To overlook the farm system on this final day (for me) of regular DFR turn I’d like to be a tad forward looking. While the Cardinals have been a frustratingly underachieving team, to the point that a manager with lesser credentials would have more than likely been held accountable by termination mid-season, there is still a substantial amount of games remaining on the schedule that one last surge is plausible.
Wins must begin to come in bunches, starting this weekend. While saying anything is a ‘must win’ is silly as long as there are still numbers left on that elimination column (or if you are Marv Levy, you have a different opinion about must wins), that bunch of wins has to start Friday. A sweep, the ultimate correction to this horrendous 2 week stretch, would move the Cardinals back to a 5 game deficit. The Reds would leave St. Louis to face one of their toughest remaining series, a four game set in Colorado while the Redbirds head to the land of brats and beer, Milwaukee. Any combination of Rockies wins equal to or greater than 2 and Cardinals wins of 3 in those two 4 game sets and the Cardinals find themselves back in a position where picking up a win a week for the remainder of the season gives them a chance.
By the time we talk again next week, we will know a lot more about how the picture for the Cardinals postseason hopes look. Having seen this team for the 120+ games they’ve played so far, my gut tells me that it won’t be a pretty picture. However, I also know this offense has to revert to the mean hard and soon. And when that happens, the runs will flow in a glorious fashion. Let’s hope the pitching decides to steady itself the rest of the month as well.
On to the DFR!
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Minor League baseball in September. It just feels funny. Although, the nice thing (or awful thing) is that the farm system won more games in 1 night than the Cardinals have won in the last two weeks.
/sad trombone
On one of my last two full DFRs for the year.
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There are ridiculously 9 games on the docket tonight so no flowery prose, on to the DFR.
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Jason Motte is on the comeback trail, although in not an all-together effective way this evening.
With Colby Rasmus out for a majority of the time and Randy Winn/Allen Craig not stacking up runs from the RF position, the Cardinals have lost 4 of the 5 games Jake Westbrook has started. We’ve been exactly 1 win better than we would have been with an injured Jeff Suppan. Can we get Ryan Ludwick back?
On to the DFR!
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Hopefully the live blogging feature can become something that our growing contributor list can utilize when they actively get out to the ballpark. It’s always good to let people know the more descriptive details of a play that might not show in the boxscore.
The site hopes not only to become more informative over the next calendar year but also more interactive.
On to the DFR….
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We are going to test this bad boy out, I’m going to try to live blog the Muckdogs game tonight from inside the stadium.
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“Everybody gets into rough spots, but you have to overcome it somehow,” – Pete Kozma
With the draft class being finalized a few short days ago, it is interesting to look at what our top pick from 2007 is doing. We all know about the errors and the inconsistency at the plate. He’s been dubbed a slap hitting infielder with doubles power. Perhaps, though, he may be finally developing into a potential MLB player. Apparently Pop Warner told the young short-fielder to relax his approach and stay confident in his abilities.
Since that speech, he’s hit at a .438 clip with 5 2Bs and 5 HRs. For the month of August, he looks like a real prospect with a slash line of .318/.357/.652.
I don’t particularly believe that Pete has turned the corner or this is anything more than a hot streak that just happened to coincide with Pop’s words of encouragement. However, it would be a welcome addition to have the former 1st round pick round into an above average MLB player. Or, atleast, be better than Aaron Miles.
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Since we didn’t get any photos yesterday, you guys get TWO today:
Which do you prefer?
Matt Holliday: “Can I has the hugz 2? I haz more $”
or
Scott Rolen’s O-Face
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The one in which a former high ceiling MLB pitcher seemed to be the only one in the park not guessing right on what he was throwing…
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If anyone knows a player linker that actually works and updates their stats more than once every 6 months, please pass it along as FirstInning seems to have killed theirs.
This is a picture of Adam Wainwright trying to figure out what those two guys are pointing and laughing about…
On to the DFR!
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