For baseball fans, one of the all-time great pastimes is picking on the team's manager. In part, this is because we of limited athletic ability know we cannot do what the players on the field are doing, and thus imagining ourselves in that position requires quite a bit of imagination, but we can all think…
Let’s talk about how we talk about Dexter Fowler
In the sixth inning of yesterday's game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins, second baseman Starlin Castro hit a relatively lazy, certainly gettable fly ball to right field. Cardinals right fielder Dexter Fowler got to the ball on time and, well, he did this. https://twitter.com/cardinalsgifs/status/1004798873951277057 For those unable to watch the GIF,…
What if the 2018 St. Louis Cardinals had gone all-in? Part 1
The 2017-18 off-season was rife with rumors that the St. Louis Cardinals would make a big splash. Relatively speaking, they did, with the acquisition of Marcell Ozuna via trade from the Miami Marlins, but it wasn't the super big splash that had been rumored throughout the long Winter months. The reasons for not making these moves…
The Cardinals probably won the Stephen Piscotty trade
The December trade which saw the St. Louis Cardinals sending right fielder Stephen Piscotty to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for minor leaguers Max Schrock and Yairo Munoz was most often at the time, and is still most often today, viewed in the context of Piscotty. It had been known throughout much of the 2017…
Cardinals players as defined by a song from their adolescence
A look at how the song that was #1 when you turned 14 actually can define your life.
Something Doesn’t Look Right: Carlos Martinez Rehabs in Springfield
Editor's note: This post is written by Jason Bradshaw, who is a resident of Springfield, MO, as well as a noted early adapter to the Harrison Bader movement which is sweeping Cardinals fandom (he bought a custom-ordered Bader shirsey in 2016 when he was playing in Springfield). He was kind enough to report on Carlos…
Facebook and the future of baseball broadcasts
On Wednesday afternoon, Cardinals super-prospect Alex Reyes made his 2018 Major League debut in Milwaukee, delighting and then terrifying fans with his two-strikeouts-and-a-pickoff first inning and later being pulled from the game after just four innings. It was, for a regular season weekday game in May, extremely anticipated among Cardinals fans, but it was an…
A tale of two Carpenters
By any reasonable measure, Matt Carpenter's 2018 to this point has been a disappointment. After an abysmal start to the season offensively, Carpenter has rebounded significantly, but he has still been only roughly average at the plate. While Carpenter has logged material innings at first, second, and third base, he is generally not well-regarded defensively--his…
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),…
Is Tommy Pham an ideal leadoff hitter?
Leading up to the season, excitement stemmed in part from the lineup's anticipated 1-4 with Dexter Fowler, Tommy Pham, Matt Carpenter, and Marcell Ozuna. With all of them producing, we would expect a solid if not dangerous lineup. Yeah, anyway, this is baseball and that doesn't happen. All but Pham have been lackluster at best,…
St. Louis Bullpen 