This list looks pretty good–most of these extension are both player and team friendly. Nowhere near as ugly as the high profile free agent signings over the past 5 years.
Mario Saavedra
I’m expecting Gonzo to pull of a Cliff Lee, and sign with the Pads for 5 years and 100-120 MM.
Gunner65
2011 Pujols farewell tour will officially begin opening day lol
stl_cards16
Too bad it won’t be the Reds pitching he can tee-off on again opening day.
Gunner65
Still bitter about last season’s big fade? lol
stl_cards16
Not at all, last year is gone, it’s a new season. It’s highly unlikely(even without Wainwright) that the Cardinals will perform as poorly against the bottom of the division as they did last year. Bottom line, the Reds better figure out a way to compete with the Cardinals head to head, or the Birds could be back in the playoffs.
PhnxCrew
the talent level between the reds/brewers and the cards isn’t close. The cards get max performance out of their players yearly and struggled above .500 last year in a very weak division. The opening series in cincy will feature the two teams battling for the central the whole season.
Gunner65
Yeah I remember those same kind of dreams about how the Cards were gonna rebound in the 2nd half and cruise past the Reds and into playoffs as usual. Same hopes for the 2011 with no basis. The real bottom line is the Reds are young, improving and have a pipe line of minor league talent that we’ll be able to tap into when our players get too expensive and start being traded off. Cards are mostly an old/aging team with little in minors past their top 2-3 prospects. I feel a lot more optimistic about the Reds repeating and improving on results from 2010 than I do the Cards reversing their fortunes … and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see the Cards fail to break .500. If I were a Cards fan I’d be a lot more worried about Carpenter breaking down at 36 years of age & the Pujols thing becoming a season long media distraction
mattt-3
The Wainwright situation is interesting, because with 2 years/21M left is basically going to be paid to him to rehab most of that time. The Cardinals could decline options on him and make him a free agent after this season (which I doubt they’ll do), but of course anyone signing him would be signing him to still rehab him (since it seems to really take about 18 mos. for someone to get back to full strength) and they’d be hoping he came back to what he was.
Usually pitchers do come back to what they were, at least as far as I can tell, but how many teams would be willing to give him more than a 2 year deal on the chance he might never be the same?
Having said all that, my guess is that the Cardinals will try to work out an extension next off-season that will extend Wainwright 2-3 years beyond his current contract for what will be a high price if he fails to come back 100% but a discount for an ace starter.
JacksTigers
Damn
lefty177
Shouldn’t it be the past 3 years for Curtis Granderson? I just looked at Baseball-Reference and 2007 was his best year and that’s 3 years ago
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Pawsdeep
This list looks pretty good–most of these extension are both player and team friendly. Nowhere near as ugly as the high profile free agent signings over the past 5 years.
Mario Saavedra
I’m expecting Gonzo to pull of a Cliff Lee, and sign with the Pads for 5 years and 100-120 MM.
Gunner65
2011 Pujols farewell tour will officially begin opening day lol
stl_cards16
Too bad it won’t be the Reds pitching he can tee-off on again opening day.
Gunner65
Still bitter about last season’s big fade? lol
stl_cards16
Not at all, last year is gone, it’s a new season. It’s highly unlikely(even without Wainwright) that the Cardinals will perform as poorly against the bottom of the division as they did last year. Bottom line, the Reds better figure out a way to compete with the Cardinals head to head, or the Birds could be back in the playoffs.
PhnxCrew
the talent level between the reds/brewers and the cards isn’t close. The cards get max performance out of their players yearly and struggled above .500 last year in a very weak division. The opening series in cincy will feature the two teams battling for the central the whole season.
Gunner65
Yeah I remember those same kind of dreams about how the Cards were gonna rebound in the 2nd half and cruise past the Reds and into playoffs as usual. Same hopes for the 2011 with no basis. The real bottom line is the Reds are young, improving and have a pipe line of minor league talent that we’ll be able to tap into when our players get too expensive and start being traded off. Cards are mostly an old/aging team with little in minors past their top 2-3 prospects. I feel a lot more optimistic about the Reds repeating and improving on results from 2010 than I do the Cards reversing their fortunes … and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see the Cards fail to break .500. If I were a Cards fan I’d be a lot more worried about Carpenter breaking down at 36 years of age & the Pujols thing becoming a season long media distraction
mattt-3
The Wainwright situation is interesting, because with 2 years/21M left is basically going to be paid to him to rehab most of that time. The Cardinals could decline options on him and make him a free agent after this season (which I doubt they’ll do), but of course anyone signing him would be signing him to still rehab him (since it seems to really take about 18 mos. for someone to get back to full strength) and they’d be hoping he came back to what he was.
Usually pitchers do come back to what they were, at least as far as I can tell, but how many teams would be willing to give him more than a 2 year deal on the chance he might never be the same?
Having said all that, my guess is that the Cardinals will try to work out an extension next off-season that will extend Wainwright 2-3 years beyond his current contract for what will be a high price if he fails to come back 100% but a discount for an ace starter.
JacksTigers
Damn
lefty177
Shouldn’t it be the past 3 years for Curtis Granderson? I just looked at Baseball-Reference and 2007 was his best year and that’s 3 years ago