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He had 77 WAR in his first ten years and his lowest wRC in any of those years was 150, which would have been 8th in baseball last year. I watch the team now, and it's a decent team, but the excitement around his every at-bat when he was in his prime was truly special, and I really miss it.
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05-11-2017, 07:58 PM | #604 |
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Yeah, he really was the machine. It sucks to watch these guys decline. Albert has been the first guy I've had to watch from beginning to end.
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05-11-2017, 08:50 PM | #605 |
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Right now? Yeah he's pretty bad in 2017. He was tolerable years ago.
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05-12-2017, 08:39 AM | #607 |
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05-12-2017, 08:39 AM | #608 | |
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When Martinez and Piscotty are healthy, send him to AA. He can take the momentum from the MLB stint and take his shot at the biggest jump there is (that A+ to AA move separates the men from the boys, IMO). And the Texas league is a big time hitters league combined with his home park being a big time hitters park (Hammond really inflates numbers). He can get off to a damn nice start in AA and use that momentum to build towards a full season in AAA in 2018 and a shot at a legit starting gig and full time ABs in 2019. He's still a baby and he still has some physical development that he'll need to learn to put into practice. He'll find 10-15 lbs of muscle in the coming years and if he can turn that into 15 HR pop, he'll be a genuine weapon. They shouldn't stall his development and use up his service time getting him 75 ABs in the majors. Send him to AA and keep him swinging. If another injury pops up, he's already on the 40-man and has used his option for the year so you can move him up and down as needed. You can't let him wither away on the bench.
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05-12-2017, 08:43 AM | #609 | |
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He really was incredible. Probably the best pure righthanded hitter I'll ever see. Trout will end up a little more dangerous, but Trout has periods where he can be pitched to and there are more holes in his swing than Pujols at his peak. Trout's defense and baserunning gives him a better WAR by a fair amount but as far as true, complete, 'professional hitters' go, I've never seen a better righty and doubt I ever will.
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In the end, what happened happened and I'm kind of glad from the perspective of not having to watch him wither in a STL uniform, but had he stayed and finished out in STL, he'd be bigger than Stan. |
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He'd be close, but Stan was the identity of the team during an era when baseball was in its golden age. As time went on and the people that remembered Stan started to pass away, Pujols would eventually replace him as the 'legend du jour' but he'd never surpass him. And instead St. Louis will remember Yadier Molina more fondly even though his last couple of years here will look pretty similar to Peralta's, IMO. Albert will be a man without a home. Anaheim/LA doesn't give a wet shit about him and he'll get little more than polite applause in St. Louis. That 'personal services contract' he signed with Anaheim that will keep him tied to the organization for another 10 years after he retires will be enough runway for Cardinals fans to all but forget about him after his playing days. I won't cry for him - he made his decision.
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But for our generation, Albert would have been STL Cardinals baseball. Now, it'll be Yadi, and a little bit of Albert. It sucks. |
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I'm going to be fascinated to see how St. Louis remembers LaRussa. He'll never be as beloved as Herzog and I just don't get that. Herzog ate shit with some incredibly talented teams in his own right and then he ****ing quit mid-season. And while people loved to barbecue LaRussa for trying weird shit like the pitcher at 8, Herzog was nearly as bad and in some ways worse. The shit with putting Worrell in RF for a batter, for instance. Personally, I find it clever as hell but I saw some benefit in batting the pitcher 8 as well. If you hate LaRussa's tinkering, I just don't see how you could love Herzog. If you hated his arrogance, how can you give Herzog a pass? If you think he wasted talent, Herzog had just as many awful years with great players. Ultimately LaRussa should be seen as the greatest manager the franchise has ever had. But it's not gonna happen. I just don't think he was 'midwest' enough for the fanbase. A little too west coast intellectual snob whereas Herzog was the blue collar darling.
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