Nolan Arenado filled a major hole for the 2021 Cardinals, but a pair of third base prospects may give the team an abundance going forward
The pending Nolan Arenado conundrum
Let’s take a deep breath and build a Hall of Fame ballot
There are thirty candidates. Only ten can make the ballot. Let's fake-vote.
Constructing a dream 26-man roster for the last 26 years for every team in Major League Baseball
In which we dig up a years-old thought exercise, modernize it slightly, and do it thirty times
Take Ozzie Smith’s name out of your mouth when making a Omar Vizquel Hall of Fame case
It is impossible for me to conceive of a semi-credible argument for Omar Vizquel, who is presently on his fifth ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, without mentioning the name of Ozzie Smith. Smith, who was elected to Cooperstown on his first ballot, is the embodiment of a specific type of shortstop--one renowned…
Who is the greatest “overpaid” St. Louis Cardinal?
As you have likely heard, but which likely has not yet tangibly impacted your experience as a consumer, Major League Baseball owners locked out its players on December 2. Despite implications from commissioner Rob Manfred, this was not a requirement of MLB owners, as the league's collective bargaining agreement had not expired, but it was…
Wander Franco and the ten Cardinals pre-free agency extensions of the 21st century
Upon being called up to the Tampa Bay Rays on June 22, 2021, twenty year-old shortstop Wander Franco earned the Major League Baseball minimum of $570,500 for the remainder of the season. The extension which Franco signed with the Rays on Tuesday pays him more than that per each of his 308 career MLB plate…
The Steven Matz signing is a good signing as long as it isn’t the only signing
Since debuting with the New York Mets in 2015 as a lesser-but-not-insignificant prospect in the young pitching core that guided the Mets to their first World Series in *checks, assumes it must be many many decades based on how Mets fans discuss their futility* fifteen years, Steven Matz has been an aggressively average pitcher. Both…
Which is the superior Rick Hummel Bit: Matt Cain or Trea Turner?
Sports media is an often far too self-serious business. While most other subsections of the media landscape view sports journalism as access-based propaganda (often true) and no more dignified than entertainment reporting (almost always true), its practitioners frequently treat what they are doing as though asking Giovanny Gallegos what he was thinking when Christian Yelich…
How good is Dakota Hudson, and why will that define the Cardinals’ off-season?
In 2019, the season in which he threw 70% of his Major League Baseball innings to this point in his career, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Dakota Hudson accomplished something that had not been seen in Major League Baseball since 2003 and which no pitcher came particularly close to accomplishing in the two subsequent MLB…
If the NL adopts the designated hitter, how should the Cardinals fill the position?
Occasionally lost the hubbub about the pending free agency signing period is that we are looking down the barrel of some contentious labor negotiations. And an oft-cited potential ramification is the institution of the designated hitter in the National League. To be frank, I don't really get it. This isn't because I have a strong…
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