Like every other sports sicko hanging around the internet over the last couple months, I have spent countless hours playing the viral first-baseball now-other-sports trivia game Immaculate Grid. For the uninitiated, the premise of Immaculate Grid is simple--you receive a 3-by-3 grid with the rows and columns titled, mostly by sports franchises but often also…
How to evaluate the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2023 trade deadline sell-off
Realistically, there were three realistic options for the St. Louis Cardinals at the 2023 trade deadline. Delusion: Convince themselves that they had a chance to make serious postseason noise in 2023 and either acquire new talent or maintain the status quo. The bare minimum: Sell off pending free agents at the last possible moment for…
Cardinals trade Jack Flaherty to the Baltimore Orioles
It wasn't exactly a surprise, but as first reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the St. Louis Cardinals have traded Jack Flaherty to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for minor league infielder César Prieto, as first reported by MLB's Francys Romero, and minor pitcher pitcher Drew Rom, as first reported by ESPN's Jeff Passan.…
The St. Louis Cardinals patience their way into prospect
Paul DeJong was supposed to be dead money. His contract, which saw the St. Louis Cardinals getting some bargain-bin years out of the shortstop early in it, was supposed to have turned fully sour and that the Cardinals were going to run out the clock. Instead, Paul DeJong has been shockingly competent this season. I…
Cardinals trade Jordan Montgomery and Chris Stratton to the Texas Rangers. What did they get back?
Jordan Montgomery and Chris Stratton are valuable enough players for a good baseball team with a desire to make postseason noise in 2023, but they have minimal value for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals at this point. It's nothing against them, but Chris Stratton is about to reach free agency and so is Jordan Montgomery,…
The St. Louis Cardinals patience their way into prospects
Three months ago, the St. Louis Cardinals trading Jordan Hicks to the Toronto Blue Jays would have been inconceivable. Not because the Cardinals as sellers was inconceivable--the initial warning signs that the 2023 season would unfold as it has were already in place--but because Jordan Hicks still being on the Cardinals in July seemed impossible.…
What the Cardinals and Jack Flaherty meant for each other
At the end of the day, the team and the pitcher have been good for each other.
The likeliest members of the Cardinals’ 40-man roster to be traded before the deadline, ranked
I debated back and forth over whether to make this an actual post, because frankly I don't care much about explaining most of these answers, but I had enough to say on enough players that I figured I would go with it. Obviously it goes without saying that, say, I don't think the guy who…
A look back at the anachronistic Mark McGwire trade
1997 really wasn't that long ago. We had cable television and we almost had Dan McLaughlin broadcasting baseball games on it. This isn't ancient history. But to revisit the trade which brought Mark McGwire to the St. Louis Cardinals on July 31, 1997 feels as though it would require some competence in Olde English to…
No St. Louis Cardinals player is less going to be traded than Nolan Arenado
As a veteran of the First Great Nolan Arenado Trade Rumors Posting War, I believe that the lessons which I learned during the first cycle of Nolan Arenado trade rumors are instructive about the future of the Cardinals third baseman. In 2019, the Colorado Rockies signed their star third baseman Nolan Arenado to an eight-year,…
St. Louis Bullpen 