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Only July 14, 2018, the Cardinals had lost two games in a row to the Cincinnati Reds and looked lifeless. The St. Louis Cardinals have always thrived on continuity. Bill DeWitt Jr. has owned the team since March 1996, and he has had two managers in that span: Tony La Russa, and then Mike Matheny replaced him in 2012. Under DeWitt, the Cardinals have won 10 division titles and made the postseason 13
Turns out, it WAS a train! Be careful what you wish for (Kenley Jansen) you might get it! Kenley sure has had some dramatic losses for us this year. I blame his Doctors they said he could pitch. It was obvious he could not! Malpractice is what it was! According to Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com, Jansen may have been too amped up: Jansen said he was so excited
Most of you probably don t believe it, because the Dodger bullpen has been awful many times during this season, but it went from awful to deplorable when Daniel Hudson, Ross Stripling and Kenley Jansen went down. Of course, Kenley was the biggest loss and there s no way to replace him. That will likely come to an end tonight as if Kenley is approved by his Doctors to play again. In
I like Caleb Ferguson and Dylan Floro a lot, but Caleb is just learning how to handle the pen and Floro is just learning how to handle his improved stuff. Dylan used to have pedestrian stuff and now he has very good stuff but next he has to learn to utilize it. A pennant race is a bad time. It all goes back to the hitting or lack thereof! An
Friday night s game was nice, but it s just one game. The starter did his job, the bullpen did theirs (it s a lot easier when it s not close) and the hitters certainly did theirs. Kemp and Machado are coming out of their slumps and the Dodgers are still two games back of the D-Bags. These guys now need to build some consistency (which is breed with confidence) and start a winning
From the Dodgers point of view, it turns out that Murphy may have been a optimist. In a week where if something could go wrong, it did go wrong, and then wronger and wrongest! I have always maintained a glass half full attitude. The storm generally passes and it s never as bad as the glass half empty people say. Here s a little more about Murphy s Law: Fabian Ardaya of The
It s easy to blame the Dodger woes on pitching particularly the Bullpen and for most of the season and especially, the past 5 days, they have been the Dodger fans whipping boys. As much as we may want to blame the Dodger woes on the bullpen, we really can t. That s not the problem. Oh, it could be better, but that is simply not what is wrong with this team. The
A new pitcher same result! Baez, Chargois, Floro, Alexander and now Maeda. All have failed as the stopper. A good argument could be made that the biggest mistake FAZ made was not spending $7.0 million to re-sign Tony Watson, but here s the rub: when any pitcher is suddenly thrust into the closer role, the weight of the world is on their shoulders and failure is the norm. How Watson would
I know I sound like a broken record. There is NOT ONE late inning high leverage reliever on the 40 man outside of KJ. The closest two are in Tulsa; Marshall Kasowski and Andre Scrubb, neither of whom is ready. I am not sure how Kenta Maeda and Chicken Strip are going to change this. There are no relievers better than what FAZ has already accumulated that will pass through
2018 has been a season full of challenges and in no small part, the challenges were created initially by the decision the Dodgers made (and still denied by them) to not exceed the Luxury Tax Threshold ( LTT ). Many fans don t agree with the decision, but on every level, except my RFL ( Rabid Fan Level ), I agree with it. I actually thought they would get below it in 2017, but it
That the Dodgers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory is obvious. However, the implosion of the bullpen (Chaggy in particular) is a symptom, not the disease. The symptom manifests itself when the disease is active. The disease is FailureToScoreRunsItis. Last night, Dodger hitters left 12 runners stranded (combined). At the trade deadline, FAZ acquired two of the biggest bats on the market in Machado and Dozier. Add in a
I can t complain about the pitching changes last night. It all boils down to Rosscup not doing his job on lefties. Some will complain about taking Maeda out and they will be the same ones who complained when they left him in. Rosscup doesn t belong. Axford looked like he does. His first outing was horrid (the worst of his career), but he overcame another Joc Pederson outfield gaffe to shut
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