It is sort of unfair. As soon as I decide I'm going to invest more time and energy into writing this blog one of my principal topics of conversation has gotten all boring and stuff. I am not talking about how stultifyingly dull DC United has become because they are so dreadful. (Though they are dull and dreadful indeed.) No, I am talking about how uninteresting it is to talk about the Cardinals because they are so very good.
Sure the bullpen has been in a little bit of flux with Motte being lost for the season, Boggs losing any sense of composure he ever had, and Rzepczynski losing his mystique once hitters discovered they didn't have to be able to say his name to be able to smack his pitches around the park. Such a scenario happens damn near every season, and if there is one thing the Cardinals have in abundance these days its arms they can plug into the bullpen. The organization has big bodies with big arms (or smaller bodies with big arms, like Carlos Martinez) coming out of their ears.
As for the rest of the team, well, the starting pitching has been lights out and easily the best in baseball to this point. The offense has been a touch streaky, but promises to scare the beejeebus out of everyone if they all get hot at once. Not even the once daunting prospect of inter-league play holds any terrors, especially once Matt Adams gets off the DL and the Cards put out a lineup any idiot DH supporter could love.
Oh yeah, by the by, all the while the best hitting prospect in baseball is honing his swing in AAA.
I've never known a Cardinals team to be laden with so much young talent. Its enough to get this not-so-young man daydreaming about a 1990's Yankee's style run for my favorite team; a run that could last into the next decade.
It's a blissful dream, and no hallucinogenic is needed to induce it. All I need to do is watch MLB Network and read Baseball America. You should join me. It really is primo shit.
Sure the bullpen has been in a little bit of flux with Motte being lost for the season, Boggs losing any sense of composure he ever had, and Rzepczynski losing his mystique once hitters discovered they didn't have to be able to say his name to be able to smack his pitches around the park. Such a scenario happens damn near every season, and if there is one thing the Cardinals have in abundance these days its arms they can plug into the bullpen. The organization has big bodies with big arms (or smaller bodies with big arms, like Carlos Martinez) coming out of their ears.
As for the rest of the team, well, the starting pitching has been lights out and easily the best in baseball to this point. The offense has been a touch streaky, but promises to scare the beejeebus out of everyone if they all get hot at once. Not even the once daunting prospect of inter-league play holds any terrors, especially once Matt Adams gets off the DL and the Cards put out a lineup any idiot DH supporter could love.
Oh yeah, by the by, all the while the best hitting prospect in baseball is honing his swing in AAA.
I've never known a Cardinals team to be laden with so much young talent. Its enough to get this not-so-young man daydreaming about a 1990's Yankee's style run for my favorite team; a run that could last into the next decade.
It's a blissful dream, and no hallucinogenic is needed to induce it. All I need to do is watch MLB Network and read Baseball America. You should join me. It really is primo shit.
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