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?
Projecting the next unique Cardinals WAR leader
How the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals became the greatest baseball team ever
The 2023 St. Louis Cardinals probably aren't going to be the greatest team in MLB history. But here's how they would be.
The time for rooting against your favorite team
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 not improve (rooting for) the St. Louis Cardinals
Trevor Bauer would make the 2023 Cardinals a better team, but that would not mean rooting for the Cardinals would be more fun.
Willson Contreras is a no-brainer addition for the St. Louis Cardinals
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…
A look at the potential catching options for the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals
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…
Did Cardinals Twitter run Jeff Albert out of town?
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…
Why the Cardinals lost
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…
How the Cardinals match up with the Philadelphia Phillies
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the Philadelphia Phillies team which qualified for the 2022 MLB postseason, the first playoff berth for the franchise since their 102-win 2011 season ended in just about the most crushing possible fashion against the 2011 World Series championship-bound St. Louis Cardinals, is a good baseball team. At 87-74…
Who should be on the Cardinals’ Wild Card Round roster?
On Friday, the Cardinals will begin a (potentially) three-game series at Busch Stadium against the Philadelphia Phillies. For such a brief series with such dramatic stakes--the potential end of the 2022 season and the potential anticlimactic conclusion of two legendary Cardinals careers--those of Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina--selecting the optimal roster is going to be…
St. Louis Bullpen 