Smoltz - Leaning to Signing with Cardinals

[Baron]

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Runnys, you're wrong. Carpenter signed a 5 year deal with the Cards in 2007 after pitching amazingly for them in the 3 previous seasons.
2004: 15-5, 3.46 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 123 ERA+
2005: 21-5, 2.83 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 149 ERA+
2006: 15-8, 3.09 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 144 ERA+

Holliday's situation is very similar other than the fact that he doesn't have a 3 year history with the team. I do think he'll be paid handsomely next season. The Cards can afford him too based on their salary commitments for 2010. Whether or not they choose to spend there money on him is another questions.
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The Cardinals resurrected his career by signing him when he had a torn labrum and paying him to rehab. How is that similar to Holliday?
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That's all well and good, but has nothing to do with his 2007 signing, which is what I am comparing Holliday's situation to.
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So you are saying that the Cardinals resurrecting his career had no effect on him giving them a below market value contract? Also, Carpenter was with the Cards for 3 years, got to know the city, got comfortable, felt he owed the Cardinals... how is that similar to Holliday?
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okay dipshit, i even qualified my comment that they are the same, except for the fact that Carp had the 3 year history. Scott Rolen's situation is identical. He was traded midseason in the year he became a FA. Carpenter's is similar in the fact that he's a stud in the prime of his career.

Is this so important that you have pick nits and get on my fucking nerves. Its a stupid pointless argument.
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So hostile. All I was pointing out is that Carpenter is not similar at all, Rolen is.