Cafardo On Pujols, Mauer, Holliday, Damon

Actually, Carfardo should be wondering why a RH power hitter would want to play at Fenway, where the HR/game total was worse than Citi Field.

Mauer will be with the New York Yankees. Bank on it.

Somebody should tell Cafardo that Pujols went to high school in Missouri.

http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091029&content_id=7578322&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl

odd that all the teams and supporters of teams that desperately want pujols say that he won't resign even though he says he plans on it.

True enough,purple. Teixeira 'loved' the Angels and hoped to stay; 'loved' his home town Baltimore where he grew up and hoped to play there; 'loved' the idea of being the heart of the Nats as they developed a contending team right near his home town; 'loved' playing in Atlanta near his wife's family; but he loved the money. However, Pujols has been saying he wants to stay home in MO even before Mauer said he wants to stay home in MN. Alot depends on your family, your mind set, the fans, and your agen$.

Of course somebody from Boston thinks Pujols will leave.

catch212,

That's a pointless comment. of course a writer from a big market team is going to state that a player with potential to be a free agent who's going to get big bucks is going to leave their current team. It's just like everyone from New York from the past few years saying how K-rod was going to be a yankee and take over for mo when he retired. Try posting something with a little more substance and not obvious annoying comments. If you have such a problem with it, don't read the sports news.

A-Roid. Never heard that one before.

Damon makes a lot of sense in Chicago, IMO. Put him in as the DH and they could get a .360+ OBP out of the leadoff spot, and the DH spot would probably keep his legs fresh so he could steal 20+ bags. If they can get him on a 1 year deal, he does make a lot of sense.

Damon would most likely sign as a rotating DH wherever he signs. That is probably why he would be a good fit for the Sox, he and Pods would rotate as DH's Lf's and Leadoff hitters. This leaving Rios in center and CQ in RF where his defensive talents will shine the most.

OOPS, ment to say Nix in Rf

Possible lineup wif we get Damon

Pujols isn't leaving. All the other clubs would love to have him and pay him dumb amounts of money, but he don't want to be a big fish in a big pond. Tell me what other club competes year in and year out on the salary the Cardinals do that Pujols can still look like the monster that he is?

i could live with damon at DH if he's willing to DH 90% of the time and sign for less than $10M/yr. You can pencil him in for 20 HR at US cell. Yanks might keep him though.

But were better than the average cubs fan because we have 10 rings. Or was that too cliche?

what about kotchman to the orioles?

coming from a sox fan i could see bay leaving for a crazy contract and then getting outbid for holliday.....then scrambling to find a suitable replacement. i think the outfield could become an issue next year

mateodh,

they would'nt get a ring....

Sorry Jaybuck,

Meant for Dick Loblaw...I mean Bob

"coming from a sox fan i could see bay leaving for a crazy contract and then getting outbid for holliday.....then scrambling to find a suitable replacement. i think the outfield could become an issue next year"

What would the issue be? Refusing to over pay for mediocre players? I'm a Sox fan and if Bay doesn't think 4 years and $60M is enough then I say let him walk. I don't think I even want to get involved in Holliday discussions with Boras trying to claim that he's worth $180M, that is completely absurd. I'd rather the team pack their bags up, take the 3rd place spot in 2010 and come back in 2011 with a bigger, stronger, younger team.

blackcourt - yes i dont think theyll overpay for mediocre players. i really think they need to get holliday...hes a big bat that they need, excellent defender, hes got speed and is a great clubhouse guy.

"Cafardo sees "no downside" to the idea of Holliday patrolling left field in Fenway next season."

Seriously? I guess he missed game 2 of the NLDS. Or maybe he just misses Bill Buckner.

Bob lowblow:
stop talking out of ur butt and realize that atleast in st. Louis we respect our players even when their ice cold. Plus, ur saying that espn analists and MLB players r idiots since we get the hometown discount and they say we known alot about baseball

Of course somebody from Boston thinks Pujols will leave.

Posted by: catch212 | November 01, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Jaybuck:
“Your an idiot... If you need comments on a website to satisfy your needs you are a sad man. All Cardinals fans are is Cubs fans with a ring.”
That has got to be the most pathetic come-back post I ever read…let me guess you’re from Boston. Get a life budy.
Posted by: greg | November 01, 2009 at 05:56 PM

coming from a fan of the red sox and a native bostonian, do people from boston sit here and called you red neck hicks? no, you are the pathetic losers that sit here when your not in your moms basement playing xbox looking for a way to hate on people. you people piss me off more than anything, this sites for talking baseball. not hating, so just shut the hell up, for real. other than that. pujols will stay in st. louis. and thats comming from someone from boston

Bob Loblaw is just jealous that even mark buehrle wants to be a cardinal. If he can say the cardinals are basically the cubs well then what are the White sox because to me they're in the same class as the Orioles,the Pirates or the Mariners which is no knock on them but they certainly aren't the second most successful franchise in MLB history.

"The team drew 2M plus 2001-2006 when they put a winner on the field. What they need is a new ball park. The A's play in a 40+ year old dump better suited for football."

