We can claim that the Cardinals didn't improve or got a little better or worse depending on your viewpoint but they will be there at the end, they always are. It's going to boil down to health, as always. If we can field a major league team for the majority of the season (meaning not throwing minor leaguers/crappy bench players into the fire for way to many games) we have a good shot at being competitive. While there is that chance we as always have a chance to be really horrible due to injuries or just crappy play. There's a lot of downers here right now, but I'm getting kind of excited for the season. Fons, Dlee, Aram all healthy and producing together could be great, add Barrett and the Big Murt hopefully continuing to rise. Looking forward to Wuertz and Wood (hopefully) being filthy in the back end. The starting pitching is muddy but hopefully this is Z's Cy Young year (after a ST extension) the next four... who knows there's always the hope that Prior shows up, the old Prior... Bring on Spring Training, though I'm fully prepared to be out of it by May.