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.
'Bad' Harper is presently on pace for 100 runs, 120 RBI, 30 HRs, a .370 OBP, an .860 OPS and 5.4 WAR.
That's the BAD version of him. That's a version that's 80% comprised of one of the 3 worst stretches of his entire career and arguably his worst.
If you think a dude that averaged about 125Ks over a full season for the first 6 seasons of his career suddenly turned into a 225 K 'true talent' player, then yeah - this is what you'll get from him. If you think that his contact rates will eventually even out to the back of his baseball card and he'll combine those with hard hit numbers that rival his career best...well like I said, look out baseball.
Harper's the 3 hole hitter for a first place team on one of the most productive offenses in the league and I'm supposed to pretend like he's !@#$ing Jorge Soler. Riiiiiiigh. [Reply]
And in the interest of not being racist, Bader can suck a dick too. Has zero approach at the plate and takes way too many poor routes on balls because he overestimates his speed. [Reply]
I'm not even mad about that phantom ball 4 call to Bader that pretty much won the game for the Cardinals. I'm just glad to turn that shitty ass game off no matter who won. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
I'm not even mad about that phantom ball 4 call to Bader that pretty much won the game for the Cardinals. I'm just glad to turn that shitty ass game off no matter who won.
come on man, complaining about umpire calls late in the game?
A catcher receiving a ball at eye level is clearly as bad of a call as the pitch that was "inside" on Bader when the umpire is lined up on the corner of the plate that the pitch was thrown and it was closer to the middle of the plate than the outside of the plate. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
A catcher receiving a ball at eye level is clearly as bad of a call as the pitch that was "inside" on Bader when the umpire is lined up on the corner of the plate that the pitch was thrown and it was closer to the middle of the plate than the outside of the plate. :-)
I don't disagree. Complaining about single calls by umps is stupid. Derkinger got it wrong in 85 but we fucked up a lot before then. We lost that game and WS. The umps didn't screw us. Your team was what......1-11 with men in scoring position? Seems to me that had more to do with your losing than this singe umpire ball and strikes call. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I don't disagree. Complaining about single calls by umps is stupid. Derkinger got it wrong in 85 but we ****ed up a lot before then. We lost that game and WS. The umps didn't screw us. Your team was what......1-11 with men in scoring position? Seems to me that had more to do with your losing than this singe umpire ball and strikes call.
Already said I didn't care about it in the end. The Cubs are 3-33 or some shit with RISP over the last 5 or 6 games. That was the most boring ass game I've watched in a long time. Tonight isn't much different.
Flaherty has been hanging shit all night and Quintana can't throw strikes and its 2-2 with 8 combined hits. 11 combined hits last night in 10 innings. These arent even pitcher duels. Just 2 teams that cant hit shit right now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
Already said I didn't care about it in the end. The Cubs are 3-33 or some shit with RISP over the last 5 or 6 games. That was the most boring ass game I've watched in a long time. Tonight isn't much different.
Flaherty has been hanging shit all night and Quintana can't throw strikes and its 2-2 with 8 combined hits. 11 combined hits last night in 10 innings. These arent even pitcher duels. Just 2 teams that cant hit shit right now.
Originally Posted by Carr4MVP:
I hate the Brewers.
And our stupid, stupid hitters.
Marte is a certified nitwit.
Wellll we are in agreement then.... all of our teams are under performing. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Wellll we are in agreement then.... all of our teams are under performing. :-)
I wouldn't say anyone is underperforming. I hear a lot of people saying the NL Central is the best division in baseball because it's so competitive. It's only competitive because every team is flawed and nearly the entire pitching staff on the Brewers is or has been on the IL. Got a division of average to slightly above average teams beating up on each other with no real stand out contender.
The thing that is amazing to me about the central is how the Reds have the 3rd best differential in the NL and in last place while the Pirates have a differential that you should expect from one of the worst teams in MLB and they are flirting with .500 baseball.
I think the Brewers are probably going to sign Kuechel and if they dont they are fucking retarded. They probably win this division again and if the Reds start getting production from guys like Puig and then get Gennett back I wont at all be surprised if they have a 2nd half surge and make in t real interesting at the end. [Reply]
