Now that we know the Cardinals have won...lets figure out...

[thedaymen]

the offseason game plan! How will Jimbo over-react to the Cards WS win to try and build next year's roster?

 

I figure he'll look at the Cardinals and see a team with a loudmouth manager (check), one excellent starting pitcher and a bunch of question marks (check), one all world firstbasemen and a bunch of role players and dudes that get injured (check) and a bullpen anchored by a young kid and a bunch of guys nobody's heard of because the closer is hurt.

 

Offseason to do list:

 

1) resign Aramis (role player that gets hurt)

2) sign KW to the bullpen (so he can get hurt)

3) Convery Rich Hill to closer

4) Schedule World Series parade

[Electron Blue]

Aramis Ramirez is a role player?

 

Geoff Blum is a role player.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Weaver and Suppan are who we should target. Post season pitchers, baby!

[Beligol]

Weaver and Suppan are who we should target. Post season pitchers, baby!

 

I don't know.... with the Cubs' luck we would get both of them and the fact that they pitched into the postseason this year would give both of them tired arms next year and they would end up injured by July.

[baseball7897]

Weaver and Suppan are who we should target. Post season pitchers, baby!

 

I don't know.... with the Cubs' luck we would get both of them and the fact that they pitched into the postseason this year would give both of them tired arms next year and they would end up injured by July.

 

Verlander is going to fall in that category. Though I am going to say he will be injured before July.

[rocket]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: drawing a blank

[wekse]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: drawing a blank

 

does it matter? that team will be soo awesome.

[Outshined_One]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: neifi!

 

Fixed.

[Mephistopheles]

put neifi at third and freel at right.

 

or we could go try an reaquire JH JR

[chuckywang]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: drawing a blank

 

Let's plan the parade in Iowa right now!

[Schwarber Fan]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: neifi!

 

Mabry strikes out way too much to be an eckstein type player. Come to think of it though - Theriot is EXACTLY like Eckstein.

[Derwood]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: drawing a blank

 

I have his rookie card

[cubweiser03]

Demote himself and hire Jockety as President and GM?

[rocket]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: neifi!

 

Mabry strikes out way too much to be an eckstein type player. Come to think of it though - Theriot is EXACTLY like Eckstein.

 

i know, but he was in that stupid "mlb white player of the year" contest thing, and i couldn't think of anyone else at 1st base.

[Soul]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: drawing a blank

 

I have his rookie card

 

SOSA!!!!!

[Lefty]

the offseason game plan! How will Jimbo over-react to the Cards WS win to try and build next year's roster?

 

 

Well, I told my seven year-old over the summer that Hendry's plan was to imitate the World Series winner. I had forgotten the conversation.

 

Two nights ago my kid asks me how the Cards won the series. I said that five errors by Tiger pitchers might have been the difference. He said that Hendry would get guys who could ground it to the pitcher. When I realized what he was talking about I cracked up (I was so proud). From the mouths of babes!

[Elrhino]

he'll probably think he can build a team that will hover at .500 and still be good enough to win the world series, so he won't go balls out in getting great players.

 

either that, or he'll go for a team of eckstein type players.

 

1b: john mabry

2b: ryan theriot

3b: ryan freel

ss: david eckstein

c: mike matheny

lf: scott podsednik

cf: darin erstad

rf: matt murton

 

Just because he's a fan favorite doesn't mean it's not true.

[circlechange]

1. Collect underpants

2. ?

3. Win World Series!

[nboldt11]

maybe we should find some players that have class...play with heart...play to win....care more about the team than themselves....find a manager where everything isn't about race (which we've found)....and players that won't blame ghosts and tradition on losing, and just go out and play hard nosed baseball.

 

I don't know, minus the tradition comment, that seems to be what the cardinals did. just play hard...all nine innings.

[David]

Am I really only the second person on this thread wondering in what world Aramis Ramirez is considered a role player?

[goonys evil twin]

Am I really only the second person on this thread wondering in what world Aramis Ramirez is considered a role player?

 

What's to wonder? His role is best hitter on team.

[AllStarMe]

Offseason to do list:

 

1) resign Aramis (role player that gets hurt)

2) sign KW to the bullpen (so he can get hurt)

3) Convery Rich Hill to closer

4) Schedule World Series parade

 

No offense intended, but I don't see any possible way that doing steps 1-3 (and nothing else) will lead to step 4.

 

1) Aramis has been the most productive offensive player we have had since Sammy Sosa. DLee would be close had he not been hurt this year. Even though he got off to a cold start in 06 that hurt the team, he's still one of the pillars of the Cubs lineup. He's missed an average of 20 games each of the last three seasons (and only 5 last year), so his aches and pains are not what's crippled this team.

 

2) The idea behind moving Woody to the pen is to KEEP HIM FROM getting hurt. Let him ease back in and build up arm strength and confidence. Although the track record favors your contention, I think a program of baby steps stands the best chance of getting KW healthy.

 

3) If you move Hill to the pen, where he has very limited experience, that opens up YET another hole in the rotation. There are other options for closer- Dempster may regain his form, or I would go with Weurtz, Ohman, or Woody before I'd consider trying Rich Hill in an unfamiliar role.

 

If the Southsiders winning in 05 didn't put extra pressure on Hendry to win, I doubt the Cards victory would either. Whatever pressure is on him comes from internally due to this teams considerable failings.

[AllStarMe]

1. Collect underpants

2. ?

3. Win World Series!

I didn't see this post before, but

 

yes, exactly.

[goonys evil twin]

Offseason to do list:

 

1) resign Aramis (role player that gets hurt)

2) sign KW to the bullpen (so he can get hurt)

3) Convery Rich Hill to closer

4) Schedule World Series parade

 

No offense intended, but I don't see any possible way that doing steps 1-3 (and nothing else) will lead to step 4.

 

Did you not read the rest of the post? It was sarcastic. Hendry has had a tendency to switch plans following the results of the world series, going for the "good clubhouse" approach after Boston won, and then the "guys who can catch the ball" approach after the White Sox won. It was a tongue-in-cheek analysis of how Hendry would interpret what STL did, and model the Cubs after it.

[Careless]

Am I really only the second person on this thread wondering in what world Aramis Ramirez is considered a role player?

I assumed he meant "position player"