Locked On Cardinals - Daily Podcast On The St. Louis Cardinals - The Miles Mikolas Extension Has Been Absolutely Terrible

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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The Cardinals and the Dodgers played a very tight and competitive series. But the Cardinals lost that series, which only makes things even more frustrating as Cardinals fans watch their season slip away. You are Locked on Cardinals. Your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hey there, Cardinals fans. I'm J.D. Haffern and I'm a national radio sports anchor, board and raised in the Lou and a lifetime Cardinals fan. And I'm your host for Lockdown Cardinals, part of the Locked on. Lockdown Podcast Network covering your team every day.

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That's good to hear because coming into the weekend, obviously the Cardinals had a lot. lost five in a four in a row coming into the weekend. Uh, and things were, were glum. Nothing was fun. It was, uh, it was a rough go. It was a rough go considering what we had just seen in Cincinnati. It was bad. Um, and it's sad that that's where we are in this season,

because this season, you know, it has been a roller coaster where, you know, he started off slow. We knew that the early portion of the schedule was going to be tough. they came out not very good. The doubters were all out in full force saying, yeah, here we go again. Cardinals are going to be awful again here in 2024. But then schedule lightened up a little bit.

Things started to turn around. There was some hope. There was some belief out there. And now here we are then. Right back where we started at the beginning of this season when the Dodgers took two or three to start the year. And the thing that hurts the most is that it isn't so much that the Dodgers, you know, it'd be different.

Like so the Reds kicked the hell out of the Cardinals, right? And then the Cardinals play the Dodgers and you've got some pretty entertaining games, really. You know, the Dodgers with all their weapons and all their resources, it's not like they came into Bush Stadium and just dominated by any means. I mean, they're a better team, especially when they're healthy. I mean, just go look at the rosters. but, you know, the cardals barely lose game one.

They finally get the offense you were looking for it with six runs. And it still wasn't enough. It's just like it's always something. It's the ying and the yang. Every time something seems to go right, the other side of the machine breaks down. And that's kind of how it started on Friday because you had that. That was a close game.

That's a game that you've had multiple leads in and you blow them. game two obviously went better and then game three was just a just a tough pitcher duel but friday night's game you score six runs you need to win those ball games especially with this cardal's offense if you're going to get six runs out of these guys you better be winning that game and they didn't it wasn't enough because one of the worst investments the team has made recently continues to be unable to hold up his end of the bargain, and that is Miles Michaelis. Miles Michaelis makes $17.6 million a season,

which is a preposterous number, considering the production that you're getting in return. I think Miles is a person, is a hell of a guy. I really do. I think he's very entertaining. I like his honesty. I like that he's quirky. He works hard, clearly, stays fit,

takes care of himself, wants to win. None of that stuff has ever been an issue. It's not about who he is or mentally what he brings. It's not about commitment. It's not about preparation or anything like that. You know, how many times have we heard, Ali, guys are working hard. Okay, great.

Maybe they're just not that good. Maybe that's just what it is. It's not like that Dusty Blake has screwed somebody up or that are hitting coaches. Maybe the players aren't good. maybe that's what it is because Miles Michaelis has not been good for a little while now. And when John Moseilac gave him that extension of before spring training, it was during spring training actually last year. But he gave him that extension ahead of Jordan Montgomery.

You guys remember this, right? Like we were all like, okay, when's the Jordan Montgomery extension coming in, man? We got to lock them up, right? And they signed Miles Michaelis first. And I remember thinking about it and on this show saying, hey, you know, loyalty wise, Miles Michaelis, he's been here, been pretty solid for you, probably not a bad idea. Boy, was I wrong. Boy, was I wrong? Because nothing about this has been good with Miles Michaelis since this extension has been signed.

Like, it's been rough. You know, so they don't, they don't get. Jordan sign. They end up having a crappy start to the year. Montgomery gets traded, goes on to win a ring with Texas, is with Arizona now where things haven't been great, haven't really gone according to plan, but the Diamondbacks are still winning.

