Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Recently, Tony LaRussa made some waves in the space where a team's closer is important. He said former Card's ace, Chris Carpenter. Now the St. Louis Dispatch reports the team is looking to offer one of it's surplus outfielders for a power, closer-type bullpen arm. The paper also relays that LaRussa is also open to converting a veteran starter to the closer role. Man, the Cardinals seem to really be...
View from the cheap seats (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Next week is apparently the week we have all been waiting for.Ace pitcher Chris Carpenter is to visit a doctor who will check his progress in recovering from a nerve condition in his pitching arm. It is the result of...
Beyond the Boxscore (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
If you take a recent piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at face value, Tony LaRussa is looking at three candidates for closer in 2009. W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP 2008 - Chris Carpenter 0-1 4 3 0 0 0 0 15.1 16 5 3 0 4 7 1.76 1.30 2008 - Jason Motte 0-0 12 0 0 0 1 0 11.0 5 2 1 0 3 16 0.82 .73 2008 - Chris Perez 3-3 41 0 0 0 7 4 41.2 34 18 16 5 22 42 3.46 1.34 Motte is a converted...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Still looking for a closer, the St. Louis Cardinals might consider turning to oft-injured ace Chris Carpenter next season.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Still looking for a closer, the St. Louis Cardinals might consider turning to oft-injured ace Chris Carpenter next season.
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
More La Russa: (1) He doesn't believe it's smart to count on Chris Carpenter returning to full health to start 30 or more games in '09; (2) TLR would consider using Carpenter as the closer if that's best for Carpenter; 01/03/2009 - The 2009 Cardinals Closer?
USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
It is overly simplistic to say a healthy Chris Carpenter means a World Series for the Cardinals. It is not overselling Carpenter's importance, though, to say that if he returns to full health, a good St. Louis rotation perhaps becomes a playoff-level rotation.
WaitingForNextYear (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The picture above is from today’s Plain Dealer. Terry Pluto, Bud Shaw and a fan named Chris Carpenter took a good portion of the front page, as well as A15 to discuss what the main issues are with this franchise. It’s definitely worth a read - you can find it here. When I think of the [...]
View from the cheap seats (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
The St. Louis media claims that the Cardinals may look for a closer now that they believe Chris Carpenter will be healthy enough to start spring training on time and that they are content to keep Adam Kennedy at second...
View from the cheap seats (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
The Cardinals have announced that Chris Carpenter is showing significant improvement of the nerve problem that ended his season in 2008 and which threatens his career.Supposedly the team ace, who has pitched just more than 20 innings over the last...
View from the cheap seats (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
From the wild hare rumor department:KSD radio reported this morning that when Chris Carpenter had his nerve tests done on his pitching arm yesterday he was accompanied to the doctors office by (drumroll, please) Walt Jocketty.What'I can't possibly believe that...
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
According to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter had a nerve conduction test yesterday. The team will learn the results today, and if they're concerned they could target an additional starter for 2009. Given this uncertainty, the Cardinals' decision not to offer arbitration to Braden Looper seems strange. Elsewhere on John Mozeliak's agenda, Joe Strauss says...
Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
One of the game’s best pitchers when healthy, Chris Carpenter is hoping to return to form in 2009 after making only four appearances over the past two seasons due to a fragile right arm. Signed by the Cardinals in December 2002 after six seasons in Toronto, Carpenter missed the 2003 campaign due to a torn labrum [...]
Trends (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Google Cash Author: Paul Guyon Google Cash, by Chris Carpenter, is an e-Book that describes how to use Google Adwords to promote affiliate products and services for profit. It was first released in 2003. In Affiliate Marketing a merchant pays an affiliate (you) to generate sales using a button, banner, a link on your website, email, newsletter, or pay-per-click ad. There are thousands of merchants...
Was Watching (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
A great stat from Tyler Kepner - Of the 27 World Series starters for the last seven champions, only two — Chris Carpenter and Jeff Suppan of the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals — came to their team through major league free agency. Fourteen were acquired through trades, eight through the draft, two on the international market [...]
