Rasmus Trade Options

I’ve heard and read a lot of times that Ted would talk to anybody, and talk their ear off if they let him.
I don’t know much about Lau except for watching him play.

also, we really should be able to win a weak division with even a barely above-average offense with the pitching we’ve got. Games like last night have really killed us. We’ve not been blown out badly for most of the year, but I’d be willing to bet we’ve lost far more 1 and 2-run games than we’ve won, whereas the Reds have done the opposite.

I suspect a bit of that is luck, and in one or two cases I feel that the games have been badly managed this year (although I imagine most fans around the league can claim that now and again about their ballclub).

what I mean by consistency is spreading some of that run production a little more evenly, over more games. And I think that could result in a few more wins.
If you score runs in bunches a lot and then get anemic, you might have a good run production stat but not enough wins. You can play a 3 game series, win the first game 7-2, lose 2-1 and 4-2.
for the series you outscore them 10-8 (3.3 per game) and lose 2 out of three. If the run production would have been spread out (being more consistant, actually scoring 3 per game) you could have won 2 out of three.
 You’re right that run production doesn’t wins, I wasn’t trying to say that.
 I’m saying that if the cardinals were more consistently (on a daily basis) and score more evenly, they’d be in better shape. They could have a few more wins to show for it.
4.48 is just an average but if the cardinals actually scored 4.8 every game they’d be a better team.

Every player is replaceable. Ozzie. Willie. Jack Clark. Brian Jordan. Big Mac. Pujols. Holliday. Same way pitchers are replaceable. How quickly you can replace them might be another question, but there isn’t a single player or coach that isn’t replaceable.

That said, this team is built, for the most part, to be coached by Tony and Dave Duncan. What happenes if both leave next year, and whomever we bring in has a totally different philosophy? It shouldn’t jack with guys like Albert and Holliday much, but hey, what if it does? What if Carp and Waino don’t like the things the new pitching coach teaches? What happens if Molina doesn’t like the pitching coach, or the new coach doesn’t value catching defense/game calling?

I’m not saying I don’t see some good that could come from a change, I do. I’m just saying when a manager has been somewhere as long as Tony has, chances are, there is going to be a pretty decent turnaround time with any manager. And in a few years, our “studs” will be on the decline and we’ll be rebuilding.

IF management is going to pay Pujols and still spend to improve the rest of the team, I want the current staff back for 1-2 years. Management needs to fix the lineup though. Tony cannot turn Feliz, Ryan, Skip, Greene, Craig, Miles, or Lopez into quality bats. Maybe Freese coming back helps. I don’t know. At this point, we have a talent shortage though.

The above post is bullshit. You are one of the worst on the board about using a stat, or an argument, when it proves your point, and finding a reason not to use it when it disproves your point. Or making a big deal about some predictive stat, but completely ignoring what actually fucking happened on the field.

Aaron Miles may not be a very good baseball player. But to continually call him the worst player in baseball, when he isn’t even the worst player on the current roster, is LAME, and reaks of bias. You want to talk about how good a player might be in the future, FINE, your metrics may help you out some there. But you can’t use a stat that doesn’t measure results, and try to conclude about what a player has produced this season to date. I don’t give a fuck if Miles is lucky as hell, TO DATE…..Miles has helped this team on offense more than Lopez, Molina, Stav, Craig, Ryan, and Feliz. FACT. Hate his short ass all you want, but he has out OPS’d all those guys on the season. Does that mean he’ll do it going forward? No. But I’m sick and fucking tired of reading how HE is the reason we suck. It’s false. It’s a lie. It is biased. Luck or not…..repeatable or not…..doesn’t matter when looking at PAST RESULTS.

The problem is, you think you are some kind of fucking genuis. You have a smugness about you that explains a lot, actually. QUIT making it personal. If you want to talk baseball, talk baseball. YOU’VE made it personal though, and if you continue to, I’ll stop responding to your nonsense.

Got it?

That TLR was good at that, and now, for no reason other than he is older, isn’t. That doesn’t make sense. He does things the EXACT same way. He’s making the same moves. He’s playing guys the same way. He is dividing AB’s the same way. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Recently, it hasn’t. I’m not happy about it either, but I feel like Tony has done just about everything possible to jump start this team. He’s played the best players when healthy at times. He platooned some of them. He’s given some young guys time. He’s tried playing Miles a lot, and sparingly. He’s juggled the lineup a bunch. He went back to hitting the pitcher 9th. He swapped out leadoff hitters. If TLR was truly stubborn, he wouldn’t be doing all of that. He’d put out the lineup he wanted, and he’d stick to it. You may see the changing of the lineup/roster as medling. I see it as proactively trying to jump start the team/offense. Again, there really is no right/wrong answer.