Wainwright has a season ending elbow injury
Punto is out 8-12 weeks
Edmonds never showed up
Berkman has elbow soreness
Freese may not be ready for the spring opener as he deals with recovery from last years ankle injuries.

"We'll get a chance to see a lot of Craig at 3B and RF!"

Yeah, but at this rate he'll have to play both at the same time.

forsberg_us wrote:

If we need someone to play RF and 3B at the same time, shouldn't we try to get Ankiel back?

Ankiel in right? That's crazy talk.

Max wrote:

If I recall correctly from my sandlot days, in situations like those you just call right fall out of bounds.

That was fine until the one pain in the ass lefthanded hitter in your group got up. Then you had to make left field out of bounds and have everyone shift. Or you could have the pitcher throw from the third base line, but that was just weird.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

If I recall correctly from my sandlot days, in situations like those you just call right fall out of bounds.

That was fine until the one pain in the ass lefthanded hitter in your group got up. Then you had to make left field out of bounds and have everyone shift. Or you could have the pitcher throw from the third base line, but that was just weird.

We never let lefthanded kids play.  They didnt really mind though.  Most were busy during the summers entertaining people at the circus.

APRTW wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

If I recall correctly from my sandlot days, in situations like those you just call right fall out of bounds.

That was fine until the one pain in the ass lefthanded hitter in your group got up. Then you had to make left field out of bounds and have everyone shift. Or you could have the pitcher throw from the third base line, but that was just weird.

We never let lefthanded kids play.  They didnt really mind though.  Most were busy during the summers entertaining people at the circus.

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APRTW wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

If I recall correctly from my sandlot days, in situations like those you just call right fall out of bounds.

That was fine until the one pain in the ass lefthanded hitter in your group got up. Then you had to make left field out of bounds and have everyone shift. Or you could have the pitcher throw from the third base line, but that was just weird.

We never let lefthanded kids play.  They didnt really mind though.  Most were busy during the summers entertaining people at the circus.

My left middle finger is pointed in your general direction.
I played Legion ball with a guy who hated left-handed pitchers. He's on the bench during a game bitching about "the stupid cock-eyed way left-handed pitchers wear their hats" among other traits, apparently oblivious to the fact that he's unleashing this screed on a left-handed pitcher with whom he had been a teammate for almost the entire summer.
Me: "You know who you're sitting next to, right?"
Him: "You're left-handed?!?"
And he wasn't even the dumbest guy I ever played ball with. That distinction goes to a guy who warmed the bench for my high school team. During every game, there was a faction who would look at the initial(s) on the other team's hats and associate a derogatory term. For example, Milton became "Morons," Braintree became "Bitches," and Natick became "Nerds." Brilliant, cutting edge stuff.
So when we played Framingham North, this genius sees the "FN" on their hats and says: "I got one. Fucking Knuckleheads."

So if Berkman and Freese are not goign to be healthy enough to make an impact then this team is the very same one we seen toward the end of 2010 and they sucked.

APRTW wrote:

So if Berkman and Freese are not goign to be healthy enough to make an impact then this team is the very same one we seen toward the end of 2010 and they sucked.

Don't forget we won't have Wainwright.

Max wrote:

don.rob11 wrote:

"I would not be surprised to see these ailments crop up at various times during the season and, in fact, would be surprised if Berkman finished the season with the Cardinals."



Wow, we get all this for 8 mil.  ?

Reminds me of the used car salesman in the Muppet Movie.

I'm thinking the Cardinals should have kicked the tires before making this purchase .

don.rob11 wrote:

....and in other news it looks like Motte got pushed around pretty good today . ( 5 hits, 5 earned runs , in 1 inning of "work" ! Maybe Dunc had him working on another pitch . and of course it's early, but Theriot can only see Mendoza with binoculars .

let's hope.  if he developed another pitcher he could be devastating.

"if he developed another pitcher he could be devastating."

Let's see how things go for a couple more years until we make him the second coming of Dave Duncan.