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Let's Go to the Videotape: The Ankiel Meltdown
The Mets' rather quiet offseason has reached the spare parts phase, and one thing they still lack (that they can afford, anyway) is a lefty bat off the bench. As such, within the last few days, rumors have rumbled that they may have interest in outfielder Rick Ankiel. Not a bad option as a lefty...
The 2004 St. Louis Cardinals Pitching Staff: A Jewel of the Duncan Era
The 2004 season was one of the greatest in the storied history of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise. After a disappointing 2003 season, the Cardinals took off like a rocket ship and soared into the stratosphere with 105 wins. The MV3 received top billing that magical season and has deservedly...
Morning Thread: Mozeliak Says Coaching Staff to be Set by Friday
As an open act to RB's post, I thought I start a fresh morning thread. According to a report in the Post-Dispatch this morning, John Mozeliak stated that the Cardinals coaching staff would be set by Friday but remained relatively non-committal as to how many members of the current staff would...
Washington Nationals' Skipper Search.
The last time the Washington Nationals were in the market for a field manager, they settled on Former Expos' and Mets' third base coach Manny Acta after an exhaustive search, signing the 37-year-old first-time skipper to a, "...two-year deal with two one-year club options," as MLB.com's Bill Ladson...
Jim Bowden On The Washington Nationals' Managerial Candidates...
When you're right, you're right, and even when it's the Former DC GM, I feel I must give him his due...Jim Bowden, more than a month before the Washington Nationals even selected Stephen Strasburg with the number one overall pick in the 2009 MLB First Year Player Draft, was quoted from an...
Call-up Day
By the time you read this, PH/1B/break-glass-in-case-of-3B-emergency Troy Glaus might already be on the Cardinals' active roster. What's this worth? Well, how much better do you feel knowing that Troy Glaus, and not Khalil Greene, is the first pinch hitter off the bench? Much will be made of...
Pitching to Contract
It hasn't come up, because his ERA is still rapidly approaching one, but the motion to rename the black part of home plate the Ryan Franklin Zone has begun to run out of steam—since the all-star break he's struck out seven and walked seven in eighteen innings, and in August (where he's not...
Giants/Cardinals Series Preview
There's a certain kind of symmetry in the Braves leaving and the Cardinals arriving. For years -- decades, even -- it was the Braves who stayed competitive, no matter what freaky roster changes they needed to make. My favorite Braves move was Brian McCann's call up. Oh, we'll just take this...
5 Questions with Larry Borowsky of Viva El Birdos
The Brewers begin a three-game set (the first of five this season) against the Cardinals tonight. I don't think anybody expected that we'd be in second place behind St. Louis, but that team has a lot going on that the pundits didn't anticipate. I enlisted the help of Larry Borowsky (lboros) to...
Letter from Springfield I
[This is the inaugural post in what's going to be an ongoing feature here at VEB. Matt Lemmon (aka "itsalemmon") will be filing periodic reports from Springfield about the Double A farm team. He found out some cool stuff during the big-league team's visit to Springfield this past weekend ---- see...
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