Cards fans: hitting coach or lineup in general?

without question we need a new hitting coach. we needed a new one last year, fwiw.

I was up in Kentucky for work a couple of months ago and you can catch the cards radio call there. Even the announcers were resigned to it.

"I just don't know where runs are going to come from in this lineup."










Worse thing is, in spite of the low run total, we could depend on pitching to get us through it. No other way they could have ended up with the best record in baseball. But even that went away towards the end. What's happened to Wacha?

Whoa, man. Do you know how much he can curl? We can't move him. Way too important.

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Do you know how much he can curl? We can't move him. Way too important.

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I've taken that into account, and I would have to point you in the direction of Grichuk to be our primary curling representative.

Dudes arms are cut, and what we lose in curling power can without a doubt be made up in, baseball.

I like Pham, but he's already 27. Kind of like Freese getting real good late in his career and dwindling off. I like him, but I honestly don't see him as a staple.

Agree. Pham is a role player at best.

Every game I watched it seemed like the announcers would say the same thing about Wong: "If he would just get his hands up..."


Either he's uber stubborn, or Mabry just makes sure you get the correct bat.

The strikeouts up and down the lineup are the biggest concern moving forward.

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Not a troll because I really have no idea, but how did the Jay Hey Kid do in this series?

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One of our best players either him or Piscotty

Only real threat it seemed like at times

Re-sign Heyward, Piscotty spends all offseason working on 1B and the Spring and takes over full time at 1B. Pretty sure that's a done deal if Heyward is back.

Grichuk same as above but CF.

Nothing can be done about Wong or Peralta, but I don't worry too much about either, not exactly positions that carry an offense on any team and for the value they are still solid while Wong will only get better with time. Peralta shouldn't have been batting cleanup for 2 months now, all on Mike being stubborn.

Nothing can be done at C either, Molina still has a few years left but has to avoid the freak injuries similar to Waino.

Side note we better re-sign Lackey or imma be furious. We need him in so many ways. Quite clear the amount of innings for Wacha and Martinez became a major issue late in the year. Matheny also has to learn to better manage his bullpen, absolutely awful this year, those guys arms were gonna fall off if we advanced.

But really, IMHO, we probably sweep the Cubs with Waino and CMart. The team just has to stay healthy. Not much to you can do about that.


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@LangoschMLB: Impending free-agent Jason Heyward on possibly coming back to #STLCards: "This is definitely an ideal situation."

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