The Holtonian

Lets Repeat Cardinals!

Look at Anna-Kate's reaction to the Cards winning the WS...

Now the fun part begins, the off season, oddly enough the stove is my favorite part of baseball. It kind of reminds me when i used to play with toys growing up, my favorite part was setting up this epic battle between GI Joe and Cobra, or the Ninja Turtles and the Foot clan, or the Lego cops and the towns folk, or the Union army soldiers vs my gerble. But I loved setting up the battle, or the situation, but then I just wanted to leave it alone, I liked the setup but didn't really want to "play out" the rest. Same way with the stove, I like seeing how the teams line up, who goes after who and all the bargaining and positioning. OK, let me rephrase, the WS was the best part, but now I'm interested to see in what direction the cards go.

Because, frankly they have a bit of a interesting situation. Suppan, Weaver??, Mulder, Marquis, Edmonds, what do they do with these guys. I'm hoping in some ways Edmonds gets healthy in the off season and the cards do right and give him a contract that will allow him to retire a red bird. Suppan has a few good years left in him and was great down the stretch and frankly is always a good double digit win pitcher. Mulder... if he'll take a deal like Morris did a few years ago and stay for less money and work on rehabing himself then that'd be great. The thing is people know his potential and the fact that he's a lefty might give him the chance to go some where else and make more even though he probably won't start the season. Marquis, I think the cards are done, the post season sort of seemed to seal his fate. He's too unpredictable and the two best pitching coaches in the MLB couldn't do anything with him so he's gotta go and probably will. I'm not sure what kind of deal weaver has, if he's on contract or how many years are left, but he actually is the highest paid pitcher on the cardinals, which is kind of funny.

But man, the starting 5 could be pretty impressive next year, Carp, Weaver, Sup (hopefully), Reyes, and Wainright/maybe Mulder. That'd be pretty cool. The outfield needs work, and I'd let Belliard go, he makes too much for too little.

I want Soriano, we need a second basemen and a power hitter, he wants to play second, match made in heaven. Plus he's fast, that'd work perfect for Larussa's small ball action. Or an outfielder who can hit for power. I'd say Shefield but he's a punk and obnoxious. Andruw Jones is on the table but the price is too high. Frankly the cards need to sign a few free agents to long term deals, like they did with Rolen and Ecstein, guys they know will be good for a while and that we'll have to pay for but will be worth it, like those two have been.

But I think this person will be the next Cardinal outfielder....

I'm not thinking a repeat, no team has done that in quite sometime, but hey they won my WS and so now I can be content with just a competitve team year in year out. Granted a few more WS would be nice.

Posted by holtonian at October 28, 2006 07:26 PM | TrackBack