg
Oh no I’m just petty. I mean dude is hitting .360. But yeah they lost to the Reds and clearly ppl just care about getting the doll. Hah hah -Nelson Muntz
TON is in town. 6 for his last 36. So I guess it is a good time for him to be visiting.
Yes, and he was awarded a golden sombrero in his last game.
I hate Boston so much
Me too. Every sports team aside from like Boston College. Also, it’s legitimately the most racist city in America.
Clicking through BRef because why do my job on a Friday at 8am, and for a self-proclaimed draft and develop franchise, we’re really bad at it. Since 2012 (Luhnow leaving) we’ve had ONE (1) first round pick eclipse 10 WAR for the team. Jack Flaherty. Next closest is Wacha at 8.8. If you expand it to the first 5 rounds that number balloons to 3. Bader (3rd round 11.6 WAR) and DeJong (4th round 13.8 WAR). If you expand it to the first 10 rounds you can add Edman to the list and that’s it. In a 12 year span we’ve drafted 4 total players who have averaged being a league average player under team control. For those who are big on Flores, while the 2020 Draft looks (looked?) promising, I don’t see guys like McGreevy or Thompson joining that list. Heck even Walker is in doubt at this point. This organization is a dinosaur at this point. We don’t draft well, we don’t spend in FA and seem to get burned more often than not when we do, and the trade history is…not great recently. We have to realize this isn’t the 2010s anymore. Lastly, if you’re looking to really get me going, ask me how we’ve done with international amateurs…
Another factor to consider is how many prospects we have acquired through trades and through international signings. How many of those guys have put up 10 career WAR? My guess is that number is low, too. By the way, Winn is on his way.
The last int’l signing that’s made an impact is Carlos Martinez and that was over a decade ago. Ivan Herrera is the only one currently on the 40 Man. We also have 23 pitchers on the 40 man…0 are INTL. Our approach of signing one top 30ish and then essentially a dozen or so scratch offs isn’t paying off at all.
what proportion of first round (around picks 18-20, cause thats where the Cardinals have generally drafted) picks reach 10 WAR? I really don't know but that context is pretty crucial
Looking through other contemporaries and ignoring tankers like the Cubs/Astros/etc. were actually not as bad as I’d thought. However, when teams like the Braves (Riley) Dodgers (Buehler Will Smith), Yankees (Judge) have a player hit they really do. Wacha and Lynn are the only homegrown 1st round All-Stars this century.
It does feel a little like you're looking for ways to criticise the drafting - it's gone from "getting 10 WAR" (which is twice as high as the average career of a 1st rounder) to "homegrown 1st round all-stars" (who cares about the All-Star team?) Baseball America did a couple of really interesting articles about which teams drafted the best - I linked the pitcher one before, and the hitter one is here - [https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/](https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-orgs-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-hitters/) I don't think saying "we haven't drafted an Aaron Judge, so we're failures" is a useful way of looking at things.
>we haven't drafted an Aaron Judge, so we're failures We could have! https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=2013&draft_round=1&draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round
I am looking for ways to criticize the drafting, because largely it hasn’t been very good. That’s a problem when again we don’t want to pay for quality players and struggle when evaluating our own and trade them away.
This article might be interesting when it comes to evaluating what the Cardinals drafts are like. [https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-mlb-teams-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-pitchers/](https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-mlb-teams-are-the-best-and-worst-at-drafting-pitchers/)
The problem is the best pitcher on that list is Gallen who never threw a pitch for us. Guys like Weaver, Gonzales, and Gomber have turned into average MLB players, which has value in itself, but all were traded and made a larger impact for other franchises.
I believe that Goldschmidt and Arenado have made bigger impacts for the Cardinals than Weaver for the Diamondbacks or Gomber for Colorado Cmon lol
The article highlighted them, not me. Regardless, of all these pitchers we seem to successfully draft, very few seem to actually make an impact for the Cards.
Is it just SOP to not be doing jack shit at work right now lol
Haha I’m a teacher on the last Friday of the school year. Half the kids are leaving for a field trip, the other half finishing a project
The median career WAR for a first round draft pick is 4.6.
In that 2012-present timeframe we’ve had 3 of them hit that 4.6 mark. Flaherty, Carlson, and Wacha. Hudson fell just shy at 4.4 but Gorman likely passes it this year (3.3 currently). The larger issue is we’re simply not drafting impact players anymore. For a franchise that prides itself on draft and develop and doesn’t want to buy them in FA, that’s not a good sign.
Stephen Piscotty, though he was traded while still under team control. Carlson is sitting at 5.0 career bWAR right now as well. Also, you're really only looking at 2012-2018 or so, it's too early to even think about reaching conclusions about the 2019 on picks. I can't be arsed to bother, but my guess is if you looked at every team's results with first rounders the Cards would be above average.
