SB Nation User Blog: The MooCow

WHIP it Good! :=8)

The MooCow — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:38 -0000

Starters

Starters	Cards		Dodgers		Rockies		Phils
1	Carp	1.01	Billingsly	1.32	Jimenez	1.14	Lee	1.13
2	Wainy	1.21	Wolf	1.08	Marquis	1.36	Hammels	1.28
3	Jo-el	1.14	Kershaw	1.24	De La Rosa	1.40	Blanton	1.30
extra	Lohse	1.38	Kuroda	1.14	Cook	1.41	Happ	1.22

Closer

Closers	Cards		Dodgers		Rockies		Phils
Closers	Franklin	1.15	Broxton	0.97	Street	0.93	Lidge*	1.84

Bullpen

Relievers	Cards		Dodgers		Rockies		Phils
1	Miller	0.93	Troncoso	1.39	Bentacourt	0.92	Madsen	1.22
2	KMac	1.28	Belisario	1.13	Morales	1.39	Durbin	1.51
3	Denny's	1.34	Mota	1.20	Hammel	1.39	Pedro	1.25
4	Smoltz	1.18	Garland	1.27	Fogg	1.15	Park	1.40
5	Hawk	1.08	Pedilla	1.28	Daley	1.13	Myers	1.37
6	Motte	1.39	Weaver	1.52	Flores	1.37	Moyer	1.36
7	Boggs	1.80	Kuo	1.17	Embree	1.62	Walker	1.17

I know many of you hate WHIP, but I'm posting this anycow. These tables tell me a couple of things:

1. Our Big 3 match up game for game with anyone in the play-off - my only cowcern would be game 2 of a series with the Dodgers, pitting Wainy VS Wolf. That could be trouble, esp. since he is a lefty.

2. Franklin is a bit weaker than the others, depending on what Philly does. If Madsen or Pedro closes, they are stronger, but not as strong as Franklin. if Lidge stays - WOOHOO!! But Franklin is not as good as Broxton or Street, and this is cowcerning.

3. Overall our pen matches well, although Bentacourt is a marvelous set-up guy. That tells me that we need to get to the Rock's starters, and early, if we're going to beat them in a series. We don't want to be behind late and run into the Bentacourt and Street buzzsaw.

There are udder points to be made too, but I;ll leave it for the rest of you to come up with stuff - preferably besides moaning cow bad a statistic WHIP is. I am a lazy cow, and this is all I cud come up with today.

:=8)

Jeff Passan Thinks the Cards are Stealing Money from a Blind Kid...

The MooCow — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:36:03 -0000

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AtaOTK4i452Iz7r.9h74Yr0RvLYF?slug=jp-mateo092409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

This is a bad situation, make no mistake about it. Either the FO are being over-cautious and scraping together all the moolah they can get their hooves on (including, one presumes, diving for dimes udder the FO couches...) for Holliday/Pujols cowtracts, and they found a way to unceremoniously dump a promising young player

The Cards really don't know what they're doing viz a vis scouting/medical reports, etc, in Latin America.

Frankly, neither option sounds appealing. We all want the next Albert Pujols: a superior player with no character issues who plays with heart, soul, AND talent, who just happens to pop up from our system with little or no fanfare. Close the barn door, that cow ain't a moo-in'. We're gonna have to scout and groom the Next Big Thing for the Cards, and that means spending moolah.

Now, I wouldn't go the drama queen extremes of Jeff Passan, but it does seem to me that the Cards FO is playing hardball lately, doesn't it? Unceremoniously dumping players like AK and Aaron Miles, trading away 'family' like C Dunc (a good moove there), and now voiding this kid's contract. In moost cases, these were good mooves. But even if the Wagner void is a good moove, what does that say about our folks in central/south America? Perhaps moore oversight is needed? Do we need a Scout Czar, to use Washington parlance, as a sort of Grand Poobah of scouting operations (presumably there already is one somewhere - I just love the idea of a Grand Poobah).

Ok, I think I hit my 75 word obligation. Anyway, what does everyone else think about the situation? Hiccup or harbinger of bad mooves to come?

:=8/

I Have a Dream....

The MooCow — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:06:40 -0000

...and in my dream, the Oakland Raiders in the 2006 draft select DT Haloti Ngata over Michael Huff to shore up their D-line; in 2007 they select Adrian Peterson over JaMarcus Russell (still select Miller & Bush), and in 2008 they select Joe Flacco over D Mac. I never want to wake up from this. Do you see me now, Toe Cutter? Do you see me, man?

(SIGH)

It's a dream I have...

:=8/

The Dunc Returneth?? :=8.

The MooCow — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:46:40 -0000

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/player/351171

Fox Sports reports that the Sawks have released Chris Duncan. It would seem he was not hitting at Pawtucket, and that he is still not completely back from his neck injury. One has to wonder, now that Dunc is free to sign with anyone, if he'll come back to the Cards organization. SHOULD he? Cud we sign him to a AAA cowtract and keep him stashed until such time as he regains (if he ever does) his power stroke, or do we just stick a fork in him? This cow does not see too much risk in offering him a minor league cowtract, for old times sake, just on the off-chance that he cud make it back enough to be a decent bench player, and perhaps a decent lefty pinch hitter. It might be good karma too.

What does everyone else think?

:=8)

Poll

Bring Back Lil' Dunc??

Heck no! We don't need no dead wood! :=8P

174 votes

Why not? We got nuttin' to loose! :=8)

171 votes

I dunno, I'm cowflicted over the whole thing... :=8/

39 votes

My hovercraft is full of eels! :=8.

80 votes

464 votes | Poll has closed