Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Starting Rotation: St. Louis Friction

Filed under: Athletics, Cardinals, Rockies, NL West, MLB AwardsGet your weekend off on the right foot with an eclectic look around the major leagues from Pat Lackey and Andrew Johnson in The Starting Rotation.

The Ace: Colby Rasmus' Cardinal Sin

How long is too long for a manager to be in one place? How soon is too soon for a budding young hitter to request a trade when he isn't getting the playing time he feels he deserves? Those are the questions we're left with now that the apparently growing rift between Cardinals center fielder Colby Rasmus and manager Tony La Russa has been dragged out into the light of day.

We don't know the full details of what happened between Rasmus and La Russa. Probably only a handful of people ever will. Did Rasmus do more to wear out his welcome than simply asking out of town? Did La Russa push a few of the wrong buttons as he seems to have done in the past with the likes of J.D. Drew, Jim Edmonds and Scott Rolen?

That's for the Cardinals to know, and for us to wonder about, and there's no question that the folks in the front office at Busch Stadium are best equipped to make all the important decisions on this situation.

But that doesn't mean we don't know a few things looking at the Cardinals from afar. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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