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Cardinals Rumors: Hudson, Lopez, Kennedy
The Cardinals have moved on from Matt Holliday for the time being; let's see what else is cooking. Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the latest. Middle infield seems to be the primary concern now.
One option is to pursue a trade for Kelly Johnson or Yunel Escobar of the Braves, but that will probably require Ryan Ludwick. However, those talks must wait until the Braves resolve their chase of Jake Peavy.
On the free agent front, the Cardinals are interested in Orlando Hudson but not Felipe Lopez. Scott Boras seems to be aiming for a multiyear deal for Lopez.
Adam Kennedy wants out of St. Louis, and the D'Backs may be interested. GM John Mozeliak is said to be reluctant to eat a "significant piece" of Kennedy's $4MM. The D'Backs barely seem willing to spend that amount on Randy Johnson.
The bullpen is the other concern, but Trevor Hoffman is apparently not on the radar.
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Say what you want about Adam Kennedy's disappearing bat, he is a defensive genius at 2B and that has to be worth something.
Posted by: AA | November 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM
His defensive numbers were very much down last year.
Posted by: CubbyFan23 | November 10, 2008 at 04:23 PM
I'll admit that he is good at 2B but anymore defense is not a priority on the Cardinals.
Maybe they will go after Escobar. I would much rather trade Luddy for him than Holliday just for the reason that the Cardinals need someone at SS.
Posted by: Cardinals Fan Forever | November 10, 2008 at 04:32 PM
Good, now the Cardinals can actually concentrate on areas that they actually need to improve.
Posted by: Cardsfan387 | November 10, 2008 at 04:48 PM
Kennedy's +/- was among the best in baseball
Posted by: AA | November 10, 2008 at 11:51 PM
the cards front office is a joke we dont need 2 trade our young talent we supposedly have over 30 million 2 spend and that would just bring us up 2 what our salary was last year we need 2 do as most other teams do and raise payroll as they raise ticket prices the front office doesnt care because we will still bring over 3.5 million in fans just like we do every year also trade kennedy and pineiro thats another ten million off the books and theyre both free agents after this coming year that would be over 40 million 2 spend if we dont increase payroll burnett fuentes furcal hudson thats prob 35 million a year and look u cheap asses still have 5 mill 2 hord come on dewitt and mozeliak do something for us for a change not just for ur pockets we deserve it sincerely diehard stl cards fan
Posted by: dfresh | November 15, 2008 at 05:24 PM