Over the offseason, the Cardinals finally, finally did what so many fans (many of us here included), had been clamouring for the club to do for the past several years: they went out and got themselves a big bat. Marcell Ozuna hadn’t brought the thunder to the lineup, Matt Carpenter has been setting the table for years but can’t drive himself in, and the rest of the team was composed of very good but entirely complementary players. What the club needed, the line of reasoning went, was an offensive centerpiece player to transform the lineup and serve as the engine of run production for the whole enterprise.
Paul Goldschmidt Has a Patience Problem
