The 2004 team had former or current Gold Glovers at 3rd, short, catcher, center and right. A little-known future Gold Glover was manning first at the time. How else can one explain Jason Marquis?

1. i think you make that trade only if we are going all in for next year as it would take all of our close minor league talent to land halladay

2. only way the blue jays make any trade is if they are rebuilding and if JP is still there, which i haven’t heard otherwise yet, then no its not happening

and I’m not trying to argue that it’s the way to go—only that it seems to be the way the Cardinals intend to go.

between the ‘04 group and this year’s Rays is that the Rays have top-shelf talent in their rotation — 3 legitimate swing-and-miss guys. The ‘04 Cards had 1 of those guys — Carp. We had tons of depth in the rotation but nearly lost to the Astros b/c they had strength at the top that we didn’t have. The Sox crushed us largely b/c they had strength at the top as well. When we didn’t beat Wakefield, we were in a lot of trouble b/c our guys just couldn’t match theirs.

We need innings-eaters like Lohse. Suppan was one of those guys. But to build a great team long-term, we need strength at the top. Right now we have just one of those guys, though I’m not sure that Wellemeyer can’t be one of those swing-and-miss guys. There’s a lot of depth coming as well, but they’re going to be, more likely, innings-eaters rather than swing-and-miss guys. There’s value in what Lohse does. I’m just not of the opinion that it’s what “the market” says it is.

the end of the season…and the offseason. I still come on and read a few times a day, but this time of year it’s mostly the same stuff regurgitated a little differently. This place will pick up again in about a month when the playoffs are over and free-agency begins…right now the Cards aren’t doing anything, so there’s not a whole lot to talk about.

I think it’s just a lull. There’s no substantial news coming in from the organization. Awaiting more info. The game threads are hopping, though, very enjoyable.

BTW Dan, nice nick. +1

hard to find to read this let alone post anything

But around STL (or america in general) football seaon KILLS baseball playoffs, especially last year and this year when the cards didn’t make it.

Last year I had to bar hop until I finally found a place that would play baseball, one would think bars like Ozzies and Pujols 5 would be a central place to watch baseball and not football, or stadium bars like Hrabosky’s would have been at least open :)

They aren’t playing. They aren’t trading. They aren’t signing.

At this point it’s all predictions and what-do-you-want-do’s and that type of thing. Once the hot stove heats up, we’ll start seeing some more life out of the site.

and I need to get a clear graduation plan from my advisor. I’ll stop by and read a few things, but that’s basically it these days. Especially when the guys wearing red aren’t playing anymore.

The season is over. Football is in full swing. I’ll be around more after the football season is over and we are heading into spring training. Until then im just going pop in and a few times a week to see if anything interesting is going on. Or whenever we make so big news.

rockin like a hurricane

suckers

we have a top 4-5 pitcher named Chris Carpenter—hopefully, we’ll get him in the rotation sometime next year knocks on wood. the Dodgers thought that was what they were getting with Jason Schmidt. The Giants though that Barry Zito was going to pan out. Pedro fell back to earth after he joined the Mets.

For every guy like Randy Johnson or Roger Clemens who never ages, you have two or three guys who looked awesome once, and then completely flame out after signing that deal.

There are at least some stellar pitchers on the FA market, which might drive the price down SOME, but still… guys like that don’t grow on trees.