📅 Published on: 2024-12-18 21:23:35
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How The Cardinals WASTED A Golden Opportunity
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put yourself in the Lord’s year of 2018 someone asks you who the best third baseman in baseball is there’s a damn good chance you’re saying Nolan Aeron someone that asks you who the best first baseman in baseball is there’s a damn good chance you’re saying Paul goldm so naturally if those two were on one team rather than separate in their own division which is what they were for the longest time that’ be wild gold Schmid would get traded but it wasn’t to Aon A’s team it was to St Louis and then immediately paid off for them the Cardinals went to the postseason for the first time in 4 years in 2019 had a good year the Cardinals upset the Braves got swept by the eventual Champs but things look good moving forward especially when the front office eventually swung a deal a couple years later to get arguably baseball’s best third baseman paired with arguably baseball’s best first baseman the Rockies hate winning want nothing to do with it begged on their hands and knees for someone to take Nolan aado for nothing and so the Cardinal said I and you now have something real special 11 combin All Stars between the two players this was going to be fun and it was pretty fun I guess for a little bit but unfortunately ended up as one of the more wasted opportunities in baseball history really quick as always if you’re part of the 59% of viewers not subscribed yet go ahead and hit that button if you enjoy the videos as the Cardinals 2021 season was the first featuring the new dynamic duo Goldie finished sixth in MVP boning and a gold glove aado also got one in an allar appearance and the team overall was mostly good other than a really really bad June which was followed by a couple good months and then an insane September the Brewers won the division so the cards had to settle for a wild card spot but they were riding a lot of momentum going into la for the wild card game they had a big winning streak at one point things were riding really high and it was a game that ended up being really good until the gut punching finish nothing like a sudden walk-off home run to end your entire season well after making the postseason in 2021 the Cardinal said ew and made the most obvious move to promptly fire their manager I still don’t fully know why they did that but hey whatever on a big and better things which was true 2022 was better from start to finish they were by a pretty large margin the best team in the NL Central especially in the second half again just like the year before the Cardinals really like picking it up when things started to get more serious obviously a good thing and as for the big Duo Aeron put up his strongest season since his Colorado days but something I find interesting is how much higher his Ops plus was in 20202 even though his Ops was lower than the ones he had with the Rockies for those not aware really quick context Ops is on base plus slugging percentage the higher it is the better that hitter is at doing everything at getting on base and hitting for power it’s a good stat for showing the full picture of a hitter at least mostly Ops plus is a stat that adjusts a player’s Ops for league and park factors so it gives it more contacts and for example from 2016 through 2019 Aeron A’s Ops was 947 and his Ops plus was 131 100 is League average yet in 2022 Aeron A’s Ops plus was over 50 points over League average at 151 despite his Ops being more than 50 points lower I guess that just shows how juic the balls were those years earlier I just found that interesting but either way erado hit well in 2022 and Goldie the man went out and won an MVP he was an absolute beast but not just that Goldie was obviously the best followed pretty close by Aeron but the Cardinals also had phol magic Albert phol despite being 48 years old and over a year removed from being released from the Angels phol joined back with his OG team for one last ride and it was glorious somehow someway at age 57 Albert PS had his best season in seven years connecting for 24 home runs with 18 of them coming in the second half to get the record of over 700 home runs not suspicious at all the Cardinals really had something special going winning the division and getting HomeField Advantage this time now Against the Wild Card Phillies and after almost seven Innings of nobody scoring in game one Juan YZ got a hold of one with two outs to make it two to nothing St Louis the Phillies blank first The Crowd Goes Wild closer Ryan Hy comes in for the five out save pitches a scoreless eighth strikes out the first hitter on the ninth and the Cardinals are two outs away from a game one win things are already looking much brighter than last year let’s go Cardinals go on to win win the next move on and win it all as Albert P Hol rides into the sunset that that’s not what happened I lied to you I’m sorry one out base hit that’s when Hesley started to lose it walks Harper walks casos hits Alec bom time to take him out here comes Andre Palante and and