SB Nation User Blog: farley503

Interesting info re: Ludwick and Lohse

farley503 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:06:54 -0000

For starters, Baseball Prospectus has a great in-depth analysis of Ryan Ludwick and his season which details his playing and injury history, and the reasons for his success this year. It's premium content, but if you're a subscriber, enjoy...

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8032

Also, mlbtraderumors is reporting that Kyle Lohse currently projects to be aType A free agent this offseason. If this is true and it holds up, then I don't think there's any way that we can sign Lohse to a deal, right? Thanks for the great year, and thanks for the extra picks.

Thoughts?

Nice Article on Ankiel in Salon.com

farley503 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:19:29 -0000

Here is a pretty cool article on Salon.com about Rick. Basically talking about how ridiculous it is that Ankiel is now in the Majors as an outfielder. Every time I think about it myself I just shake my head. Keep it up, as long as you can, man.

http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/08/13/monday/

Jocketty's last "splash

farley503 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:30:05 -0000

I was thinking about this the other day, and wondering...when was the last time you were actually excited about a move that the Cardinals/Jocketty made? I mean any move at all-free agent (ha!), trade, hell even an exciting draft pick...The last one I can think of being even remotely excited about was trading for Larry Walker, nearly three freakin' years ago. I may be missing something, but I don't think so. Boring rocks when you're winning 100 games a year and/or falling bass-ackwards into world series championships, but neither of those things are happening this year. When was the last time you were legitimately excited about a Cardinals' personnel move?

Smartass alert: ditching some useless sack of strikeouts or one of Duncan's noodle armed projects doesn't count. I'm talking about ACQUIRING players.

How about.....Craig Wilson!!

farley503 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:27:44 -0000

I've said this before, but why not give Chris Duncan the thing that he most needs to be successful this season: an evil twin! Check out this blurb from Dayn Perry at Fox Sports:

9. Craig Wilson, 1B/OF
Um, yeah, there's really not much left ... Wilson can serve as the right-handed half of a left field, right field or first base platoon, and he can be the right-handed pinch hitter of first resort. He's useful provided the team that signs him recognizes his limitations and deploys him accordingly. Wilson's a career .296 AVG/.395 OBP/.543 SLG hitter against lefties, but he's not an every-day talent.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but he definitely fits the bill, don't you think? What would he command? More than Speizio money?