I agree the Cardinals are most dangerous until they are eliminated.
The Reds rotation seems too suspect to make an extended run, especially if Hunter Greene’s hip injury flares up. Reds need to go 55-45 to finish with 84 wins.
Pirates are playing with swagger (present series aside). I’m curious to see how Milwaukee fares against them with six games against Pittsburgh in the next month.
Cubs are not a concern.
Do you think the Cardinals fire their current manager soon? Adam Wainwright saying the clubhouse is frustrated does not seem like a good sign for job security.
Will Oliver Marmol still be managing the Cardinals in July?
https://www.sportskeeda.com/amp/baseball/news-st-louis-cardinals-fans-bewildered-disconnect-manager-oliver-marmol-team-does-oli-ever-talk-team-oli-s-oblivious
Orioles lost in the 2016 Wild Card, the ‘Zack Britton game’
https://www.mlb.com/cut4/zack-britton-remembers-not-pitching-in-2016-wild-card-game-c303649286
As fans, we beg for extensions and then get mad when a player signs the extension and underperforms or gets injured.
conclusion: extensions are not usually good.
Unfairly lumping Weeks in with Fielder but on June 25, 2005 - Weeks tripled and homered off Johan Santana. The same night as Fielder’s first HR.
2005, the Brewers finished with .500 record. Hart, Hardy, Weeks and Fielder.
’It was coming together’
Yeesh, just when we want to count on Saint Louis to steam roll back to the top of the division, they are still eight games under .500 and on pace for fewer than 70 wins.
Brewers swept Royals, winning game one on May 12.
The series before, took game one against Dodgers before losing the next two.
Otherwise, ever since Seattle series in April, it sure seems like we lose an awful lot of openers.
The last time Brewer hitters went entire game without striking out was August 26, 1998.
Brewers beat Rockies, 6-5. The Rockies pitchers who could not strike anyone out were none other than Jamey Wright and Mike DeJean.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL199808260.shtml
Morel now with 1.226 OPS for Cubs in 60 PA.
Luke Voit with .143 BA for Nashville in 14 AB.
Tying it back to Hiura: not all ‘MLB hitters’ mash 1.100 OPS in Triple-A.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbs-rob-manfred-could-threaten-brewers-with-relocation-as-part-of-push-for-ballpark-updates-per-report/
The Journal Sentinel report indicates that the renovations -- upgrades to seating areas, concourses and gathering spaces -- would cost an estimated $428 million over the course of the next 20 years.
Does anyone believe the concourse, seating and gathering spaces are inadequate?
On pace for 89 wins seems like a B.
We probably need to consider ‘championship caliber’ performance as being an A’ grade.
We are not the Pirates where being over .500 is a celebration.