Best free agents $2 million and under
3. The Cardinals shelled out just $1.5 million to roll the dice on Matt Clement, a pitcher whose career strikeout ratio (7.75 per 9 IP) and opponent batting average (.248) are actually better than Roy Oswalt's (7.45 and .256). Who knew?
Most important injury comebacks
3. Chris Carpenter (Cardinals)
Rookies to watch (NL)
2. Colby Rasmus (Cardinals CF)
Most unlikely names on spring training rosters
1. Juan Gonzalez (Cardinals): What the heck is this man doing in anybody's camp? The last time a team took a chance on him -- that would be the 2005 Indians -- he played just well enough to collect a $600,000 bonus for making the roster, then pulled the plug after one at-bat. The year before, in Kansas City, he managed to miss the last 4½ months of the season with an injury that was once described as "day-to-day." So are the Cardinals that desperate for offense that they had to bring in a Mitchell report alumnus who last played more than 82 games in a season five years ago? For the record, since the last time Gonzalez drove in a run -- 1,366 days ago, on May 19, 2004 -- Albert Pujols has knocked in 322 of them.
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