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Re: NLCS Game 7 GC
forsberg_us wrote:
I was serious in the other thread when I stated I think Matt Carpenter gets the first crack at second base next year. That will be a downgrade defensively from Descalso.
Joe Buck said that Matheny told him that Carpenter had his offseason homework and it was to learn second. I think he will be better then Skip because he can play the corner infield spots. That has help. I will be excited to see his bat in the lineup but dreak SkipII. He has got to be better then that.
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I think Furcal's skills started eroding long before he was lost for the season. His defensive metrics were all down from last year. I don't know how much his arm injury impacted his defense before he went on the DL, but I think we can assume a 35-year-old shortstop's range isn't going to get better.
I've also heard that the plan calls for Carpenter to try second base next season. It's one thing to try to jam a square peg into a round hole if the peg already has four years of major league experience. Expecting a guy who has less than 400 career at bats to make the same transition strikes me as being somewhere between overly optimistic and foolish.
Like I said. I give Carpenter some slack. Being used to playing first and third and switching to second has to be alittle easier then going from shagging flies to screaming one hopers. I still am not to optimistic about it after the Skip Schumaker experiment. Furcal poses a bigger issue IMO. He is getting paid to much and has to big a name for me to believe that the Cards will come up with a real replacement. I fear the depth chart will be the Memphis Redbirds.
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Elvis Andrus is the second best defensive shortstop in baseball next to B-Ry and the Rangers are willing to listen. So from the question I asked Friday: the Cardinals offer Texas Jay and Lynn for Andrus and a reliever (I didn't have the reliever part). Right now Andrus isn't a great hitter, but he hasn't yet reached his prime and there's plenty of room for him to grow. You're also getting a game-changing defensive player that immediately makes the rotation and David Freese better. And he's 24. And you would have a good shot at re-signing him.
Maybe Lynn is too much, but if I'm John Mozeliak I'm asking what it takes to get Andrus to St. Louis.
I would love to see the Cardinals take a run at Andrus. It would be difficult to trade Jay because the Cardinals don't have a true replacement for him. I know Tavares played primarily CF last season, but I think he projects as a corner outfielder. I'm OK including Lynn in a deal
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Just out of curiosity, why would the Rangers be willing to deal him? They should be buyers, no?
Also, I was wondering if Seattle might give us Ryan back, and I checked his stats. Ouch. Offensively he fell off the cliff.
AVG OBP SLG OPS
.194 .277 .278 .555
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Texas has a shortstop prospect named Jurickson Profar who is their shortstop of the future.