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11/08/2005: "Cardinals One Step Closer to Division Win"


Neifi Perez inks two year deal with Cubs, reportedly worth $6 million. Yes, the same contract given to Reggie Sanders back in 2003-2004. For Neifi Perez. The size of the contract also implies they imagine the 32-year-old Perez, who had a career-high OPS+ of 77 last year (23% below average), to be a competent starter. Neifi Perez's career line is .270/.301/.380. He's spent about half his career playing for the Colorado Rockies. He once hit .236/.260/.303 over an entire season. There're no jokes to be made, here, friends. Like Michael Jackson, a mention of his name is enough to temporarily turn anyone into Bob Hope. In fact, it's funny to everybody except Cubs fans and Ronny Cedeno, the erstwhile SS prospect whom Dusty Baker will now certainly block for another season. Behind Neifi Perez.

Now you understand why Walt didn't make a trade for an established reliever at the deadline. As has been said before, this is the last time anybody asks him to work on a cutter.

When the GM denies he's looking to trade Kevin Mench, you start to worry. Naturally, this means a trade is imminent. I don't want to keep mentioning him, because I think that would only encourage some particularly impish baseball god to engineer an eighteen-team deal that leaves the Cardinals with Kevin Mench, Neifi Perez and an inadvertantly-resurrected Silver King. But are we really that sure that some platoon of The Johns couldn't put up the same numbers as Mench? And do you really want me to call him uberMench every time, ironic or not? Because you know it'd happen, and there's really nothing I can do about it.

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on Tuesday, November 8th, ryan vb said

Hmmmm...
What's going on in Chicago? They've signed Neifi and Todd Walker, and they're supposedly hot for Furcal. Two things, they could trade Walker OR they've dropped pursuit of Furcal and intend to go after other hitters, Giles perhaps???



on Tuesday, November 8th, Matt said

Now if someone can convince the 18-million-dollar-man Jeff Bagwell to put off retirement for one more year, the Cards will be even closer.



on Tuesday, November 8th, Matt said

Ryan, I belive they will be saving the money they'd spend on Furcal and pursuing A.J. Burnett. He fits the young, oft-injured, bad-attitude, fire-baller profile that the northsiders crave.



on Tuesday, November 8th, ryan vb said

If they thought he was oft injured in FLA, wait till Dusty get ahold of that arm!



on Wednesday, November 9th, ike said

As Cards fans go, I'm not very anti-Cub, but still when I saw the news about Neifi I did a full Nelson: Haw Haw!

I'm pretty apathetic about Mench but we could at least call him The Mench to complement the Man and El Hombre. He would be the Vic Dimaggio of that trio though.



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