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I'd like to refute something Tackleberry said earlier about going out and getting two stud pitchers for the same price as retaining the players you have. This might be a weird analogy but stay with me. You have a 2013 F150 that needs some work, nothing major, just regular maintenance. Is it better to sell it and get a used 2018 F150 that you assume is in perfect working condition and then find out 6 later the transmission is shot? Sometimes it's better to stick with what you have, that you know is reliable.

My hats off to Sky Clark for hitting the pause button for his mental health. BoBo do you know how much Underwood had to do with this? Will Clark still be playing for Illinois? As you pointed out last week Underwood coaches hard but his players tend to understand there's a kitten under that rough exterior.

I am happy with the starting catcher and starting infield. But we need 1 more big bat. It does not have to be a home run hitter, just someone who hits doubles and steals bases. IF healthy O'Neal is a starter in the outfield. Lars Nootbaar played over his prospect hype the last half of last year. Dylan Carlson has not lived up to his hype. Is Mo going to trade for another bat? Or just hope some of the rookies hit and hope for Carlson to play up to his potential and hope the last half of last year is the real Nootbaar?

Thanks for chatting, Gordo! First a point of clarification: Jordan Walker is not 21; he won't be 21 until late May.
And as for the outfield, I would disagree with the previous questioner, who implied that the outfield is nothing but an unreliable mess. The variance is extreme within each player individually -- but there's not only O'Neill, Carlson, and Noot to consider. Burleson is an outfielder by trade, however mediocre with the glove. And Donovan can play in the corner as well, without embarrassing the club too badly. (Forget Yepez. Please nobody ever mention "outfield" and "Yepez" in the same paragraph.)

So there's depth, big depth, and that's not including Jordan Walker. Finally, my question, Bobo. Do you see Hudson as longman/swingman in MLB, or will he stay fully stretched out as a starter in Memphis?

Flaherty has been hurt the last 2 years. With the same injury? Hudson has not pitched well since he had TJ surgery. Matz has had only one good year as a starting pitcher 2021. Liberatore has shown nothing in MLB and no very good in AAA. Mo let Quintana walk.
Mo needs to get 2 top of the line starters to go with Wainwright, Montgomery and Mikolas. Do you think he will trade for 1 or 2? Or is he just happy with what the he has now?

The Cards are in a great position with Winn or any prospect, because they can sell, sell, sell the fans on their upside and if it doesn't work out than they always quickly forgive themselves publicly. So when Winn is the next Jason Motte in 3 years, don't worry the DeWitt won't care because he didn't pay 6/$200m for him and he'll forgive Mo's optimism.

Trevor Bauer was not found guilty of a crime. With the shortage of good starting pitchers do you think the Cardinals will look at him? Will any of the teams sign him for the league minimum?

Is it a good thing or bad that most of the Cardinals starting 8 is going to play in the Olympics this spring?

A follow-up to my earlier statement/question about the outfield: I get that every player has question marks but with the Cardinals it is the same question marks season after season and when they don't get answered the team is content to keep running it back. O'Neill and DC had great '21s, but neither has done it outside of that year. So that is really 2 out of 3 years where they underperformed, why are the cardinals banking that the 4th year will be an uptick? Whereas Goldy's age dictates that regression is coming, you prepare for it... or you don't, like with Molina.

Yeah, the SEC is the only growups in college football and Georgia was an unbeatable juggernaut of a team -- except when a mediocre Mizzou squad lost to them by less than half a whisker after leading them the whole game. Yeesh, can't we just say that for one day TCU fell apart and the Bulldogs played their best game in school history?

So which Illini show up tonight, Gordo? Calling them Jekyll & Hyde is an understatement. That MSU team hasn't lost in about a month, and Illinois has played *distinctly* better on the road than they have at The Assembly Hall this season!

Can someone explain to me what Baur did wrong? From what i've read he had consensual relations with a woman who then decided later to try and extort him? If it was consensual and to my knowledge there have been nothing that says otherwise then why was he suspended and now unsignable?

Any chance Bob Carpenter comes back as the Cards play by play guy? It seems like he likes DC but that team is garbage, i'm not sure if that matters?