SB Nation User Blog: Bowen

Reyes down

Bowen — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:20:30 -0000

I just heard this on the radio and it's not on the Card's website or on here anywhere besides the game thread yet so I'll let this fly. Anthony Reyes has been optioned to Memphis and Troy Cate has been called up. The strangest part is that Cate will be put into the bullpen and Wellemeyer will be starting on Wednesday night in what would've been Reyes spot.

Some quick Pujols stats

Bowen — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:31:31 -0000

I know we've all been gushing about Albert all year, and for 6 years, and we shall continue to do so but I just wanted to look at some numbers and I was so impressed I just thought I should share them with others.

Stat - Albert - 2006 NL Rank
R - 119 - 6
H - 177 - 14
2B - 33 - 34(T)
HR - 49 - 2
RBI - 137 - 2
TB - 359 - 3
BB - 92 - 11
OBP - .431 - 2
SLG - .671 - 1
AVG - .331 - 3
XBH - 83 - 4
OPS - 1.102 - 1

AVG w/ RISP, 2 Out: .435

Poll

What would we do without Pujols?

Die.

5 votes

Really Die.

17 votes

Finish Last.

6 votes

He's holding us back, without him we're World Champs.

7 votes

Die.

0 votes

Die.

1 votes

36 votes | Poll has closed

Playoff Rosters - YOU'RE TONY!

Bowen — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:29:45 -0000

OK. It's September 19th and in all likelihood, the Cardinals are going to the playoffs this year. What I wanted to see from everybody here is a playoff roster. If the playoffs started today, which 11 pitchers and 14 position players would YOU have on the roster? Designate your rotation 1-4 and you can even suggest lineups and all kinds of super fancy things, should you desire.

P.S. There are several rules involving playoff rosters and I would imagine we're all pretty well-versed, so instead of me finding a link with a comprehensive list of the rules (which is suprisingly hard to find, at least via Google), let's just police each other, easy peasy.

My own roster:
PITCHERS:
Starters:

Chris Carpenter
Jeff Suppan
Jeff Weaver
Anthony Reyes

Relievers:

Adam Wainwright
Braden Looper
Tyler Johson
Randy Flores
Josh Hancock
Brad Thompson
Jason Marquis

POSITION PLAYERS:
Catchers:

Yadier Molina
Gary Bennett

Infielders:

Albert Pujols
Ronnie Belliard
Scott Rolen
Aaron Miles
David Eckstein
Scott Spiezio
Jose Vizcaino

Outfielders:

Juan Encarnacion
Chris Duncan
Preston Wilson
John Rodriguez
So Taguchi

The biggest thing here is that I'm leaving off Jim Edmonds, which is unfortunate. I really don't think he's going to be able to play though.

My basic lineup is no suprise:

SS Eckstein
LF Duncan
1B Pujols
3B Rolen
RF Encarnacion
CF Wilson
2B Belliard
C Molina

If we make it to the WS, I'd probably use JRod as my DH. My other thought was Spiezio, but I'd like to keep his versatility available to play the field without having to forfeit my DH.

Ponson a Yankee

Bowen — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:41:49 -0000

Ponson signs with Yankees

Ponson has already signed with the Yankees, that didn't take long. I only just read that we had not found a taker for him and were going to release him. I tell my roommate this news and he points me toward this article, already verifying the extreme short-livedness of his free agency.

"Best Fans In Baseball"

Bowen — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:01:58 -0000

Last night I was at Busch Stadium and some of the things I saw I did not enjoy.

Juan Encarnacion is having a rough start, but we're only 10 games into the season and I think it's absolute crap that he got assorted boos even during his first plate appearance. Everytime he came to the plate or really did anything at all, he got booed, and by the end of the game, it was no longer assorted boos, it was loud massive boos. At one point he was very close to the stands in foul territory and I could see people standing up and basically yelling in his face...that's shit, seriously, that is just apalling to come from "the best fans in baseball." Give the guy a break, it's April. So then when he makes an outstanding catch, only then do the boos turn to cheers.

In addition to that, there were a couple of plays that Edmonds wasn't able to make that received some boos. The man is practically superhuman in the field, but he's had a rough couple of days...so that means we get pissed off when he can't catch a ball that most center fielders wouldn't have even gotten close to?

It felt like people were being very fairweather fan-ish last night. The team is struggling a little and people were, in my opinion, a little too outspoken with their dissatisfaction. This is team that has won 205 regular season games in the last two years and some fans are turning on them with a 5-5 mark after 10 games.

We love this team and we're going to have to love them even if they don't blow the entire central division out of the water.