Injuries
This is not a diary entry in which I am trying to complain. I am looking to clarify.
Has there ever been a Cardinals' season so marred with injuries as this one? It seems that more people have gone down than I have ever remembered. We'll get to a list in a second, but I just want to reiterate that the Cardinals "jumped out" to a 9 game deficit in the first thirty games played...so the probably weren't going to be great this year anyway (they won 4 of the first 5 times Carpenter was supposed to pitch (losing only in the game that he pitched)). Also, I know that the owner/GM left the team with a lot of older players that are more injury prone; however, this is CRAZY.
Here's this list this season, thus far - only time lost to the DL (or worse):
Chris Carpenter - April 9th - present
David Eckstein - June 16th - July 12th
Jim Edmonds - June 16th - July 19th
Juan Encarnacion - Beginning - May 13th
Juan Encarnacion - part 2 - September 4th - ?????
Josh Hancock - died April 29th, 2007
Tyler Johnson - June 19th - *August 6th
Adam Kennedy - August 12th - present
Josh Kinney - Beginning - present
Braden Looper - June 16th - July 2nd
Mike Maroth - August 5th - September 1st
Yadier Molina - May 30th - June 28th
Mark Mulder - beginning - September 6th
Scott Rolen - *August 29th - present
Scott Speizio - *July 13th - July 29th
Scott Speizio - part 2 - August 9th - present
Todd Wellemeyer - July 9th - August 24th
Preston Wilson - May 6th - present
* - approximate start time...not listed as a transaction on stlcardinals.com
Overall, that is:
1 catcher
1 second baseman
1 shortstop
1 third baseman
1 infielder/outfielder
3 outfielders
4 starting pitchers
4 relief pitchers
You could almost field a full team with that. Play Speizio at first and you could play a game without any fielding/running/pinch hitting substitutions. That's quite ridiculous.
Has there been any team in history with this expansive an amount of injuries in one season?
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Also do not forget Gary Bennett
by Hardcore Legend on Sep 12, 2007 11:02 AM EDT 0 recs
Bennett
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by stlfan on
Sep 12, 2007 11:07 AM EDT
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Bennett also lost playing time
by nycardfan on
Sep 12, 2007 12:36 PM EDT
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Johnson 8/6 is correct per stlcardinals.com
by StLHugo on Sep 12, 2007 11:05 AM EDT 0 recs
The training staff
Get rid of these bonehead trainers and medical staff. This is rediculus.
by lynx on Sep 12, 2007 11:26 AM EDT 0 recs
in addition
it was mentioned in an earlier thread that someone should have known spiezio had a problem long before he was shut down.
by nycbirdo on
Sep 12, 2007 4:22 PM EDT
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We don't know
Speizio has federally protected employee rights that the Cardinals front office has to respect. If he wasn't doing anything in front of them, and he wasn't willing to go on the DL or restricted list, what could they do? I'm sure they proceeded on the Speizio thing as evidence and the law allowed them to.
by spants on
Sep 12, 2007 4:36 PM EDT
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DL of Game Days Percentage
If this doesn't prove easy for someone, I might try to this on some future sleepless night.
by Birds on the Bat on Sep 12, 2007 12:55 PM EDT 0 recs
Just a quick rough count
carp 161
eck 22
jim 29
jaun 65
hancock 138
johnson 44
kennedy 46
Kinney 162
Looper 15
Maroth 25
Molina 27
Mulder 22
Rolen 30
Spiezio 64
TWell 41
Wilson 31
Its about 22%
by Fezzik on
Sep 14, 2007 5:09 PM EDT
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You forgot
by OKCardsfan on Sep 13, 2007 9:25 AM EDT 0 recs