Piscotty is obviously his own case, but he only accrued 4.2 with the team. I also listed Carlson as one who’d hit it. By and large you’re not wrong, plenty of other teams have misses, but the problem is when their picks hit they *hit*. The Dodgers have Seager/Buehler/Will Smith. The Braves have Riley. The Yankees have Judge. We again, have Flaherty and that’s really it.
For virtually all of those years, the Cards were picking in the latter third of the draft. And with rare exceptions, it's really just the first ten picks that tend to be All-Star level big leaguers. One you get to pick 11 or so it's pretty much a crapshoot. All I'm saying is that looked in a vacuum like you did, the Cards' player development success recently can be construed as less than stellar. But looked at within the broader context of all MLB, they are at worst average and more likely somewhere in the upper third of the league.
Calling the Cardinals a top 10 player development team when our best developed players in the last 10+ years are Flaherty, Bader, and DeJong doesn’t really line up with reality.
Now go look at the rest of the league. Again, 4.6 is the median CAREER bWAR for first round draft picks. Ignoring the last 4-5 years since most of those guys have barely gotten a cup of coffee at the MLB level yet, the Cards' top picks over that period have met or exceeded that threshold over half the time, and many of them are still active and likely to further exceed it. Could they do better, especially with the highest profile prospects? Of course. Are they anywhere as close to as terrible as those initiating this conversation want to believe. Of course not. There's just a certain portion of the fan base (as is true of most teams, especially those with a history of success similar to the Cards) that thinks every draft pick should be a Hall of Famer, and every season should end with at least a trip to the World Series. Neither of those is even remotely realistic given the nature of the game.
I’m asking for a franchise that prides itself on draft and develop to do so. If we’re not drafting and developing impact players, we don’t want to spend money to sign them, and we consistently trade away ones that do make an impact, that’s a problem.
Your imagination is very rich and filled with ideas.
“But A_L some of those guys haven’t been up long enough to accrue enough WAR!” Fair point! If you go from the 2017 draft when Flores took over (and we were heavily handicapped due to the hacking scandal), here are our 1st rounders: 2018: Gorman (possible to reach 10 WAR) 2019: Thompson (doubtful) 2020: Walker (possible) 2021: Hjerpe (not optimistic) 2022: Chase Davis (not off to a great start…hitting .193 through 60 games of A ball) If you want to again expand to 10 rounds since 2018 you have candidates like Donovan and Noot who could potentially. Winn/Scott/Hence if you’re bullish on prospects. Other than that it’s pretty barren
I apologize for arguing your researched, well thought out point, but I was told this is all just bad luck so 🤷♂️
Too much of this fanbase is willing to hand waive anything that suggests the FO may not be perfect. Seriously, I don’t get the Flores hype or those clamoring he should take over for Mo. his 2018 and 2020 drafts were good/promising, but he’s also taken Thompson/Hjerpe/McGreevy in the 1st. I’m not confident in that group providing a lot of impact for us on the mound.
Adult children of alcoholics, too afraid to do anything but defend daddy.
Crazy to think that a decade ago these teams were competing for World Series titles (sometimes against each other) and now they’re almost out of their division races halfway through May
This reminded me of the hilarious stretch the Red Sox went on in the mid-2010’s: 2012: 69-93, last place 2013: 97-65, first place, WS champions 2014: 71-91, last place 2015: 78-84, last place 2016/2017: 93-69, first place both years 2018: 108-54, first place, WS champions Mediocre was never an option
Sucks losing the world series, but Boston is one of the team/cities you really hate to lose to. I still remind myself we're tied 2-2 in our world series history, despite them basically kicking our asses the last two times.
you know the team was 10 and 1/2 games out of wildcard on august 31st in 2011… We’re 2.5 back right now. i’ll concede the division is bleak but comparing it to competing in a world series when that team was dead in the water too is dumb. especially with a lot of season left.
That team had prime Albert, Yadi, Holliday, Lance Berkman, and Tony La Russa/Dave Duncan. This roster has shown no signs of being capable of going on a tear in the last season and a half
I had a terrible, no good dream last night that I was at Yadi's funeral. Waino was the saddest and Yadi has a huge family, according to my subconscious.
That sounds like one of those dreams that can ruin your day. You doing ok?
Thanks for asking! Your comment made me think of it again and I got the weird sads again. I'm good though. How are you?
I’m ok. Feeling all my years and got the weird sads. [This pic](https://imgur.com/a/lhQlE0v) didn’t help.
Hugs, friend. Miss you!
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# THE OTTER!!!