A hearty Cardinals Welcome to our new GM, John Mozeliak.  Mo was promoted today.  FSNMW is running the live press conference now (channel 647, for those of you with DirecTV).

Reports from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch confirm a 3-year contract.

Welcome to a new era of Cardinals baseball!

Rent, don't buy.

A little nugget of wisdom from everybody's favorite Cardinal-hater.

Mike(Utica,NY): Where does Colby Rasmus rank as a top propsect?

 Keith Law: Top 20 in baseball. Maybe top 10, although I haven't tried to update my list recently and could be overstating it. He's very, very good.

A little perspective, if you will, on the wild and woolly NL Central as we close out the month of May.

*The Brewers have lost 13 of 17, and still hold a 5.5 game lead.
*The Pirates have lost 7 of 11 and are in second place.
*The Cubs have lost 14 of 20.
*The Cardinals are 15-27 against teams not named "Pittsburgh".
*The Astros have lost ten in a row, which is one short of the all-time franchise record.
*And Cincinnati has the worst record in the league.

Bryan Burwell and Joe Starkey from whatever damn newspaper they have in Pittsburgh both have columns on the woeful state of the division.  Turns out the NL Central is on pace to be the worst division ever since baseball's unfortunate realignment to six divisions.   (Memo to TLR: eight games below .500 is not "treading water".  It's more like "drowning".)

Another move has been made.  Reyes is off to AAA.  Right now on the TV broadcast, Rick Horton is going on about the lack of run support Anthony Reyes has gotten, and it's true that he doesn't deserve to be 0-8, but the fact of the matter is that a 6.08 ERA is fucking terrible.  Reyes has richly earned this demotion.  The young man has a lot of problems with his mechanics and his ability to pitch low in the strike zone.  I do not know what the answer is with Anthony.  It's hard not to look at his great minor league numbers and his occasional flashes of promise in the bigs (the one-hitter against the White Sox, that fine outing in the World Series) and not think that he has potential as a big-league pitcher.  But then you watch him get his bell rung again and again and think otherwise.  In any case, it will be good to get him in the minors, where he can hopefully get himself straightened out without taking a pounding for the big club every five days.