So he's in a much better place than where the Cardinals are right now. Meanwhile, the Cardinals continue to be stuck in the mud because of their offense and they're pitching. Friday, the offense comes to life with the pitching falters, five runs off Michaelis, increases his ERA and the 3 August starts to 9.22. That's terrible. It's awful.

It's unacceptable. He got hammered last year and he's getting hammered again this year. He's giving up the third most hits in baseball this year. The third most runs. Opponents are hitting 286 against him, third worst in baseball. He's given up 20 home runs, fourth most in the national league. He's one of the worst pitch. pitchers in baseball and you just can't deny it anymore.

I can go and we can go, oh, look, look how good he did against Washington and recently against Atlanta. Yay, yay Miles. But for every solid game that he has, he gets his brains beat in a couple times. His ERA this year has never gotten lower than 4.59, which is where it was after his win against the Cubs back on June 16th. He then gave up four, runs and six inning against the Giants and then got slaughtered for 10 and four and a third innings against the Reds and has been trying to recover ever since. That is what $17.6 million per season is getting you. That is who John Moseilock wanted to lock up. 17.6 is a pretty

big chunk of change, guys. And I know salaries are extravagant in sports, but Miles Michaelis is one of the top 25 highest paid starting pitchers in baseball. baseball. John Moseilock gave that money to that man. It was never a top 25 type of pitcher in the league. Yeah, a couple of good seasons, right? We were all like, yeah, he's very serviceable when he's healthy. Remember he had some injury issues for a while there too, but I mean, has he ever really? Like, I mean, that first year, obviously the numbers were better when he came from overseas. But I mean, I don't think anybody was ever like, dude, this is my glis. Look out.

I don't think you've ever heard that. His 17.6 might just have to put it in perspective. He's making more than Tyler Glass now with the Dodgers. Chris Sale, who might win the Cy Young with the Braves this year. Nathan Ebaldy with Rangers. Corbyn Burns, who's with Baltimore, is about to cash in this year as a free agent. Shane Bieber with the Guardians who I know Cardinal fans have loved. He's hurt right now, but makes more than him.

Makes more than Max Fried with the Braves. And there's like a bazillion. million more who are better than him. And here's the, here's the beauty of it, guys. You get Miles Michaelis for another year at this salary. You still, you still got another year of this to go through it before it's finally over. At age, what is he, 36? It's rough. It's rough. Andrew Kittrich did not help matters on Friday, trying to clean up the Michaelis mess with that three-run shot that he gave up to Kevin Kiermeyer, a guy who the Blue Jage had dumped into the lap of the Dodgers like, yeah, you can just take them. And before you get angry about Kit,

and I know that we've had, there's been some frustrating innings with Kittard, you know, there's been a lot more, you know, since the first half when he was so good. And then reality kind of started to set in a little bit. And so, you know, he's got a little more traffic on the basis when he's out there these days. But Kit had not allowed to run in his last eight appearances. So he's been pretty darn good. And he's been overworked. He's only three appearances away from matching his career. high, which is 57. He's coming off of surgery. Remember, he came back last year.

This is first full year back from it. He's thrown a lot. And we still have the rest of August and all of September to go. So I think it's 38 games remaining on the schedule. And Ketridge is three away from his career high in appearances.

Rest of the pen looked good on Friday night. Offense on Friday, you saw Pop with Goldie, win, Pahez. Pott is, whoa, where that power come from? The bomb, right? They only had six heads, but they also had six walks, which is fine by me. Get traffic on the bases. Got to get them in, though, right?

Six runs should be enough to get a win, but it wasn't. It was a very frustrating loss. Very annoying. As you can tell, I'm annoyed by it all because you play a game where that should have been yours. And you lost it. Saturday, the Cardinals had a pretty complete game, which was nice to see because we haven't seen much of those this year. Andre Palante coming up huge on Saturday has got people talking about what his future with the Cardinals should be. It's a positive thing.

