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Originally Posted by Rams Fan
So, have your rotation be centered around 2 reclamation projects, one of which was coming off severe injury problems (who would miss the WS but go onto win the CYA in 2005), 2 #3-4 caliber SPs, and arguably the second best SP the organization has developed in the past 30 years anchored by the one of the greatest hitters of all time, a HoF 3B, a great CF, and a good SS?
Personally, I think the 2005 Cardinals would be the better example of how to want to construct a team. 2004 had a lot of things go right. 2005 was basically the same team with a better rotation and Nuñez at 3B with Rolen being injured.
MV3 is something that I don't think can be easily replicated.
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You should build your team to be as much of a juggernaut as possible. That team had HOF talent acquired through the draft, shrewd trades, reclamation projects, and augmented it with excellent FA signings.
Mozeliak would have been too scared to trade away Bud Smith and Polanco for Rolen. He would have thought Kent Bottenfield was a lock down ace. He would have never bargain shopped for Carpenter or traded peanuts for Larry Walker. It ain't in him.
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