January 31, 2006
Young Birds?
Cardinals Diaspora looks at the age of the Cardinals' hitters. He finds them young overall, but old in the wrong places:
Looking at the list, it's clear that age for the overall team isn't the problem. The problem is the age of several key cogs in the team, and the lack of young talent to step in for the aging ones. The most important gray beard is Edmonds, without whom success figures to be hard fought.
They basically have 2 young starters, Pujols & Molina.
The rest of the "young" players won't even make the team, except Luna as a backup to Spivey.