This is your Cardinals Stats, News, Rumors, and Commentary Roundup for the Morning of July 19, 2021.
A Look at Cardinals Pitchers Last Week
Kwang-hyun Kim
Kwang-hyun Kim has a record of 1-0 this past week and a 0.00 ERA. As a starting pitcher, he has 1 starting appearance this week.
This past week, he has been ringing up hitters with 1.50 strikeouts per 9 innings. He has yielded a 0.158 BABIP this week. Hitters are hitting .150 against him this past week.Hitters are swinging at his pitches that are out of the strike zone 28.8% of the time. He has a low strike zone swing rate, it is 51.5% and this means that hitters are looking at pitches in the strike zone, he is painting the corners well.
Wade LeBlanc
Wade LeBlanc has a record of 0-0 this past week and a 1.80 ERA. As a starting pitcher, he has 1 starting appearance this week.
This past week, he has been ringing up hitters with 5.40 strikeouts per 9 innings. He has yielded a 0.25 BABIP this week. Hitters are hitting .250 against him this past week. Hitters are swinging at his pitches that are out of the strike zone 26.7% of the time. He has a low strike zone swing rate, it is 59.5% and this means that hitters are looking at pitches in the strike zone, he is painting the corners well.
Adam Wainwright
Adam Wainwright has a record of 0-1 this past week and a 6.00 ERA. As a starting pitcher, he has 1 starting appearance this week.
This past week, he has been ringing up hitters with 10.50 strikeouts per 9 innings. He has yielded a 0.214 BABIP this week. Hitters are hitting .217 against him this past week. Hitters are swinging at his pitches that are out of the strike zone 38.3% of the time. He has a low strike zone swing rate, it is 63.4% and this means that hitters are looking at pitches in the strike zone, he is painting the corners well.
Now onto the News, Rumors, and Commentary…
“TODAY: McGreevy received an $2.75MM bonus, according to MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis (Twitter link). JULY 16: The Cardinals announced this evening that they’d come to terms on a contract with first-round pick Michael McGreevy. Terms of the deal remain unclear. The slot value for the #18 overall selection, with which McGreevy was selected, is $3.4813MM. McGreevy…”
“… Any time you hold a Major League record for anything, it says something in this game, and he’s got a record that is very impressive.” The Cardinals (46-47) are 37-0 this season when leading after eight innings. I definitely prefer to give up a base hit,” Reyes said. “[They] said congratulations, and I was like, ‘Well, you know, we got the win.’” Reyes recalled. “I’ve learned his competitive spirit and his heart for competition in big moments years ago,” said Shildt, who was Reyes’ manager at Triple-A Memphis when he earned his first big league callup in 2016.”
“My job is to put the ball in play hard,” he said. “The situation was second and third with less than two outs, so I’m just trying to get those runs in,” he said. It was a good start.” “[Kremer] had thrown Tuesday against us and he got me a couple of times with pitches up in the zone,” Gorman said. My timing has been off and it’s tougher to make swing decisions when you’re rushing through the ball.”
“• In addition to McGreevy, the Cardinals announced on Wednesday that they came to terms with four other members of the 2021 Draft class, including left-hander Alfredo Ruiz (sixth round, Long Beach State), whom McGreevy knows well as a former teammate from a summer league in Utah. So I would highly doubt we’re going to go down the path of where we’re just hoping to move to move.” Would a more accurate assessment be if the Cardinals are waiting to see if they should approach the Trade Deadline as buyers or holders? “I think that’s well said,” Mozeliak said. “I would find it very hard for us to get to that point,” Mozeliak said. Operating on little sleep, riding high from his first trip to Busch Stadium and staring at a flight to Florida on Saturday morning to join the rest of the 2021 Cardinals Draft picks, the club’s first-round pick out of UC Santa Barbara officially agreed to terms before the series opener against the Giants on Friday evening, after he said he had to ensure it was in fact his name he was signing, as well as printing those of his father and brother as witnesses.”
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