A Few Quick Thoughts on the Cards Heading into Monday's Game

1. The Cardinals are apparently desperate enough for offense that they're looking at bringing up Troy Glaus to play left field or just as a pinch hitter. He still can't throw without pain, so Brendan Ryan would have to sprint out from shortstop to get the ball flipped to him if the ball gets hit to left. This could result in a lot of singles becoming doubles and with the Cards having a ground ball inducing pitching staff, they could lose out on a lot of double plays this way.

2. St. Louis is apparently interested in Adam Dunn. Dunn is a terrible outfielder and he strikes out a lot. A lot of times, it looks like he swings the bat as hard as he can with his eyes closed. That being said, Chris Duncan and Rick Ankiel aren't making contact with their eyes wide open, so I'd be open to bringing in Dunn. He's currently making $10 million a year with Washington after signing with them in the offseason, but they could give him up as they only signed him to a two-year deal and they clearly aren't going anywhere this year or next. 

3. Duncan and Ankiel have just three hits and two RBI combined during the month of July. Joel Pineiro has matched that total on his own this month. Oh, and he's done it in 40 fewer at-bats while pitching lights out. The Cards need to make some injury up and put Duncan on the DL so he can try and work things out in the minors like they did with Jason Isringhausen last season.

4. If anyone saw Saturday night's game against Arizona, I'm sure they were going about as nuts as I was when Tony La Russa decided to bring in Josh Kinney and promptly told him to intentionally walk Chris Young. I have no problem walking Young in that spot with first base open and pitcher Danny Haren up next. However, why La Russa felt that Trever Miller was incapable of purposely missing home plate four consecutive times is beyond me. It violated common sense to bring a new pitcher into the game and have him walk a guy right after throwing his warm-up pitches. Kinney never had a chance to settle in and he ended up walking Haren on five pitches to bring in what would end up as the winning run. The Cards got on the board again in the ninth, which could have tied it, but we'll never know due to La Russa ignoring baseball common sense for about the billionth time in his career.