A repeat of the first day – with different photos, of course. St. Louis Cardinals player and executive photos from Sunday and Monday’s final two sessions of the 2011 Winter Warm-Up at St. Louis’ Hyatt Regency at the Arch.
Bill DeWitt, Jr., Ryan Franklin, Jaime Garcia, Matt Holliday, David Kopp, Kyle McClellan, Albert Pujols, Shelby Miller, Skip Schumaker, Ryan Theriot, Tony La Russa and Adam Wainwright are included in order below from Sunday. Monday photos include Allen Craig, Shane Robinson, Bill DeWitt III and John Vuch.
The Cardinal Nation subscribers should check out on the main site where I recapped comments from each of the above Sunday speakers. I did the same Saturday and for Monday as well. Full audio interviews will be posted in the upcoming days.
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Noted the comments about Craig going to see more time at 3B this spring and how Craig has the hands for 3B and they are working on his throwing.With Craig,Vazquez,Greene and Bynum and Descalso are available options behind Freese it would seem Cards have prepared for any Freese problem.Almost forgot Matt Carpenter …………..
Agree that if quantity is the goal, there are a lot of bodies. If quality is the question, however…
IMO Freese will be a solid 3B this year.As for Craig.practice practice ….etc.
I believe David will be real good early on, you just hope that as the season wears on those ankles that they hold up.
Play of the day goes to Walter Jocketty. Votto is a temperamental kid. I see him paying at least 6 million dollars over necessity. A good investment though in bolstering an agent doing his bidding for him………….. He would like to see Pujols out of St Louis…….out of the division.
Lozano’s opening, move wasn’t such a good one in a game with a man known for his win+win business schemes……………. by establishing a deadline, he lost the initiative allowing BD a nice foot hold in carrying out his plan……………. A rookie play really……….Mo leaks and Danny is stuck with it………………………….. here is how this will play out.
BD will make his offer public now, and doesn’t need a leak to do it. That offer will be 6/30 with a 10 million dollar signing bonus, effectivly making it a 7yr deal…….as he sees it. 190 million is a big win for him. He will leave AP/Laz 15 days to struggle with the mounting pressure, created by their own time limit……………….. This is simply trying to drive a wedge between AP and Danny boy…………always BD’s tactic………….. any counter they make at that point will of course go public, as BD has the initiative and the precedent………….against mounting public pressure…….. the offer will likely have a request for delayed payments, giving AP something to reject should he angrily except…………………… if it is ignored………….AP will drag that albatross behind him the whole season………creating the real desired effect…………market will have been established………for all to consider…………
Baseball has nothing to do with it……………… The energy consortium(BD) is inflating oil prices, absorbing all the efforts to reestablish a stronger economy………with an election year approaching, plenty of diversions…………….. Fielder and AP will dangle in a crippled market………public sentiment will frown on the egotistical posturing of AP……….. for whom ever tries to market him……………
Of all the scenario’s possible, only Pujols raking all the way to a WS even hurts Billy….a little. He would have the bidding war to hide under in that case, allowing AP to slide away …..well stigmatized…………If Berkman sticks, and Carpenter clicks………..just that much more pressure on AP…………………………..guy is good………… Worst case scenario…….Pujols takes it…..BD raises ticket prices and we loose for 7 years marveling at the record run…………..Tony would be in his 70′s ………….pitcher batting 5th by that time………………….
Westy, I have never heard such nonsense. The pitcher will never bat fifth.
Okay……………..6th…………..they already hit good enough to do that…………….
Even I don’t think TLR is dumb enough to bat the pitcher above 7th.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/01/tigers-confident-in-market-for-galarraga.html