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Dustin May since 4/10 (only removes his first 2 starts)

2.89 ERA
2.86 FIP
8.13 K/9
2.34 BB/9
0.41 HR/9

1.8 WAR

That’s good for 8th best WAR for all of MLB pitchers during that time.

#stlcards

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The Good:

#stlcards rank 6th in baseball in non-pitching fWAR. With an average position player age of 24-25 years old, that’s very good.

The Bad:

Cardinals rank 28th in pitching fWAR.

The Ugly:

Cardinals rank dead last in K/9 by a wide margin at 6.87.

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Dustin May’s last 3 starts

17.1 IP
13 K
2 BB
1.56 ERA
2.63 xERA

#stlcards

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#stlcards pitching ranks so far:

28th in WAR
30th in K/9
22nd in BB/9
29th in xERA

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In 12.1 IP Svanson and Roycroft have given up 20 runs. That is 28% of #stlcards total runs allowed while only pitching 10% of the total innings pitched by Cardinal pitchers.

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Combine this with a 121 wRC+ despite him only slugging .361 at the moment. The slug will come with time given his track record.

The sky is truly the limit for JJ Wetherholt. #stlcards

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JJ Wetherholt is currently tied with Bobby Witt Jr. for the MLB lead with 3 Outs Above Average

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For a team that is in the midst of a rebuild, can someone explain to me why #StlCards Pedro Pages is on the roster over Jimmy Crooks?

Crooks is the number 8 prospect in Cardinals system and is 24 years old with lots of minor league success.

Pedro Pages is 27.

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@dgoold Completely delusional perspective by the FO. He’s been horrible for the whole year, but they think a contender would give up anything worthwhile if he has 1-2 decent starts?

Sunk cost fallacy.

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Sonny Gray game score for today was a 96.

That ranks #2 in #STLCards history for a 9 inning game.

Who’s #1?

Shelby Miller in 2013 when he had a 98 game score.

His line: 9 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 13 K

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@seeingredpod @b_miklasz that managerial sequence by Marmol in the top of 8th is one of the worst things I’ve seen him do as a manager.

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@b_miklasz For context:

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@b_miklasz Oli laughingly told you guys on the podcast that he’s getting better but the results don’t show it…

He just blew another game by giving up a bomb to a guy with a career 60 wRC+. This organization has really lost it.

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@KevinWheeler94 That’s fair. Their stubbornness with Fernandez has been remarkable. Seems like a swap for O’Brien makes too much sense and should’ve been done days ago.

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@KevinWheeler94 Why wasn’t Maton available? He didn’t pitch yesterday and off day tomorrow?

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Dylan Lee

Career FIP:

2.38 vs LHB
3.91 vs RHB

Gorman career wRC+:

97 vs LHP
106 vs RHP

Oli went directly against the numbers.

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Does Oli Marmol hate using his best reliever in high leverage situations?

Where is Ryan Helsley?

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@JohnDenton555 Context is important John.

He also has:

2nd percentile LA sweet spot
22nd percentile barrel rate
Below 50th percentile in xSLG, xBA, xWOBA.

He’s swinging hard but if he doesn’t figure out how to lift the ball, I fear he will never be the player he was supposed to be.

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Miles Mikolas has thrown 81 pitches. He has 2 swings and misses.

The writing is on the wall. It doesn’t take much to understand it’s probably best to give these opportunities to someone else.

#stlcards