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Search the word Cardinals. You've got the Brewers coming to town for the next three. Obviously, a huge series, not that you're even remotely thinking about the division anymore, but if you don't win two or three, you just can't afford to lose games anymore. Like, this is it, you're up against the wall. It's not looking good. I understand that. But we've seen collapses and we've seen streaks happen and maybe the Cardinals can go on one.

We'll find out. but after the disappointment that was Friday, the game you should have won, considering everything involved, but you didn't. Saturday you had a match up where it was Andre Palante against Bobby Miller. Now, we all probably have a little PTSD

about Bobby Miller at the beginning of the year. Remember the game that he threw against the Cardinals where he looked like Nolan Ryan. He looked like a god out there on the mound. Everything was just perfect. Like he was just throwing. and smoke, curve balls are falling off the table, like everything he did. Perfect.

It looked like he, he looked what like Paul Skeen's is for the Pirates. Like he just came out and dominated. It was almost unhittable. You could have put any line up against him that night, and I don't think anybody was going to hit him. Things are a little different now. Bobby Miller is done with some, dealt with injuries, not quite the same guy we saw at the beginning of the year.

And then there was Andre Palante, who came out on top. in this one, limiting the Dodgers to two runs on four hits over seven innings. Andre Palante was really, really good. Walk two, gave up a dinger to Otani, who has now homered against every major league club. Maybe he's pretty good. Our boy, Andrew Wang, huge fan of Otani. You see us needling him a little bit online from time to time, but a big Otani fan he was at the games, and obviously that probably made him really, really happy.

but Palante strikes out five. He gave the Cardinals something they sorely needed. A consistent, no drama outing. And it finally snapped their five game losing streak. He throws 95 pitches in the outing, 62 for strikes. Of the 95 pitches that he threw, forcing fastball or sinker 68 times. He wasn't diddling around, man. You know, he was coming right after people.

told the media after the game, you know, what makes you want to throw fastballs and sinkers like that to a lineup that's loaded? You know, this is, you know, Freeman was in the lineup on Saturday before the finger injury. But like, you know, they got a lot of big names there. So what was it that makes him feel like he can get away with doing stuff like that? And he just said confidence. Confidence and aggression are very important. Aggression comes from being confident that this is your best pitch.

And if you execute your best pitch, you're going to win. Palante has been known to be much better against lefties in his career than Ritees. How many times do we have to hear that about the splits coming out of the bullpen, which is why he was a good weapon to have in your bullpen because it didn't matter. If the lefties came up, he could get those guys out. He struggled a little bit against the Ritees, though, which was odd. But now that he's a starter again, though one particular thing that has apparently led to more success against the right handers, according to Linworthy at

SCL Today.com, it's been the sinker. The sinker has been huge for Andre Palante. And from what I gathered in his post-game interviews, like it sounds like it's still a work in progress. So he's not even fully happy with it yet. He said, I'd like to say it's right around 50% of what I think it can be. It's a fastball. Guys are able to command fastball really well.

I think I can too, especially. as I get the movement more consistent. It's something I started working on my first year up, but hopefully that's something I can develop to be a really consistent weapon for me. And so do we. That's what we're all hoping for because looking ahead to things, all right, not saying that this season is over yet, and we should just flush it down the toilet all over getting really, really close. Talking about next year, talking about 2025, what is this rotation going to look like? You've already got under contract, Sunny Gray, you've got Eric Fetty, Miles Michaelis, Stephen Matt's still under contract, one more are you remaining on his deal. So those four are ready to go.

