As suggested by you, the readers of this blog, this is the fourth in a series of posts in which you can vote for your top St. Louis Cardinals stories of 2010.
We are using the same list of stories that I used in my countdown, but you will set your own priority via a daily vote here. We will go as deep into the list as you would like. For example, we can stop the voting at your top five or ten based on your interest level.
Your #1 story: The collapse – favored defending champs miss playoffs
#2: The Holliday signing – seven or eight years
#3: The Ryan Ludwick – Jake Westbrook trade – Jon Jay emergence, Westbrook re-signing
What is the #4 story for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010?
- The Penny/Lohse injuries (24%, 5 Votes)
- Colby Rasmus not traded (19%, 4 Votes)
- Jaime Garcia's emergence (14%, 3 Votes)
- The final year of Albert Pujols' decade (10%, 2 Votes)
- La Russa returns for 2011, Duncan for two or three more years (10%, 2 Votes)
- Problems at third base (10%, 2 Votes)
- Stan the Real Man (5%, 1 Votes)
- Young bench, veteran stopgaps (5%, 1 Votes)
- The fight in Cincinnati (5%, 1 Votes)
- Zack Cox' major league deal (0%, 0 Votes)
- Problems with the middle infield (0%, 0 Votes)
- Whitey Herzog Hall of Famer, retired number (0%, 0 Votes)
- No opinion/other (0%, 0 Votes)
- Adam Wainwright, the new ace (0%, 0 Votes)
- New farm director and minor league improvement (0%, 0 Votes)
- Marty Mason firing (0%, 0 Votes)
- Big Mac's return (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 21
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Garza to the Cubs, eh? Well, while I do like Garza, I don’t think that their team is good enough for him to make a difference yet. Trading off young talent may not work out for them in the long run.
I don’t know Nut. There is some talent in Chicago. They have just been dealing with an old and over the hill manager. Those things can break down a team today imo. They have been underperforming and I’ll go out on a limb and predict they will contend this year. They will finish in the top 3 with Garza on the staff.
The top 3 in the NL Central? So they beat one of the Cards, Reds, and Brewers? Sure, I wouldn’t be surprised, but it doesn’t mean anything if they don’t at least reach the playoffs. (Clearly, no one actually expects Houston or Pittsburgh to win anything in the foreseeable future so it’s basically a four team division.)
I agree RC, old over the hill managers and broke down underperforming teams kinda go hand in hand.
However, that does make four NL Central teams all strongly going for it this season. Should be fun to watch.
My number four is actually the Ludwick trade but it isn’t on the list anymore. So I picked the Colby trade story.
I think you missed the part about Ludwick trade already ranking #3.
No. I saw that, that is why it is no longer on the list. But it still would be MY #4 not #3 is what I mean.
Gotcha. I would think you would continue to vote for your highest-ranked story until it gets in.
Low vote totals, but Rasmus and Penny/Lohse are currently neck-to-neck.
I voted Problems at 3B for #4, which completes my unholy trinity of maledictions that led to the Cards not winning the division. Recapping…
1. The Collapse
2. Penny/Lohse
3. Ludwick/Westbrook
4. Third Base (Freese Injury)
Positives come next…