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Cardinals Practice Patience
Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes that the St. Louis Cardinals are taking a patient approach to the free agent market. Cardinals management is being cautious after making offers early in the offseason that didn't receive much response.
That status stands for free agent closer Brian Fuentes, who had an offer from the Cardinals before the franchise pulled it. Goold notes that the Los Angeles Angels have become suitors for Fuentes.
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of course they are, the yankees are taking everyone, the whole mlb community is practicing patience
Posted by: 04Forever | December 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM
04forever
Yea boy dats right the Yankees stole Mark Teixeira right out from under the Red Sox Xmas tree. I bet you wouldnt be saying that the Yanks are taking ev1 if BOS signed Mark now would ya?
Posted by: mikelovesbaseball94 | December 24, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Ok This is starting to get to be a pain in the a$$. "mikelovesbaseball94" ok the Yanks got Tex. I'm happy for yas. Really i am but yank fans that come on here and start shooting off it gets old. People like you just doesnt even want me to write on this site anymore. I Just dont get it anymore on how that makes you "happy". Shooting off to people that you probably haven't met before. Like do you really like Drama that much?
Posted by: Larsen101 | December 24, 2008 at 10:55 AM
It's typical Yankee fan B.S. like they had something to do with ANYONE getting signed.Blah blah blah mikelovesbaseball94 needs to practice a little humbleness but he won't because his team has more money than yours =P now for the real reason I wanted to post here....ANGELS sign a damn bat and let Fuentes be we don't need a reliever we need a starter and 2 big bats!
Posted by: Thundah77 | December 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM
With the addition of Greene and the resigning of Lohse it doesn't look like the Cardinals are making much progress this winter. Greene could be a nice addition for them or he could end up a bust, at least they didn't have to give up much for him. Lohse is what he is and I can't help but feel they overpaid for him. If Milwaukee doesn't become active and spend some money after they lost their top two startes and the Cardinals don't add anything more significant the Greene I have to think the Cubs are sitting pretty in '09. Even if the Cubs don't add the left-handed bat they're looking for I don't see how anyone else in the division can compete with them. Possibly the Reds as a darkhorse but even they have too many holes I think to be taken seriously as contenders, especially when the Cubs were as good as they were in '08 and haven't taken any backwards steps yet. Tough to see how anyone else can win the Central without some type of collapse in Chicago.
Posted by: pageian | December 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM
The cards should be a big market team. Pujols will be a Red Sox when he's a free Agent.
Posted by: whitesox4life | December 24, 2008 at 12:11 PM
I bet you wouldn't be saying that the Yankees signed everyone if they hadn't signed those guys!
Posted by: plh903 | December 24, 2008 at 12:35 PM
of course they are, the yankees are taking everyone, the whole mlb community is practicing patience
Posted by: 04Forever | December 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM
The Cardinals weren't gonna sign any of those guys that the Yankees did, so the Yankees have nothing to do with the Cardinals being patient.
Posted by: CardinalFaninIL | December 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM
The reason the Cardinals are being patient is because they know they will sell tickets without spending money. The ownership has taken a step back after winning in 06' and don't plan on spending any major cash anytime soon. They have eaten most of the money they spent in the last few years anyway. Mulder, Carpenter's extension, Edmonds' extension, Izzy's extension. Most of the players on the team make squat anyway. Molina doesn't even make $1 million a year. I see many of the current Cards jumping ship for more money when their free agency comes up.
Posted by: Tony | December 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Tony:
Yadier Molina '08 Salary: $1,812,500
....
Mikelovesbaseaball94:
You realize your last WS win right? 2000?
Teams to have more current WS wins.
'01 D'Backs
'02 Angels
'03 Marlins
'04 & '07 BoSox
'05 ChiSox
'06 Cardinals
'08 Philly
Sad really, in all those years the Yankees payroll was also higher. Shocking, it really is. Until you have a 'year' instead of saying this is your 'year' stay off this blog, and try to stay credible to other people. You only make Yankees fans look worse.
Whitesox4life:
I doubt to see Albert leave the St. Louis area, I think he will take whatever discounts possible to stay away from those 'big-market' teams. Its the whole big-fish in the pond theory. A-rod, big-fish in an ocean of NYC, Pujols big-fish in a pond of attention. Don't get me wrong, he has the possibility to leave, I really hope he doesn't. Not to mention all the programs he's involved with in the STL area... my god, the man is considered self-less in this area.
....
Now on to the patience thing... I think its better for the cardinals. We could potentially see Kyle Lohse type signing last year (not his big 4 year deal, that I have a feeling we will be dreading for 3 years). Sign him for 1 year deal of $4mill-ish, its worked in our favor before, why not now? (This assumption excludes extensions)
Posted by: melharts | December 24, 2008 at 03:25 PM
This what i hate about dewallet and Mo they both dont do much to help fans, if the cardinals dont resign pujols in 2011 then fans will get into a mob and litterally kill Dewitt and Mo.
Posted by: Cardinals master fan | December 31, 2008 at 04:59 PM