I would never be so brazen as to proclaim that I discovered Shohei Ohtani, nor even that I was the first person to wish him to the St. Louis Cardinals, but I would say I was pretty early on the beat. I've been pushing for the Cardinals to sign Shohei Ohtani for so long that…
At the height of the service time manipulation boom, during which baseball teams brazenly refused to promote top prospects until the precise moment at which the team could delay his free agency eligibility by a season, a running joke, derived from reasons actually cited by various teams, was that any super-prospect who did not make…
From 2011 through 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals have had a new WAR leader every season. Who will be the new name added to the list in 2023?
The 2023 St. Louis Cardinals probably aren't going to be the greatest team in MLB history. But here's how they would be.
Since becoming a full-time starting pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers ace Corbin Burnes has been, by FanGraphs Wins Above Replacement, the single best pitcher in Major League Baseball. The 2021 National League Cy Young winner didn't quite reach his 2021 heights last season, but with a sub-3 ERA and seventh-place Cy Young finish in a 202-inning campaign…
Trevor Bauer would make the 2023 Cardinals a better team, but that would not mean rooting for the Cardinals would be more fun.
By and large, the St. Louis Cardinals have been defined not by glaring roster holes but by general adequacy that could use improvement but which is fairly easy at which to squint and justify. Tyler O'Neill, Dylan Carlson, and Lars Nootbaar could use more depth behind them, but it could be fine. Move Tommy Edman…
Before his offensive production jumped several levels in the late-aughts and into the early-2010s, an oft-cited claim from manager Tony La Russa about St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was that he could go hitless for the season and still be valuable to the team because of his defensive production. This was almost certainly hyperbole…
In "Homer at the Bat", from season three of The Simpsons, centenarian Springfield Nuclear Power Plant owner C. Montgomery Burns, moonlighting as the manager of his company's softball team, instructs then-Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Darryl Strawberry, paid a boatload of cash to play on the team in the league final, to hit a home…
Over the course of their 2022 National League Wild Card Series defeat at the hands of the Philadelphia Phillies, the St. Louis Cardinals saddled Phillies pitchers who have not been Cy Young contenders over the last two seasons with a 5.40 ERA. Against Zack Wheeler, who finished a close second in Cy Young Award balloting…
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