Around Baseball 2023

[G-Snarls]

That contract is going to be a massive sunk cost for NY

 

6 year / $162,000,000

 

At least Cole has stayed healthy on his insane contract

[G-Snarls]

Yoof. What a walk year for him, glad the Yanks fell for that trap

 

Walk year? He's singed for big $.

[Stangstag]

Walk year? He's singed for big $.

 

Yes I mean last season was an excellent walk year for him, which led to the Yankees signing him to that insane deal.

 

He probably never comes close to a season like that again

[G-Snarls]

Yes I mean last season was an excellent walk year for him, which led to the Yankees signing him to that insane deal.

 

He probably never comes close to a season like that again

 

Ah

 

Got you

 

And Friggin right

 

That one season bought him a mega deal he'll never live up to

[Ray]

Lol Teo with an absolute bonehead move in the 9th inning. Ms losing 6-4, Teo hits a single to start the inning and tries to stretch it into a double for some crazy reason and gets thrown out at 2nd.

 

Watched that live and got reminded how much I do not miss his low IQ plays. But this was particularly bad, even for Teoscar.

 

He also leads the league in strikeouts, so not lighting it up offensively.

[Jonn]

I am happy Rodon got to secure the bag before becoming a pumpkin. Yankees having the bill makes it sweeter.

[Pendleton]

 

 

Hopefully this spills over into the rest of their series and results in a bunch of suspensions

[Ehjays]

[G-Snarls]

Cardinals are a s*** show atm

 

Not used to seeing that

[Stangstag]

 

Wat

[jaysblue]

Cardinals are a s*** show atm

 

Not used to seeing that

 

Crossing fingers they make Arenado available in the offseason haha.

[G-Snarls]

Cardinals To Shift Willson Contreras Off Catcher

 

May 6th, 2023 at 1:30pm CST • By Simon Hampton

 

On the face of it, the Cardinals’ decision to call up minor league catcher Tres Barrera didn’t seem like the sort of deal to make headlines around baseball, but the ramifications of it are significant. It’s not so much the call up of Barrera, but the fact his arrival means St Louis will shift Willson Contreras off catcher for the “next couple of weeks”, as Katie Woo of The Athletic reports, with Andrew Knizner to take over as the primary backstop.

 

It’s a huge move to shift your star off-season recruit off his primary position just a month into his first season, but the Cards clearly feel this is the best move to help them turn around their 10-23 start to the season. Contreras, signed to a five-year, $87.5MM deal in the winter, will now serve as a DH/outfielder for the team, further muddying an already crowded outfield picture in St Louis

 

At the plate, Contreras has been his usual self, slashing .280/.361/.421 with a pair of home runs, good for a wRC+ of 119. That’s a slight drop on his numbers from last year but pretty much in line with his career numbers. His offensive work was never likely to be the source of any concern though, with the focus here surely on his work behind the plate.

 

Catchers are a challenging position to assess statistically, but there’s generally been some question marks over Contreras’ work behind the plate.

[Omar]

Hopefully this spills over into the rest of their series and results in a bunch of suspensions

 

Yankees do that to everybody including the Jays. Some on this board always say it's accidental. Naive rubes.

[Krylian]

Yankees do that to everybody including the Jays. Some on this board always say it's accidental. Naive rubes.

 

Nothing is accidental

[Omar]

Oh my!

 

Racism warning.

 

 

[Jonn]

This one is tough for me because you can't tell me after visiting the Negro League Museum you still don't know exactly how to pronounce it especially as a white guy. He said it with such directness there was no sign of mispronouncing.

[Omar]

This one is tough for me because you can't tell me after visiting the Negro League Museum you still don't know exactly how to pronounce it especially as a white guy. He said it with such directness there was no sign of mispronouncing.

 

Yep.

[John_Havok]

 

 

Kinda hard to walk that one back, lol

[connorp]

Yeah I can’t really see what else he was going for

[glory]

Yeah there's no apology that will save that. Can't even say he misspoke.

[connorp]

I guess the only plausible explanation, and it’s a stretch, would be that he was trying to avoid saying “neegro” as it should be, as it can be confusing what word is PC in the current day.

 

So like going for nig-ro and it just doesn’t make it out that way, instead of being safe and saying “neegro” as it should be

[Solaxys]

The Os might be legit.

 

They are poised to take another from Braves, and won yesterday against them.

 

These clubs with like no spending power leading the AL East

[Jonn]

The Os might be legit.

 

They are poised to take another from Braves, and won yesterday against them.

 

These clubs with like no spending power leading the AL East

 

Don't speak so fast. Kevin Pillar hit a clutch 2-run homerun to give the Braves the lead late.

[bronson44]

Attaboy Pillar our old friend

[Solaxys]

Ah Pillar coming through for Toronto!

[Jonn]

Orioles aren't legit with that rotation. As soon as that lineup cools off for a strech they will start losing a bunch of games. I do think they will be a team in the mix most of the season though. They need to make a big splash for a Starter.

[Solaxys]

Orioles aren't legit with that rotation. As soon as that lineup cools off for a strech they will start losing a bunch of games. I do think they will be a team in the mix most of the season though. They need to make a big splash for a Starter.

 

Chi Sox might be (I mean they have to) going on a fire sale. Cease could be a good pickup for them.

[Jonn]

Chi Sox might be (I mean they have to) going on a fire sale. Cease could be a good pickup for them.

 

I mean I hope they don't get Cease lol. But they are positioned to out bid anyone for the next big Starter to hit the market. They have just so much infield depth of prospects and their infield is already very young.

[G-Snarls]

Don't speak so fast. Kevin Pillar hit a clutch 2-run homerun to give the Braves the lead late.

 

Braves win!

 

Nice

[BTS]

TODAY: St. Louis president of baseball operations John Mozeliak specified that Contreras will be a designated hitter rather than an outfielder “unless there’s some sort of emergency,” Katie Woo and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic report. Mozeliak also shed some more light on the decision to make the position change, saying that “obviously the Cardinals were used to [Molina] behind the plate for close to two decades. The nuances of that position, maybe very subtle, are what a lot of our pitchers were used to. What we were seeing was a lack of confidence.

 

“Normally, you would say, why didn’t you address this in Spring Training? But in Spring Training, it’s so different in terms of what people are trying to work on. Pitchers are going a couple of innings. It doesn’t really count….We just decided to do it head on, put it out there. Do we think we’ve seen Willson catch his last game? No. But this is going to take a little time to get him to where we feel he understands the expectations of what this role is for us.”

 

Like manager Oliver Marmol said yesterday, Mozeliak reiterated that Contreras wasn’t being singled out as a cause of the team’s struggles. “What I don’t want to have happen is a finger-point, this is all Willson’s fault. It’s not. There are many parts of our team right now that are not performing to what we expected,” Mozeliak said.