Today, the St. Louis Cardinals posted on their website that they could be front runners for former Giants ace Jason Schmidt. Schmidt has made two serious pushes for the Cy Young award over the last five years, and he stands as one of the two major pitchers left on the market. Apparently, Schmidt has said that he wouldn't mind playing in St. Louis and that he would reconsider taking a smaller deal to get the opportunity. Although Schmidt isn't as shut-down as he was four years ago when he finished second in the Cy Young balloting, he is still a very considerable strikeout pitcher and would look pretty damn good in the two-slot behind Chris Carpenter.
This would a 1-2 punch that the Cardinals have lacked over the years, and it would certainly give the Cardinals the best top of the rotation in the central division.
Other Rumors out of Cardinal Camp:
*Does anybody know what the deal with Jeff Suppan is? One day he is close to coming back, and the next day he is as good as gone. I was a believer about a week ago, but it doesn't look so good anymore. It seems like the Cardinals have a much better shot with re-signing Jeff Weaver. I guess the question becomes whether or not Jason Schmidt affects the possibility of getting Suppan back, and I don't think it does. I'm pretty sure the Cardinals are going to do everything in their power to get Suppan at a descent deal, no matter who else is in the rotation.
*The Cardinals are also reportedly in talks with right-hander Miguel Batista, and bullpen fire-thrower Octavio Dotel. They've also met with the agent for Mark Mulder numerous times over the last two weeks.
*Supposedly, they are considering making Braden Looper a fifth starter as well, although this seems far-fetched. BIG Walt has seconded that rumor, however.
*How would Chris Carpenter, Jason Schmidt, Jeff Suppan, Mark Mulder, and Adam Wainwright look as our top five starters? Maybe we're closer than we think, but I doubt it.
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Nice post dipshit. It only took about 30 seconds after your post for Jason Schmidt to sign with the LA Dodgers. And by the way, Schmidt had been quoted numerous times that it would take MORE money to get him to leave the West Coast.
Thanks for the response, anonymous. 30 seconds later is still 30 seconds later though, and I'm not sure I deserved to be called names. It does seem as though Schmidt will sign with the Dodgers on a 3 year, $47 million deal, although as of 4:23 central time the deal had not been finalized.
In Matthew Bleach's article this morning on STLCARDINALS.COM, it said this: "(Randy) Hendricks acknowledged that despite a couple of perceived hindrances to a deal, Schmidt wouldn't mind being a Cardinal. He said that Schmidt's preference to remain on the West Coast is real, but has been overblown, and that the Cardinals' reluctance to offer a pact of more than three years would not be a problem."
I'm pretty sure my blog mentioned a "smaller deal" which doesn't necessarily mean less money, but could also mean less time.
Plus, I thought the "dipshit" reference would have been more appropriate towards the suggestion I made about our starting rotation going: Carp, Schmidt, Suppan, Mulder, and Wainwright. Which would mean that we would have signed three of the heaviest sought-after pitchers on the market, and left recently signed Kip Wells out of the rotation and all of a sudden totally forgot about Anthony Reyes. Now THAT was a dipsheet comment, me speculating on rumors coming out of a closed-door meeting room half way across the country was just giving you the facts.
I was reading some of your old posts to get caught up in things and I noticed one that mentioned the Rams Defense and Martz not using a draft pick on defense. That statement is flat wrong. He used many 1st round picks on D, just didnt develop any of them. How about Damione Lewis, Ryan Pickett, Adam Archuleta, Jimmy Kennedy, Robert Thomas. Or 2nd Round picks Ron Bartell, Pisa Tinoisamoa, Travis Fisher, Tommie Polley, Jacoby Shepherd. Just to name a few 1st and 2nd Rounders selected by Martz.
Hey Dave, forget that idiot... but anyway I wouldn't mind picking up Octavio myself for our bullpen needs a fireballer to come out and leave runners in scoring position. I believe Schmidt may be out of our reach but who knows... And I truly can't see the Soup going anywhere else but that is just me... But I really believe we need another bat in the outfield... any news on Luis Gonzalez??
Luis Gonzalez signed with the Dodgers today retard. Don't call people idiots when you ask stupid questions like that.
Bonds? Please no. St. Louis would hate him and it would just be wrong to bring him to St. Louis. But how nasty would our lineup be with him hitting behind Phat Albert. Wow!
hey anonymous, are you on this thing every second of the day? you act like the minute someone gets signed, any question about him is stupid. some people don't check the signings every five seconds, and aren't sure about who or what got signed. so just chill out a second and give people a day or two.
plus, schmidt didn't sign until today, so you're comment the other day to dave was a little harsh, considering it wasn't true until nearly 24 hours later. i would've thought you would've known that, considering you're so up-to-date.
is this TJ from sikeston?
Don't get on people's asses for being informed.
TJ from Charleston would've have written in all CAPS and you wouldn't have been able to understand his grammar. This cat is ridiculous too. Dave, you're doing a great job and I love your input. So how much trouble are the birds in now? Leaving the meetings with serious starting pitching issues. I like the thought of Dotel. This would allow for us to put Wainwright in the starter role right away and put Dotel closing until Izzy returns. Therefore we would only need one more starter (not Looper). Schmidt would've been very nice, but I guess that is out of the picture. And I don't ever want to hear Bonds' name ever mentioned again in the same sentence with the Cardinals.
Anonymous I am not too upset considering I was just 3 hours late with that comment. So I apologize for having a life, unlike yourself, and had class durring that period of time and was unaware. I am sorry that I am not sitting on the computer waiting for the next big sporting news to come out to make David or anyone else sound bad or "retarded." So I apologize to not being as big of a super-fan as yourself. You should be very proud of yourself! So congrads to you and you are well deserving of a high five! From your friend "retard."
Just do 2 seconds of research before you post something so you can actually sound like you know what you are talking about. No big deal, Luis Gonzalez sucks anyway.
Dotel went to the Royals buddy. And I don't ever want to hear Dotel's name mentioned as the Cards closer ever again. You might as well ask for Jeff Brantley to come out of retirement. And about all you who are so excited about Izzy coming back, it must be bittersweet knowing that his injury this year might have been the main reason the Cards are Champs right now.
yea, that could be it. or the fact that our starting pitching was solid and david eckstein simply refuses to lose. we might never lose another game again as long as he's a cardinal, he's simply the perfect baseball player.
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