This week’s mailbag will get into the Cardinals’ deadline strategy, the lefty aid market, offseason concepts for the Rangers, the Mariners buying and selling Julio Rodriguez, who the Yankees might quit in trades, Bo Bichette’s future, and way more.
Wealthy asks:
With two unhealthy performances by beginning pitchers, Miles Mikolas and Erick Fedde, will the Cardinals search a commerce for not less than one veteran beginning pitcher?
Sam asks:
Bernie Miklasz who appears fairly properly sourced was speaking concerning the Cardinals probably buying and selling Nootbaar. In the event that they try this, what kind of return would the Cardinals get? His outcomes usually are not good however his statcast knowledge is nice.
On the time of this writing, the Cardinals are 1.5 video games out within the wild card with a 33.5% likelihood on the playoffs.
The primary query jogs my memory a little bit of the 2021 season, when John Mozeliak’s Cardinals reached deadline day as a .500 membership with only a 2-3% likelihood on the playoffs. The membership picked up veterans Jon Lester and J.A. Happ on the deadline, with Mozeliak saying“We needed to attempt to do it in a manner that we would not be giving up a number of future expertise; that was one thing that was form of important in our decision-making. For sure, at this time we felt like we took a pair steps ahead with out having to sacrifice our future.”
The 2021 crew went 39-21 from July thirtieth onward earlier than shedding the (lone) NL Wild Card recreation in opposition to the Dodgers. Lester and Happ gave the Cardinals precisely what they needed: innings. Innings are typically what Mikolas and Fedde present, having mixed for 349 of them final yr. Sonny Grey has been glorious, whereas Matthew Liberatore and Andre Pallante have been strong.
Mikolas and Fedde do deserve ERAs round 5.00, and there is logic to searching for an improve – both one controllable past this yr, or one within the Lester/Happ mildew who would not price a lot. In my current Cubs Commerce Deadline Outlook, I named nearly each probably out there beginning pitcher I might consider, although Steve Adams recommended I add Drew Rasmussen. The Cardinals have a really actual shot at reaching the playoffs this yr – maybe greater than they anticipated coming into the season – and I do suppose they need to add a starter.
In an article Monday, Katie Woo of The Athletic famous that Fedde could not take his subsequent flip within the rotation, and Mikolas should not really feel comfy both. Michael McGreevy is the following man up. The 25-year-old has excelled in Triple-A and may most likely do higher than Fedde.
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