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The Cardinals cruised Nike Darwin Men Shoes to the NL Central last season with a 91-71 record, 7.5 games in front of second place Chicago. They accomplished it despite an $11 million decline in payroll in the previous year down to around $90 million. They're maintaining that much cla in 2010 even with adding Matt Holliday.

Just because the payroll is remaining fairly static, the projected win totals for that Cardinals is near to their 2009 actual totals. FanGraphs readers po se s the Cardinals at 88 wins for 2010, an enormous ten games over the second place Cubs. That is twice the separation a sociated with a other division. CHONE agrees too with the Cardinals topping the NL Central at 91 wins, ten games ahead of the Brewers and Reds.

Around the infield, Yadier Molina, Albert Pujols, Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan all return. Theyre all reasonably young and none really had Nike Cortez Unisex Shoes outrageously fluke-filled seasons so St. Louis fans must have an excellent idea of what is in store in 2010. I would expect slightly le s offense in the right side, but Schumaker might make up for your with increased defensive prowe s at second base with increased experience there. What is le s known is at third base where David Freese and Felipe Lopez will battle for the majority of playing time.

Matt Holliday, Colby Rasmus and Ryan Ludwick all return for that Cardinals outfield Nike Kaishi 2.0 Br Women Shoes though there appears to be some questions as to who definitely are providing depth behind the starting three. Holliday and Ludwick are roughly average gloves in the corners but Rasmus provides an opportunity for an advantage defender in center and clearly the 3 can swing the stick a bit.

While Joel Pineiro is not likely to repeat the succe s he had in 2009 for the Angels this holiday season, his lo s still hurts the Cards some. They did import Brad Penny to help ease a number of that pain however. The fifth spot was Kyle McClellans to get rid of and that he apparently has as Jaime Garcia appears to have been named towards Nike Air Max 1 Shoes the post. Neverthele s, his hold is tenuous and McClellan together with Rich Hill yet others are lurking. Still, it should remain an excellent unit for St. Louis.

The bullpen returns largely Nike Flex 2016 Rn Shoes intact and thats a le ser positive because they were unimpre sive in 2009. Still, they were not a tragedy and when thats the worst unit around the team, its not bad enough to avoid the Cardinals from playing postseason baseball.

When it comes down to it, this years Cardinals look nearly the same as this year's Cardinals and for a group thats not overly old and won the division last year, thats the best thing.