Cards hotly pursuing Burnett
November 29th, 2005
The St. Louis Cardinals continue to set their gaze on A.J. Burnett in this year’s free agent market. Given the signings of B.J. Ryan for $47 million and Billy Wagner for $43, Burnett won’t come cheaply. My guess is he’ll get at least $55 million over five seasons.
I’d sure like to see him wearing the birds on the bat next season. A rotation of Chris Carpenter, Mark Mulder, Burnett, Jeff Suppan and Anthony Reyes looks might nice.
It does indeed sound nice. However, I don’t know if I can take another year of awesome regular season play followed by nada in October. We need the bats to stay hot 7 months in a row. I look forward to our first game at the new park, Tim!
Hey Jeremy, I agree. I just hope that they can stay healthy this year… maybe we need to make a come-from-behind run at the end of the year and make the playoffs as a wild-card team with bats-a-blazin….. (that seems to be the trend over the past few years) BTW, I will be there in ‘06 when the first pitch is thrown at the new stadium…..
I was surprized to see the cards going after Burnett so strongly, because it sounded like the picthing was pretty much set. I think an younger outfielder is more essential right now, aswell as resigning Grudzielanek. But, if we could resign Mark, sign burnett, and trade Marquis for a good young outfielder, that may be the best case scenerio. In the end, I have tremendous faith in Walt J., so i’m sure we will end up just fine.
Y’all can have him. I’m relieved the Red Sox went for Beckett instead. Burnett leaves me unsteady.