I'm going to send him some brochures about sunny California, Disneyland, etc. Get him to the AL where he can't hurt the Reds as often!
I'm going to send him some brochures about sunny California, Disneyland, etc. Get him to the AL where he can't hurt the Reds as often!
Let the Astros sign him. Tying up that kind of money in one player may hurt them as much as it helps.
Send him to the Nippon Ham Fighters. They are in a very ethnic area.
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
Think The Reds might get in as a dark horse candidate?
We should have kept Willy Taveras for this reason alone. He would have been the centerpiece in any deal. Once again, Reds, you've set yourselves back a decade.
* I do not agree with or endorse anything in the post above.
Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
I'm on the fence about this issue. I'd love for him to be gone from the NL entirely, so he can demolish some other team's pitching staff 18 times a year.
However, the prospect of him staying in St. Louis on a ~30M/yr deal is intriguing as well. They've got 11.875 million wrapped up in KYLE LOHSE for each of the next two years, and Matt Holliday makes a ton of money as well. It might be fun to watch them really handcuff themselves on the payroll front. Good Lord knows, we've been there.
So basically, it's not about winning.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
What, he doesn't want to go home and play for the Royals? ???
Actually, KC has some real talent coming up through their system, and Pujols could go there and lead the team into the postseason in short order.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Nothing like floating an agent floating a harmless little trial baloon to keep the Cards' feet to the fire.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
If I could press a button that would make the Cards put up 30 million/year over the next several years to sign Albert....I would. Big gamble of course...but he just seems so gimpy lately...I can't help but think bad things are gonna happen.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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