Cardinals Lose (Again) — We Have To Talk About THAT Brandon Crawford Moment

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1. Right around 14:00 is when I begin discussing the decision to pinch-hit Brandon Crawford for Michael Siani in the eighth inning. I talked extensively about it.

2. We dont do good in 4 game sieres we always split or win 1 out of 3

3. I don't know why they didn't leave siani incause I would rather have anyone else on the team than crawford to come up in that at bat

4. Well as a Cubs fan, I appreciate Ollie putting in Crawford lol. Man I would be scared AF if I seen Matt Carpenter walk up to that plate ‼️😳

5. Sir, I agree with 99% of everything you said except oli has 15 to 30 seconds to figure out who to go to. This is his team. oli should know who and when before the dam game starts. good coaches know everything about their players and when to use who whenever and wherever at certain times of the game. This brings me to the second thing, imo oli is not a good coach he constantly makes the wrong decision, just like in the Wildcard game. He lost wrong pitcher wrong time a few months ago when he blew up in a press conference after the game. Why, for making the wrong decision, it happens all the time why he put Crawford in was because he got a feeling just like he says when he makes a move that makes no sense but it pays off he always says I just had a feeling get tf out of here imo he's just bad sorry sir but had to vent this was just stupid move

6. Great sode’ with the breakdown of the decision making and the apparent hypocrisy of small sample size theatre

7. Just seems to go to crap rather quickly, immediately after an awful loss. They just take the previous loss with them so often. Frustrating, yet sort of predictable. Kinda sad really.

8. Oli-metrics 👌

9. Cardinals go on a surge, and start winning games some time after Mother's Day 2024…
   
   Starting pitching (quality starts), bullpen and consistent lineup are effective and prevent Oli from having to do too much…

   Fast forward 2 months, Cards are finally 5-6 games above .500 securing a wild card spot…
   
   Then… for some unknown reason, Oli starts getting cute (with his lineups).. starts shuffling his 4,5,6,7
   
   hitters every game. Starts pulling pitchers who are dealing (3rd time through order)…
   
   and the team has returned to it's mediocre ways.

   Then, when analytics is actually beneficial… in a bases loaded situation…
   
   bats Brandon Crawford over Matt Carpenter (.400 plus avg w/bases loaded), or Michael Siani, or Nolan Gorman…

   I don't think he can handle the pressure of winning… (my opinion)

10. I am once again here to remind everyone that this is not a good team. They’re a bad to middling team that’s only in the mix because of a watered down playoff system. They won’t make the postseason even under these conditions, however.

    Don’t listen to the folks telling you they’re good. Demand more. Cardinals fans deserve an elite team, not this mushy mediocre BS.

11. Oli sounds weird defending his decisions because he isn't defending his decisions, he's defending Mo's decisions and why Oli seems to be contradicting himself every other game. Hes required to use Mo analytics while trying to justify those decisions with his own philosophical takes. THIS is the philosophical difference the Cards/Schildt broke up over- Mo wants to micro-manage the team via analytic game-plans (player and situation be damned), while Schildt wanted to manager the game dependent on the player/situation. The Cards use analytics like they apply equally across the league…it's juveniles application of analytics. The Cards think league stats are what they should apply to their team. THIS is the reason Oli is the manager, he's there to implement Mo's juvenile analytics and NOT manage players. Mo looks at league-wide analytics and says "hmm, league wide analytics say this pitcher struggles with lefties, so we better bring in a lefty" while completely disregarding things like the guy they are PH for is 2/2 with a homerun…AND they are going to ruin Winn's hitting streak.

    The Cards dont use analytics correctly. Mo sees analytics as the End, rather than a Means to an End. Schildt wanted to manage players and use analytics when appropriate. Mo insisted on using analytics even when they made no sense in the moment. The arrangement in STL seems to be that the manager implements analytics, Mo assembles the team for the manager to implement said analytics. Its why there are so many nonsensical manager moments, they are doing it knowing its the wrong thing to do when looking at the specific situation, but they have to do it because thats the analytic gameplan Mo set up. When it doesnt work, then its on Mo to find a player who can.

12. Is this actual criticism of Marmol by Brenden? Wow! I never thought I’d see the day. You’re normally Oli’s lil boy!

13. Feddes career vs cubs 0 and 0 in three starts with a 5.51 ERA

14. For the folks shitting on the Fedde/Pham trade. The truth about Fedde is he looks brilliant at times then looks mediocre. Some folks say he's a #2. Nope! He's a solid #4. I play fantasy baseball and he is not available in any of my leagues at the moment. The Cardinals needed pitching depth and they got that with Fedde. I'm in the camp of Mo needs to go, but It was a great trade for what the Cardinals gave up.

15. Annoying how quickly this team goes off the rails. Better get back on the path. Go Cardinals. I feel foolish as I pushed so hard to get Fedde. Looking at the record and ERA on such a woeful team. Thinking he’s a guy. WTF did I see yesterday? A guy throwing cookie after cookie sitting consistently 88-89 touching 92. Didn’t realize he was a control guy who had to be perfect to survive. He was lucky to survive the 1st. Blown up in the 2nd and then retires 10 in a row. I had stopped watching by then. Hopefully he showed why there’s hope. Get em’ next time. Looks like our only path to the playoffs is winning the division. And getting a bad feeling as we need to be perfect to win. “We’ll see.” Heart no longer in it. Perhaps that’s a good thing.

16. Arenado is NOT a clutch hitter. Game was over after that at bat.