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I like that matchup. Matsuzaka is a wildcard who could be their number ace and Z likely bests him no matter what he does. Hill and Papelbon are in the same boat as far as potential and Prior and Beckett both have similar question with Prior's ceiling being higher and Beckett's likelyhood to reach his ceiling being better.

Zambrano, Hill and Lilly. Prior if you want to take the rist to either win it by a lot or lose it by a lot. If you lose because Prior is injured you have a great built in Dustyesque excuse.

Yeah but I'll have another off the waiver wire by the all star break. Not if I have anything to say about it :P But yeah, although saves are my weakness, I have backup closers in Wheeler, Duchscherer, and possibly Wainwright. So hopefully Lidge implodes. Does it make me a bad person to want Trevor Hoffman to tear his rotator cuff?

Wade Miller isn't going to do this. He might not but it's still too early to say so definitively. He still has the ability to get out ML hitters. There's no reason to believe that he won't continue to improve with rehab... That's not to say that it will work out with he and the Cubs because I don't see a spot for him. Fair enough.

Wade Miller isn't going to do this.

Yeah but I'll have another off the waiver wire by the all star break.

Yes.

C - Joe Mauer 1B - Justin Morneau 2B - Brandon Phillips 3B - Eric Chavez SS - Felipe Lopez OF - Torii Hunter OF - Josh Willingham OF - Dave Roberts Util - Paul Konerko BN - Chris Burke (2B, OF) BN - Conor Jackson (1B) BN - Rich Aurilla (1B, SS, 2B, 3B) SP - Johan Santana SP - Aaron Harang RP - BJ Ryan RP - Cla Meredith P - Ervin Santana P - Pedro Martinez P - Anthony Reyes P - Livan Hernendez P - Kiko Calero

We actually have a weirdly mirrored discussion about this here: http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14059&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

When did this discussion move to Trevor Hoffman? From the Stl Post-Dispatch's Cardinals beat writer's blog a few months back (there is also a bit about Sean Marshall's curve in there that I will highlight):

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/index.php The reception won't be much different. By all means! Go ahead and ruin us some k/inning low walk guys with the (by some stat guy who I am too drunk to remember's calculation) most effective change up in the National League. By all means.

Was he healthy all season last year? Yeah. He has progressed from 19 starts/111 innings to 24 starts/142 innings to 30 starts/169.1 innings in the three years in the organization. Last year he seemed to lose some velocity towards the end. I'm not sure how much can be attributed to fatigue and how much can be attributed to his increased use of a two-seam fastball. I think both, but fatigue had the largest part of it, especially considering his velocity and life during the Game 1 Series performance after having only pitched 4 innings in the previous 2 weeks.

That's likely to look better than his pitching stats though. Heh, true. I was somewhat joking though. He is a good hitter for a pitcher and really athletic. He had a bad all around year last year.

But he's also 2-2 with a double and a run scored. Last year he went .179/.210/.256. Don't get all excited.

C – Ramon Hernandez 1B – Carlos Delgado 2B – Dan Uggla SS – Hanley Ramirez 3B – Miguel Cabrera OF – Vladimir Guerrero OF – Gary Sheffield OF – Magglio Ordonez Util – Nomar Garciaparra BN – Josh Willingham BN – Jim Edmonds BN – Conor Jackson SP – Roy Oswalt SP – Scott Kazmir RP – Joe Nathan RP – Chad Cordero P – Bronson Arroyo P – Anibal Sanchez P – Jon Garland P - Chad Billingsley P – Dan Wheeler P – Homer Bailey

We could call it the "I wish I was a pitching coach: the Baseball7897 story" or maybe the "those who can't do, teach thread."

Awww, friends again. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/C68741F1FAEDE4638625728C00176FA2?OpenDocument

His arm injury history is troubling.

When is this becoming a league?

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If Prior regained '03 form, I would not be worried about the Cubs winning the division http://static.flickr.com/97/237578308_789fe99872.jpg

That was my debate.

