Happy Birthday Edgar! With Albert Pujols and Chris Carpenter the only remaining players from the Cardinals' last 100 win team, it seems time to start looking back on the early aughts with nostalgia instead of holding on to them in a bitter struggle to reclaim that glory. Of those active former Cardinals there are slim HOF pickins'. Obviously Albert Pujols has arguably played himself into the HOF already. JD Drew never realized his full potential. Chris Carpenter's brilliance and dominance has been too interrupted by vacations with Dr. James Andrews to give him a shot at it. Younger guys like Dan Haren, Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina are simply too far away to make any real projections. Jim Edmonds will be a case study in defense + small window of amazing offense + steroids era.
Viva El Birdos
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