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After going through all the e-mails and responding to each one individually, I’m pleased to announce the new staff that will be contributing at the site.  While I don’t have all their admin accounts set up (weekend goal), I didn’t want to hold off on the names for much longer.

Daily Farm Reports:
Azruavatar
Jeff Roman
Hardcore Legend

Columnists:
Erik (FR’s godfather)
The Red Baaron
Dustin Mattison
Alex Fritz
Fewgoodcards
Picklefork

Your expectations for the blog should remain largely unchanged.  DFRs should be accesible by a reasonable time in the morning (8am CDT) and an afternoon column should be posted each weekday as well (2pm CDT).  The caliber of writing should be top notch and our goal is to continue to bring you closer to the Cardinals farm system on a daily basis.  I’m hopeful to have a greater focus on the draft and college baseball this year as well.  Personally, I’m looking forward to working with the new writers and reading their opinions.

Go Cardinals! (and Redbirds and Cardinals and Cardinals and Swing and Muckdogs and all the other mascots I can’t remember).

Man, you guys are awesome. I never had any idea there would be such an outpouring of support for FR after I announced I was pulling the plug. Since the site means so much to you and us, we won’t just walk away cold, but some changes will be made.

I’ll be hanging out in the background and azruavatar will be filling in my shoes as the administrator/main writer/editor of FR.  I said I’d be willing to hand this baby off to someone I trust, and AZ was my right hand man here at FR for a long time.  I believe he’s tremendously talented and knowledgeable, and I’m happy he offered to assume responsibility for the blog. You guys are in great hands. He will be looking for some help and specific details will be forthcoming regarding openings on the writing staff early next week.

As for myself, I’ll be around here and there, but nowhere near the capacity as before. When I find the time and feel inspired, I’ll write. I’ll just sort of come and go as I please. I believe this arrangement ought to make everyone happy.

I’ll be talking a little NL Central along with the guys at Beyond the Boxscore tomorrow at 1 central time.

Oh, and an hour before that John Sickels and Jeff Erickson will be talking NL and AL Central prospects on Prospect Tuesday’s, part of Rotowire’s coverage on BlogTalkRadio.

Please help me welcome him to the site. I’m thrilled to have him contributing here at FR and I’m sure many of you know him from is work at The Birdhouse and his own blog. Dustin is a great writer and someone who knows the farm system backwards and forwards, so I’d say he will fit here pretty well. He’s pretty busy with his own blogging and contributions at Scout.com, but he will be around about once a week to give us his unique point of view.