Cards apparently get Holliday

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So much for him "aging" and being ready to fall off a cliff after 3 consecutive career years. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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right. i never understood that argument.
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the argument was, and is, a guy who has a career year at 32 is unlikely to keep it up, let alone get better. It's possible, and DeRosa seems to be bucking the trend, but in most cases a guy will get worse after that.

to put it another way, the cubs have invested in both trade and free agent $$ in tons of guys who put their best season together after they turn 30. It has rarely worked out for them. Unless you were a big fan of the Blauser signing.
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he had three career years in a row. i thought he might regress a little this year, but not significantly. i figured .280/15/70. looks like i was wrong.
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DeRosa wasn't going to require a big investment. $5.5M this season. And I think it's reasonable to expect a slight regression, but why should he fall off a cliff? Fuck, I wish we still had him instead of Fontenot.