punched out and pass the diving Edmond into right field one run scores two run score if you listen close enough you’ll hear Dave dumbrowski asking Albert phol to trade Alec bom to him for the rights of his firstborn son he declined what happened next was a good way of foreshadowing because goldi makes a nice play on a grounder but fails to throw the runner out at home then Aeron a blatantly botches a play he’d usually make resulting in another run as the Phillies go on to win 6 to3 then some more foreshadowing the next game with the Cardinals down two to nothing and now all of a sudden five outs away from having their season come crashing down Paul goldi the MVP strikes out with two Runners on up next Nolan arado strike out to end the rally man the MLB script writers are cruel and with two more Runners on in the ninth a Tommy Edmond popup would do it they failed to do anything and the Cardinals have been nothing other than a disaster since Goldie and arado definitely fell off from what they did in 2022 but they still had pretty good 2020 3 Seasons doesn’t really matter when the team overall just sucked the Cardinals went from 93 wins in a division title in 2022 to 71 wins in a last place finish in 2023 the world hadn’t seen a bigger fallof since blueface the Cardinals were a lot better this past year in 2024 but when you’re comparing it to 71 wins a lot better doesn’t necessarily translate to a playoff spot despite the Cardinals just being blle all year they finished in second place but don’t let that fool you into thinking they were a good team the NL Central division is an abomination to everything we stand for in America but here’s what was also really concerning Paul gold Schmid decided to all of a sudden hit like me and MLB the show and yeah people have down years like you of course it happens they’re human but this was Paul goldi someone whose Worst season was one most players could only dream to have he’d never been bad his entire career up till this point so to struggle as bad as he did was bizarre it it was really bad he did hit better in the second half but by that point it was clear what was going on it was the end of an era noan ER had just about exactly an average season offensively and this is the last we’ll see of these two together the Cardinals decided to move on from Goldie who became a free agent and not offer him anything Nolan Aeron isn’t a free agent but has been traded so as we speak Nolan Aeron is packing his bags for La as we speak noan aado is packing his bags for Boston as we speak noan arado is packing his bags for New York to join the Yankees and the future looks unclear for the card where do they go from here well Heim Bloom the former Red Sox general manager is now running things in St Louis so for those not aware Heim is very analytical and into operating like the Tampa Bay Rays making a lot of under the radar moves and trying to build teams in sneaky ways like that and the Rays were the original team he was employed by before getting hired by the Red Sox and it could work but it may be a little frustrating for Cardinals fans because with that will probably come being a little more cheap not going after bigname guys with big price tags and I do think at least partially going that route could be big for the Cardinals and the state the organization’s currently in they don’t have a very good farm system meaning their future from the inside doesn’t look so great and high and Bloom is the biggest reason why the Red Sox farm system is currently as strong as it is so he’ll probably help out with that and hopefully get winning back on the field soon for the Cardinals but a team like the Dodgers has gotten to a point they can spend money like it’s nothing because they’re set with a good base in future from the players they already have they built a really nice thing going that they can then complement with big money contracts the Cardinals don’t have that so the answer to their issues wouldn’t be spending more money at least that wouldn’t be most of the answer they need to rebuild but it does suck for sure the fact that the Cardinals had one of the best corner infields of all time for four straight years a period that featured a combined two Silver Slugger Awards three gold gloves four All-Star appearances an MVP award and two playoff appearances only to completely waste it shame the ending to 2022 is wild until you saw the magical run the Phillies went on so that kind of made sense but then they ended up as a disappointment only falling off each year in the playoffs since so I’d like to ask the MLB script writers what was even the point of them beating the Cardinals why couldn’t we have pool win one last time instead of the Phillies doing what they did only to like not win for the next three years I don’t know I’m just a little confused about that plot point but Goldie and Aeron paired with Albert pool’s magic failing was enough to show something was off it didn’t work all of them are now gone in an interesting offseason and 2025 season awaits the Cardinals let me are your thoughts and thank you for watching
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