Last night, Nolan Arenado suited up for the National League All-Star Team as the lone representative of the St. Louis Cardinals. There were other Cardinals with credible All-Star Game cases, but when you're in last place and the home of awful 2023 vibes, you take what you can get. But what was notable is how…
The kings of the stadiums
There are two things that every baseball organization should strive to bring to their fans: a quality product, and to do no harm to them. Baseball stadium construction is, broadly speaking, a giant racket. The Oakland Athletics are currently in the midst of trying to secure public funding for a new stadium in order to…
How to “win” a trade
That advanced baseball statistical research allows us to quantify just about anything is both the greatest strength of the sabermetric movement and the aspect of it which gives us the falsest sense of security. Statistics are objective--even if they are complicated to a point of impenetrability to the casual fan, like WAR or wRC+ or…
The cases for and against trading Paul Goldschmidt
The good news for the St. Louis Cardinals is that they are in the midst of a four-game winning streak. Yes, the New York Mets have been disappointing and the Washington Nationals have been straight up bad, but this is the kind of progress that a baseball team which entered 2023 was division title aspirations…
What is David Freese?
It was a little less than two years after David Freese's 2011 postseason heroics solidified the homegrown third baseman as a bona fide St. Louis Cardinals legend, while walking through a suburban Schnucks grocery store of all places, that something I had never really considered occurred to me. The day after David Freese saved the…
Just how done are the 2023 Cardinals?
Before the 2023 season, FanGraphs projected that the St. Louis Cardinals would win the National League Central. And by and large, their projection systems still believe the Cardinals to be a pretty good team, fundamentally. A cursory glance at their current rest-of-season odds show that they believe the Cardinals are a 86.34 win team over…
How the collapse of the broadcasting bubble could impact the future of watching the Cardinals
Two weeks ago, after the Sinclair Broadcast Group opted to stop payment to the San Diego Padres for their right to televise games, Major League Baseball took back broadcasting rights for the team, one which is among the most exciting in the sport and which holds the highest payroll in baseball outside of the city…
Sports gambling in Missouri should be a legitimate question with legitimate concerns
Last week, the Missouri legislature rejected measures to legalize sports gambling in the state. Entering 2023, sports gambling was legal in 36 states plus Washington D.C., and there is a spot, the East St. Louis, IL venue now known as DraftKings at Casino Queen, which is a seven minute drive, thirteen minute MetroLink ride, or…
10 things to do in the St. Louis area this summer other than watching this stupid baseball team
Yesterday, the St. Louis Cardinals won their first baseball game in their last nine. This is a thing that, no matter how bad you think the Cardinals are going to get, is going to happen from time to time. I am asking, not out of a sense of negativity but out of a sense of…
Quiet desperation is the Cardinals way
As a general rule of thumb, I would consider it a bad sign if I am referencing the following tweet in regards to the way that you are approaching something. https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/737030860260663297 Mike Matheny, of course, is no longer the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, but the spirit of five hundred spiders in a kindergarten…
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