The main reason I like it is because his deal ends one year earlier.  It happens to be just the time Miguel Cabrera hits the free agent market.  He has already expressed an interest in playing across the diamond from Albert.  So as long as we can give him a competetive offer, I would think we have an edge there.

This may also depend on whether or not we are under new ownership at the time.  Which I think we will be.

however, i like this trade, if only to be done with the entire stupid soap opera.  

at least it's not russell branyon...

Where is the loyalty now with these new owners? I think the Cards need new owners that want to spend and win.

Trading Edmonds made some sense... But he was still a fan favorite and people came to the ballpark to watch Jimmy Baseball play the outfield like no one has played since the Say Hey Kid.

Now we trade Rolen, my personal favorite cardinal since Ozzie Smith. Why??? Because he plays the game correct, he works his tail off every game. He shows up everyday to win. He plays the hot corner like no one I have ever seen. And he doesn't show boat. How can we trade a borderline Hall of Famer like this? Just because he hates the manager... BTW Larussa is the one in the wrong here. He should have apologized for treating a veteran the way that he did. He just let the problem fester.

Larussa is a great manager. He is a Hall of Fame manager. But the Cardinals can win without Larussa, they cannot win without Scottie Baseball. His defense saved are horrible pitching staff. He was invaluable during our 06 World Series. He should have been the MVP actually.

I don't see the Cardinals filling many seats next year. The only reason to go is to watch Pujols hit and Wainwright pitch. The rest is going to be to hard to watch.

Also, we don't have a 3B prospect knocking on the door until at least 2009, so it's not like Glaus blocks anyone.  And it helps keep us at least competitive in 2008 instead of going into full rebuilding mode with whatever mediocre prospects Rolen would fetch in return.  Overall, if Glaus is healthy, good trade.

Note that Glaus logged 8 games at SS in 2006.  Maybe we can plug him in there?  Heheheh

You are dead wrong.

I understand and respect your fandom of Scott Rolen, but you're way wrong here.

Tony LaRussa IS a hall of fame baseball manager.  No doubts about it.

Scott Rolen is NOT a Hall of fame third baseman.  He could have been if he hadn't gotten hurt, but he has absolutely no chance of Hof induction right now.  Btw, Edmonds is MUCH closer to being a hall of famer than Rolen is and ever will be.

He's a third baseman with 261 homeruns.  Not even close.

And it's that loyalty to players that has gotten this team in its predicament that its currently in.  Having ageing ballplayers on the team just so they can retire as Cardinals flys in the face of having a competing ballclup every year.

And you can't cry about loyalty to players and how they should go into the hall as cardinals and then say you think the Edmonds trade 'made some sense'.  

And to your last point.  Busch III will sell out virtually, if not every, home game.  That's pretty much a given.

Here is the SI article below.

By Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, SI.com

Former World Series MVP and four-time All-Star Troy Glaus, currently a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays, received multiple shipments of performance-enhancing steroids through an allegedly illegal internet distribution network, according to information obtained by SI.

A source in Florida with knowledge of the client list of Signature Pharmacy, an Orlando-based compound pharmacy, alleges that between September 2003 and May 2004, multiple shipments of nandrolone and testosterone were sent to Glaus at a Corona, Calif., address that traces to the player. Though the information only pertains to receipt and not actual use of steroids, both nandrolone and testosterone were on Major League Baseball's banned list at the time.

Glaus, then with the Angels, missed much of the 2003 season with a tear in his right rotator cuff and frayed labrum and underwent season-ending shoulder surgery after attempting a comeback in 2004.

The prescriptions, written in Glaus' name, were obtained through New Hope Health Center, a California-based anti-aging clinic that advertises the sale of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones on its Web site. The prescription was processed by Signature. The prescribing physician was Ramon Scruggs, M.D. According to the Medical Board of California, as of March 2007, Scruggs has been on probation and is prohibited from prescribing drugs over the internet. He also was reportedly involved in a lawsuit with Mobile-based Applied Pharmacy, which, ironically, was the subject of a previous multi-agency raid. (Contacted through New Hope and given the chance to comment on Friday, Scruggs responded with expletives and ended the conversation abruptly.)

On the one hand Rolen is my favorite ball player post-ozzie, but on the other he being a complete bitch lately and that doesn't help the team.  

Glaus is an interesting return for Rolen.  I really thought we'd be in Jupiter before Rolen would get dealt, and when he did we'd be sheading salary and picking up a major league ready SP and a not-so-major league ready P.  

Here's hoping we find a gem and get 35 bombs and 100 rbi's from Glaus next year.  But here's to Scott and his 34 HRs and 99 RBIs I hope he finds elsewhere.

"Then loudly cried the bold Sir Bedivere,
'Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?
Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes?
For now I see the true old times are dead,
When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Such times have been not since the light that led
The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.
But now the whole ROUND TABLE is dissolved
Which was an image of the mighty world;
And I, the last, go forth companionless,
And the days darken round me, and the years,
Among new men, strange faces, other minds.'"

Melodramatic, yes, but that's the first thing that came to my mind.

This is a win-win deal.  This year the Cards are a better lineup with Glaus in the 4-hole behind Pujols, and if they want to make a move for the future, Glaus is a better and easier piece to move.        

Guarantee the 2009 and sign on the dotted line.  Excellent move Mo.

So the question is, what has changed about him?  Or is he still the same, and we are just starting to get another perspective on him as blogs and sports reporters start to cover the bickering more often?

Call it bad luck or bad circumstances if you will, but the Cards haven't had much luck with medical issues, Chris Carpenter's emergence after shoulder surgery being the lone bright spot among a forest of players griping about treatment (Lankford, Rolen, Edmonds), poor outcomes on surgeries/treatment regimens (Rolen, Mulder, McGwire, Edmonds, Carpenter, Lankford, Al Benes).

I sure hope the Cards get a couple of extra opinions on Glaus's charts before signing on the dotted line.