They are pushing. He needs to take his time. See you next year Mark.

I think we’ve seen the last of Mark pitching at Busch Stadium. This is probably just a precursory move to the Cardinals tucking Mark away on the DL. They will sit him down for 15 more days and if they need a pitcher at the end of that, he’ll go back out on a 30 day rehab assignment to see if he has anything left.

I can only hope that once they realize picking up Mark’s option next year is a bad idea, they don’t turn around and hand that money to Kyle Lohse in the form of an extension. They need to stick to their guns with the rebuilding and use Lohse’s improved value to improve the franchise for the longterm at the trade deadline.

Arm slot problems?

Consider I made this post (http://felone.blogspot.com/2006/08/dont-worry-mark-im-sure-your-arm-slots.html) in August of 06 and he’s contributed nothing since shows what a wasted investment Mulder has been for the Cards.

I wish him well and hope he heals, but this feels like Joe Magrane or Donovan Osborne, eventually they are going to realize we can’t wait for him forever.

Let him go at the end of the year and hope it doesn’t bite you in the end.

I’ve seen both of his rehab starts in Memphis. I don’t think arm slot is the problem. He can’t seem to keep his pitches off the center of the plate (except when he hit a couple of guys last night). I think shoulder strength may be more the issue, just as it is after Matt Clement’s surgery. Has anyone had a Clement sighting recently? How are he and Carpenter progressing?.

Re: #4

I’m sorry, my arm slot problem comment was said with a tinge of a sarcasm. Arm slot problems were the common refrain when no one in Cards brass would admit his shoulder was hurt in 06 (pre surgey 1?)

If based on your observations his is throwing over the middle of the plate, he’s obviously going to rocked because he is only throwing high 80s. If this arm stuff isn’t an issue, maybe more time will give him the control he is missing.

The moment I heard the Cards had traded Haren for Mulder, I was ticked. Trading good young arms for older declining arms is something GM’s should learn NOT to do in GM 101.

Hindsight is obviously 20-20 here, as all of Cards Nation would like a do over here. At the time of the trade, Mulder was the winningest leftty in the game over the last 5 years, I believe, and Haren had shown that he may be a great pitcher. Mulder was only 28 at the time we picked him up, plenty of time for him to pitch for us in his prime before his decline. This was one of the only times in my recollection that the Cards actually went out and got one of the top arms in the game either in free agency or through a trade.

#7

exactly. it’s easy to call it a bad trade in hindsight. at the time mulder was unstoppable. i simply write off anybody who says it was a bad trade. it’s easy to say that now.

Your an idiot

Doesn’t anyone screen these posts for onscenities?