Harsh Article about the Cards

Will Harris is apparently a college football analyst. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

In addition to the things you pointed out, he also thinks Izturis should lead off for us, believes Josh Phelps will be in the majors the whole year, and appears to think that we're fair-weather fans (see C&K comment). I wouldn't really put any stock into what he says.

he just got overhyped on how we're not looking good compared to other cardinal years. Even with our downgrades, we still look better than the Marlins and Pirates, for example, and there are other teams out there I'd argue as well.

My guess about Pujols' whole opting for surgery is that he DOES want to stay here and realizes that we have a better chance of being a winning team next year and the near future, and that's why he'd want to into go surgery now, so that he can recover by the time that we are competing for the top again.

Another thing that bothers me about this article is that personally, I feel our offense is actually better than last year. Our "key losses" didn't contribute much at all on offense, and the new guys taking over have a chance to do much more damage and showed the could last year. Yes, our pitching is shitty, but it also has a lot of potential for surprise. It's not horrible enough to make us the worst team in the league by any means.

have written that article by surfing the web too.

The sidebar on AP is at least interesting.

I dont believe this guy normally covers baseball and it shows.

probably will finish with a better record than us.  They've got a better pitching staff and as long as Jason Bay and Adam LaRoche don't have two of the worst years of their career, they'll probably win more games than the Cards.

a writer feeling they have to be "funny" when writing predictions on a baseball team. I see this all the time in some of the spring baseball preview magazines for teams that don't have much of a chance to contend.

Some of these writers feel they have to make a joke at the end of their "prediction" for whatever reason.

It's nothing new, I just roll my eyes and move on.

Compared to last year, this team is much better off, in my opinion.  Considering the shitty offense we got from Rolen and Edmonds last year, Glaus and whoever gets the CF job will probably be an overall upgrade.  I do think Izturis will be an upgrade with the glove, and Kennedy should rebound a bit from his career worst season last year.

I love his analysis of Glaus -- his homers should dip because he's playing in Busch.  That's an incomplete analysis because he forgot to factor in that he's moving from the American League to the National League and, more specifically, the AL East to the NL Central.  The Yankees, Sox, Rays, and Orioles had some pretty good staffs last year -- where is that analysis at?

This guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.  You can't judge every single hitter based on their contact rate, moron, Duncan and Ankiel are power hitters...if we wanted them to hit .330/.350/.295, contact rate would be a great stat to use.  Apparently he thinks that the Cards would be better off with Pujols and a bunch of PunchNJudy hitters or something.  This guy should stick to writing articles about college football, because some of his other fantasy baseball articles are nearly as bad as this one.

P.S. I hope Ankiel goes in the 25th round of my fantasy draft and Duncan goes undrafted...Please GOD make this happen lol.