Mulling Mulder

Re: Mulder.  That's my biggest worry.  His mechanics were shot to hell and I'm not convinced that he's gonna be fixed.  I hadn't remembered Carroll's reference to Wood but that's my fear.  With the Cardinal's rotation as thin as it is I'm not sure we can afford to take someone on who will most likely miss a 1/3 of their starts from the beginning of the season.  I don't have high hopes for Mulder making it back to the bigs and even less hope of him being anything more than a back-end starter.

If he has doubts, the long term contract Texas was rumoured to offer would probably be better.

He probably can't expect to have head-turning stats this year.  I'm sure he will go through some tired arm periods and control issues like Morris did his first year off of surgery.   A two year deal would be about right to re-establish himself and prime himself to get paid next time he's up for free agency.

If Mulder has a new wife around telling him what to do, and he really is getting a multi-year offer from his home town team, why would he go anywhere else?

I had forgotten about that breakdown of Mulder's delivery. It's pretty compelling. All in all, I think the case you make shows why any offer to Mulder should be heavy on the incentives.

It must be something in the water but this is like the 6th baby I know of amoung friends and acquaintances in the past few months.

It's nearly impossible to figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg, when it comes to pitching mechanics.  Look, Mark was probably pitching with a torn rotator cuff for most of the year.  All of this  overthinking into his mechanics goes for naught in my opinion, once the rotator cuff tear was found.  I'm very surprised that Mulder did not end up with an elbow injury due to the fact that his shoulder was not strong enough to allow him to stay in a consistent arm slot above shoulder level.  Rotator cuff pathology/weakness is often the cause of ulnar collateral ligament injuries in the elbow.  

I truly believe that Mulder will contribute significantly to a team later on in '07 and definitely in '08.    Let's hope that he's wearing birds on a bat when he does.

try as hard as you can to make sure the boy is hard throwing lefty. i think the team will need one coming out of the pen to close in about 20 years. I'm doing what I can do to make sure my two nephews that are 2 and 3 will be players as well. the oldest will be a hard throwing lefty that will start. and the youngest with his body type will deffinalty be a power hitting corner outfielder or infielder. :-)

one can dream can't he?

as for Mulder, if I've said it once, I've said it a freakin 1000 times. the Cards gave up Danny, Kiko and a power hitter named Barton for Mulder. that's way, WAY to much talent to let Mulder walk after two years. Unless that left arm of Marks falls off, I am confident he will come back and be just as good, if not better than before he got hurt. with Dave helping him get his mechanics back, Mark will be fine. they cannot let him walk. they just can't. when you give up 3 young players of that caliber for one guy, you are making a big commitment to that guy. so Walt & Co need to step up and show Mark they won't let him go without a fight. they need to step up and make the commitment to him and his new wife that the team is serious about him being a Cardinal for a long time. I know he wants to be a free agent again, but that's a bad deal for the Cardinals. give him the two year deal, but make sure there is something on the end so he won't get away that easily. something like a two or three year team or mutual option. i don't know. be creative Walt. it's what you are paid to do.

Don't let him go Walt. Don't let him go.

be afraid. be very afraid,,,,

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/FC50C1483F67945D86257247001716F7 ?OpenDocument

Well, as many probably know, he wrote "The Book" along with TangoTiger and Dolphin.

They have a website for "The Book" which includes a blog...that has pretty much become a must read for me.  If you are into Saber, this is pretty cool stuff.  All 3 authors contribute to the blog.

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/

left handed knuckleballer.

i mean if that 2yr deal ended up being pretty low $ amount then by all means bring him back but with this much competition for him someone is going to overpay and i don't want it to be the cards.

La Duncerty knows that Mulder will not be ready until July so, they need a to find a stop gap measure. I hope this is why we here things like Looper as a starter.

Maybe the Cards go into spring with AW, Looper, and Thompson competing for a temp starting job, or sharing it in some way.

If only Weaver gets signed I hope that AW wins that job out right.

Could this be what the thinking is? Any thoughts?