Brenden Schaeffer covers the St. Louis Cardinals as a writer for KMOV in St. Louis. He also co-hosts The Big Show on KTGR in Columbia, MO on weekdays from 4-6.
Glad to have you back B! And I feel bad that I used to joke that Burly looked like the captain of the local beer softball league. Give me a big helping of Biscuits and gravy any day!
Yeah, Burly was ripping the ball last year, right at them. I never seen anything like it. But yet , an awful lot of the best fans in baseball were blind to it and wanted to trade him.
If Matt Carpenter learned how to bunt especially when the shift was legal, he would have been even better. Manfred man on second no outs, you bunt him over. Instead, he strikes out with a better eye than the umpire not even swinging at strike three. Sacrifice Matt. I been missing your posts, welcome back!!!
It’s bull . First all star game is about pride . Yes he should have played absolutely. I’m from the old school pitch a hundred thirty fourth a game was nothing . So if Kelsey wasn’t hurt then he should have been there . Dam I seen so many players skipping all baseball is about money and not fun and pride
Hey dude, I’m trying to find the Discord, but when I click on the link (on my phone) it isn’t taking me to the server. Any invite or anything I could look into?
I agree on most, but I have Miles with a C and Lance with a D-. Miles has been better IMO and is more dependable. No one in MLB has started more games than Miles and he's 22nd in IP. Lance has come out before completing 5 innings far too many times. I get that he's had some unearned runs, but not all of those are completely unearned. He goes off the rails quickly.
Mozo the Clown: F (just says the word “ultimately” and does nothing else) Goblin Bill DeWallet: F (greedy old man who no longer cares about winning) Meatball miles Stinkolas: F (even though Bally will tell us he’s an ace) Kyle Stinkson: C minus (he’s not good and blows leads whenever he gets them) Lance Lose: D (stinks) Sonny Gray the “ace”: C Poopy Pallante: C minus (should have been released after blowing 3-0 lead vs royals) Stinky Steve: F Minus Oldschmidt: F Fraudenado: F Lars Nootfraud: F Nolan Floorman: F Not a single player on this collection of stink deserves an A plus. Burleson’s WAR is barely above 1
Mo is going to ride Goldy to a missed playoff or wildcard asswhoopin' and then say "our season depended on Goldy performing like we expected him to," all while refusing to bench him just so they can can use the "Goldy didnt perform like we expected him to" excuse for missing the playoffs or getting crushed in the WC. They declared Goldy has to "perform like they expect him to" before the season started, and they refuse to make adjustments just so they have that excuse...they think it will absolve them from another disappointing season.
I’ve tried to join the discord 2x and I guess the link expires quickly. Nice job, I knew this was a winner for you. Brenden, during the pandemic I unplugged from TV entirely, and started watching documentary platforms, all over the world. Learned a lot, even learned how to play the piano. I was an accomplished trumpet player (while playing 4 sports) even played at Carnegie Hall once, for real. Anyway, the YT channels have me hooked, especially for law related topics, but even golf and other sports. And I’ve watched channels start and grown to 500K subs, and I think you got the chops to make it happen. Go forth and enjoy the great content you’re capable of. You’ve got this!
As far as offense I'd say Burleson, Winn, Donovan, and Contreras get an A. As far as defense I'd give Siani an A+, and Pagés, Donovan, and Winn an A. As far as starters I'd give Gray an A. As far as bullpen I'd give Helsley, JoJo, Kittredge, Fernandez, and King an A. Overall grades of other Cardinals players: Goldschmidt D, Arenado B-, Gorman C-, Nootbaar C, Carlson D-, Herrera C, Carpenter C-, Crawford D-, Gibson B, Lynn B-, Mikolas C-, Matz F, Pallante C, Liberatore B-, Roycroft B, Leahy B-, and Gallegos F.
