Cardinals announce 25-man Opening Day roster for the 2019 season.
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The Cardinals today announced their 25-man Opening Day roster that includes four first-time Cardinals and 13 players that were developed within their organization.
PITCHERS (12): 60 John Brebbia-RHP, 22 Jack Flaherty-RHP, 53 John Gant- RHP, 49 Jordan Hicks-RHP, 43 Dakota Hudson- RHP, 55 Dominic Leone-RHP, 59 Mike Mayers- RHP, 21 Andrew Miller-LHP, 39 Miles Mikolas-RHP, 29 Alex Reyes, RHP, 52 Michael Wacha-RHP, 50 Adam Wainwright- RHP;
CATCHERS (2): 4 -Yadier Molina, 32 Matt Wieters;
INFIELDERS (6): 13 - Matt Carpenter, 12 Paul DeJong, 46 Paul Goldschmidt, 34 Yario Mu๑oz, 33 Drew Robinson, 16 Kolten Wong;
DISABLED LIST (5): 27 - Brett Cecil (10-day, left hand Carpal Tunnel syndrome), 44 Luke Gregerson (10-day, right shoulder impingement), 18 Carlos Martํnez (right shoulder cuff strain), 3 - Jedd Gyorko (10-day, right calf strain), 67 - Justin Williams (10-day, right hand 2nd metacarpal fracture).
2019 Opening Day Line up
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Starting lineup
Matt Carpenter 3B
Paul Goldschmidt 1B
Paul DeJong SS
Ozuna LF
Yadier Molina C
Dexter Fowler RF
Kolten Wong 2B
Harrison Bader CF
Won the Central Division. Won the NLDS.
NLDS Playoff roster
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Pitchers (12): Miles Mikolas, Jack Flaherty, Adam Wainwright, Dakota Hudson, Genesis Cabrera, Tyler Webb, Andrew Miller, John Brebbia, Daniel Ponce de Leon, Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos, Carlos Martinez.
Catchers (2): Yadier Molina, Matt Wieters.
Infielders (6): Paul Goldschmidt, Kolten Wong, Paul DeJong, Matt Carpenter, Tommy Edman, Yairo Munoz.
Outfielders (5): Marcell Ozuna, Harrison Bader, Dexter Fowler, Jose Martinez, Randy Arozarena.
Originally Posted by Marco Polo:
Do we have the Cubs at home or away? I want two of three if at home and at least win one if away.
We are at Wrigley. I still want two of three. I particularly want to beat Hendricks, he is like the soft tossing lefties that year in and year out seem to give us trouble no matter who is in our lineup. I hope they a**rape him for 6 in the first and just keep piling on.
I also wouldn't mind seeing Yu crap his pants either. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I sat in those during a game where it poured and we got an extra hour or two in the quasi-restaurant thing underneath.
It was pretty sweet. Definitely worth doing on occasion.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy under there. The blues game was on at the bar so I was going back and forth some.
I def got my money's worth in the beer department. [Reply]
That strike 3 he threw drew an audible 'holy fuck' from me in real time.
Poor Dozier didn't have a chance. Swing at it and it rolls to 2b. Let it go and...well that happens. What do you do to a pitch at 97 that looks for all the world like it's gonna end up in the left hand batter's box then dives back at the last second to hit the black at the knees. All you can do is take and hope the umpire misses the call - probably not gonna happen often with Molina back there catching it while barely moving.
It was literally a perfect pitch and he fired it on 3-2. Guts of a burglar and exceptional execution. The swinging strike was overthrown and backed up on him; he got lucky that pitch didn't hover in the middle and get blasted. But that strike looking was just letter friggen perfect.
I had just gotten finished telling my wife that Dan blathering about how good Gant's stuff was was kinda silly since everyone throws 94 these days and Gant will occasionally hit 95 but is mostly just a pitch maker. Then he uncorked that thing and I just had to laugh. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
That strike 3 he threw drew an audible 'holy fuck' from me in real time.
Poor Dozier didn't have a chance. Swing at it and it rolls to 2b. Let it go and...well that happens. What do you do to a pitch at 97 that looks for all the world like it's gonna end up in the left hand batter's box then dives back at the last second to hit the black at the knees. All you can do is take and hope the umpire misses the call - probably not gonna happen often with Molina back there catching it while barely moving.
It was literally a perfect pitch and he fired it on 3-2. Guts of a burglar and exceptional execution. The swinging strike was overthrown and backed up on him; he got lucky that pitch didn't hover in the middle and get blasted. But that strike looking was just letter friggen perfect.
I had just gotten finished telling my wife that Dan blathering about how good Gant's stuff was was kinda silly since everyone throws 94 these days and Gant will occasionally hit 95 but is mostly just a pitch maker. Then he uncorked that thing and I just had to laugh.
the dude has been nails. A big part of why we are winning. And that video shows why. How can you square up that pitch? [Reply]
What the heck do you call that pitch? The "Looky, looky, now it hooky" pitch? The "whipp-ity-do-dah"? Or maybe your just "basically unhittable"? [Reply]
