Cardinals Rumors: Rolen, Feliz, Capuano

Why do they want Rolen? Don't they have superstud Ryan Braun?

Either one pleas sign Feliz. That way the Giants get rid of his crappy Avg/OPS and get a draft pick

The Brewers would put Rolen at third base and place Braun in the left field.

I would want Bill Hall back for Rolen as well as Capuano, which would mean we would have to include another player of course. hopefully someone outta the bullpen. Anybody but Izzy would be okay with me.

and i want Santana for Melky straight up lol

Rolen is a high risk, high reward player. If he is healthy, he is one of the best in the game at third. Problem is, he probably won't be healthy. The Cards would be lucky to get Capuano for him.

Rolen isn't "High risk" he's very low, he's had one injury in his career, with a follow on injury due to a bad surgeon with his scar tissue, do I assume he'll have great numbers as he did from 04-06, doubt it, but do I see him atleast close to what he was at, absolutely.

Rolen High Risk -- nope. Is Rolen a low to medium risk, sure. It isn't a question whether or not Rolen will be better next season its a question of when in the season.

Not necessarily, 4 clubs have already came to talk about Rolen. A lot of teams at current either have cheap 3B’s who are decent players, or have stellar offensive players in the 3B position who are decent at playing 3B. The perception of a good prospect is there, as good as he was prior in ’04-’06, no, but he’ll always be better than the “standard” of 3B defense.

A lot of GM’s aren’t going after Rolen, because you can limit clubs too two standards either they don’t have the money to fork over to his salary because they are a team who builds from within, or they already have decent defensive 3B-men.

Lets break this down to the teams who are looking at him, the Giants, the Brewers and the Rangers…

Giants, Pedro Feliz, a decent offense and decent fielding, not a horrible player, but an increasing salary. I’m honestly not sure why they are trying for Rolen, but whatever.

Rangers, Ramon Vazquez, he only played 100games last season, but put-up a 230BA, 8HR, 28RBI and 69H, not great but Rolen would be an upgrade offensively, now defense; 46 put outs, a .960 FP, and 123 Assists.. Rolen would be an upgrade in there department in both aspects.

Brewers, Ryan Braun, great offensive player, however probably the worst defensive 3B there was in 2007. Without a doubt. Rolen would be a HUGE defensive bonus to there pitching staff, I’d say somewhere between 5-10 games of winning based upon the poor defense that was present at 3B. 5-10 might be to many so lets keep a range from 1 to 10 games. Rolen would be a definite upgrade in the 3B spot for the Brewers.

However none of us are Baseball GM’s. the club that would benefit the most would be between the Rangers and Brewers. I don’t really see why the Giants are in the running for Rolen unless Feliz’s contract is up but I don’t honestly remember.

Now for the Cardinals… Throw another bullpen pitcher at them, which would benefit there club. That leaves which two candidates back to the Cards, I’d like to see Mench and Capuano, but it all depends on how much of Rolen’s salary we take, the more the better player we could get. So that leaves the Cards without a 3B, with the perception that Ryan would fill it. Also an extra OF, which would we probably trade Duncan, Ankiel and/or Edmonds, to a team needing OF with either hitting, and/or a salary dump for the Cards if we traded Edmonds. Which would also give us some positional players to trade for what we want/need.

More on the Cardinals, even though the Pirates said that Wilson will not be considered in any trade, I’d still like the Cardinals to pursue Wilson and Matty Mo. This would give us 2 SS’s, however would could easily be moved to 2B, and be an upgrade to Kennedy. Also Matty Mo, would add to our SP depth, this would also benefit the Pirates with giving them a young prospect and would benefit Anthony Reyes’ career, I do see Reyes putting up better numbers with any other team other than the Cubs and Cards, our pitching coaches are too stubborn and try to make to many changes to young pitchers.

But that’s enough to gripe about in one comment, I leave this to you guys!