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November 18, 2009 - St. Louis sportswriter Jeff Gordon reacts to the news that both Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright were passed over for the Cy Young award in favor of 15 game winner Tim Linececum. View full size photo » before i get into discussion, i would like to say that I do not believe that the bullpen is the biggest issue for the cards in 2010. last season, there was much kvetching...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
More photos » by Al Behrman - ASSOCIATED PRESS about 1 month ago: St. Louis Cardinals starter John Smoltz (30) in action against the Cincinnati Reds in a baseball game, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman) Browse more photos » A few days ago, Ken Rosenthal and Jon Morosi over at Foxsports.com wrote that there are 7 teams interested in signing John Smoltz this...
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
by David J. Phillip - AP Will the Hawk be back in Houston? View full size photo » We already covered the basics of the reliever market with Jose Valverde 's profile, so I thought the most illuminating thing to do with Hawkins is to see which teams might actually need a closer this winter. That, of course, is going to be the difference in him signing for 5-7 million and 2-3 million. Hawkins has...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
More photos » by Mark J. Terrill - AP Mark Loretta? REALLY?!?!?!?!!!!! Browse more photos » This year Ryan Franklin was an enigma. Thanks to a nifty .269 BABIP (compared to a league average of .300) and an 85.7 strand rate (compared to a league average of 70%), his production was far better than you would expect based off of his peripheral statistics. His ERA was excellent at 1.92; however,...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
St. Louis Cardinals Reliever Ryan Franklin enjoys an off-season snowstorm while vacationing at the War Drobe Mountain Lodge in Spare Oom, Colorado on November 8, 2009. View full size photo » just like i can't get used to christmas carols at the grocery store before thanksgiving, the MAJOR LEAGUE DRAMA of WHERE WILL HE SIGN? is starting to get goddamn old. and there's still a week left before...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
You shoulda come to the first party—we didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days... View full size photo » There's no new news, which means it's time we go over some old news: the decision to sign Ryan Franklin to a multi-year extension stipulating that he was not allowed to record another out in 2009. That particular clause was the main problem with the...
Baseball Digest Daily (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
For an offseason weekend with a team already out of the playoffs, there have been some seismic shakes going on in St. Louis. First, the relatively expected news that Tony LaRussa will be back at the helm of the Cardinals for his 15th season with the Redbirds. One report indicated that it would be a multi-year deal, but as always TLR will take it year by year and decide whether he wants to return or...
SportsProf (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It seems like many of the pundits are favoring the Yankees. There appear to be three main reasons for this: 1) the Yankees pitching is better than the Phillies from top to bottom; 2) the Yankees' hitting is formidable; and 3) the Yankees are very hot at home and have the home field advantage. All are good reasons. That said, the Phillies played well on the road this year and in Yankee Stadium. Their...
Baseball Digest Daily (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As you know, there aren’t many things going on right now that are Cardinal related. So you have to pick out the small nuggets that are around and blow them up into talkable topics. Thankfully, I’m a blogger. That’s my job, that’s what I do. For example, there’s a story up at the Post-Dispatch site that the bullpen next year will be pretty similar to what it was this year....
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I think we, as a community of worriers, are relatively pat about the offense—if anything bad were to happen, be it Pujols missing a chunk of time; Rasmus continuing to be Ramos; or the Cardinals seriously going into the 2010 season with Skip Schumaker and Allen Craig dueling for the chance to be the team's fourth best hitter, it would come as a terrible shock. But the pitchers... well, they were...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
More photos » by Rob Carr - AP At this exact moment, the Dodgers still had the lead last night. Browse more photos » If there is one trend this postseason, it might be the blown save. Jonathan Broxton was the latest to fall victim to it, last night, as Jimmy Rollins smoked a two-run double to turn a potential tied series into a commanding 3-1 series lead. But Broxton is not alone this October....
Red Reporter (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
More photos » by Al Behrman - AP Owings home run off of Ryan Franklin to tie the game on Mother's Day was one of the biggest highlights of this past season. Too bad the Reds still lost the game. Browse more photos » I'm going to try to do something new to pass the time this off-season. Every Friday I will make a new top 5 list on a different topic. We'll see where it leads or if I'll stick...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
More photos » by Tom Gannam - AP Yep, that's right. Jeff Fucking Weaver. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) Browse more photos » The worst part was I really believed in this team. I'm actually of two minds, really; the analyst side of me, the part that studies the game and writes about it for a living, never honestly thought this team a legitimate title contender. I always said the offense was undependable...
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Brian Fuentes has yet to blow up : Jonathan Papelbon has lots of time to refine his Riverdance after giving it up to the Angels in Game 3. Huston Street had two out in the ninth and couldn't finish the Phillies. Joe Nathan, who usually dismisses school, got his own bell rung by Alex Rodriguez. Ryan Franklin thought he had notched a save for the Cardinals, but a swarm of white towels in Dodger Stadium...
Sportsviews (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Q. What do the four bounced playoff teams have in common'A. Each of the teams suffered a devastating loss because their closer who was stellar in the regular season blew up in the ninth inning. Cardinals vs. Dodgers Game 2: Ryan Franklin gets two outs in the ninth only to watch Matt Holliday boot a fly ball. Franklin then implodes walking the next batter Blake, giving up the tying hit to Ronnie Belliard,...
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