James Shields
Be realistic, and please admit that you have certain players you do not wish to see leave the Cardinals or the farm system. For whatever your reasons, you have grown emotionally attached to 1 or more, and the thought of them in another team’s uniform amounts to baseball sacrilege. Well, try setting aside those thoughts […]
Posted in: Cardinals Front Office,Current Cardinals
Tagged with: Cardinal, Chris Carpenter, Daniel Descalso, Fernando Salas, Jaime Garcia, Jake Westbrook, James Shields, Jason Motte, Joe Kelly, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski, Mitchell Boggs, Trevor Rosenthal, Tyler Greene
For the first time all season, the defending World Champs may have finally showed their hand leading up to the dog days ahead. No one truly knows which direction the Cardinals will turn but if you can read between the rumors, a picture paints itself with only a couple shopping days left. How pretty the […]
If you haven’t noticed, the Cardinals are in the middle of a stretch during which they play 16 games in 16 days. That alone is tough enough, but somewhere in the middle of that they are starting inter-league play (aka – “The unbalanced schedule”). Maybe it’s a statistical certainty that over a really long period of […]
Posted in: American League,Inter-league
Tagged with: Baltimore Orioles, Brad Bergeson, Chris Tillman, David Price, Eric Hosmer, Inter-league play, Jake Arrieta, James Shields, Jeff Niemann, Jeremy Guthrie, Jeremy Hellickson, Jose Bautista, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, Wade Davis, Zack Britton
After taking a step back and seriously contemplating what the Tampa Bay Rays have done during the off-season, I was reminded that there are many, many ways to build a baseball team. The options that a front office has to choose from are often limited by factors such as financial, competitive, or internally driven realities. […]
Posted in: Cardinals Front Office,Non-Cardinals,Offseason
Tagged with: Ben Zobrist, carl crawford, Carlos Pena, Chris Carpenter, David Price, Evan Longoria, James Shields, Jason Bartlett, Johnny Damon, Lance Berkman, Manny Ramirez, Matt Garza, Rafael Soriano, Robert Frost, Ryan Theriot, Tampa Bay Rays, The Road Not Taken