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This is all moot -- Skip's ready. Cards are DL'ing Berkman and adding Skip, per Goold and Langosh on Twitter. Shane Robinson is now the power bat off the bench.

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oh, and I am in total agreement with your idea Fat of calling up Adams and keeping Carpenter on the bench as a means to make the team stronger.

More on this from the broadcast...

Mo says Skip will come up, but he would not hesitate to bring Adams up. He didn't come up because he's not on the 40 man, but Mo won't hesitate to add him and bring him up. Feels like he is ready for the majors.

You have to wonder how close Craig is. And I'm real curious to see what Matheny does with Skip. 2B has been an offensive black hole so far and Greene and Descalso are getting plenty of ab's to turn it around.

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Per Rotoworld:

The Cardinals considered recalling Triple-A first base prospect Matt Adams to take Lance Berkman's (calf) roster spot.
The Cards instead decided to accelerate the rehabbing Skip Schumaker's (oblique) timetable, and will stick with the hot-hitting Matt Carpenter at first base in Berkman's absence. "It came down to if you're going to play him, sure, but with Carpenter doing what he's doing, he can get the large share of at-bats," GM John Mozeliak said. Adams is not on the 40-man roster. The 2011 Texas League player of the year, Adams is off to a roaring start for Triple-A Memphis, hitting .389/.421/.648 through his first 57 plate appearances. He'll likely see the bigs at some point this season, but only as a bench player or September call-up. He's well worth monitoring in deep keeper leagues.

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If you think about it, it's really Matt Carpenter's fault that Matt Adams wasn't called up. If he hadn't been doing so well, we wouldn't have decided to have him step in for Berkman.

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"You have to be concerned about the future, but you also have to be more concerned about the present. If you have to give up two or three young kids - who may not be able to play for several years - to get help for your team now, you have to do it." - Bing Devine, 1999

"They call baseball a game because it's too screwed up to be a business." - Jim Bouton, 1971.

"Big deal. Anyone can win games when the other team doesn't score any runs." - Curt Flood to Bob Gibson, circa 1968

The question is will Adams get enough at bats this year with the big club to make it a tough choice of who to go with next year at 1B, Berkman or Adams.

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Don't push it. Make sure he's 100% before bringing him back.

I suspect Adams gets to repeat AAA next year unless he has a season for the ages. RF doesn't open up for Craig until 2014.

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I have a sinking feeling that what we got out of Berkman in 2011 is all we're going to get out of him, at least in terms of outstanding performance, and that from here on out, we'll get the 2010 version - if that much.

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"You have to be concerned about the future, but you also have to be more concerned about the present. If you have to give up two or three young kids - who may not be able to play for several years - to get help for your team now, you have to do it." - Bing Devine, 1999

"They call baseball a game because it's too screwed up to be a business." - Jim Bouton, 1971.

"Big deal. Anyone can win games when the other team doesn't score any runs." - Curt Flood to Bob Gibson, circa 1968