so, feel free to question the roster management.

to bring up what warcard already posted:

Comments by Mozeliak in Burwell article this morning seem to indicate that all is well in Card Nation. Mo says he does not understand why everyone is so anxious for the Cards to make a move. He says that you would think the team is in last place instead of first place with all of the criticism.

Well, John, I hope you’ve been watching the last two games. THAT is why. We need to keep first place, not enjoy the fact that we were once there.

. . .just hold ‘um right here. "I’ll think of something!"

Seems that’s the spirt of the team’s inexplicable roster juggling and the faith in in Dick & Dunc. I don’t see the games, but I listen daily, and it appears the team is completely listless. They executve poorly, do not seem aggressive. Other than Carp’s starts, they seem to be waiting to be kicked about. . . and are not disapponted for long.

Christ, even fi there WERE to be a fire sale now, on the 25 man roster outside of five or six obvious players, who would even draw any interest?

The latest movements must be related to showcasing talent at ML level. I feel a big move coming, but think it will be Peavy, not a bat. Its my guess they want to sit tight for Glaus return. Otherwise I am at a loss as to why we are doing this.

If it is Peavy, I’m ok with trying to win 1-0 every night and hoping for some combo of Luddy/Ankiel returns to form/Glaus returns/cheap rental.

Just, blech.

will ever hit with much power. Watch him hit. He hits entirely with his arms. He looks like a big strong kid that just walked on a baseball diamond knowing nothing about how to hit and the coach calls him over and says, "hey kid, you’re a big guy,grab a bat, we need a long one.
Watch his lower body, the hips, legs. nothing ever moves. just the arms and a little twist of the waist. Never seen anybody hit like that except a few pitchers.

He must really have strong hands and arms though to hit one as far as he does occassionally.

Is it possible our best players are on the bench. One only can hope they ain’t on the field!

For all the Tony haters that want to see him go if Mo doesn’t get him what he needs he won’t resign for next year.

The down side is that if this continues we can kiss Pujols goodbye.

And don’t think I haven’t tried, but the 8 man bullpen is incomprehensible.

the management of the roster is befuddling… As for the arb clock, if Todd isn’t on the active roster, he won’t be accumulating service days… unless he’s quickly recalled. In any case, being called up in June and now sent back down means he’s unlikely to be a super-2.

That said, I generally agree something fishy is going on. Maybe Boyer was caught with a needle in his a** or something.

I don’t know, but it has angered the GOB.

I mean, when you’re sitting in the seats, eating your nachos, nursing your franklin, and the PA comes on for a full minute to explain the shift/double-switch/welcome to the rookie who’s about to be fed into a woodchipper, and you think to yourself, does he sound as confused as I feel? …. there might be something wrong with roster management.

How are we supposed to trust that the team’s going to go out and get the right tools guy if they can’t even manage their existing toolbox?

And the GOB have mercy on our souls if #5 is thinking the same damn thing.

that we are likely not in command of all the facts?

but I also feel there might be value in a short-term, short-sighted but CHEAP move for an average-ish corner outfielder. Not to be an “impact bat” but just to give us one more option, someone who can hit LHP a little bit (something we still can’t do) and maybe be a small upgrade over dunc/ank in the OF. I’d be well up for enquiring about Austin Kearns (since Nats players seem to be en vogue at the moment). He’s only a so-so hitter, but he’s acceptable, he plays either corner spot extremely well on defence and he’s right handed (decent record vs LHP). He likely wouldn’t cost much (say, a mediocre pitching prospect) to get as a rental. I don’t see how a low-cost, low-ceiling move like this can’t be a benefit to the team when it’s obvious Duncan and Ankiel are absolutely hopeless at the moment.

Then, as I said, I’d make a “proper” move (i.e. deal something meaningful) to get a 3B of some ability. If we can give up Perez + mediocre prospect for DeRosa or Beltre, and maybe something like Ottavino + garbage prospect for Kearns I think that’d be a real short-term shot in the arm, and doesn’t really cost anything meaningful to the team. This division is just asking to be won this year, it’d be a shame if we procrastinated for a couple more months, waiting on good news from Glaus that may never come, waiting for Ank/Dunc’s bats to come around, and slipped out of it.

Rasmus is back. But Ankiel in the 4 spot doesn’t excite me. Hopefully he grabs his hittin bat today.

Joe Thurston, on call to return to California for the birth of his first child, still is here and in the lineup at third base. "I’m sure they’re kind of anxious about it," said La Russa, who expects Thurston to be leaving at almost any moment. Thurston’s anxiety may be showing in that he is one for his last 11.

Why put him in the game if he may leave at any moment?

de la rosa has good peripherals and very good stuff. his 2009 era apparently is experiencing the double-whammy of coors and Bad Luck.

then we should be starting luddy, raz, and somebody else in the outfield everyday. i am also not so sure that that the other outfielder shouldn’t be schu with greene and rayn and thurston manning the infield. cd and rick-dick have not earned their playing time, it’s all wishful, back to the future thinking with them.

Todd’s callup has the same impact on his Arb clock and the 40 man roster as a September call up. Even if Todd stayed all year on the 25 man roster, it is doubtful he would be a super two at this date in the season. I can agree with you on the starting his arb clock early issue if you are arguing that Todd should not have seen the majors this year, including a September call up or an injury fill-in.