The Cardinals Franchise Deep Six

Another Deep Six! This time for the Cardinals!

	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
1st	Bob Gibson	Ted Simmons	Albert Pujols	Rogers Hornsby	Ken Boyer	Ozzie Smith	Joe Medwick	Jim Edmonds	Stan Musial
2nd	Dizzy Dean	Yadier Molina	Johnny Mize	Frankie Frisch	Scott Rolen	Marty Marion	Lou Brock	Curt Flood	Enos Slaughter
3rd	Adam Wainwright	Tim McCarver	Keith Hernandez	Red Schoendienst	Whitey Kurowski	Solly Hemus	Jesse Burkett	Ray Lankford	Brian Jordan
4th	Harry Brecheen	Darrell Porter	Ed Konetchy	Miller Huggins	Arlie Latham	Bobby Wallace	Tip O'Neill	Willie McGee	J.D. Drew
5th	Chris Carpenter	Walker Cooper	Bill White	Tom Herr	Terry Pendleton	Garry Templeton	Matt Holliday	Terry Moore	George Hendrick
6th	Silver King	Tom Pagnozzi	Jim Bottomley	Yank Robinson	Mike Mowrey	Edgar Renteria	Chick Hafey	Bake McBride	Tommy McCarthy

The Cardinals are remarkably deep at some positions and remarkably shallow at others.  You'll notice Mark McGwire isn't anywhere to be found in the first base column, despite his monster seasons in the late 90's. It wasn't a steroid deduction, it was for a lack of longevity.

At catcher, there was a big dropoff after McCarver. All the candidates for that spot on the 6th Team were pretty mediocre, so I just went with Pagnozzi, mainly for his longevity.

Bake McBride is the center fielder for the Sixth Team, but it was pretty much a tossup between him and Jon Jay. (Yes, Jon Jay. Really.) If Jay has a good season this year, it might be enough to bump McBride off the list.

Some people might quibble with the choice of Stan Musial being listed as a right fielder. After all, he played more games at both first base and left field during his career. However, if I were judging him purely at those positions, he might have been edged out by Medwick or Pujols. He had a lot of his biggest seasons playing primarily right field, and as the greatest Cardinal of them all, he deserved to be somewhere on the First Team. Right field just made the most sense, even if the guy on the Second Team was a longtime teammate of his.