You'd like one or both of them to serve a bullpen apprenticeship for a month or two so they can A) continue to polish their stuff and B) limit their innings.

You could do that with both.

Waino, Westbrook, and Lynn have earned spots and are reasonable bets to stay healthy.

Garcia is a huge ?

Worst case scenario: Garcia is the broken down **** he appears to be in every important start.

Kelly, Rosenthal, and Miller play musical chairs with the final two spots. Each gets two months in the pen and four months in the rotation.

Don't forget Carlos Martinez, he's young but is on track for Memphis this year; has incredible stuff.

BTW-Happy trails, Carp.Game 3 of 06 WS & Game 5 of NLDS (against Halladay) are 2 great memories; he'll be missed.

Like Hamas listed, I'm comfortable with what we have too. We still have 7 pitchers for 5 spots.

Wainwright
Westbrook
Garcia
Lynn
Rosenthal
Miller
Kelly

Carp cant will the old bones for one more year. He has earned the thanks of a grateful Cardinal nation. those post season performances will never be forgotten by me and I'm sure others.
We only need a Shortstop of the future. Even if he traded our stud young pitching who would you have wanted?

ESPN (Kieth Law) says the Cardinals have the #1 farm system in the MLB.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story...lan-bundy-more

You just don't see baseball players with passion like that anymore. I sure hope some of that Carp attitude wore off on Rosenthal while he was working out with Carp this offseason.

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Sounds awesome. What does it mean?

While the news about Carpenter was not surprising it still sucks the same. Hopefully he can get healthy and pitch again at some point but if not he had quite and run with the Cards. That gif that Hamas posted was one of the great moments of being a Cards fan.

We have been fielding good teams at a reasonable prices for 20+ years.

I sure hope that he decides to coach. You just cant turn off that competitiveness.

That's not what that means at all.

According to Fangraphs, we have the first or second best cumulative team over the last 10,20,30,40 years.

Fangraphs is fWAR, Baseball Reference is rWAR.