My apologies for that brief spike in A's attendance without looking any up over the years, I would venture that is probably about the only few years that they have ever had any in the history of the club, going from the Connie Mack, to Charlie Finley, to current ownershop period covering from KC to now and nearly 100 years and how many ball parks?

New parks do not make any kind of magical attendance improve, only a cash cow for ownership and a financial burden for the local area and citizens saddled with it.

Most teams that build the things get a short 3-5 year spike at MOST and then resume the dreary attendance and you can check that over the last 20 years with teams that have always drawn well, vs teams that never draw, moving them around like checkers is the same thing to another dismal market, or where there are 2 teams located in a city 50, or even 100-200 miles away usually does no good either and a pathetic market with no base.

Too many teams that cannot support themselves with too few of a fan base and the ones that cannot support themselves all blameining it on a lousy stadium, then after that they move.. Same old story.

Have seen this going on for over 50 years as a fan and the song NEVER changes...

Maybe I need to apologize. Bob Loplaw is a White Sox fan or Cubs fan? He comes off as sounding as brash, arrogant and cocky as most Red Sox fans I've encountered.

And there are plenty of hick Cardinals fans.... If you have ever been there you would know...

huff,

shut the hell up you stupid d bag, you are making your self sound like the sox fans that you hate. how about cocky yankee fans? cocky dodger fans? or how about cocky rays fans? any fan can be cocky. red sox fans are cocky because they can back it up, just as the cardinal fans can. so do us all a favor, quit your bitching and shut up

Bob lowblow,
Prove that cardinal fans are hicks.
Plus, mark McGwire and pujols signed they're contracts they took less money too play for great fans and a competitive ball club

Red Sox future lineup

1. Ellsbury, CF
2. Hanley Ramirez, SS
3. Mauer, C
4. Pujos, 1B
5. Victor Martinez C
6. Youkilis, 3B
7. Matt Holliday, LF
8. Pedroia, 2B
9. Drew,RF

Spencer, can we be a bit realistic here? Nt even the Yankees have that kind of payroll.

It's being allowed by the greed of the players association.

Where’s the skill in this championship from The Yankee$? The Yankee All-Star team bought this win! Why do you Yankee fans think this is good for baseball? Do you actually enjoy buying & stripping the talent from other teams?

The NFL has way passed MLB for profits a long time ago. Google it! Yes the small market city Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl, but can you imagine the small market Pittsburgh Pirates being comparable? Green Bay has won many Super Bowls, can the small-market Milwaukee Brewers be comparable? No way!

IF the NFL ran it like the MLB, imagine the NY Giants:
QB- Drew Brees
RB- Adrian Peterson and Steven Jackson
WR – OchoCinco and Randy Moss.
TE – Jason Witten
Get the idea?!

The NFL is like one big company if you will, that has 32 franchises supporting each other, so that each city can have a marketable team with a good chance to win. The NFL wants ALL of the franchises to succeed. In MLB, each franchise does not care if other fails. That’s the difference. MLB WILL continue to be less popular than the NFL.

The Yank$ will eventually sign Joe Mauer, Albert Pujols, and Zack Greinke with their very deep pocket$ within the next two years. They’ll keep spending to keep winning World Series year after year. So signing and adding Mauer, Pujols, and Greinke to the existing lineup would be good for baseball? No! I have a solution for MLB: keep the top 8 spending teams in each league, and contract the rest.

The Yankee$ will go after Albert Pujols, Joe Mauer, and Greinke within the next two years. Regardless of what these players say, I don't believe in any loyalty anymore in baseball. IF the Yank$ get these three players on top of their current lineup, it will certainly harm baseball...except for the Yankee fan. I can go on and on, but it's pure evil greed and despicable.

Yes the Yankees have the following home grown players in Jeter, Posada, Cano, Melke, Gardner, Andy, Hughes, joba, Rivera.

BUT...BUT they can afford to keep them ALL without losing them to Free Agency. I bet that IF a different franchise were to pay double their salaries t...even Jeter would leave The Yankee$. Problem is...who can afford to pay them, without breaking the bank?

How does a newspaper survive and thrive? Is it the daily subscriptions? Partly, but it’s mostly advertising dollars.

How does a MLB team survive and thrive? Not solely by the wealth of the owner (even if the owner is a Billionaire) and/or ticket sales. It’s advertising and TV dollars!
Steinbrenner really does not have to touch his personal wealth. He has the luxury of gravy dollars from the YES network.

In the mid 1970's Vida Blue was probably THE most dominant left-handed pitcher. Please read on...It's also on Wikepedia:

"In 1976, baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn vetoed an attempt to sell Vida Blue to the New York Yankees and in 1977, Kuhn canceled a proposed trade of Blue to the Cincinnati Reds. In both instances, Kuhn said the trades would be bad for baseball because they would benefit already powerful teams without making them give up any significant talent in return."

1976 World Champion Cincinnati Reds
1977 World Champion NY Yankees

Where have you gone Bowie Kuhn?? Bud Selig is allowing this imbalance!