Not a bad deal for the Cards since they needed any kind of pitching they could get. Clement will be a lot better than Maroth and Reyes or at least I hope he will. Cards still need another pitcher since Looper and Mulder are also big question marks for next year. Cards won it all in 06 and are free falling badly.Cardinals signed RHP Matt Clement, who had been with the Red Sox, to a one-year contract with a club option for 2009.
Clement figures to join Adam Wainwright, Braden Looper, Mark Mulder and Joel Pineiro in the Cardinals' rotation. If all five are healthy, that'd leave Anthony Reyes and Todd Wellemeyer on the outside looking in. Chris Carpenter will miss at least the first half of the year following Tommy John surgery.