Rolen done for the year?

[KyHen]

One thing that slipped my mind was that the Cards signed Miguel Cairo to a minor league deal; he's going to be called up in September. Unfortunately, he's going probably going to be seeing some of Rolen's at-bats.

[reggiemiller rules]

I'm personally interested in seeing if they give Jarrett Hoffpauir a try. I don't know how realistic that is, but here's what he's done this year:

 

AA - .345 / .420 / OBP / .527 SLG / .947 OPS in 61 games

AAA - .303 / .387 OBP / .427 SLG / .814 OPS in 50 games

 

I guess I'd figure that they'd give Ryan the gig at third base, and then have Miles and Hoffpauir split time at second.

 

In any event, I don't think that Hoffpauir nor Ryan are ready to start full-time yet. I think that La Russa is going to have to do a lot of mix-and-matching with those guys. It will be curious to see when -- if at all -- Spiezio comes back; that would help ease the loss of Rolen.

 

Now granted, as mentioned, Rolen hasn't been very good this year anyway...

 

Oh, and the Hoffpauir thing is complete speculation on my part. I don't know how realistic him coming up is.

 

 

There are many on Cards talk advocating pulling Spezio back from Drug rehab early....yes...the best baseball fans in the World....Stay Classy St. Louis.

I agree with this 100%. Cards Talk is home to the cream of the Cardinal fan crop.

 

I would be shocked if Hoffpauir is the one called up, first he is not on the 40-man so someone would have to be moved off. Second he is on the rosters for the AFL, so I doubt he will be one of the callups. Now the injury to Rolen may change that but I doubt it.

[haltz]

Brian Barden will get a callup probably (well, maybe). Unfortunately, he'll likely be a poor man's version of Rolen 2007.

 

Rolen was having a super year defensively, even by his standards. Being on pace for 34 UZR runs at the ASB makes that 91 OPS+ a little easier to swallow.

 

They should just get crazy and put Pujols over there, and call up Bozied or move Duncan to first or something. But Albert's obviously hobbling around as it is and that wouldn't happen anyway.

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[haltz]

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[SouthSideRyan]

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