I don’t know if you read the names of the guys that comment on here but if you do then you know I don’t agree just to get a 🩷from you. That being said, I do agree 100% on your evaluation of the position players. Especially Winn an Sinai. D is extremely important up the middle and these two guys are as good as it get. Gorman is not the guy for me. Maybe if he hit 50 homers but he doesn’t and you can’t overlook his 200 K’ a year and the fact that his D at 2nd is less than I think it should be. Hard for me to individually rank the starters so I give them a C as a group. With the few runs we have scored in many of the games it seems they are always under pressure. Relievers I also score as a group and they get a C+ or maybe a little better from me. A- for our closer. Numbers are great but that has a little to do with sticking him in for almost every save opportunity. We have to disagree on Oli. He doesn’t have all the horses but I’m not impressed with his lineup management or what I think is an over use of our closer. He gets a C- from me. I think Mo has to be judged on several years of work in that he has done some good things but is limited lately on the amount of money he can spend. C+. Thanks for a well thought out show.
I mostly give a heart as long as the comment isn't rude or too hateful! I thought you have put good thoughts on your comment here even if I don't agree with every rating you put thought and time into these!!
@@bschaeffer12 thank you. Actually if you agreed with me all the time I would probably quit listening to your show. It’s much more fun when you make me think about different points of view.
Might be a little harsh with Goldy - I would have graded him higher if only for his defense. I recall that after he came to the Cards he was largely, if not single-handedly responsible for improving their defense from worst to one of the best in the NL. Now, you have a SS winging throws at 90-95 MPH.
There’s no way Goldschmidt should be first and Arenado third in plate appearances this year. Cardinals clear upgrades are to stop playing their top two highest paid players as much.
After having a chance to watch the whole video. You are so delusional with your take on Michael Siani 😂😂😂 who the hell would give him a B+ honestly he deserves a D minus and he should be grateful for that. My God, I could only wonder if Shohei Ohtani was on the team what grade would you give him? 😂
Why you hating so much John? Sinai is a legit top 10 fielder in the league. If I’m not mistaken the grades are more so off expectations not grading our players vs every player I’m the league.
@johnwinder235 sianis defense to me is a b+ everyone's thoughts on him when he got here was a c- to a d+ imo he has been outstanding in center field yes his hitting could be better but man some of his diving catches and running down balls that most would not get to is crazy
Siani has been the best defensive center fielder in the national league you're a casual and don't see the value of defense yea he's not a great hitter but that's not the only way you can impact the game
@@bschaeffer12 a free agent who a absolutely no one in baseball will sign unless he takes minimum type deal but being that he used to be a superstar .. all I can see him being next year is retired because he who used to be that good will not sign a humiliating contract afterall he doesnt need the money
another note: minor trades in the next couple weeks wont help this team. With only 3 guys currently hitting, team needs real help. cant keep waiting for Goldy and Areo to start hitting and Gorman..wow, how long do the Cards wait for him to find his real groove. (remind me of waiting year after year for Carlson) If this team is really going to go for a championship, it must obtain top quality hitters over the winter.
That’s beyond laughable. Absolutely nobody on the St. Louis Cardinals deserves an A. Possibly the closer could get a B+. But then we need to make absolutely sure that Paul Goldschmidt/Nolan Arenado receive a huge F and arguably have to repay part of their salaries back as a show of good faith for being complete trash. 💩 I would rather have Dominic Smith than Paul Goldschmidt
@johnwinder235 wow John did u wake up on the wrong side of bed today 😴 our closer is A+ wynn A Burleson A.. wynn and Burleson are rookies, and doing outstanding and closer has been phenomenal. I'm rough on the Cardinals to but dam, I give credit where credit is due. Wow
I’ll push back on it not being Tommy’s fault, well at least somewhat. Donnie realized last season was lost and had his surgery during the season. I think it’s fair to question why Tommy didn’t do the same.
@@bryensmith8229 I'm not sure I agree. You can't treat every situation like a cookie cutter copy of another player. Not even the same injury. Tommy tried various ways of playing through his. Got the procedure right after the season. And had setbacks that they didn't see coming. There's no place to me to question why he didn't get it done in August like Donny did. Just totally different situations and it's playing the hindsight 20/20 game to suggest he could've known the a surgery that should take 2-3 months to recover would linger into July.
@@bschaeffer12 I don’t necessarily disagree with what you’re saying but why is he playing through anything in a lost season? When they sold he should’ve gotten his wrist checked out to find the best course of action.
@@bryensmith8229 i understand the sentiment it just feels to me like an oversimplification of a complex issue when we don't really know exactly what was being discussed throughout last year at various checkpoints of the season regarding his wrist.
