I think the Cards philosophy (or at least Jocketty’s) was to get cheap, older veterans who had been good in years past. When the new GM came in, Mozeliak, I thought it was going to be different, but I guess not. I guess he’s crossing his fingers and hoping Greene has a good season. They did the same thing with Felipe Lopez this past year, but it paid off pretty well.

I don’t feel like the Cards are always feeling like they’re two years away from competing. However, that’s exactly what I thought to get me through the 2007 and 2008 seasons (even though 2008 didn’t turn out nearly as bad as I thought it would). However, we do have some good prospects for once and I think we will be able to compete for the central title soon.

Hopefully Mozeliak turns it around and gets us going on a new path. Even though I don’t know why “you never get the Cardinals.” It had been a very successful franchise even though they can’t compete with the Cubs payroll wise. I think they do what they have to do and make it work a lot of the time. The last couple years haven’t been great but the three years before that the Cards had great teams.

who is their closer for now, and the future.

Since Greene was apparently included in the Peavy/Escobar deal, I think teams will see through that bluff. Saving $6.5M from Greene’s contract doesn’t do nearly enough (even if they deal Giles) to get them under the salary mandate, as I understand it.