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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
If the Cardinals believe in Jordan Walker, now is the time to secure his services for the long term
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.…
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…
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