Part of me thinks that they are going to bring Kyle Gibson back, but at the same time, I don't know if it's for certain. I don't think it's anything that Kyle Gibson's done wrong that is like, oh, no, no, you're gone. And it was last out of it wasn't very good. But I think that we can agree that overall the signing of Cal Gibson's been kind of solid. You know, like as far as, you know, a guy on a one-year deal, they do have a club option on him next year. Same thing goes with Lance Lynn, who's, you know, still injured, but is trying to work his way back. But certainly Palante has made the case for saving those funds, you know, the money that you would use to bring back either a Lynn or a Gibson, you know, and use them

towards things that this team needs. Like, do we need to be paying $12 million for a guy at the back end of our rotation? Do we need to be doing that? When you got guys that seem to be capable of handling that particular role, our buddy Josh Jacobs over at Redmerbrands.com was talking about, you know, how good Palante has been recently since entering the rotation on May 29th. He leads the Cardinal starters in ERA at 3.75.

He's second and fifth at 3.76. Third innings pitched, 69 and two thirds. And no, he's not a superstar ace guy. And you don't need your whole rotation to be number ones and twos. Like, as great as that would be, that's kind of ridiculous. Not a lot of teams can pull that off unless you're developing your own young talent. But going out and just buying those kind of guys, it's impossible to fill your rotation like that. and to normally work.

I suppose the Mets have tried and, you know, the Dodgers got a lot of money invested and stuff. But you know what I'm saying, though. You're not going to go out and just buy like four leg of the Rangers. Try to do it. But, you know, the girl got hurt. Scherzer's been hurt. Yvaldi's been good.

But, I mean, look at it. Look at where they are in the standing. So, anywho, the point was that Pallanti can be a guy that you're four or five at the back of the rotation. You don't have to pay him a lot of money. And then you take those extra funds and you go stick them somewhere else. You know, the amount of money that you're going to save from like say, say you decide, no gifts and no one.

All right. Josh even brings up in one of his blogs about like, you know, can they move on from the Stephen Matt's contract, that 11 million? I think that's going to be a lot harder than you think considering not only is, and it's not like that 11 million is a super huge amount of money, but he can't stay on the field. I don't know what team's going to be like, yeah, yeah, but they just throw a our way, we'll pay them to be hurt. So I don't think that's going to be an easy thing to do. But he's saying no Gibson, no Lynn, if you are clearing off some of Matt's money too,

that's like 34 million that you could use, like I said, towards anybody. And there's a, you know, there's some decent free agent names that are coming about guys like Max Scherzer, Nathan Evaldi, Shane Bieber. There's a bunch of them they're going to be available. And then I, you know, I'm thinking on the other side of it too. It's like, if you decide to not bring Paul Goldschmidt back, which all of you should be prepared for them to try and do, because that is such a Mo move. Why not keep the declining guy?

Keep them around. Keep paying these guys. But imagine, if Mo is a, nope, we're going to move on. Burleson's going to be my new first baseman, Walker is going to be, whatever they decide to do. Luke and Baker's hitting 30-something bombs. We're going to give a chance. Whatever they decide to do.

Let's just, and they decide to move on from Goldie. 34 million from the pitchers that you don't bring back. 26 million from Paul Goldschmidt that you're not paying him anymore. It's like $60 million to play with. 60. And if we're going to stay in this budget that the card holes are trying to stay in, which is fine. If that's your business, that's how you want to run it.

Imagine what you could do with that with 60 million, just to kind of, what should we do with this? Just something to think about. Like if you want to think about a, positive thing and moving on from a lot of older guys, a lot of aging guys, and a lot in these expiring contracts, which at this point, I don't see why you would bring them all back. It's like, you're not winning with them. So stop doing it over and over and over. So just something to think about. Keeping the back of your mind. The other thing that was great to see on Saturday

was the power showing up again. Win, Burleson, Aronado, all hit home runs. Win in Burley, five for eight, three rivies, four runs score to lead the way. Jojo and Hellsley. Very, very good at the end of the game there. Cardinals get that much needed win, get him back and get another checkmark in the W column. I haven't had a lot of those recently. And that brought us into Sunday, which we know the Cardinals hate facing lefties. You knew it was going to be a struggle. And one of the best to ever do it was on the mound for the Dodgers.

