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The closer situation

Just wanted an excuse to poll everyone on who you think the Cardinals' new closer should be?  Ever since I saw Josh Kinney close out game 3 of the 2006 NLCS vs. the Mets I have always been an advocate of him being the closer of the future, or at least our 8th inning man.

Ryan Franklin's been doing great this spring, and even though Tony will probably give it to him because of his age, I'm starting to think maybe he should be our long relief guy like Brad Thompson sometimes is.  He did pretty well the other day in this role.  Plus he blew too many saves last year.

Jason Motte's been perfect.  I'm worried he doesn't have enough tools for the job, however.

And as for Chris Perez, he isn't exactly setting the world on fire.  Maybe Perez should be setting up Motte, and not vice versa.

I even read one time Tony was talking about giving it to Trever Miller, but this isn't really a great idea.  He's old, he's not the way of the future, and he's better as a left-handed specialist.  I'd sooner go with Dennys Reyes, but I'd also rather use him as a specialist, or at least long relief.

My overall pick is Kinney, but he's the dark horse at this point for the job.  What do you all think?