Cardinals Surpass Expectations: Hungry for More This Season

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00:00But they are sort of telling Cardinals management we're in it to win it.

00:04Craig, you know what?

00:05You're right.

00:05No one thought we would be in this position.

00:08And now that they're in it, they want more.

00:11This is a team that I think comes July or August,

00:17you would improve to a point where you say, okay,

00:19this is what we feel like.

00:21This is who we know can do what and this and that.

00:24But it happened a lot earlier.

00:26And so right now they want more.

00:29They're aggressive.

00:29They're hungry.

00:30The question was going to be, are they going to be buyers or sellers?

00:35I think they're probably going to be buyers right now.

00:38I mean, and they have some assets that I know teams were looking at early.

00:43You know, you have Ryan Helsley who had led the league in saves last year.

00:46You have some other guys who you could probably move and get something for.

00:50But right now they like what they have,

00:54and they're probably going to look to add if they continue at this pace.

00:56I think the key claims is maybe those players,

01:01specifically the pitchers are the ones that we went into the season,

01:04really not knowing what they would be.

01:06And they have definitely outperformed what we thought they would in

01:09Libertor and Fetty.

01:11Sonny Gray is kind of always who he is.

01:13Pellante has been okay.

01:15Miles Michaelis has had a very big rebound from his April start.

01:19And so, I mean, I don't know if this is sustainable claims.

01:22Why would the Cardinals sell?

01:23They're going to have to add to this.

01:25Well, I agree.

01:26You know, I thought the key was what Miles Michaelis has done.

01:31He's in the last year of his contract,

01:33and he didn't have a very good season last year.

01:36You can ask him, and he'll tell you the same thing.

01:38He's given them a chance.

01:39And this is a guy who always takes the ball every fifth day.

01:43He is a guy that is a leader in the clubhouse for a lot of different reasons.

01:48And what he's done is given them a chance every night he goes out.

01:52Libertor, you thought, was going to be a good pitcher.

01:56You know, he was a former first-round pick by Tampa.

01:58And now he's taking the ball, and he pitches with such confidence.

02:03Pellante was a guy who was really good in the second part of last season,

02:07so you would hope that he was going to continue that.

02:10Fetty was a guy you thought you could be good enough where you could trade him

02:14for something because he's in the end of his contract.

02:17So it's been one of those situations where everybody thought

02:21they were going to be good, but not this good.

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