Jordan Montgomery and Chris Stratton are valuable enough players for a good baseball team with a desire to make postseason noise in 2023, but they have minimal value for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals at this point. It's nothing against them, but Chris Stratton is about to reach free agency and so is Jordan Montgomery,…
The St. Louis Cardinals patience their way into prospects
Three months ago, the St. Louis Cardinals trading Jordan Hicks to the Toronto Blue Jays would have been inconceivable. Not because the Cardinals as sellers was inconceivable--the initial warning signs that the 2023 season would unfold as it has were already in place--but because Jordan Hicks still being on the Cardinals in July seemed impossible.…
What the Cardinals and Jack Flaherty meant for each other
At the end of the day, the team and the pitcher have been good for each other.
The likeliest members of the Cardinals’ 40-man roster to be traded before the deadline, ranked
I debated back and forth over whether to make this an actual post, because frankly I don't care much about explaining most of these answers, but I had enough to say on enough players that I figured I would go with it. Obviously it goes without saying that, say, I don't think the guy who…
No St. Louis Cardinals player is less going to be traded than Nolan Arenado
As a veteran of the First Great Nolan Arenado Trade Rumors Posting War, I believe that the lessons which I learned during the first cycle of Nolan Arenado trade rumors are instructive about the future of the Cardinals third baseman. In 2019, the Colorado Rockies signed their star third baseman Nolan Arenado to an eight-year,…
Ranking the near-Cardinals All-Stars, from least to most regrettable
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…
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…
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…
St. Louis Bullpen 