He has ZERO understanding of the strike zone. Grichuk thinks plate discipline is a way not to get fat.

He absolutely kills cripple pitches. As DJ said many times, he is a perfect No. 7 hitter in the NL (so a 7 or 8 in the AL). He will murder bad middle relievers who miss over the plate. When he does go through short stretches of not swinging at slop, his numbers become ungodly. Unfortunately, he did that for a total of like 2 weeks during his entire career with the Cards.

Yeah his 2.55 ERA and 1.08 whip last year proves what you just said to be absolutely false.

2 out of 3...

Pham, had a career year last year but I'm not convinced it's sustainable.

I expect some regression. If he stays healthy (and they can keep his eyesight adjustments on track) I think we will get plus production both offensively and defensively (above league averages) in a key position.

His plate discipline and plate coverage is excellent. One year wonders are usually because they have holes that can be exploited. His hole will be his sight. If he can see fine, I doubt we see a significant dip in production.

The huge plus is he costs us peanuts.

This is the player I am more curious about whether he is for real.

"The best hitter you know nothing about"

https://www.mlb.com/news/jose-martin...18/c-264948180

and because of his injury history and eyesight, he’s not worth anything in trade what is value is to us if he can repeat 2017.

Just booked my hotel for opening day weekend.

April 5th 6th and 7th @ the Hyatt Regency at the Arch.

I've never been to opening day before, there is a lot a of hoopla before the game right? Don't they have a parade? Anyone know when single game tix go on sale? I think late Feb.

Should be especially fun this year, usually the Home Opener is a day game. 6:15 start this year, which means people will be lubed up and ready to go.

I'd plan to hit Paddy O's starting around 11.

That's usually where i go pre-game!

Enjoy! I have only made two opening days. One in St. Louis at Busch II in 1981 vs the Phillies, great seats behind home plate and one row behind the Phillies. wives. We were brutal to them as drunk college assholes can be.

Second one was ironically in Philly in 2006, Rolen is booed vociferously, then proceeds to hit 2 homers and send them home losers. I enjoyed their foiled rath as much as just about any regular season victory in memory.

St. Louis puts on a great show, have a blast, hopefully I’ll be able to get back there for another one some day.

Brewers get Yelich

OF Lewis Brinson, OF Monte Harrison, INF Isan Diaz and RHP Jordan Yamamoto. #1, #5 and #9 in BA's Top-10

Good deal? What would have been a comparable deal from us?

And they just signed Lorenzo Cain.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Outfield by combined WAR:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/STLCards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#STLCards</a>: 13.4<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brewers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brewers</a>: 10.1<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cubs</a>: 3.6</p>&mdash; Cardinals Rant (@CardinalsRant_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CardinalsRant_/status/956712882716082176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>