wee willie and junior

by lboros on Dec 23, 2005 12:20 AM EST in St. Louis Cardinals News

sneak preview of friday morning's post-dispatch, courtesy derrick goold's Bird Land blog:

the cards have a good shot at landing junior spivey; he has narrowed his list to stl and the colorado rockies.
the cards also are interested in my man willie harris, whom jocketty describes as "a perfect guy for tony."
free-agent juan encarnacion may yet be signed to fill one of the vacant corner-outfield slots . . . . gulp. i could live w him on a one-year contract, but at three years he could be the next tino. (yeh i know i said the same thing about jacque jones.)
felix rodriguez in holding pattern til after the 1st.

either spivey or harris would brighten the 2b situation . . . . . and here's the full story in the post.

elsewhere: the mariners picked up matt lawton on a one-year, $400K contract. absolute steal. incentives may drive the final salary up to $1.25m; still a steal --- .368 career obp, only 33 years old. and at that price you'd still have money left over to sign a rh platoon partner / defensive replacement for lawton.

as someone pointed out here yesterday, if they can forgive ponson for his many sins, why not lawton?

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sounds awesome

looks like they are actualy trying to improve the team. i would love to have willie harris and juan encarnacion (he has one of the best BA's around in the free agent pool) so i wouldnt mind him, and i really hope we sign felix rodriguez (what's his ROD nickname, or do wes till have to give him one).

bring home a championship to STL

by cards4ever on Dec 23, 2005 12:43 AM EST reply actions

Felix rodriguez

If he's not known as X-Rod, that'd change very quickly after he dons a card uniform, I say.

by Valatan on Dec 23, 2005 1:51 AM EST up reply actions

Bird Land

also talks about us signing ryan franklin, another roids guy, i dont know about him.

bring home a championship to STL

by cards4ever on Dec 23, 2005 12:46 AM EST reply actions

karma

is punishing us back for laughing at the cubs for signing jacque jones if we do end up signing encarnacion for any substantial $

http://www.playahard9.blogspot.com/

by erik on Dec 23, 2005 1:03 AM EST reply actions

Spivey

If it's between us and the Rockies, I have to believe that he's our new second baseman. The Rox want him in a utility role.

by roebirds on Dec 23, 2005 1:10 AM EST reply actions

but if he signs w stl

is he guaranteed the ev'yday job? or does he have to battle it out w luna / miles?

by lboros on Dec 23, 2005 2:04 AM EST up reply actions

Evil way out

"Give" him the everyday job--I nearly typed ev'yday there, that's contagious--and if Luna starts raking enough to unseat him just blow him off/trade him for trinkets, Mike Myers style.

by DanUpBaby on Dec 23, 2005 5:44 AM EST up reply actions

Skinny Mini

Juan Encarnacion is listed a BR as 6' 2", 160 lb.
can that be right?

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I agree, Lawton (who is only 5'9" BTW) was a steal at $400K or $1.25M. I wonder why the Cards didn't try- Maybe he wasn't interested in St. Louis or maybe Jock feared his lead glove?

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by Zubin on Dec 23, 2005 2:45 AM EST reply actions

yeah, his glove

at least according to TOLAXOR --- check out this comment from yesterday's post

by lboros on Dec 23, 2005 9:06 AM EST up reply actions

Lawton

Is he sorry he took roids, or sorry he got caught? For Ponson, I'm sure he's sorry for both. That might make a difference in deciding what kind or person gets a 'redo' with the Cards, and who doesn't.

by socalcardsfan on Dec 23, 2005 3:28 PM EST reply actions