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He is a below-average baseball player.Yeah Im sure you guys will say blah blah he sucked.
270 guy with 55 Ribis off the bench, not bad at all.
Thank you Houston
Yeah Im sure you guys will say blah blah he sucked.
270 guy with 55 Ribis off the bench, not bad at all.
Thank you Houston
He is a below-average baseball player.Yeah Im sure you guys will say blah blah he sucked.
270 guy with 55 Ribis off the bench, not bad at all.
Thank you Houston
At least he will make the playoffs now. Cards don't think Edmonds is going to be healthy rest of the season fyi.
He hits lefties well, which is what StL needs. Below average defensively, but I'll take the bat.
he strikes out way too much and had little to no power this year. he tanked this year as far as homers/RBI, and that was playing with a very short porch in minute maid. seemed like a great guy clubhouse wise though - he really needs to grow those lamb chops out again.
He is a below-average baseball player.
Well that below average player has a single, a stolen base and a MONSTER home run.
Ill take all them average ball players you Houstonites wanna throw the Cardinals
Unbelieveable even more? YOU KEEP JASON LANE OVER HIM!!
What is he, about a 205 hitter?
Good job Stros.
blah blah he sucked
and an above average offensive player on the stros
I am not an Astros fan.Well that below average player has a single, a stolen base and a MONSTER home run.
Ill take all them average ball players you Houstonites wanna throw the Cardinals
Unbelieveable even more? YOU KEEP JASON LANE OVER HIM!!
What is he, about a 205 hitter?
Good job Stros.
Preston Wilson is still a below-average baseball player.
card sent down anthony reyes to make room for him? isn't he the pitcher tpark was hyping up earlier this year?
CHICAGO (AP) -- Preston Wilson barely made his morning flight. The St. Louis Cardinals were glad he did.
Preston Wilson was a smash in his first game for the NL Central leaders, hitting one of the Cardinals' six home runs Friday in an 11-3 romp over the Chicago Cubs.
"I made it to my flight at 5:58 for a six o'clock flight," Wilson said. "I got to the stadium, signed the papers and got to work."
Wilson had nine home runs and 55 RBIs when Houston waived him Aug. 15. He signed earlier in the day with the Cardinals and helped them end a 10-game losing streak in Chicago this season -- seven to the Cubs and three against the White Sox.
"Things happen for a reason," Wilson said. "Maybe I'm here for a good reason."
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Wilson started in right field, went 2-for-5 and stole a base. He and Gary Bennett hit solo home runs in the sixth off Roberto Novoa that gave the Cardinals a 6-3 lead.
"It's the kind of first impression you want to make," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "He did so many good things and gave us a lift right away."
The Cardinals lost leadoff man David Eckstein, however, with a strained oblique muscle in his left side. The All-Star shortstop was hurt when he slid into Cubs catcher Michael Barrett in the third inning.
Eckstein was examined at Wrigley Field.
"It's one of those things that's hard to really diagnose right now," Eckstein said. "We're going to wait until tomorrow and let it die down a little bit."
Both teams were warned by plate umpire Ed Hickox after Cubs rookie Carlos Marmol hit Scott Rolen with a pitch in the third inning. Marmol made two throwing errors in the inning.
While Wilson has played well at Wrigley Field this season, hitting .364 (8-for-22) with seven RBIs, the Cardinals had not done much in Chicago.
AP - Aug 18, 5:51 pm EDT
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"That's the first time we've seen the bottom of the ninth in this town," La Russa said. "It's about time."
The Cardinals need Wilson with center fielder Jim Edmonds day-to-day with post-concussion syndrome. Edmonds hasn't played since leaving a game with dizziness and blurred vision Aug. 15.
"My last two to three weeks in Houston, I wasn't playing at all," Wilson said. "If I'm playing part-time here, that's playing more than they were letting me play there. My job here is to do whatever they ask me to do."
Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and Ronnie Belliard homered for the Cardinals in the seventh off David Aardsma. Pujols hit a two-run shot, his 36th, and Rolen followed with his 18th.
"A lot of those balls were right down the plate," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said. "You could've put them on a tee."
Chris Duncan hit his 12th homer in the first off Marmol (5-6). Duncan went 2-for-4 and is hitting .565 (13-for-23) over a six-game hitting streak.
The Cubs scored all their runs on homers. Barrett hit a solo drive in the first and Aramis Ramirez hit his team-high 29th in the fourth.
Jason Marquis (13-11) got the win, tying him with Brad Penny, Carlos Zambrano and Brandon Webb for the NL lead in wins. Marquis allowed three runs and three hits in five innings.
