Cardinals Have Flexible Payroll

3 million in annual attendance at busch stadium care about the cardinals big guy.

Anyways I think the Cardinals should make a bid on Lowe or Sheets for some stability in the rotation.

More affirmation that La Russa has no faith in his youngsters. Hard-throwing relievers Chris Perez and Jason Motte are chomping at the bit in the St. Louis bullpen, yet their manager thinks he'll get more out of a 33-year-old who has spent over a year dealing with shoulder problems.

This Chris Perez and Jason Motte aren't ready crap is getting annoying. If I were a Cardinals fan, I'd be livid right now. Seriously. Give. Them. A. GD. Shot. And. Find. Out.

Oh, and if Carpenter isn't in the rotation, that rotation is pretty damn weak. Lohse is going to regress. The Cards need another SP anyways....if the payroll is flexible, could Ben Sheets be in the mix?

for the wannabe spelling bee wiz the correct spelling is.....Pujols not pooholes. i think the cards should sign Ohman & Lowe Sheets is to much of a health risk, or the cards could trade Ankiel for a SP & sign Ohman.

"Oh, and if Carpenter isn't in the rotation, that rotation is pretty damn weak. Lohse is going to regress."

The rotation will still have Wainwright and Wellemeyer, and loshe was 2-0 with an ERA of 3 in 2 september starts...I wouldnt call that regressing especially for a guy who is 30 years old.

Lets be relistic about things here the Cardinals like to tease people by saying they are going to go after good players when they never really do. The cardinals are cheap, Why go out and spend money on players when they know the idiot fans are still going to fill the stadium. 3 million every year. LOL Think about it, were all suckers.

IVDOWN:

every blown save does not equal a loss...there are times when there were 2 blown saves in one game, or we actually came back to win a blown save game after giving up the lead late. I cant remember how many games we lost out of the blown saves though.

Just because the Cardinals havent spent stupid money on guys like fuentes doesnt mean they didnt do something big this offseason, they filled holes at Short and in the pen without spending alot of money or giving up alot of players. The Cardinals are not the typical $100 million team, they dont have one or two big money players, they have a managment style to spend what they want on players not what agents like scott boras want for them.

IVDOWN:

every blown save does not equal a loss...there are times when there were 2 blown saves in one game, or we actually came back to win a blown save game after giving up the lead late. I cant remember how many games we lost out of the blown saves though.

Posted by: dave | January 03, 2009 at 12:18 PM

I realize that. I was just showing how much impact those blown saves had. Obviously they didnt lose all the game they had a blown save, and obviously Lidge wouldnt have been able to close out all of those games, but it would have been a much higher win total if the Cards had a good closer last season.

Pujols was a cardinals draft pick dude.

Haha what? I seriously hope you are joking about the Cubs having traded Pujols to the Cardinals. He isn't Lou Brock you know. Not to mention they could spend $5MM more to add to their bench and finish in 2nd if Carp is healthy. With any sort of closer they could challenge the Cubs.

Pujols wont be a redbird after contract, probably traded

Posted by: imbev | January 03, 2009 at 12:46 PM

Very very doubtful.

If you guys need a LH closer, BJ Ryan is available if JP Ricciardi is "blown" away. Quite frankly, I doubt BJ has much trade value considering Fuentes' contract, but if the Cards want to throw Chris Perez our way to have a "proven" (and by that I mean expensive) closer, by all means...

if jody gerut is one of your best 3 players you are alreadt fd. pujols will be on the red sox in a couple of years. could justify paying him. will the cardinals even finish 3rd in the central?

The Cardinals will resign pujols because he is the franchise and fans would be pissed if he was allowed to even get close to his free agent year. If it costs 30 mil a year they will resign him. And as far as the central goes, who else besides the Cubs are going to be a good team? The astros maybe if they get decient pitching behind Oswalt and the Brewers have almost no rotation.

"pujols will be on the red sox in a couple of years."

The Cardinals will re-sign Pujols, DeWitt knows it would be a disaster if he doesn't.

pujols looks like the best bargain going at over 100 million(crazy but) you dont think he will bend cardinals management over knowing he was a bargain for 7 years and it will cripple the franchise at 30 million

I know not seeing a championship won by your pathetic super choke artist chicago team in your entire life (and probably wontin your entire lifetime) hurts you gunsnascar.. thats a clever name by the way, did you get it frum your pa? But the truth is the cubs could have a team consisting of 1000 albert pujols's and it wouldnt help them. my advice to you is to go watch the white sox play, and have somthing to cheer for.

cards win the division with 97 wins.

And AndrewBeavs...same goes for you. Are you guys both 14?

hey gunsnascar you got some really good original jokes you should try getting a gig in wrigleyville or boystown, they basically run together.
come on really you keep making the same joke about "cards fans like it in the pooholes" you can't think of anything else. that's a hypocritical joke considering the location of the 2 neighborhoods in chicago. oh and wrigley field, the oldest or the 2nd oldest stadium (who really cares it's a poohole), was around before boys town so i wonder why they moved to that certin location