Maybe this is completely random, bit I was thinking as I was mindless weedeating listening. Are there stats on the coaching staff? Pre game prep or sending a guy to curtain doom at the plate (it has happened a couple of times this year). Maybe this is overanalyzing way to much, but I had time to overanalyze. Lol.
I'm sure there *are* but it's so hard to give specific grades when there is so much about who is responsible for what week to week game to game and moment to moment that we won't know. Sure, we could grade 3B coach on how many good sends vs bad sends he's had (I think he's probably been more bad than good this year but that's just anecdotal and he's also had some aggressive sends that have led to key runs, Siani scoring on Elly comes immediately to my mind and it won them a game, etc.) So I think the answer to your question is ultimately yes but it's tricky to break down
Charlie isn't on videos on my channel usually lol, we do LHF on his channel and I do my daily solo podcast as well as the new one with Josh on this channel
@jackiemoon5906 who cares. He hit them all in a couple week period. Does he only get paid for those w weeks. The rest of the time he is a black hole. Death star black hole.
@bschaeffer12 I want to put him at a F I think libby and pallante have preformed better with similiar bar coming into the season and he gets that grade because all the non cardinal media does is hype him up
Pages deserves that grade, especially considering that he only logged 51 games in AAA (and only 7 in the past two seasons). And really, for a guy at the back end of the lineup, I'd rather have a guy who does his offensive damage when it matters most than someone who pads his stats when it doesn't. You have to be able to count on whoever is Contreras' backup to get heavy use, and Pages has stepped up. His bat may not improve as dramatically as Winn's over the next 365 days, but it should improve.
Regarding grades, here is my list for all players and just A’s/B’s. Fernandez (A), Helsley (A), King (B), Kittredge (B), Romero (B), Contreras (A), Winn (A), Donavan (A), Burleson (A) and Siani (B), (mainly for defense). MVP so far is Burleson. I have seen a lot about the draft in terms of the players being short and some concern with that. Just wanted to say that some of the greatest players of all time were under 6 feet. Including: 5’11” - Willie Mays, Pete rose, Harmon Killebrew, Carl Yastrzemski, Roberto Clemente, Lou Brock, tony Gwynn, Rogers Hornsby, Honus Wagner, Jacki Robinson, Edgar Martinez and Bill Mazeroski 5’10” - Rickey Henderson, Ozzie smith, Joe Morgan, Craig Biggio, and whitey ford Other notables 5’9” or shorter include Yogi Berra, Ivan Rodriguez, Mel Ott, Phil Rizzuto, Kirby Puckett, Roy Campanella, and Pee Wee Reese
@@johnwinder235had a good start to his career and absolutely fell off. Wish fans would talk about 2024 Carlson without reminiscing on fond memories lol
Siani has been the biggest surprise on the team. He has saved so many runs with circus catches that he deserves a B. Trades are the paramount issue at this time. So many good players at AAA and major league players blocked by other players at their position. Im hoping Mo goes all in for his last campaign. Marmol Ihave as a C. Mo.has to make the big trade to avoid a C
Sounds like your Jose Fermin is our (Sox fans) Bobby Dalbec. I swear I've made this comment at some point during the pre-season "buzz" (or lack thereof) but man I swear the Cardinals and Sox parallel each other; especially when looking at their struggles noted going into, and as we've moved deeper into the season. With that only difference really being the ability (if ownership truly wanted to) to absolutely BALL out both heading into the second half deadline/before our season even started. Also shoutout Packy Naughton. I still haven't given up on the idea that he can make his way back into the bullpen and eat up some innings for this second half.
