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  1. Rob
    Part of the problem still falls on Lou and his insistence on carrying a 12 man pitching staff. We'd be better off carrying Jake Fox (or even Bobby Scales) right now than carrying David Patton.
  2. Rob
    Huseby with control? That's exciting.
  3. Rob
    Nobody is giving up anything useful this early in the season. Management can't signal they're giving up on their season this early.
  4. Rob
    Nobody is trading a major cog in their team this early in the season... that probably even goes as far as guys like Wes Helms on the Marlins, let alone Uggla or Cantu. If you want to get somebody, it has to be somebody management has been trying to unload for years... a la Bobby Crosby. Or you could try to nab a player from AAA somewhere... I still think Hendry's failure to sign McPherson is one of the more egregious errors of the offseason.
  5. Rob
    Quit exadurating.
  6. Rob
    The PECOTA projection starts off being by far the most useful of the bunch, but loses that utility as the season wears on. Just FYI.
  7. Rob
    I know Fontenot was adjusting to seeing all those breaking balls... but they still can't ever think throwing him a fastball is a good idea.
  8. Rob
    I could see Jimbo offering to pick up a small chunk of Bobby Crosby's contract. That might be marginally better than running Koyie Hill out there at 3rd way too often.
  9. Rob
    We already had this convo in the game thread. I said it there, so I'll just quote myself...
  10. Rob
    There are probably plenty of women out there who would rather go home with Don Zimmer.
  11. Rob
    Gotta love Kosuke so far this season.
  12. Rob
    Son of a gun...
  13. Rob
    Quadruple posting Fred? Really?
  14. Rob
    I think you missed an important detail there, Fred. See, people do read your posts! :-P We're pretty sure you're a robot. You don't count.
  15. Rob
    Yeah I don't like him hitting 4th at all, but Lou has no choice but to play him. Not debating that he belongs in the lineup... what are our other options, Joey Gathright? (.263/.324/.307 vs righties for his career, for the record) But if you have to have him face a righty, it's inexcusable to have him batting this high in the lineup. I know Soto is struggling, but he should be in that 4 slot tonight.
  16. Rob
    Woo!!! Sori!!! On a side note, because Lou doesn't get it... Reed Johnson vs. RHP - .269/.327/.383 Reed Johnson vs. LHP - .312/.376/.459
  17. Rob
    He also forces the Cards to throw their bullpen out there for four innings each time he starts.
  18. Rob
    Yeah, Fox doesn't really have any business in the OF corners either... but then again, neither did Hoff, and that didn't stop Lou til he'd seen why for himself. If we do call Fox up, I wouldn't be too shocked to see him get one start in RF... maybe two if they didn't hit any balls at him the first game. But given our likely offensive struggles with Bradley, DLee, and Aramis riding the pine, Reed Johnson being forced into action against RHP, a dazed and confused Soriano, Soto struggling, little Mikey Fontenot adjusting to the steady diet of breakers he's been getting, and Aaron Miles being allowed to carry a bat... we need to bring up Fox to squeeze as much as we can out of a 1B platoon with Hoff. God bless Theriot and Fukudome right now.
  19. Rob
    Fox had a grand total of 4 games at 3B in the minors... unless there's a plethora of extended spring training games I'm missing here, he isn't really a backup there. He's not a backup catcher either, but he does get a bit of value added from the fact that he's a more than adequate emergency catcher... especially considering the current situation of our team, with our real backup catcher being our emergency 3B. Yes, he was old for the league last year... but he did absolutely rake at AA. And he has been ridiculously good at AAA this season. Hendry made a comment after his Iowa trip that Fox was doing a much better job hitting the breaking ball... which may be enough to turn him into more than a one dimensional slugger. All in all, given the way our roster is hurting right now, and the progress he's shown the last couple of years... we'd be remiss not to give him a bench slot when one of DLee, Aramis, or Bradley is DL'd in the very near future.
  20. Rob
    doesn't he have like one career home run? Seven, actually.
  21. Rob
    It took about 7 seconds for Theriot to get referred to as "scrappy."
  22. Rob
    In the case of an emergency situation in our infield, our best bet is to move Fukudome to 3B... not Soriano to 2B.
  23. Rob
    Yeah, color me shocked that there's no structural damage. The pop in the knee is absolutely a significant diagnostic criteria.
  24. Rob
    http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090423&content_id=4400106&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl No I'm aware that he injured himself, but nobody has said anything about an ACL yet. That's why I asked if he had heard something or if he was just speculating. The pop in the knee is generally associated with ACL tears. If it was locked it would be cartilage, slipping would likely be mcl.
  25. Rob
    I question the wisdom of some of you who believed you could handle watching a team over a 162 game season... the season is 8.6% over. Get up, stretch your legs, make some popcorn, and come back in July. If there's still a problem, you can start to hyper-analyze it then.
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