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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
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Nearly 70 percent of the 2011 payroll is consolidated among six players: Pujols, Holliday, Carpenter, Kyle Lohse, Berkman and Jake Westbrook.
After 2012, at least 3 of them, maybe 4 won't be here and off the books.
Another significant issue is roster composition. While technically that's the domain of GM John Mozeliak, it's also true that Mozeliak has to strive to find players compatible with La Russa's wishes.
Larussa is here for one more year, at the most. As long as they don't trade Miller/Martinzez and ruin Garcia in a year. We will survive.
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Any time you can piss away 3 years of cost-controlled CF play (who happened to put up the #1 OPS among qualified CFers last season) to cater to the wishes of an insane lame-duck manager, you really have to.
I can't say how refreshing it will be to see LaRussa go, I just hope we don't replace him with Oquendo or keep Mozeliak. The entire regime needs to be shown the door. Rest assured, there will not be a long list of suitors for Moe's services as a GM.