"I felt pretty good for the most part," Marquis said. "I wish I could've went deeper into the game."
It was 1-all when Marquis started a three-run third with a single. Eckstein also singled and Duncan had a sacrifice fly.
AP - Aug 18, 5:35 pm EDT
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Eckstein scored on a single by Pujols and when the ball got loose at the plate, Marmol picked it up and ran toward Pujols, who was in between second and third. Marmol, a converted catcher, made a wild sidearm throw that let Pujols reach third. Eckstein said Barrett's knee hit him in the ribs when he slid at the plate. He hurt his side twisting to touch home plate.
"I was trying to slide through him and he had just dropped his knee," Eckstein said. "His other knee came up and hit me right around my ribs area and sent me backwards. I hadn't tagged home plate yet and I was still trying to reach around."
Marmol then hit Rolen, prompting the warning. Marmol later made a poor pickoff throw to first that scored Pujols. Ramirez also had an error in the inning.
"That was a wild inning," Baker said. "We made a lot of mistakes and they seemed to come in bunches. We gave them three runs."
Baker said Marmol hurt his biceps on the throw to second, and that the muscle had been bothering the pitcher for a few starts.
"That's usually a sign a guy's arm is tired," Baker said.
Notes
The Cardinals sent down pitcher Anthony Reyes to make room for Wilson. ... St. Louis has hit back-to-back homers four times this season. ... Jets flew over Wrigley Field throughout the game as a warmup for this weekend's Air and Water Show in Chicago. ... The Cardinals are now 4-10 against the Cubs this season. ... The Cubs homered for the 12th straight game, the most since hitting in 12 straight on Sept. 8-20, 2005.
272 10 homers 56 RBIs is below average?Preston Wilson is still a below-average baseball player
Interesting.....
isn't he the pitcher tpark was hyping up earlier this year
Yeah and hes struggled with keeping the ball down.
He will be a good pitcher, hes got good stuff, and he will be a great rotation guy along with Adam Wainwright next year.
Add in another youngster or a Jason Schmidt who they damn near got at the deadline, and your lookin at the Cardinals back to NL dominance next year.
i just don't understand why you feel the need to hype this dude up, i have watched him suck bad all year. he had one good stretch around the all star break but he's nothing to write home about. he strikes out way too much swinging at trash, and hits into too many dp's. with that being said, with the stros luck this year he will probably put up all world nums the rest of the season.
Cause the guy is a solid outfielder and twice what Jason Lane is.i just don't understand why you feel the need to hype this dude up,
But, obviously Houston doesn't need runs.
Scoring a whopping 2 against Milwaukee tonight against the shut down Thoma Oka
Lane didn't clear waivers. wilson wasn't helping the stros score runs at all. luke scott is starting in preston's place anyway - he's hitting over .400.Cause the guy is a solid outfielder and twice what Jason Lane is.
But, obviously Houston doesn't need runs.
Scoring a whopping 2 against Milwaukee tonight against the shut down Thoma Oka
Last edited by leemajors; 08-19-2006 at 09:21 AM.
In this era, that's below average for an everyday major league outfielder.
Had Preston put up those numbers in the late 1970's, he might have been a star.
Baseball is a game of long-term trends, not single-game production. Wilson saved the Cards on Friday, but the long-term trends say that there's a lot more bad coming than the good that he produced on Friday.
One world series appearance since 1987 = NL dominance in St. Louis.
Dominance like the Eagles' "dominance" of the NFC from 2000-2004, I guess.
Boy this guy has hit rock bottom.Yeah Im sure you guys will say blah blah he sucked.
270 guy with 55 Ribis off the bench, not bad at all.
Thank you Houston
Hmm whos had 100 wins the last 2 years, been to the NLCS 4 times since 2000.One world series appearance since 1987 = NL dominance in St. Louis.
Slow your roll and stick to basketball.
lolWilson saved the Cards on Friday, but the long-term trends say that there's a lot more bad coming than the good that he produced on Friday
bitter bitter Astro fan...
Saved them?
He hit a solo homer in an 11 run game.
Oh yeah, totally bailed em out.
Once again.
Give me all the 270 hitting 4th outfielders the Astros wanna give up.
Boy this guy has hit rock bottom.
Oh really?
From what.
For an outfielder batting in the heart of a lineup, it's nothing special.
And his defense is poor.
So, yes, below average.
You don't have to give him fellatio simply because he has birds and a bat on his chest.
So I guess the Braves were "dominant" throughout the '90s then.
again, showing your cluelessness. wilson never hit 4th for the astros.
And if he were hitting 4th, wouldn't 56 RBI's be pretty pathetic?
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