1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) Derrek Lee 1-12) Chris Carpenter 2-1) David Wright 2-2) Lance Berkman 2-3) Grady Sizemore 2-4) David Ortiz 2-5) Vladimir Guerrero 2-6) Manny Ramirez 2-7) Mark Teixeira 2-8) Travis Hafner 2-9) Derek Jeter 2-10) Carlos Lee 2-11) Matt Holliday 2-12) Carlos Zambrano 3-1) Jake Peavy 3-2) Aramis Ramirez 3-3) Justin Morneau 3-4) Joe Mauer 3-5) Paul Konerko 3-6) Miguel Tejada 3-7) Jason Bay 3-8) Hanley Ramirez 3-9) Jimmy Rollins 3-10) Roy Halladay 3-11) Brandon Webb 3-12) Dan Haren 4-1) Garrett Atkins 4-2) Ichiro 4-3) Vernon Wells 4-4) Brian McCann 4-5) Roy Oswalt 4-6) Felix Hernandez 4-7) Ben Sheets 4-8) Bobby Abreu 4-9) Jeremy Bonderman 4-10) Andruw Jones 4-11) Victor Martinez 4-12) Jermaine Dye 5-1) Michael Young 5-2) Robby Cano 5-3) Rafael Furcal 5-4) Francisco Rodriguez 5-5) Bill Hall 5-6) Cole Hamels 5-7) Brian Roberts 5-8) Joe Nathan 5-9) Adam Dunn 5-10) Ryan Zimmerman 5-11) Carlos Guillen 5-12) Chone Figgins 6-1) Daisuke Matsuzaka 6-2) Jim Thome 6-3) John Lackey 6-4) B.J. Ryan 6-5) Carlos Delgado 6-6) Billy Wagner 6-7) Rocco Baldelli 6-8) Rich Hill 6-9) Troy Glaus 6-10) Justin Verlander 6-11) Aaron Harang 6-12) John Smoltz 7-1) Ian Kinsler 7-2) Johnny Damon 7-3) Mariano Rivera 7-4) Jered Weaver 7-5) Huston Street 7-6) Brett Myers 7-7) Matt Cain 7-8) Scott Kazmir 7-9) Curt Schilling 7-10) Felipe Lopez 7-11) Hideki Matsui 7-12) Nick Swisher 8-1) Bobby Jenks 8-2) Jason Schmidt 8-3) Rickie Weeks 8-4) C.C. Sabathia 8-5) Dan Uggla 8-6) Juan Pierre 8-7) JJ Putz 8-8) Randy Johnson 8-9) Howie Kendrick 8-10) Rich Harden 8-11) Prince Fielder 8-12) Michael Barrett 9-1) Brad Lidge 9-2) Chris Young 9-3) Chipper Jones 9-4) Jeff Francoeur 9-5) Pat Burrell 9-6) Scott Rolen 9-7) Erik Bedard 9-8) Gary Sheffield 9-9) Trevor Hoffman 9-10) Richie Sexson 9-11) Barry Zito 9-12) Dontrelle Willis 10-1) Todd Helton 10-2) Takashi Saito 10-3) Mike Piazza 10-4) Delmon Young 10-5) Chad Cordero 10-6) Josh Beckett 10-7) AJ Burnett 10-8) Jonathan Papelbon 10-9) Tom Gordon 10-10) Julio Lugo 10-11) Barry Bonds 10-12) Corey Patterson 11-1) Chad Tracy 11-2) JD Drew 11-3) Francisco Cordero 11-4) Ervin Santana 11-5) Chris Ray 11-6) Coco Crisp 11-7) Stephen Drew 11-8) Bronson Arroyo 11-9) Jason Giambi 11-10) Brian Fuentes 11-11) Brandon Phillips 11-12) Alex Rios 12-1) Michael Cuddyer 12-2) Jason Isringhausen 12-3) Chien-Ming Wang 12-4) John Patterson 12-5) Magglio Ordonez 12-6) Eric Gagne 12-7) Tadahito Iguchi 12-8) Ryan Freel 