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Ivan Herrera's Surprising Start with the Cardinals: A Deep Dive
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4/5/2025
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00:00
That's Yvonne Herrera, the catcher on the St. Louis Cardinals.
00:05
Catcher generally gray, not a position if we have you on for the next 25 weeks
00:10
that we'll talk about maybe even ever again after this week.
00:13
But is anything to this legitimate?
00:17
Is this just a very hot, random start?
00:20
And Herrera only has five home runs the rest of the season.
00:23
This dude hit three in one game, followed it up with another home run again.
00:27
In draft season, didn't really hear his name a lot as like a top five catcher at all.
00:32
Is he like what's going on here?
00:36
Yeah, you know, it's actually what's kind of funny with Herrera is also on the Cardinals.
00:42
Wilson Contreras was being drafted in the top three for catchers
00:47
because he was going to play every day at first base.
00:50
So that was really where everyone's money was going in auctions.
00:54
And everyone was thinking Contreras was going to be the guy.
01:00
And then you have Ivan Herrera come out of nowhere and really just light the world on fire.
01:05
Right now on the Ras Ball seven-day play rater, he's in the top five for all players.
01:12
And the top five is like the Aaron Judge, Kyle Tucker, Seiya Suzuki,
01:21
all the really big names that have started off hot.
01:25
And then it's like Ivan Herrera.
01:29
But to your question, can this continue?
01:32
I don't think so.
01:34
I'd be really shocked because right now, I mean, his batting average is 400.
01:40
That's ridiculous.
01:41
I mean, he's not Ted Williams.
01:44
You know, the power, while great, it was three homers in one game.
01:49
So when you have only, you know, six or seven games total,
01:55
and you have one game with three homers,
01:58
it's going to outweigh, you know, the sample size so largely that it's like,
02:02
okay, well, yeah, I mean, maybe he hits like three homers a month,
02:09
which would still be great.
02:10
Don't get me wrong.
02:11
For a catcher, 18 homers is solid.
02:15
But 18 homers over the course of the season,
02:19
when you get down to it is like, it's okay.
02:22
What is that?
02:23
Carlos Santana, the baseball player, not the singer.
02:28
Yeah, you know, it's like, it's fine.
02:30
It's okay.
02:31
But it's nothing really to write home about.
02:33
So if anyone is biting in your league, like, you know, and you can sell high,
02:39
I would absolutely sell high.
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