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coming back like he's like I've accomplished all I need to I'm out of here and then he decides you know what I love it I'm still coming back 12 and 3 2.280 area in 2022 last year 13 and 5, 2.46 ERA. This year, coming back from an injury, so it took him a while before he started to get into major league games, only made four starts coming into Sunday. Three were really good. One was not. The Padres knocked them around.

Padres are bashing everybody's open. But we know that the Cardinals cannot hit left-hand of pitcher. We know this. If I'm playing the Cardinals, if I'm somebody who's in the playoff hunt right now, I'm just going to go find some lefties and just throw them out there on the mountain. because the Cardinals can't have. They just can't. They're terrible. They're terrible at it for whatever reason.

So not only is Kershaw left-hand, but he's Clayton freaking Kershaw. You know, he's got to be licking his chops coming into Sunday's matchup, where, as expected, he dominates. I know the Cardinals have had their success against him in the playoffs, but he did what most lefties have done to the Cardinals this year. And that is just shut them down. The Cardinals only had hits off Kershaw. in the first five innings, what, two out single by Brennan Donovan in the second, one out single by Goldie in the fifth, in the sixth inning, Pedro Paul Hess and Victor Scott the second.

The one time we was like, ooh, we got a little something going. Opened up the inning with singles, there we go, first and second, nobody out, but Mason Witton flies out, Wilson-Katreras grounds into a double play, boom, threats over, neutralized. That was it. That was it. It was crickets. The rest of the day gets Clayton,

In fact, it was pretty much crickets for the whole game. And so large New Park gets that pinch hit home run in the eighth inning off Daniel Hudson to get the guys on the board. Two to one ball game at that time. It's not like the Dodgers were running away with this thing. It's a shame because Sunny Gray, it was a struggle. It wasn't easy. It didn't look pretty. But Sunny Gray pitched pretty well.

Against the Dodgers lineup that is pretty good, even though Freddie Freeman was out. They made him work. His pitch gown was up very. very early. It's exhausting watching Sunny Gray pitch, isn't it? He's so he's always doing. He's fidgeting around all the time, sweating all the time. He just looks,

I mean, he's giving it every ounce that he's got out there. And it was a tough one for him. He only lasted five innings, just didn't have the command, but he still gave your team a fighting chance. You know, he allows two runs on seven hits, one being the Shohei Otani missile into the Cardinals bullpen, which if it hit me,

buddy, they probably be severely injured. Strugout six, he kept team in it, two runs. That's his job, got it done. Just nothing from the offense, again, against the left-hander. O-for-four with runners in scoring position, they grounded into three double plays, one to end the game. Just got dominated by Clayton Kirchall, who has that effect on team. So I'm not as angry about it, but when you see a lefty on the mound,

We're screwed. Like why even though? It's so bad. Cardle's bullpen was strong, though, if we want to throw some positives out there, Armstrong, Libby, Fernandez, King, all threw up zeros. Libby, how about Matthew Libertor? Two more strikeouts.

It's been outstanding in the month of August. Eight games, 11 and two-thirds innings, 15 punchies. The ZRA is at 0.77. Opponents are heading just 125 against them. Don't touch him. don't don't even look at him. Just let him do his thing. Let him cook.

Don't think about starting him out of nowhere and screwing them all up. Just leave him alone. Let him be that guy because he's good at it. So keep him there. Don't screw with him. Classic pitchers do a Bush Stadium on a hot day at Bush. Dodgers come out on top. Another one run game.

Obviously, the Cardinals love doing that. Another loss, though, for the Cardinals. The Cardals have won only two games this season when they were losing going into the ninth inning. So not a lot of late inning heroics from this team. Jordan Walker got his second start of the series, goes over three. Jordan is now one for 11 since getting called up. That hit was a single. He has walked once.