@@bschaeffer12 Realistically speaking, I know he's really just getting back on the bump in Memphis after that unfortunate season ending flexor tendon surgery last season but you think they (the Cards) will end up putting him back on the 40 man if not into the pen for the 2nd half? I know he never was that guy w elite stuff or will blow ppl away when he takes the mound but the fact that's he's a crafty lefty with a decent amount of big league experience (esp when considering his previous stint w the Halos when he was still being used as a starter + his time developing in the Red farm also as a starter) and high floor (relative to the rest of the clubs current pen options & Memphis arms) just seems like it would make almost TOO much sense to have him penciled in to be that "utility" pitcher (whether it's a mop up job, low/hugh leverage or even spot starts purely off previous workload history). I guess to top all that reasoning off Naughton has proven to be (relatively) "durable" and reliable when it comes to just eating a few innings here and there. At least when looking at his proball career, disregarding this latest injury that required surgey, I don't believe Packy has had an excessively long nor frequent IL stints; with his last major season-ending injury being back in 2013 during his junior year of HIGH SCHOOL after going down w TJ. So between give or take a 10 yearish span Naughton had roughly 777 innings of work under his belt (*caveat this is across college, cape code league & proball but for the purpose of this point it's moreso the volume of work rather than skill anyways) between his first major injury and his most recent season ender in '23 (if that doesn't scream reliability then idk what you would classify reliable as).
Hey Brendan, what do you listen to this comment and take it to heart or not I am still going to continue watching your videos so it doesn’t really matter that being said man you take a long time getting to the point in the beginning of your videos you talk a lot about what you going to talk about I would say sometimes repeatedly I think you need to be more prepared initially so you can just get to it maybe I’m wrong but you should check out some of the beginnings of your videos. You really take a long time getting it off the ground bro❤😮
Another perspective... B, one of the things that drew me to your videos is your personality... Your kindness, fairness and your humor in addition to the great info and perspective on baseball and the team we all love so much. I respect @georgemalone3318's opinion, especially because my own husband is of the same opinion on any kind of videos. Honestly my first thought when I read this comment was... this is just like the pitch clock. Everyone wants things speeded up. Give me the 3 hour long BB game and the 1 hour + BShaeff Daily, because I don't want either of them to end. Schaeffer A++ For my own selfish reasons I would ask you to not change a thing about what you do. PEAce!!!!
I would say there's some truth to that, but also a pretty typical standard is to introduce each show so people know what to expect. And it's also not a lack of preparation that has me spending time telling people to subscribe, to join the channel membership, to join discord etc. those are things I have to say to build my memberships and it does take time. I'll get smoother with how I approach that each time but for instance, the Draft Pick JJ Wetherholt video gained me over 30 subscribers because in that episode I did a good job of introducing. Some times will be better than others. As far as preparation, my thoughts are tjis. With a daily video sometimes just winging it is the only way to get it done every day of the year! To spend hours preparing and doing would leave me up until 3am daily and it's just not viable. I'll keep getting better the more I do. I do appreciate the comment. But the reality is that nobody does what I do, so just bear with me as I hopefully continue to improve as I go!😃
Thanks Jenn! I think there's interesting input to be had from all different opinions, my hope is I'll keep getting better day by day. I feel like if I go back and listen to episode 1, I'm hopefully better here on episode 620! Just gonna keep going!😃
@@bschaeffer12 hey man, I appreciate your thoughtful reply. I read my remark after I had already sent it and thought to myself you’re not the most diplomatic guy I’ve ever met George lol either way I enjoy your show. I really wasn’t trying to hint that you weren’t prepared as much as thinking on the fly, which may be your way either way go cards and I’ll catch you on the next show
@@georgemalone3318 all good brother believe me I want to get better every day so it's good to have these reminders sometimes, I just also can't take it too sincerely and allow it to get in my head to where I'm not being natural when talking. It's an interesting balance. I appreciate yuh!
Get rid of the all star game I wana see a home run derby where every team has 1 player in it. Make it so the winner chooses a charity to donate a winnings pool of like 5 million not 1 million so guys like judge, trout, ohtani will do it. You could also pit it NL vs AL for home field advantage in the Ws maybe NL homers Vs AL homers. Make it a 2-3 night event because you can’t do 30 guys in one day. Not a perfect idea but I wana see all the good power hitters hit bombs and give them something to play for not a meaningless 9 inning game and a derby of B tier power hitters
@@bschaeffer12 thank you. That was kind of my point. He is used every time there is a save opportunity. I don’t have the complete stats on him but I think I remember him coming in at least a couple times when we were up by 3 in the 9th. I don’t want him warn out. Closer stats don’t mean much to me since runners on are not counted against them. I do like his WHIP. Pretty damn good. Little tougher schedule coming up but I still think we have a better chance of taking the central than getting a wild card. Disappointing that we split against the Cubies and damn near lost 3 of them.
