The beginning of the 2019 Cardinals season has been pretty stressful, so we ranked their walkup songs to relax.
A definitive ranking of the 2019 Cardinal walk-up songs
The Cardinals have largely avoided the service time manipulation plague
The San Diego Padres lost 96 games in 2018, but they entered 2019 with a sense of genuine optimism. They signed, for a second consecutive off-season, one of the top two available free agent position players in Manny Machado, and also signed solid lottery ticket veterans Ian Kinsler and Garrett Richards (Kinsler is currently the…
The Marcell Ozuna trade worked
On Sunday afternoon, with the St. Louis Cardinals clinging to a one-run lead in a game which would help equalize the season-opening four-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers, defending National League MVP Christian Yelich drove yet another in a long series of rockets into the outfield. The tying run easily scored, and while there was…
The current St. Louis Cardinals jersey rankings
With baseball season starting, what better time to spend irrational amounts of money on merchandise? Well, you shouldn't, because buying baseball jerseys is an objectively stupid use of money, but if you're like me, you're probably going to do it anyway. Look, I've blown $100+ at casinos before; at least if I'm going to buy…
The joy of sustained excellence and the fear of all-in
December 5, 2018 was a notably slow day at work for me. It was the kind of day where I sat at my computer and stared at my e-mail inbox. It wasn't that I had checked out from doing work--it was that work had checked out from me doing work. I was going to a…
A look at the gauntlet that is the 2019 NL Central
For the last several seasons, Major League Baseball has developed a mostly earned reputation for its lack of dramatic divisional races. Some teams are building juggernauts; the rest are tearing down what little they have in hopes of saving money and experimenting with young players to form their eventual competitive core. The American League remains…
If you love Matt Carpenter and hate the DH, you may soon have to choose one
Matt Carpenter has long been a man without a true position for the St. Louis Cardinals. As a four-year college player turned somewhat late bloomer, he was primed to make his way into the Cardinals starting lineup at 26, but then the guy who played his position happened to be a seemingly unmovable hometown hero.…
Looking beyond the dollars and cents of the Paul Goldschmidt extension
The Paul Goldschmidt extension will rightly be scrutinized for its dollars and cents. But is Goldschmidt the type of player who creates value in other ways too?
The Paul Goldschmidt extension is fine. It isn’t “necessary”
Following Matt Holliday's nine-year reign as the owner of the largest contract in St. Louis Cardinals history, new first baseman Paul Goldschmidt seized the crown yesterday by signing a five-year, $130 million extension with the Cardinals, one which will keep the long-time Arizona Diamondbacks slugger in St. Louis through the 2024 season, during which he…
What the WAR update tells us (and doesn’t tell us) about Yadier Molina
St. Louis Cardinals fans love Yadier Molina. Most fans of most teams love most of their players, so let me re-emphasize this: St. Louis Cardinals fans really love Yadier Molina. This love was different from, say, the love Cardinals fans felt towards Matt Holliday, a very good and very likable baseball player in his own right.…
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