When the St. Louis Cardinals promoted Paul DeJong to the big league squad last May, I didn't think too terribly much of it. Unless you're a relative of Paul DeJong's, you probably didn't either. It was a fine, defensible move given the circumstances of the team, but it wasn't exactly Kris Bryant or Ronald Acuna…
The Kansas City Royals, who are very bad, lost the first two games of this weekend's latest installment of the I-70 series pretty handily to the St. Louis Cardinals, who...might be good? They certainly aren't as bad. And with the team's fifth consecutive series victory already in hand, the Cardinals took to the field with a…
This weekend, the St. Louis Cardinals will face the Kansas City Royals in a three-game set at Kauffman Stadium to resolve an age-old question--who is better at baseball, the 35-79 team or the team whose record isn't abysmal? This may feel like an obvious answer, but Cardinals/Royals is a rivalry which can bring out the…
As has been explained on probably close to a weekly basis on this website and others, the St. Louis Cardinals have a problem. Well, kind of. It's actually a great problem to have, in and of itself--they have a surplus of good hitters such that first baseman/occasional corner outfielder Jose Martinez, who has been the team's second-best…
As longtime (three month) readers of St. Louis Bullpen may remember, I attended three St. Louis Cardinals games in San Diego from May 10-12 (I even recapped one of them from the stadium after sucking down some cheaper-than-at-Busch-Stadium Bud Lights). One of the friends with whom I attended games brought with him a Matt Carpenter…
Before anyone gets mad about the title of this post, let me very clear about something--we do not owe the owners of the Miami Marlins nor their front office personnel an apology. The swindle perpetrated by the ownership group, most famously including Derek Jeter (while it is probably unfair to blame him for the sins…
The drawbacks of Tyson Ross, whom the St. Louis Cardinals claimed yesterday off waivers from the San Diego Padres, are apparent from a quick glance at his Baseball Reference page. In twenty-two starts this season, Ross has mediocre overall numbers--in 123 1/3 innings, he has a mediocre 4.45 ERA and a mediocre 4.55 FIP. In…
Round Four of Jack Flaherty vs. Trevor Williams happened this afternoon while I was also simultaneously trying to write some words about Tyson Ross. I work hard for you people! So if I end up screwing up my tabs, my bad. If I blank out on a significant inning, check out the site tomorrow. Here…
Well, folks, the St. Louis Cardinals won three of four games against a very good Colorado Rockies team, and I'm ready to trick myself into believing that the playoffs are a possibility. Here's what happened in the first game of my period of delusion. First, the lineups. https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1025481455101730817 https://twitter.com/Pirates/status/1025508740181749761 Oh great, the Pirates are using…
Say you know a big St. Louis Cardinals fan who spent the last week completely out of the loop of Cardinals news. He or she knows the sport fairly well but hasn't been around the latest trade deadline news. Obviously, the explaining about Tommy Pham being traded is going to be a big headline, but…
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