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This obviously isn’t sustainable but I kept telling anyone that would listen that this team could surprise this year.

All it took was getting rid of a lame duck GM and a reboot in the organization.

I’ll be eager to see where we are at the deadline and what moves are made. My guess is it will just be to stay the course, which I don’t think anyone will argue against.

If ownership - big IF - supports Bloom with upping payroll for peak years, he could become an all-time executive if he spends 20+ years in St Louis.

His take on the “Cardinal Way” makes so much sense and is what the org needed.

I don't think any major moves or contracts this year due to the CBA stuff and potential lockout next year. But this team is fun.

They had all winter to address the bullpen and the left side alternatives they chose were Justin Bruihl, Nick Raquet and now Jared Shuster. No youth. No stuff. No prospects for beyond the season.

They’re not serious about the bullpen.

jagtrader wrote: ↑

May 5 26, 11:25 am

They’re not serious about the bullpen.

This is Stank erasure

Obviously they're playing great right now, which is fun. But I still think, best case, they finish third in the central.

The pitching is just too thin. This is a bullpen that is going to give up runs in the late innings, which means we need an offense that can keep scoring runs in the late innings. Once the injury bug bites the lineup, which it will because that's how baseball works, the Reds/Cubs/Brewers are gonna start pulling away.

I am having fun watching baseball and not too worried about the playoffs. If they sneak into a wild card and lose in the first round; it still checks as an improvement over the last couple of seasons to me.

I'm on board. Yes, I know the peripheral stats on pretty much all of our starters are worse than their ERAs, and the bullpen sucks, and Walker won't be a 10 WAR player. But they're fun. The lineup is quite good, and likely to remain quite good, and can become gooder with the looming return of Nootbaaaaar and a Crooks callup. I think Gorman is fielding very well at third and is showing signs with the bat.

And against my better judgment, I buy into the whole "nobody believed in us" energy of the 2006 and 2011 teams. Yes, we're short a Pujols. But you sneak into the playoffs and, as a wise man once said, jooneverknow.

I said it in a GDT, but I've already had more fun watching this team than in all of last year combined.

G. Keenan wrote: ↑

May 5 26, 11:34 am

Obviously they're playing great right now, which is fun. But I still think, best case, they finish third in the central.

The pitching is just too thin. This is a bullpen that is going to give up runs in the late innings, which means we need an offense that can keep scoring runs in the late innings. Once the injury bug bites the lineup, which it will because that's how baseball works, the Reds/Cubs/Brewers are gonna start pulling away.

I would love for them to be on the horn with Seattle again to see what could be acquired and how from their staff.

wish we could have bought low on hancock with donovan

Mariners were willing to part with Cijntje because they knew his control would probably keep him from being a starter in the majors. They weren’t giving up Hancock.