On Wednesday, news broke that the St. Louis Cardinals had signed third baseman Matt Carpenter to a two-year extension. Carpenter, firmly a part of the Mount Rushmore of St. Louis Cardinals this decade, remaining in St. Louis through 2021 warranted a post, but truthfully, nobody seemed to have a strong opinion on the matter. It…
On September 29, 2017, the St. Louis Cardinals played and lost to the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals, eliminated from postseason contention the night before, elected to sit Dexter Fowler for the game, but did play its three next best outfielders in the game. When the team played against the Colorado Rockies ten months and two…
The beginning of the 2019 Cardinals season has been pretty stressful, so we ranked their walkup songs to relax.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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?
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