12-9) Torii Hunter 12-10) Frank Thomas 12-11) Kelvim Escobar 12-12) Adam LaRoche 13-1)Willy Taveras 13-2) Joel Zumaya 13-3) Raul Ibanez 13-4) Adrian Gonzalez 13-5) Scott Podsednik 13-6) Bob Wickman 13-7) Nick Markakis 13-8) Nomar Garciaparra 13-9) Mike Mussina 13-10) Brad Hawpe 13-11) Dave Bush 13-12) Russell Martin 14-1) Mark Prior 14-2) Eric Chavez 14-3) Kenji Johjima 14-4) Anthony Reyes 14-5) Ramon Hernandez 14-6) Roger Clemens 14-7) Lyle Overbay 14-8) Scott Olsen 14-9) Nate Robertson 14-10) Derek Lowe 14-11) Jonathon Broxton 14-12) Chuck James 15-1) Hank Blalock 15-2) Aubrey Huff 15-3) Jorge Posada 15-4) Chris Capuano 15-5) Javier Vazquez 15-6) Octavio Dotel 15-7) Joe Crede 15-8) Josh Willingham 15-9) Josh Barfield 15-10) Brad Penny 15-11) Ivan Rodriguez 15-12) Jhonny Peralta 16-1) Adam Wainwright 16-2) Andy Pettitte 16-3) Jose Valverde 16-4) Alex Gordon 16-5) Anibal Sanchez 16-6) Solomon Torres 16-7) Keith Foulke 16-8) Bengie Molina 16-9) Dustin Pedroia 16-10) Pedro Martinez 16-11) Moises Alou 16-12) Ryan Dempster 17-1) Ray Durham 17-2) Josh Johnson 17-3) Mike Gonzalez 17-4) Chris Young 17-5) Ted Lilly 17-6) Greg Maddux 17-7) Mark Teahen 17-8) Jon Garland 17-9) B.J. Upton 17-10) Clay Hensley 17-11) Scott Shields 17-12) Edger Renteria 18-1) Eric Byrnes 18-2) Jeff Kent 18-3) Kevin Millwood 18-4) Philip Hughes 18-5) Chad Billingsley 18-6) Jason Varitek 18-7) Tom Glavine 18-8) Freddy Sanchez 18-9) Adrian Beltre 18-10) Orlando Cabrera 18-11) Nick Johnson 18-12) Ken Griffey Jr. 19-1)Tim Hudson 19-2) Edwin Encarnacion 19-3) Todd Jones 19-4) Freddy Garcia 19-5) Jose Contreras 19-6) AJ Pierzynski 19-7) Dave Roberts 19-8) Jim Edmonds 19-9) Morgan Ensberg 19-10) Matt Garza 19-11) Jeremy Hermida 19-12) Mark Buehrle 20-1) Shane Victorino 20-2) Brian Giles 20-3) Curtis Granderson 20-4) Corey Hart 20-5) Conor Jackson 20-6) Jeremy Sowers 20-7) Joe Borowski 20-8) Kevin Youkilis 20-9) Zach Duke 20-10) Kerry Wood 20-11) Akinori Ostuka 20-12) Joel Pineiro 21-1) Taylor Tankersley 21-2) Mike Jacobs 21-3) Gary Matthews Jr. 21-4) Seth McClung 21-5) Ian Snell 21-6) Cliff Lee 21-7) Troy Tulowitzki 21-8) Dan Wheeler 21-9) Chris Duffy 21-10) Ricky Nolasco 21-11) Bobby Crosby 21-12) Craig Monroe 22-1) Luis Castillo 22-2) Brandon Mccarthy 22-3) Kenny Rogers 22-4) Chris Burke 22-5) Homer Bailey COME ON BIG SPRING! MAKE THE CLUB!

This bodes well for the Cubs and their fabled rivalry with the Angels.

On the Score they said Ronny Cedeno has yet to report. That is just funny to me.