Facebook Live Episode 11: Alex Reyes and Wild Card options

I once again took to Facebook to answer your questions in live fashion. Thanks to everyone who participated Also, I got a haircut—not during the video—before the chat.

Topics include:

• Jaime Garcia’s poor outing(s)
• Last night’s lineup
• Matt Carpenter at third instead of leadoff
• Alex Reyes’ performance
• Reyes’ role going forward
• The poor decision to let Reyes bat
• Different options for the Wild Card game as far as pitching goes
• Moss, Gyorko and low OBP, high power guys in the lineup
• What it would take for a manager to go with a seemingly bizarre wild card game strategy.
• Oh’s workload
• Swapping Reyes and Weaver
• Aledmys Diaz
• Holliday’s role this year and next
• Potential free agents
• Cardinals offseason strategy
• Rosenthal’s future, potentially as a starter
• Whether I received any blowback from advocating Mike Matheny be fired.

Thanks again for all of the questions. Feel free to follow our Facebook page here. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.