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This is part of a series of articles examining what every team's roster would
look like if given only the players it originally signed.
Rotation
Dan Haren
Braden Looper
Anthony Reyes
Mitchell Boggs
Brad Thompson
悲慘的輪值...
Bullpen
Kyle McClellan
Luke Gregerson
Chris Perez
Jason Motte
Josh Kinney
Jess Todd
Blake Hawksworth
The Cardinals haven't had a high first-round pick since taking J.D. Drew in
1998, but they've missed on an awful lot of pitchers with selections in the
20s and 30s. 12 of the 19 first- and supplemental first-round picks they've
had since then have been pitchers, but only three have reached the majors:
Perez, likely bust Chris Lambert and the recently traded Clayton Mortensen.
So what we're left with here is Haren and not much else. Looper, the third
overall pick in the 1996 draft, is a mediocre closer turned No. 4 starter.
Reyes has No. 3-starter talent, but he may never be able to stay healthy.
He's out until late next year following Tommy John surgery. Boggs is a fringe
fifth starter, and Thompson is most useful in middle relief. The bullpen is
more promising. Both McClellan and Gregerson are shaping up as excellent
setup men, and Perez and Motte still have a fair amount of promise. Todd
might end up being better than all of them.
Lineup
3B Adam Kennedy
2B Placido Polanco
RF J.D. Drew
1B Albert Pujols
LF Rick Ankiel
C Yadier Molina
CF Colby Rasmus
SS Jack Wilson
三壘手也太爛了吧...
Bench
2B/OF Skip Schumaker
CF Coco Crisp
INF Brendan Ryan
OF Terry Evans
C Mike DiFelice
Another star would be nice, but Tony La Russa would be happy with the
flexibility provided by this lineup. Also, the excellent defense will help
all of those starters who won't be recording many strikeouts. Molina, Pujols,
Wilson all rank among the game's best at their positions, and Polanco is
still a surehanded asset at second. The outfield defense is a little above
average with this arrangement and significantly better when Crisp starts and
Rasmus goes to a corner. Against lefties, Ryan should start over Kennedy,
Crisp over Ankiel and perhaps Evans over one of the other two outfielders.
Summary
The Cardinals have struggled to keep pitching prospects healthy and are
paying for it in these rankings. It's worth wondering just how much better
off they'd be if they concentrated more on producing hitters over these last
10 years. After all, in Dave Duncan, they have a pitching coach who excels at
turning around veteran starters. They could have played to that strength a
little better.
Of course, it's not as though the Cardinals are struggling. It looked like
they're set to reach the playoffs for the seventh time in 10 years, and they
won it all in 2006. While I generally give a lot more credit to general
managers than field managers, in this case, La Russa and Duncan deserve the
praise, probably more so than former GM Walt Jocketty.
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