Comments on: Kawakami to Atlanta

By: cards13

cards13 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:22:46 +0000

As easy says, it’s all very confusing. It most certainly appears the FO is afraid to make a trade unless they are the clear winners. There has to be some risk for some reward.

By: nmstar

nmstar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:55:26 +0000

Unless Ben Sheets is signed, the 2009 version of the Cardinals isn’t much better (assuming better closer performances from Young Pitcher and/or Motte)than last year’s team and that wasn’t good enough.

By: easy

easy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:09:46 +0000

My problem with all of this is that, other than stripping bare all the lower branches of the loogy fruit tree, I have no idea what the FO’s off season strategy is. We seem to bounce all over the place with identifying what our priorities are and, when we finally do target a player, we are quite literally a day late and a dollar short. If we simply don’t have the cash to work with I’m fine with that. But why then would we kick off the off season with a four year contract for a pitcher who had four straight losing seasons before this last one? Obviously we don’t know what other things we may be exploring under the radar but it seems to me that we do have some guys who could fill needs on other teams both on the roster and amongst our B and C+ prospects. Maybe we’re talking to those teams but we haven’t heard about it. I fear that we may be holding onto a limited war chest of “dry powder” for that one guy, Sheets or Lowe I suppose, and that we will, as usual, come in a close second.

By: erik

erik — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:31:27 +0000

I wonder he needs to do in order to reach all his incentives, I hadn’t even looked at the deal until now. The Sox are apparently hoping at least one of those low-cost, high risk, high reward gambles pays off. What a weird offseason they have had.

By: cards13

cards13 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:18:41 +0000

I’m more disappointed in missing out on Saito for what the Red Sox are apparently paying him.