Now what? Look at the mess that has been created. Let me say this right here in the first paragraph. Matt Holliday is the right person to bat behind Albert Pujols. But can we keep him? Did we give up too much during this season is a very clear effort to win it now.

The Cardinals gave up five prospects to acquire DeRosa and Holliday. Those are very good established players that we got. But they both coukd walk away and leave us high and dry. Those five prospects were exactly that, “prospects”. None of them had even a year of major league service time.

We got Smoltz as a signee.

When we acquired Khalil Greene we gave up two right-handed relievers. We acquired Julio Lugo for Chris Duncan and Lugo is the only player we got this is under contract for next year.

So what does management think?

“There are no regrets,” Mozeliak said while leaving the ballpark Sunday, the
day after his club was eliminated in the National League Division Series. “We
understood the risk we took. If you don’t win your division, you don’t get to
the postseason. When you look back, in hindsight, you understand that the
talent we gave up is real and rich. We stood by those moves from Day One and
thankfully they made for a very exciting season.

“Those moves propelled us to the postseason. Now, we didn’t succeed in the
postseason, so we need to take a look at that. I think it was a talented team
that ended up hitting a tough patch and didn’t rebound.”

We gave up a lot of talent to get to the postseason. The next team has to be built to go deeper into the playoffs.

The offseason is here. Some call it the Hot Stove League. Here at CGM we will explore what is prudent for the Cardinals to do before April 5th opener in Cincinnati.

Feel free to enter in with your opinions.

footnote: Don’t forget to put your name on the Sign Pujols for Life petition at http://MVPujols.com

By: motle on Oct 12th, 2009
Tagged as: GM Suggestions

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