Major League Baseball is less than three years removed from an owner-initiated lockout which threatened (and did briefly delay) the start of the 2022 MLB season, and it was based on the premise that owners needed a better deal with the players with regard to their collective bargaining agreement. I suspected this was not the…
How the Cardinals should spend their money this offseason (and how they should spend the money they won’t spend)
They could spend a lot of money, but there are some better options than others if they aren't going to do that.
Meet the 2025 Cardinals. Same as (or worse than) the 2024 Cardinals.
You could make a case, despite a few decidedly mediocre seasons in the back half of the decade, that the St. Louis Cardinals were the Team Of The 2010s. The San Francisco Giants won the most titles, but were nondescript otherwise. The Boston Red Sox got a pair themselves but also had some downright lousy…
The slow fizzle of the Dylan Carlson era
It would be really, really easy, and frankly a bit cathartic in the short term, to bemoan just how poorly top-tier St. Louis Cardinals prospects over the last decade have panned out. Even setting aside the obviously outlying case of Oscar Taveras (not to mention the departure of the other former top prospect who was…
Cardinals recreate the Harrison Bader-Jordan Montgomery trade, acquire Erick Fedde for Tommy Edman; also get a replacement Tommy (Pham)
On one side stands the St. Louis Cardinals holding onto a center fielder who had come to the Majors and surpassed his level of hype tenfold but had gone through a recent spat of injuries and had just one more year after the current one of remaining club control. On another side stands a starting…
It is time for the St. Louis Cardinals to part ways with John Mozeliak
John Mozeliak has been very successful as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. He deserves a lot of credit for his past. This doesn't mean he should be a part of the organization's future.
One overrated team and one underrated team for each division in baseball
Every year, I come up with a new construct for how to preview baseball at large, and this is my one for this year. The thing in the subject. Simple enough, I think. Note: For the purposes of this exercise, I'm determining how a team is rated by their current odds to win the division--I'm…
Four early takeaways from the Shohei Ohtani scandal
I can't say that I expected, three days away from the first game of the season for the St. Louis Cardinals, that I would be writing about something that has nothing, at least in terms of its literal nuts and bolts that have been reported so far, to do with the St. Louis Cardinals. But…
Can I name the entire St. Louis Cardinals expanded roster? A lesson in humility
The great thing about writing about the St. Louis Cardinals in the internet age is that any information I could reasonably need is at my fingertips. Writers may bemoan that they do not have access to all of MLB's proprietary statistical data, but one can simply sidestep that conversation. There is information which is fundamental…
it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that Victor Scott shouldn’t make the opening day roster
There is a relatively early episode of Family Guy (based on the fact that I have seen and remember it) where the Griffin family is offered one of two gifts (I think for sitting through a timeshare presentation? I promise I'm not trying to seem too cool for Family Guy, a show that had plenty…
St. Louis Bullpen 