[情報] Cards decline to tender contract to Ankiel
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Cards decline to tender contract to Ankiel
By Jim Salter
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2006/12/14
Rick Ankiel's wild and difficult time with the St. Louis Cardinals
organization could be over.
The Cardinals late Tuesday declined to tender the left-handed pitcher-
turned-outfielder, meaning Ankiel is free to sign with any team. The
Cardinals said they will continue negotiations with Ankiel as well as
reliever Jorge Sosa, who was also non-tendered.
General manager Walt Jocketty said the team tried to work out a new deal
the last few days, but said agents for Ankiel were unable to reach their
client, who was believed to be vacationing.
"The idea of non-tendering him was to re-sign him to a minor league contract
so we wouldn't have to go through this process in spring training," Jocketty
said Wednesday. "I'm still hopeful that will get done."
Manager Tony La Russa said the procedural move was proof that "you never
have a perfect day."
"I hear he's feeling well and I'm anxious to see him, but I just don't know,
" La Russa said.
The Cardinals also announced they have offered contracts to reserve
outfielder So Taguchi and left-handed reliever Randy Flores.
Ankiel, 27, missed the entire 2006 season after hurting his left knee in
spring training. It was the latest in a long line of setbacks.
The Cardinals drafted Ankiel as a pitcher in the second round in 1997, and
he joined the team's rotation in 2000, bringing a fastball in the mid-90s
and wicked curve. That season he was 11-7 with a 3.50 earned run average
and 194 strikeouts in 175 innings. He earned the start in Game 1 of the
playoffs against the Atlanta Braves.
A national TV audience watched his pitching career fall apart.
Pitching with a big lead in the third inning, Ankiel walked four of eight
hitters and threw a record five wild pitches, some bouncing off the backstop.
In another playoff game that season against the Mets, he threw four more
wild pitches in a brief appearance.
He went 1-2 in 2001 while trying to work through the wildness. After that,
he pitched just 10 more innings in the major leagues.
In the spring of 2005, Ankiel threw just three strikes among 23 pitches at
a spring training scrimmage against Cardinals hitters and decided to give
up on pitching and try and make it as an outfielder. In his only full season
in the major leagues, he hit .250 with two homers.
He showed promise, with a combined 21 home runs and 75 RBIs in 85 games for
Class-A Quad Cities and Double-A Springfield in 2005. With the retirement
of Larry Walker and the loss through free agency of Reggie Sanders, Ankiel
appeared to have a shot at making the Cardinals.
But he injured the patellar tendon in a spring training scrimmage on Feb. 27
and had surgery May 26. He is expected to be healthy by spring training 2007.
Taguchi, 37, first came to St. Louis from Japan in 2002. Last season, he hit
.266 and led the Cardinals with 11 stolen bases. His ninth-inning homer off
the Mets' Billy Wagner helped the Cardinals win Game 2 of the NLCS. St. Louis
won the series in seven games en route to the World Series title.
Flores, 31, appeared in a career-high 65 games and did not allow a run in
seven postseason appearances over 5 2-3 innings. He was the winning pitcher
in Game 7 against New York.
Sosa, 28, was 0-1 with a 5.28 ERA in 19 appearances for the Cardinals after
coming over in a trade with the Braves on July 31.
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重點講一講
簡單來說, 不是紅雀要放棄 Ankiel, 而是他老兄渡假去了, 聯絡不上
可是聯盟期限已到, 也就只好把他non-tender出去
不論是總經理教練都表示希望他再回來
當然這裡面有沒有什麼陰謀還是陽謀我就不知道了 :P
還有就是田口壯跟Randy Flores續約
以上
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入團就是為了脫團 (煙~)
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