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…
Quiet desperation is the Cardinals way
As a general rule of thumb, I would consider it a bad sign if I am referencing the following tweet in regards to the way that you are approaching something. https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/737030860260663297 Mike Matheny, of course, is no longer the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, but the spirit of five hundred spiders in a kindergarten…
When is the time to sell?
For the first time in my time as a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, I am writing this sentence: the St. Louis Cardinals, over a month into the season, have the worst record in the National League. The Cardinals currently sit eleven games under .500, playing the season at a crisp 52 win pace.…
Did Nolan Arenado lock up his Hall of Fame induction last weekend?
On Saturday, Nolan Arenado went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts. He did make a pretty nifty defensive play, but it would be safe to say that this was not going to be the game his supporters note when crafting his case for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame five years after his retirement. But…
The time is now for the Cardinals to extend Jordan Walker
If the Cardinals believe in Jordan Walker, now is the time to secure his services for the long term
The five most pleasantly surprising St. Louis Cardinals of 2023 (so far)
It's rather difficult to analyze the first six games of the St. Louis Cardinals season. Entering the season, I thought the first week was going to be tricky--three games each against the Toronto Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves, two of the arguably five or so best teams in baseball, is not an easy task.…
The ten likeliest major award winners on the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals
In 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals had their first major award winner (Most Valuable Player, Cy Young Award, Rookie of the Year) since 2009 when first baseman/plain hamburger aficionado Paul Goldschmidt took home the award as the National League's Most Valuable Player. You may be asking yourself--is this enough? Is winning the most major of…
What comes next for Dylan Carlson and Juan Yepez?
Since it was announced on Saturday that twenty year-old super-prospect Jordan Walker would make the St. Louis Cardinals' Opening Day roster, the overall reaction from St. Louis fans has been overwhelmingly positive. Walker, a consensus top-five prospect in all of baseball and the most ballyhooed St. Louis Cardinals prospect since no more recently than Oscar…
Who should crack the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day roster?
It's a funny tradition in March--we know all about the obvious, huge names, ones which if omitted from the final slate would cause riots, but instead we fixate on the fringes. We concern ourselves with the final cuts and we talk ourselves into the significance of the mediocre, but when it comes down to it,…
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