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The Cardinals and the Pirates played a baseball game and here is what happened in it

First things first: This might be the last STL Bullpen post for a few days. We might do recaps, we might not! We don't have any planned non-recap posts until Monday. If something major happens, we'll probably write something. But it's a three-day weekend for us, too, sooooooo... Here were Friday's lineups: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1000119358780211200 https://twitter.com/Pirates/status/1000134153487216641 Whoa,…

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A re-examination of the Marcell Ozuna trade

A hallmark of the 2017 St. Louis Cardinals, a pretty good team which nevertheless did not make the playoffs, were pretty good but not amazing outfielders. With the exception of the genuinely excellent Tommy Pham, most of the Cardinals' outfield playing time was accumulated by Dexter Fowler (good hitter, bad fielder, basically average on balance),…

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5/22–Cardinals and Royals play a game of baseball

Hey gang, John here. I won't lie--I'm kind of tired right now so my approach on this recap will be pretty...direct? For those of you who are entertained by my rambling, stream of consciousness style of recaps, you may be sad at the brevity of this recap. For those of you who find my style…

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Hey, you wanna write for us?

St. Louis Bullpen has been in existence for about a month, and as site founder, I couldn't be prouder of the collective work of this group of writers. We went from zero to posts (usually several) daily. That said, we hope to expand our operations a bit. After discussing it with the current staff, we…