Pujols Signs With Angels

[Lesson]

80 million, from what I understand.

Give or take a few million after Motte gets a raise.

[ilstu24]

I do like the comments that he doesn't want to make many trades because he loves where our farm system is at.

[OmahaCard79]

I agree with MO. Unless it's a great trade for STL, no reason to trade just to trade.

[ManEatingTarp]

Screw it. I say we sign Fielder.

Not my money.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Hey where is TM54 when you need him to make us all feel better about losing Pujols. Damnit man if there was ever a time!!

[ilstu24]

Screw it. I say we sign Fielder.

Not my money.

I kind of feel like this. I put less than a 5% chance the Cardinals do that though. Not an ideal situation for him to walk into, nobody wants to be Albert's replacement.

[fanforever]

So to sum up what Mo said....They were not exploring other options. but they will be active later, The cardinals Offer yo Albert was Robust. he would not get into terms or dollars...He will not get into the Cecil Fielder Free Agency stakes, and in regards to the urgency for another bat he said not really. Don't want a knee jerk reaction. Craig will be out a month or two at the most. So we don't want to take away from his (Craig's) atbats. A question was asked in regards to the free agent route and he said he would rather go with free agents because the Cardinals minor league system is good and he does not want to deplete the farm system.

[mikechamp]

So to sum up what Mo said....He will not get into the Cecil Fielder Free Agency stakes...

Yes, please stay out of that, Mo.

[IMADreamer]

If there is player that could fill Albert's shoes it would be Fielder though. I know he's not Albert but he is a top tier firstbaseman. With that said I don't really want us to get him. With Craig out for a month or two though I think next year may be a wash already. Our team certainly isn't better then last year at this point and while we were world champions we did have a pretty awful regular season. I'm not sure we are any where near the playoffs next year, but to be fair I believe that when we had Pujols.

[Cronos]

If there is player that could fill Albert's shoes it would be Fielder though. I know he's not Albert but he is a top tier firstbaseman. With that said I don't really want us to get him. With Craig out for a month or two though I think next year may be a wash already. Our team certainly isn't better then last year at this point and while we were world champions we did have a pretty awful regular season. I'm not sure we are any where near the playoffs next year, but to be fair I believe that when we had Pujols.

Really? I know it's easy to feel doomy and gloomy after today, but let's step back from the ledge a bit.

They won 90 games, and they did it after having pretty much everything go wrong (barring the comeback of Berkman) with injuries aplenty and a down year from Albert. Even with the loss of Albert, getting Wainwright back, ditching the terrible defense of Theriot, having a far better structured and more talented bullpen from the outset (instead of screwing around with guys like Tallet, Franklin, Batista and Augenstein), and even before they make any more moves I would think they'll be pretty close to ending at around the 87-90 win level.

I don't know. Unless people think the Brewers are going to win 96 games again, I think they're looking to be okay, even without Pujols.