Well the pot has been stirring about Walt recently and whether or not he'll still be in St. Louis after this year. A while back there were stories about there being big differences in the front office since this Jeff Luhnow guy, who was hand picked by DeWitt, and Tony and Walt. Now those stories are coming back out in the form of "Jocketty's immanent departure and what not. I won't go into it fully, but you can read for yourself over at Vivaelbirdos.com.
We as Cardinal fans will look at Jocketty and blame him for the lack of moves in the past few off-seasons. It make sense really...he's the one making the deals so he's the one to blame right??? But if you look at the numbers you will realize that Walt probably has done his best with what he's been given. In 2005 the Cardinals had the 6th highest payroll, this year they've dropped down to 11th. AFTER WINNING A WORLD SERIES!!!! I'm not one that likes to call out the owners as being cheap. But they have one of the best GM's in all of baseball but refuse to give him the resources that he needs to keep up with the times...what do they expect is going to happen?
If Walt leaves after this year, the Cardinals will be in for some long years ahead.
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