On May 22, 2002, the newest St. Louis Cardinal, Jordan Walker, was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia. In St. Louis, in the fourth-to-final season at the former Busch Memorial Stadium, the Cardinals hosted the Houston Astros. The game concluded in the bottom of the ninth inning thanks to a lead-off home run off the bat…
The ten likeliest major award winners on the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals
In 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals had their first major award winner (Most Valuable Player, Cy Young Award, Rookie of the Year) since 2009 when first baseman/plain hamburger aficionado Paul Goldschmidt took home the award as the National League's Most Valuable Player. You may be asking yourself--is this enough? Is winning the most major of…
What comes next for Dylan Carlson and Juan Yepez?
Since it was announced on Saturday that twenty year-old super-prospect Jordan Walker would make the St. Louis Cardinals' Opening Day roster, the overall reaction from St. Louis fans has been overwhelmingly positive. Walker, a consensus top-five prospect in all of baseball and the most ballyhooed St. Louis Cardinals prospect since no more recently than Oscar…
Who should crack the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day roster?
It's a funny tradition in March--we know all about the obvious, huge names, ones which if omitted from the final slate would cause riots, but instead we fixate on the fringes. We concern ourselves with the final cuts and we talk ourselves into the significance of the mediocre, but when it comes down to it,…
No, but seriously, why *shouldn’t* the Cardinals break the bank for Shohei Ohtani?
I would never be so brazen as to proclaim that I discovered Shohei Ohtani, nor even that I was the first person to wish him to the St. Louis Cardinals, but I would say I was pretty early on the beat. I've been pushing for the Cardinals to sign Shohei Ohtani for so long that…
Adam Wainwright’s chase to become the King of Busch Stadium III
Adam Wainwright pitched a grand total of one inning at the former Busch Memorial Stadium, which was the home field of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 2005. It was his MLB debut, on September 11, 2005, and despite the thrill of a debut, the results are probably ones he would prefer to forget--a…
Should Jordan Walker start the 2023 season in St. Louis?
At the height of the service time manipulation boom, during which baseball teams brazenly refused to promote top prospects until the precise moment at which the team could delay his free agency eligibility by a season, a running joke, derived from reasons actually cited by various teams, was that any super-prospect who did not make…
Projecting the next unique Cardinals WAR leader
From 2011 through 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals have had a new WAR leader every season. Who will be the new name added to the list in 2023?
How the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals became the greatest baseball team ever
The 2023 St. Louis Cardinals probably aren't going to be the greatest team in MLB history. But here's how they would be.
The time for rooting against your favorite team
Since becoming a full-time starting pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers ace Corbin Burnes has been, by FanGraphs Wins Above Replacement, the single best pitcher in Major League Baseball. The 2021 National League Cy Young winner didn't quite reach his 2021 heights last season, but with a sub-3 ERA and seventh-place Cy Young finish in a 202-inning campaign…
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