He has struck out three times. He has had no impact whatsoever since bringing him up. I know the argument. He actually hits righties better than lefties. Why are we platooning him against lefties? I don't know. I don't have that answer. I argue with it too.

So you're really good at this? We're going to do this instead. I don't know. Victor Scott, 7 for 40s. He's got the one home run for RBIs since being called up, batting 175. He does not have a walk. He does not have a stolen base. He has one run scored, which he drove himself in with the home run and has struck out 14 times.

Both of these guys, before getting called up, scorching. the ball at Memphis, ripping the cover off the ball at Memphis, get to the major leagues, and it all goes away. And I don't know what the disconnect is. Is it just the pitching at the major league level? Is that much better that they're seeing? I wish I had answers for you, but something isn't right. Something ain't right, man. I know many of you had to have seen the highlights from Dylan Carlson over the weekend, smiling, having a good time in Tampa Bay, with the Cardinals this year, 198, no home runs, 11 RBIs, with the raise in 41 at bats, 293, three home runs, nine RBIs, two stolen bases, OPS 920, OPS plus 161.

It just can't be a coincidence that these guys continue to walk out the door and immediately become very good hitter somewhere else. there is something severely broken in this cardinals organization when it comes to developing these hitters. I don't know what it is. I wish I knew. I don't know where the disconnect is. But you can't keep seeing this happening and going, oh, man, just, you know, luck of the draw. They're just, hey.

No, something's up. Something's up and needs to be fixed. The Cardinals will open up the series against the Brewers on Tuesday night. Eric Fetty, your scheduled starter. We need him to be good Eric Fetty, Matt Poopie, Eric Fetty, which he's been two out of the three starts since coming to St. Louis. Cardinals are already one and six against the Brewers this year. I've been outscored 42 to 16 in those games.

The Brewers dominate them. They've won five in a row now, just in general, not against the Cardinals, but just in general. They're running away with the division. 11 games up on the second place Cardinals, despite losing their manager, training Corvett Burns who could win the ALSide Young Award. Losing Brandon Woodruff and Christian DeLidge to injuries, not having Devin Williams for most of the year.

Payroll, modest $115 million, but they keep winning. They're doing it right. I never thought as a Cardinal fan, I would be jealous of the Brewers, but I am. We're going to do a crossover with Lockdown Brewers host, Chuck Friedman, tomorrow, and maybe we can unlock some of the secrets and pass it along to the Cardinals. They go like, this is what you're doing wrong. This is what they're doing right.

Figure it out. So we'll try. We'll try together. Thank you for making a lockdown cardinals your first listen every day if you haven't already. Give us follow on Twitter, X, at L0 underscore Cardinals in a JD Sports Radio, like, subscribe on YouTube and help our channel and our love for the Cardinals grow. Please give me feedback on what you guys are thinking about the team, the organization, decisions that are being made, any of these things. I want to start getting your feedback onto the show a lot more. I'm tired of just hearing my voice.

I feel like I'm just, I keep saying the same stuff over and over because the same problems continue to be there for the Cardinals. And I'm curious what you guys think. I want to start using your words to express your discontent or happiness. Maybe there's things that you like and you're like, hey, calm down, nerd. relax. Maybe that. Maybe I need, I don't know. It's frustrating that. It's frustrating because you see this team and you see them compete well against the Dodgers. The one game gets away. Should have won the series two to three. And instead it's the other way around. And right now the Brewers are a better team than a lot of the teams in the league right now. Everything's working. And now you're going to face them for three at Bush Stadium. And I'm scared. I'm scared, man. I don't want to get embarrassed.

Anyway, we're going to wrap it up. I'll see you guys next time. And always remember, you're the best fans in baseball for a reason. We'll see you next time on lockdown Cardinals. Have a good one.