Edgar Renteria
If you think back on the Tony La Russa Era of Cardinals baseball (1996-2011), at least one player immediately should spring to mind at each position in the field. Every position, that is, except for one. There’s Yadier Molina at catcher, Scott Rolen at third base, Edgar Renteria at shortstop (or maybe David Eckstein if […]
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Late night Monday game, late night Monday post. That’s my story anyway folks… It only took two weeks for the fighting words to start, but the ESPN League is already starting to get interesting. A couple of tiebreakers will do that, as both divisions sport ties at the top. PH8 Week 2 Due to hangover […]
The United Cardinal Bloggers‘ January project tasked us bloggers with putting together a Cardinals team made up of the best at each position, in our opinion, during the recently completed decade. Not really any other restrictions placed on this one, other than it was due on Friday. Oops. Better late than never. Not surprisingly, there […]
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Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Cardinals All-Decade Team, Chris Carpenter, Chris Duncan, Darryl Kile, David Eckstein, Edgar Renteria, Fernando Vina, J.D. Drew, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Edmonds, Matt Morris, Mike Matheny, Ray Lankford, Reggie Sanders, Ryan Ludwick, Scott Rolen, So Taguchi, Steve Kline, Woody Williams, Yadier Molina
With names from Cardinal teams past popping up everywhere – Mark McGwire is the team’s new hitting coach and possible pinch-hitter (depending on whether Tony would ever really push for such a thing), and now Jim Edmonds has “challenged” LaRussa to give him a roster spot (believe what you will there) – I thought it […]
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Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Blake Hawksworth, Brad Penny, Brendan Ryan, Chris Carpenter, Craig Paquette, Darryl Kile, Dave Veres, David Freese, Dennys Reyes, Edgar Renteria, Fernando Tatis, Fernando Vina, Garrett Stephenson, Jason Motte, Jim Edmonds, Kyle Lohse, Kyle McClellan, Mark McGwire, Matt Holliday, Mike James, Mike Matheny, Mike Timlin, Rick Ankiel, Ryan Franklin, Ryan Ludwick, Scott Rolen, Skip Schumaker, Yadier Molina
Here it is, probably not much anticipated, but I’m excited about bringing it to you. I should qualify my choices for this lineup. Each player must have played 50% of his games at the position listed in the given season and have 450 at-bats for that season. The following is the lineup, based upon the […]
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Tagged with: Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter, Delino DeShields, Edgar Renteria, Jim Edmonds, Mark McGwire, Ryan Ludwick, Scott Rolen, Tony LaRussa, Yadier Molina
Today brought us some great posts across the Cardinal blogosphere, not so indirectly focused toward an article that appeared yesterday in the St Louis Post-Dispatch. I don’t have a lot to add to what Pip and C70 have already said regarding the venom being spewed toward Cardinal management, nor about the media’s involvement in provoking […]
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So I’ve been banging these ideas, ‘theories’ if you will, around in my head since the Khalil Greene trade was announced late last week. I decided that some of them were just too ingenious to keep to myself. Everyone knows and acknowledges that one of the Cardinals’ priorities heading into this season was finding middle […]
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So I’ve been biding my time, waiting, watching, allowing the news to come to me. As I’m sure my loyal readers know (all three of you), it’s been eerily quiet. Let’s catch up with the goings on… First, I wanted to take another opportunity to publicize the debut and continuing development of United Cardinal Bloggers’ […]
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I received an e-mail over the weekend from Alex Eisenberg over at Baseball-Intellect.com, alerting me to his analysis of Nico Vasquez‘ swing and projections going forward. From Eisenberg’s article Scouting Cardinals Prospect Niko Vasquez: Vasquez is coordinated and fairly agile with a strong arm at the shortstop position, but questions about his overall foot speed […]
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Tagged with: Adam Kennedy, Alex Eisenberg, Baseball-Intellect.com, Cesar Izturis, Edgar Renteria, Future Redbirds, Nico Vasquez, Pete Kozma, Quad Cities River Bandits
I’m sure a lot of you have seen this list before, but I just saw it yesterday for the first time, so I’m going to force it upon you again. Now, obviously Sabermetrics is something not every baseball fan necessarily follows nor understands, but nevertheless, some of the basics ring true for basic baseball knowledge. […]
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Tagged with: Aaron Miles, Adam Kennedy, Albert Pujols, Anthony Reyes, Bill James, Brendan Ryan, Brian Barton, Bullpen, Cesar Izturis, Chris Perez, Cleveland Indians, Dave Duncan, David Eckstein, Edgar Renteria, Felipe Lopez, Hector Luna, Jason Isringhausen, Jason Motte, Jeff Luhnow, John Mozeliak, Kelvin Jimenez, Miguel Cairo, Ryan Franklin, Ryan Ludwick, Sabermetrics, Starting Rotation, Tony LaRussa