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 Muñoz, 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 Martínez (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 Marcellus:
Honestly aside from a blockbuster deal for Thor or something like that there was no need to do jack shit anyway because this team isn't going anywhere this season.
So much this. For everyone complaining about no moves, it was the right thing to do. I went into today fully expecting Gorman or Carlson to get moved for some shitty starter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi:
So much this. For everyone complaining about no moves, it was the right thing to do. I went into today fully expecting Gorman or Carlson to get moved for some shitty starter.
yeah fuck that. Carlson or Gorman for Trevor Bauer or something similar?:-) [Reply]
Cardinals scouting department must be really bad at their jobs.
Happ swings and misses like 70% of the time on high fastballs with a <.050 ISO in the upper 3rd and they just get him to swing at strike 2 helmet level and come back with a low curveball on the next pitch. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
Cardinals scouting department must be really bad at their jobs.
Happ swings and misses like 70% of the time on high fastballs with a <.050 ISO in the upper 3rd and they just get him to swing at strike 2 helmet level and come back with a low curveball on the next pitch.
I think Mikolas was trying to waste it and it just didnt have the depth on the break he needed. It wasn't a truly bad pitch but its wasn't supposed to be hittable and it was so that's what happened. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I think Mikolas was trying to waste it and it just didnt have the depth on the break he needed. It wasn't a truly bad pitch but its wasn't supposed to be hittable and it was so that's what happened.
Ya but there's really no need to even set him up. He was demoted because you can just feed that pitch to him one after the other and the worst that will happen is maybe once in a blue moon he'll bloop one down the line but the most likely result is that he will strikeout swinging. It got so bad last year that he just stopped swinging to the point of having the lowest swing% of any batter in the game by a mile. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Depends on what was asked? Whats the rumor that we would have had to give up?
Houston had to give up a Top 100 player who is hurt. I'm willing to bet if we took on more salary, we would not have had to give up Gorman or Carlson. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
Apparently Greinke was interested in coming to stl
That would have been nice
Cardinals couldn't have justified it, to be honest.
To match the Astros package, they'd have had to give up something like Gorman, Woodford and Fernandez. And they'd have had to take on $100 million in salary.
The Cardinals can excuse doing one of the above but not both. Not with their system being as ungodly mediocre as it is and the team not really being championship caliber anyway, even with Greinke.
The Astros can make that move because they're loaded at the major league level AND have a farm system that is both deeper and has a higher end than ours. [Reply]
