It was announced today that Alert Pujols and Ryan “Trade me while you can” Ludwick were the only two recipiants form the Redbirds of the annual Silver Slugger Award. What is the Silver Slugger Award you say? In a nutshell, it’s the best offensive player at each defensive position. Or in other words…it’s illrelivant! [...]
According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports that’s what’s being shopped right now. So would you like to chance it with another season of potential production from Ludwick, and Skip and hope Boggs can make the team or would you like to have Matt Holliday “protect” El Hombre?
All day long! It’s the modern day “Brock for Broglio“! That might be a bit of a stretch, but Matt Holliday is a great Moneyball type player. Even with an “off” 2008 Matt Holliday had a .947 OPS. In 2007, when he finished second to Jimmy Rollins in MVP voting his [...]
Would you trade Ryan Ludwick (.299 BA, and 113 RBI’s in 538 AB’s) for Yunel Escobar (.288 BA, and 60 RBI’s in 514 AB’s) ? You betcha! Even though Ludwick had an OPS nearly 200 higher than Escobar, I really think that Ludwick had an aberation year. Guys just don’t “get good” at age [...]
The Chicago Cubs’ humiliating postseason collapse was not the result of shaky pitching, nonexistent hitting or an infield as porous as Missouri limestone. Rather, the club’s demise was preordained at a Tennessee tattoo parlor some 600 miles from Wrigley Field. That’s where lifelong fan Jimmy Burroughs got the Cubs logo etched onto his right shoulder [...]
Signing Kyle Lohse. - The right thing to do. I think mosy will agree taht he was a bit lucky in the first half posting a 9-2 record and he came back to ground and showed his true presence. But, I think he’s a quality guy, right for this coaching staff and will continue to [...]
Tardiness of late is an understatement for my lack of posting. I get relatively strong traffic even though I don’t post very often, but I don’t do this for fame, fortune, or glory. I heart baseball. That’s the real reason for doing any posts at all. Besides, when I saw that the brockabrella domain was [...]
Perhaps too early to call them chokers yet, but by media accounts said, there is a bit consciencious that has them thinking of “curses.” Sorry to hear that. Choke Image courtesy of Sanftleben.com
Another rise in my blood pressure, another reason to request some pitching help, another loss when scoring fewer than 3 (they’re like 6-32 when scoring less than 3 runs a game), another reason to listen to Nick & The Badger, another moment of grief added to my life. I still love baseball and my Cardinals [...]
While watching the seesaw battle with the Padre’s tonight (we should NOT be losing to these guys! Ludwick just tied it up!!!) Dan McLaughlin did a little segment with Sweet Lou. Lou was there to plug his annual golf tournament which this year will be on Monday August 4, 2008 at Forest Hills Country Club [...]
