200 Could be Pivotal for Cardinals

The St. Louis Cardinals added veteran players to their roster during the ’09 season, and finished first in the National League Central with a record of 91-71, only to go three and out to the Dodgers in the playoffs. Could the “ageing” team have run out of gas at the end of the year? With the solid fan base that they have, (six seasons in a row with attendance over 3-million) they’ll quickly want to add some youth to keep the fans coming.

 

No doubt the Cardinals are a good team and will want to lock up MVP Albert Pujols well beyond the 2011 season, but they could lose Matt Holliday and his productive baseball bat because of money issues. If that happens, other teams could pitch around Pujols-thus weakening his bat. They need solid, younger “protection” in the lineup to go with what they already have; a delicate balancing act for sure…

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