Former Cardinals Watch

[lukethedrifter]

TLR for Exec of the Year?

[sighyoung]

TLR for Exec of the Year?

After that trade, he should be up for ex-Exec of the Year.

[TheoSqua]

So over the last monthish (22 games) Pujols is batting .333/.408/.631/1.039 and is slugging almost .700 in his last ten games.

He's never going to be what he was in his prime. But like most legendary aging athletes he can still show flashes of that brilliance in small sprints.

[Jocephus]

Kyle Barraclough has a record of 6-2 and a 2.88 ERA n 53 games out of the Miami Marlins bullpen this season. Those are his ho-hum numbers. The 26-year-old right-hander has 80 strikeouts, 34 walks, and has allowed 31 hits in 50 innings. Those are his holy-cow numbers.

Barraclough’s 14.75 strikeouts per nine innings is tops in the National League, and third highest in MLB behind Dellin Betances (15.86) and Andrew Miller (15.38). His 6.12 walks per nine innings is the most of any pitcher, in either league.

Obtained from the St. Louis Cardinals last July in exchange for Steve Cishek, Barraclough overpowers hitters with a mid- to high-90s fastball and a slider that averages a tick over 82 mph. The latter is his signature pitch. Barraclough throws it 40% of the time, and as Jeff Sullivan wrote in June, “It’s a phenomenal slider.”

Barraclough talked about his power arsenal, and how his ability to miss bats helps ameliorate his walk rate, prior to a recent game at Marlins Park.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/kyle-bar ... sing-bats/

[BW23]

[lukethedrifter]

[Molly]

Pujols passes McGwire for #10 on the all time HR list.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/197531026 ... ic-homers/

[cardsfantx]

put in on the other games for 8/24 thread, but he's never struck out 100 times in a season...even after all these years

[Joe Shlabotnik]

put in on the other games for 8/24 thread, but he's never struck out 100 times in a season...even after all these years

[jagtrader]

Pujols will finish with more than 600 homers, 600 doubles and 3,000 hits. That's Hank Aaron lite.