Former Cardinals Watch

[BW23]

I know Mo was blasted when he traded Rasmus. Maybe most teams were smarter than us fans who thought Colby was going to be good.

[Vidor]

Tyler Greene has a .277 OBP through his first 96 at-bats with the Astros. But he also has four doubles and six home runs for a .250/.277/.479 line.

[Vidor]

P-D with a preview of TLR's book. Sounds fascinating.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/b ... 0f31a.html

[JoeMcKim]

If the Cards didn't trade Colby they would've never gotten the bullpen help they needed to win the WS, so for that very reason alone the trade was successful.

[jerbyrd25]

Tyler Greene has a .277 OBP through his first 96 at-bats with the Astros. But he also has four doubles and six home runs for a .250/.277/.479 line.

Very reminiscent of Furcal last year when he joined the Cards and had that unsustainable homerun binge that skewed his numbers to look far better than they really were.

[themiddle54]

P-D with a preview of TLR's book. Sounds fascinating.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/b ... 0f31a.html

If you're in the Chicago area, TLR is doing a semi-private event for this. It's $55 IIRC, includes a book, lunch, an hour-long talk/Q&A over lunch, and you get to meet the man and have your book singed. Not a bad deal, if you're buying the book for $30 already then you're getting a signature, a meet and greet, lunch and a story for another $25.

PM me if you're interested in the details, I don't want to put the info here where bots and weirdos and scumbags who get books signed to re-sell them on ebay can see it.

[Jmodene]

have your book singed.

Does this mean the book will be a hot seller?

Seriously, I'm looking forward to reading it.

[Vidor]

I'm 2000 miles from the Chicago area, but if he has an event in the Bay Area/Sacramento/NorCal, I'm there.

[fanforever]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/albert-puj ... nM-;_ylv=3

Albert Pujols clings to hope of Cardinals-style miracle amid disappointing season with Angels

Pujols nears the end of his first season in Anaheim. At best six weeks remain. More likely, there aren't even two. The Angels have been terribly disappointing to those who bought into the promise of adding Pujols (along with C.J. Wilson) to an already reasonably constructed team, which included nearly everyone. They lost again Thursday night.

They fight now to put off what appears to be the inevitable – that is, explaining to owner Arte Moreno why his ballpark and investment again will be empty come October. There's season left, so they play and they hope. They try not to think about what put them in this place or the odds against them making something more of it. Meanwhile, they run short of time.

"You know what," Pujols said, "the reality is I don't think about that. It's 162 games. Until you're out of this stuff, you're not out."

Taken as a whole, Pujols' first year as an Angel has not met the standards of his previous 11 seasons. His batting average, slugging and on-base percentages will be the lowest of his career, barring an offensively gluttonous final dozen games.

Like the Angels, he had played back from near disaster, just perhaps not quite far enough. They will not catch the Rangers, and therefore will not win the AL West. They are 4½ games behind the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles for a wild-card berth, and now must hope for a catastrophic losing streak from either.

"My responsibility is the same since I started wearing a professional uniform," he said. "I do what I can do to help this organization win. For a while, I struggled. I wasn't myself."

He paused, as if to bury the memory.

"This game, you have to enjoy it whether it's good or bad," he said. "If everything was always roses and beautiful, I don't think I could have done what I've done in the game. And this" – he waved his hand across a full clubhouse – "is not about just myself. As an organization, we win and lose together.

"If it comes to it we don't make it to the postseason, we're going to be disappointed. But people were saying the same thing about [the St. Louis Cardinals] with 20 games left. When we got to the end of the year, I was laughing and raising the trophy."

It's not much now, but it's what they have. It's what he has.

[Vidor]

Darren Oliver has a 1.87 ERA and a 1.000 WHIP for the Rangers. Is he the oldest ex-Cardinal still playing ball?

Look at Miguel Cairo's BBRef page, and marvel at how he stayed in the game for so long.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... mi01.shtml

Colby Rasmus has a .228/.293/.409 stat line for Toronto. On the verge of his second-straight sub-.300 OBP season.

Anthony Reyes is on the DL for the AAA Tucson Padres. Poor guy. 34.1 IP in the minors since his last big-league appearance in 2009.

P.J. Walters pitches for the Twins now? 6.39 ERA in 10 starts, so he fits right in.