And it's not like they can't afford to properly extent Heyward (even at his astronomically gr33dy [$$$!] rate).
St. Louis is pretty loaded.
And it's not like they can't afford to properly extent Heyward (even at his astronomically gr33dy [$$$!] rate).
St. Louis is pretty loaded.
jpx7 (11-18-2014)
So greed; much want.Originally Posted by Hawk
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Peter Gammons
@pgammo
Jason Heyward quickly learned what it is to be a Cardinal. w/in hours of the deal, he had calls from Wainwright, Holliday, M. Carpenter...
Unfortunately we won't be able to assess this trade for a couple of years.
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon"
Cards were in a better position to win regardless of Heyward. Even before Heyward they had a better line-up and better staff by far.
They are going to love him.
Especially Wainwright when Jason saves a double, triple, or homer.
I heard Mark Langston may come out of retirement.
hours??? That would be impressive in the telegraph era.
BedellBrave (11-18-2014), Carp (11-18-2014)
"By far" is a pretty magnanimous stretch.
I think Gammo still resides in that epoch.
He is easily the most entertaining baseball writer that I follow on Twitter, mainly because he accidentally composes practically every tweet he posts as a message to himself.
And, of course, those notorious pocket tweets: http://deadspin.com/5969910/the-15-b...tweets-of-2012
Hope Terdo can hit enough to earn some ABs in 2015.
The ability to stand in the batter's box fits the "hit enough to earn some at-bats" for this team right now.
goldfly (11-22-2014)
A confluence of circumstances led to this being a trade maybe worth doing.
Uggla finds the bottom of the barrel. Then punches though it.
BJ is terrible anywhere but 8th
Medlen and Beachy go down. Spend to replace on Ervin.
The questions about the roster had a more glass half full feel to them last year. You could more easily justify spending more to see if you could contend.
This year you would need to drink the Kool-Aid to believe the glass is looking sweet this year.
After the multiple debacles last season you need major progress in multiple spots just to get back to a meh level. Hard to justify investing in 2015. And then you have the opportunity cost of standing pat for a year in 2015 if you only hope for the best.
It sucks but it's where were at in a division with WASH and a League with a team spending $250,000,000
GovClintonTyree (11-21-2014), jpx7 (11-19-2014), Metaphysicist (11-22-2014)
I am now dumber from watching that...
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon"
I'd be more pissed about the time wasted. I didn't watch it cause I could tell only BS would be coming from it.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
I guess the name "The BS Report" has two interpretations. Also doesn't surprise me that Bill Shanks initials also stand for bull sh**
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon"
"Would YOU want to pay Jason Heyward 16 million a year for the next 5-7 years?"
Why, yes, yes I absolutely would. That would be a steal, even.
drewdat (11-19-2014), goldfly (11-22-2014), jpx7 (11-19-2014), Metaphysicist (11-22-2014)
"He's averaged 16.8 homeruns a season". Maybe Bill was on to something. Heyward didn't love baseball enough to hit whole homeruns, only homeruns in 10ths.
Can someone tell Bill Simmons that someone is copying the name of his podcast? lol
Forever Fredi
drewdat (11-19-2014), goldfly (11-22-2014), jpx7 (11-19-2014), Metaphysicist (11-22-2014)
I still think guaranteeing $16M a year for 7 years or so for Heyward is risky but I would be on board with that. Too bad he never would have signed for close to that. I'm sure Hart would have locked him up already if he would have accepted $16M
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