Oso planning to go pro
The Arenado deal is pretty much a carbon copy of the Goldschmidt deal. Both put up awesome numbers in hitting friendly environments (I think Goldschmidt only played one year in AZ with the humidor), Goldschmidt was 31 and Arenado is 30, the Cards extended Goldschmidt for 5 years through age 36 season after the trade and Arenado has 6 years left on his deal through age 36 season. Both players are high floor guys who project to age pretty well, and the biggest question mark is/was how the power holds up after the trade. It will be interesting to see if Arenado makes adjustments that mirror Goldschmidt's. Goldschmidt has seen drops in HR/FB ratio and ground ball rate since the move, and an increased line drive rate. He's trying to drive the ball more than hit HRs, but he's having trouble keeping his hard hit percentages stable.
Brother dgies,Last year the Cardinals were bad offensively (23rd or 24th in runs scored). Good news was that the Pirates, Brewers and Reds were worse and the Cubs were barely better. In 2021, none of the Card’s competition will be better on offense and the Cubs and Bucs will be even worse. So a mediocre offense will probably dominate. But when Molina and Carpenter are integral to the offense it ain’t exactly “Murderer’s Row”.
Kolton Wong to the Brewers.
Does that move Huira to 3rd?
Elite defensive second baseman, has won the past two gold gloves. Very popular player. Good for Kolten.
In 217 career AB's in Milwaukee, Wong is:.308/.373/.482
1st or 3rd, depending on who else they sign and whether DH is in play in the NL.