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Is it me or have the Cardinals eerily turned into the Cubs when it comes to handling the diagnosis of, communication of, and rehabilitation of injuries.
I can't quite see it yet, but I'm sure someone on the internets will point it out to me eventually.
The Blue Jays could be paying 11 million dollars to have a gimpy Glaus on the team. If that was the case, right now they'd be running out something like Inglett/Scutaro/Hill/Overbay in the infield (maybe McDonald instead of Inglett).
Instead, they're paying a gimpy Scott Rolen 26 million over two years - at a time when finances are reportedly so tough that they might have to trade Roy Halladay - for production that's not much better than Inglett, and Inglett was and is practically free. So when Roy Halladay gets traded to some generic NL contender for two B pitching prospects who promptly go all Sirotka on JP, we'll have Scotty Rolen to blame.
Of course, that ignores the fact that Glaus demanded a trade, but thereyougo.
They have Brett Wallace, and if Glaus is going to be out for significant time, which apparently he is, they need to think seriously about bringing him up and seeing what he can do.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/index.php?cid=464645
I'll be thrilled if Freese can be +5 or +10 with the glove and have an OPS around 800.
Mather might be able to approach 825-850 OPS, but I'd be surprised if he was better than -5 with the glove.
Those two + Wallace makes it very discouraging that Mo/TLR are reportedly shopping for a replacement.
Also discouraging? The Cardinals' consistently poor reporting when it comes to player injuries. It's to the point where I'm not the least bit surprised that a summer return is optimistic, even after the Cards originally said he could be back by 01May.
Also in the local just a couple of days ago, the Joe Mather at third experiment has been abandoned. Joe stopped hitting when moved to third, and Tony apparently thinks that focusing on defense fouled up his bat. He's back to the outfield and Freeze is the projected Opening Day starter at third. Thurston, who hits lefty, will make the roster. He can play third more or less. Also, whoever is the backup shortstop can cover some third base. That spot has yet to be decided. The point is that, with a solid offensive outfield, the Cards can get away with fill-in third base gambles for a long while.
BTW, the reason the Cards seem to have these guys in the minors is that the team focuses on that. Tony likes to have a shuttle system available that effectively makes his roster about 30 players instead of 25. There's always an extra outfielder (Barton), an extra shortstop (whoever does not win the major league slot), an extra catcher (Matt Pagnozzi) and at least a couple of spare pitchers. Tony uses a lot of very short-term (even one day) promotions/demotions as injuries and the schedule require. It's one of Tony's strengths as a manager, although I imagine it messes up the AAA club's chances of doing well.
- Brock Hanke (whose main advantage here is that he lives in STL and reads the Post-Dispatch)
He was already at AA last year. He's going to be 22. If it's June, and Wallace is hitting in AA, why not bring him up?
No, Joe Mather stopped hitting when he got sick with a viral illness that caused him to lose around 10 pounds. He's still not 100%. I haven't seen anything from tony or mather regarding mather playing at 3rd contributing to his slump.
Mather's break at 3rd came when Freese showed up to camp with an undisclosed injury, but getting sick made it Freese's job to lose.
I couldn't care less about the "reporting" of the issue. Hearing that the "doctor can't find anything wrong" is never a good sign and I think that speaks more to the medical staff's ability than any deficiencies in spin control.
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