Time To Talk

It's not the Winter Meetings, but it's as close as you get this time of year.  The Cardinals and the rest of baseball will be spending some time in the Hotel California (OK, really the St. Regis) doing some foundation work.  Joe Strauss has it covered over at the PD.

Here's Mo on Carpenter in that article:

"There are things we're going to do. When I say we have to see where Carp is at, if there is any chance he's not going to start we're going to have to look at a different market," said Mozeliak, insistent he is "bullish" on Carpenter's availability next April.

Most people are going to wonder if Mo can keep to that.  Because odds are there's at least a decent chance Carpenter won't be able to start, at least for a while.  Will they factor that in?  Or will they go with some sort of stopgap measure until it's proven one way or another?  Because if they wait, quality replacements likely won't be there.

It'll be interesting to see if the resigning of Jason LaRue means that Bryan Anderson is expendable.  I don't think that's necessarily something that flows from that signing.  Anderson probably isn't ready for prime time yet anyway, so you give him another year and have him ready to go in 2010.

That doesn't mean he won't get traded, just that I don't think he has to be traded.  And, of course, the Cardinals aren't the only ones putting young catching on the market.

Derrick Goold has a little more on trade possibilities today over at Bird Land.

Hope some news--or at least interesting rumors--start flowing this week!


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