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Afternoon discussion: What would Holliday and Fuentes cost? Is it worth it?

I’m a little pressed for time today, but I about fell out of my chair when I read the Cardinals may be interested in Matt Holliday and Brian Fuentes. Mozeliak may be serious about overtaking the Cubs, and why wouldn’t he? The NL has been surprisingly soft this year, and as good as the Cardinals have been, [...]

post ideas

I figure most of you come here for the DFR’s more than for anything else, but I like having afternoon post during the week, just to give you all something more to chew on. Lately, I’m running low on post ideas. Here’s what I have on tap:

Update on prospects in either our Reader Top 25, [...]

I could be out for a while

UPDATE: I may be around even more. It’s doubtful I lose power, and I have no idea when I’ll be going back to work right now. 
As I’m sure you already heard, there’s a lot of flooding in Cedar Rapids and really all over Iowa. Thank God, I live in a nice, dry and cozy place [...]

New!

I did it. I finally joined Facebook, after much resistance. And now I’m pleased to announce Future Redbirds Facebook group has just been just been created. Feel free to join. I do have to confirm you first, but it’s not like it’s stringent or anything.
Oh, by the way for those who may be wondering- I’m [...]

Friday draft discussion

Baseball America released their Top 100 draft prospects this past week. We’ve talked at length around here about who the Cardinals may pick with their 1st pick, but what about their other picks? Who on this list (or just other players that you may know of) do you think the Cardinals will draft? Who do [...]

1,000,000 served and counting

We hit a nice milestone today, 1 Mil hits since the blog started in late summer of 2006. Yippee.
Thanks to azruavatar, fewgoodcards and roarke for all their help here, they are a huge part of the success we’ve had. And thanks to everyone for reading and helping spread the word.
 
 
 

College Monday wrap-up 5/19

Crosschecker season is in full effect, and the top bats didn’t waste the opportunity as nearly all of them had big weekends. Brian Matusz and San Diego had the weekend off, and you have probably heard of the unfortunate injury to Tanner Scheppers. Aaron Crow and Christian Friedrich tried to capitalize and establish [...]

April stat bag

Another idea I cooked up was having a monthly look at various stats. Nothing really orderly, just random statistical info on players. Thanks go to firstinning.com and baseball-reference.com.
Here’s the most hideous stat of the month is that Colby Rasmus has made 89 outs, tied for the 2nd most in all the minors, and just one [...]

Jack Cassel Starts

You’ll remember way back last season when our starting rotation in the bigs was absolutely terrible, I went looking for some minor league talent that could help, basically for free.  My favorite of those three options was Jack Cassel who signed a minor league contract with Houston this past season after being released by the [...]

Draft Signing Bonuses

One of the interesting things in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook is they have some brief writeups about each teams drafts including the total budget and the top 5 signing bonuses. The whole book is a great resource and a good read but I’m always drawn to numbers so these types of things stood [...]

Questions for Aaron Crow

A poster who goes by the moniker of Balkroth happens to be a Mizzou grad student with some access to the team. The nation’s top college ace Aaron Crow agreed to answer a few questions. Please post what you’d like to be asked in the comments. Balkroth and I will harvest the best ones, and [...]