I believe that would stunt his development too, AND we’d give up a cost controlled age 28 for 250-300 ABs. No thank you.

j/k

its not worth wasting a year of arb to have him be a 4th OF

but agree with you that Perez could use a little more marinating in the minors

TLR has openly stated that Kyle McClellan is the no. 6 starter. He will start the season in the ‘pen and if any health problems come about, McClellan will take the ball every fifth day. From yesterday’s P-D:

Characterized as insurance should any starter miss time during camp, Kyle McClellan is scheduled to make a final start Wednesday, against Baltimore. McClellan then will join a bullpen that added free-agent lefthander Dennys Reyes 11 days ago.

This makes me wonder why we need a “long reliever.” If that need presents itself early, wouldn’t we want our “insurance” to get a two- or three-inning outing? Don’t we want McClellan to fill that role? If so, we have no need for Das WunderBrad.

Makes it two easy for the other team’s manager to go lefty-lefty and righty-righty after the starter is out, IMHO.

and at this point deservingly so

watching peanut play second on sunday and monday leaves me thinking he has a ways to go. in his present state he is simply not ready to play 2nd at the major league level. not that he can’t be at some point, but he simply wasn’t given a fair amount of time to make the transition.

MO likes to keep that kind of info on the down low, and i can’t say that i blame him.

listening to YP this morning he still thinks he has just as good of a chance as anyone to close. that’s a great attitude to have & i hope he can keep it even if he starts the season at Memphis. i honestly don’t know what’s the best move for the opening day roster. we still have almost 3 weeks left & i would hope every thing will work itself out. if the season started today though, i think Colby should still be in Memphis. i don’t think it does him or the team any good if he’s not playing every day. i can’t chose right now who stays or who goes in the pen. i really think we need a long man in the pen, and it’s pretty clear that’s not going to be Frank. but if you are asking me to chose between YP, Apple Sauce & PK. i can’t. i just can’t. i think we need all three of those guys. but i’m not sure of the best way to get each of them on the roster without making a trade or someone getting hurt.

btw, here’s YP’s interview from this morning in case you want to listen for yourself. it’s about a 10min interview and after he’s done you can stop listening because they start talking calls & it’s really not worth listening to. just more typical uneducated St. Louis callers. i don’t know where they find those people, but holy crap do they suck.

Nobody wants Rasmus to come up and sit the bench, so maybe they have Jay join the big league club as an extra OF and let Rasmus get his AB’s in AAA?

He’s been one of those “top 15 prospects” for, what, 4 years now? I’m excited to see what he brings to the organization, and, quite frankly, I think our outfield needs a little more help.

to keep the site balanced. Which is a shame, because I was fond of the limerick version.

FWIW

we have a very strenuous start to the season like last year

i didn’t notice that

I laughed so hard at the BFF bit that I showed it to my GF, who also laughed. Lohse and Wellemeyer acting like 13-year-old girls is pretty much the peak of comedic perfection, if you ask me.

when you don’t link it i have to type all those letters in myself…jeez…what fun is the internet if you have to do all of that work?

I have trouble understanding why the Cubs are supposed to be a juggernaut this year. Do I think they will be better than the Cardinals? Sure. But outside of Ramirez and Soto, they are weaker at every position this year than the Cardinals. We have a better LF’er offensively in Duncan, a better CF’er all around in Ankiel, a better RF’er in Ludwick, a better 2B offensively in Skippy, the best player in the world in Pujols and Greene will likely outplay Theriot this year as well.

Their pitching could be outstanding and that may be what gives them the distinct edge.

but yeah, I actually think he should make the team… I really don’t think Tyler Greene will make the team

And wonderful, written insight.

clarification please,

on our local sports talk show in Columbia, called the Closers.
Larry was talking about MSP. I agree. It was interesting to hear him say the same things he used to type. It was interesting.

derosa in left, dunn in right.

i think they got mixed up there?

makes it easier for us to win!

him starting at shortstop instead of jimmy rollins is craaaazy.

boooooo.

That was awesome.

it worked.

on number of balls Skip won’t field that a “real 2B” would field?

DanUp borrows a phrase from one of the best 80’s action movies and I figured at least one person would pick up the movie reference.

thanks for the gift Carlos Delgado.

Jeter at short or Skippy at 2nd?

When he was just tackled?

I’m not so sure here, though.

what happened on pitch 6? gameday says “in play no outs”, then he strikes out 2 pitches later (on a pitch a foot outside)?

wheww.

br.com says not really.

he hit into 11 last year, 10 year before

is it in the 9th?