As it stands right now, the Card's are producing just 2.89 runs per game and relying heavily on what was supposed to be a very questionable pitching staff. as i look around the web and through different articles, everyone is talking about our pitching and trying their hardest ignore the fact that Albert Pujols is hitting just .176 with one homerun in 34 at-bats, meanwhile Chris Duncan is batting .320 with two homeruns in 25 at-bats and getting us out of 9th inning jams and helping us sweep a young and eager Pirates team.
i'm still wondering what's going to happen before the trade deadline. even with Carpenter on the DL and a serious question at least for the next 2 weeks, possibly 2-3 months if he needs surgery...i'm thinking we might need to find some offense somewhere. this isn't the only time we'll have rolen out and pujols struggling and we have to be able to survive and produce when those guys are injured or slumping and we can't always count on Edmonds to pick up the slack.
right now we are batting right at .272, which is where we typically have hovered at each year since 2001. we batted .278 during 2004, but if we can continue to stay around .270 and bring some more runs home instead of hit into DP's, i think we'll be in decent shape...especially when you compare it to the fact that the Astros batting average over the last seven years has been around .257 and the Cubs sit around .263
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