LaRussa will never give high Luhnow draft picks or Dominican signings a chance to start on his team. Rasmus, T. Greene, Bryan Anderson, C. Perez, Wallace, etc. Those guys get too much hype. Sanchez is Luhnow’s first Dominican signing to reach the bigs, Duncan does his magic and voila, he’s got a torn rotator cuff that Duncan says is Sanchez’ fault for not conditioning his shoulder properly. Okay, sure. Shelby, Cox, C-Mart, and Taveras: I can almost guarantee something will be found to be wrong with these guys if LaRuncan is still around.

Your list of young players that LaRussa has coddled looks like a bunch of guys who were not drafted by Luhnow. It’s a lot different treatment for the Luhnow guys. Coincidence? Molina (not Luhnow), Garcia (refused to bring him up in Sept 2009, then brought in Rich Hill in 2010 to keep him down), McClellan (not Luhnow), Pujols (not Luhnow), Skip (not Luhnow), Freese (not Luhnow), Descalso (still behind Theriot, Punto & Skip), Craig (TLR wanted to sign Berkman rather than give Craig the starting RF position), Jay (will be interesting to see if he gets more starts in CF than Patterson & Skip), Salas (somehow didn’t make the roster out of spring training ahead of Augenstein), Sanchez (career threatened after one month with Duncan), Boggs (sent him down earlier this year instead of Batista or Franklin and has never defined his role), & Motte (not Luhnow).

And before you annoint Berkman the MVP, you might want to wait and see how many games he misses with the rotator cuff.

So the difference between he and Theriot is that Greene has options?

Craig was being banished for not having success as a pinch hitter but when Mac tells TLR that he needs consistent AB’s he will be an asset to the team then walla look who is getting the at bats and starting to succeed. Tyler needs steady playing time to prove whether he is AAAA fodder and organizational depth or actually a MLB contributor. Somewhere around 3 out of 4 days on the field for 3 to 4 weeks and evaluate from there.