New Arm Left of the Mississippi

Yesterday the cards signed Dennys Reyes a LHP for the bullpen. He will be a Card through next season for $3 Mil total on his 2 yr deal. Last year he pitched for an ERA of 2.33 in 75 appearances and 46.1 total innings. His record was 3-0, and he allowed 40 hits, 15 BB, and struck out 39. The PD reports that over the last three seasons he has the lowest ERA of Southpaws in the Majors at 2.14.

The only downside to this signing is that Reyes is pitching for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic and that will keep him out of camp for the next few weeks.
It looks like the left side of the bullpen is set with Miller and Reyes (and should be a huge upgrade over last season).

Not to brag, but I called that a player would be brought in the day before this signing happened. I told you (As I have said before I have been aggressively following the team on-line for the last three off-seasons) I am starting to pick up on the rhythms of the FA thus my long winded open letter back when the blog started. I think the move of an outfielder comes in the next week and a half for either a proven middle infield utility guy or a back of the rotation starter.

If you get the chance look at the forums over at the PD’s site; the same people who were bitching that we needed to sign more lefties for the pen are now up in arms that Reyes is here the quotes still out there are that our two new lefties aren’t “good” some how. I still don’t get it, and we also have Ring as depth in addition to that handful of other LHPs. This is a nice time to introduce the term “VIs” to this blog this term comes courtesy of my dad and little brother and their observations of overheard conversations at Rams games. VI stands for “Village Idiot(s)” the logic being that when dumb people gather together, who are not the most deft at handling the English language when it comes to matters concerning professional sports, that some villages are without their resident idiot. The VIs these days are having a convention in their new convention center at the PD please give it a look if you need a good laugh. http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=612058

Here are the links to Reyes’ MLB profile page and then the PD’s coverage

http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=121096

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/120EB5E7F1A535C3862575710010E309?OpenDocument