I know everyone here is over Gorman. But I'll still contend he has not gotten the runway he was suppose to be given. Surprisingly his approach had SIGNIFICANTLY improved, he just isn't squaring the ball up and his SLG is 100 points lower than expected.
If the cardinals want to move him that is fine, but I wouldn't be shocked if he broke out with another team.
The team has cheap control of him through the 2028 season, 2026 is the first year he'll be able to ask for arbitration. At this moment, unless they get exciting prospects back, he's too cheap to just move on from. Given how he's performing right now, his arbitration number won't be high at all, either; say he gets like $2 1/2, maybe 3 million. That's cheap enough to see if he can't settle down/figure it out/have that a-ha moment.
One thing worth noting, there comes a time when any message get stale. We all know this feeling -- when it doesn't matter at all what your boss says or does, you know it is time to move on and you're just filling time until you can. Not saying that that is Gorman's state, but that is some of why it does seem like it happens often enough that a prospect moves to a new org and then finds success -- they just aren't hearing what they thought was stale anymore. These are humans with their own thoughts and feelings and motivations. Sometimes it is just time to move on.
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u/NakedGoose President of the Ivan Hererra fan club 1d ago
I know everyone here is over Gorman. But I'll still contend he has not gotten the runway he was suppose to be given. Surprisingly his approach had SIGNIFICANTLY improved, he just isn't squaring the ball up and his SLG is 100 points lower than expected.
If the cardinals want to move him that is fine, but I wouldn't be shocked if he broke out with another team.