Comments on: Raiding the Farm: Revisiting Peavy

By: theredbaaron

theredbaaron — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:47:47 +0000

Shi- Look down at the very bottom of the page, in the blue margin area.

By: siddfynch

siddfynch — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:52 +0000

AZ, a “Herschel Walker” package of that size gives me the creeps…

That said, I really doubt it would take all those guys. If you built around Jones and added 2 players at need positions and one low-level, high-ceiling guy, it might do it.

Better yet, get a 3rd team involved. I’ve been chanting this for what seems like months now over on VEB.

By: Shi

Shi — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:31:19 +0000

This is random and not related to the topic, but I have a question. Back on the old futureredbirds.com site, there was a neat and funny little black smiley face in the right margin, just an inch or so to the right of FR Crew. Is there any way that a similar happy thing could be in the right margin of this site? I know that it is extremely unimportant, but I liked the character it added to the old site, FWIW. Thanks, and keep up the great work guys!

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:55:50 +0000

Danny Haren was not regarded the same as Colby Rasmus—the centerpiece of any Peavy trade

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:37:07 +0000

“Hyperventilating prospect geeks can’t even cite Jaime Garcia and Mike Parisi”

Let’s be clear. Strauss doesn’t read up on the farm. He’s not familiar with it nor does he want to take the time to invest in it. That’s fine. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But he certainly wasn’t reading here because we never cited Garcia and certainly not Parisi as ready for big league starting duty. The reason we “prospect geeks” can’t cite anyone is because the Cardinals, as an organization, royally blow at developing starting pitching.

Garcia should still turn out to be a mid-rotation starter (perhaps better) but his timetable is moved backwards by a year.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:26:36 +0000

If we didn’t already have the Carpenter contract hanging around our necks, taking a shot at Peavy would be intriguing assuming he could be had for one guy off our ML roster like Schumaker and prospects not named Rasmus. Walt handcuffed us. Were maxed out on the injury risk starting pitcher credit cards.

By: Cardinals645

Cardinals645 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:26:20 +0000

It’s funny that Strauss would put down, let’s call it “prospect appreciation”, while talking about Mark Mulder. It seems to me that if we had kept those prospects (OK, mostly just Dan Haren) and never made that trade, we’d have been a lot better off.
Carpenter, Wainwright, Haren? Yes, please.

By: SuperSeve

SuperSeve — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:51:52 +0000

Money are very important nowadays, so the padres cannot ask for too much return if they are not willing to eat some money. Schumaker+Boggs would already be more than enough for that salary dump. Being Mozielak, I would try to add Anderson and leave at least 3M$ of salary to the padres, this should be bearable due to pinero and glaus salaries off the book next year, the first replaced by Garcia and the second by Freese/Wallace.

GO CARDS!!!

By: gforce

gforce — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:33:42 +0000

i found this today and thought it was good. nothing new mind you but pretty cool that wallace is getting a lot of attention.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/waiting-for-wallace/

By: cards13

cards13 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:05:53 +0000

Forget Peavy, go get Halladay!