Clean Sweep
« Why? | Main | It's Alive! »Like the tired horse finally catching the exhausted horse, the Reds stand tied with the Cardinals tonight. That bothers me less than the exceedingly poor play of late. Two months ago I suggested this was a play-out-the-string season, and I still believe that. I'll admit it's been harder watching Team DFA than I had expected.
Derrick Goold's latest has ownership's perspective on this season, and they're not happy. DeWitt's defensive about payroll and the sweep at the hands of the Mets may reinforce his point. According to USA Today's salary database, the Cardinals have three pitchers they're paying more than Chris Carpenter. Those three pitchers are, in order, Jason Isringhausen, Mark Mulder and Jason Marquis, who just happen to be the three pitchers who took the L's in the recent series.
Posted by Rob at August 25, 2006 12:29 AMYeah, things continue to look bleak for the Cardinals. While I like the Wilson acquisition, i think the main problem for St. Loius is there starting pitching staff. Weaver, Marquis, and Mulder all pitched very, very poorly. I still have no idea why the Cards sent Reyes back down, but they're slowly killing themselves.
Posted by: mvyb at August 25, 2006 12:41 PMI'm with Rob, Isringhausen has to be included in the "this season's biggest problems" conversation. We're tied with Cincinnati (and we have to play two more games than they do down the stretch), and Izzy has blown 9 saves. If he preserves just a third of those, we're 3 games up.
I know there are lots of ways to "what if" this season thus far, and I'm not meaning to oversimplify it, just to emphasize the idea that Izzy hasn't done his job in roughly 25% of the times TLR trotted him out there.
TSF
Posted by: TedSimmonsFan at August 25, 2006 03:57 PM