The Cardinals are paying Paul DeJong over $6 million this season, and now he's in Memphis. How does his 2017 extension look in the wake of his recent downturn in performance?
A new re-evaluation of the Paul DeJong extension
Where does Nolan Gorman fit in with the 2022 St. Louis Cardinals?
After entering 2022 with already-high prospect expectations, St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguer Nolan Gorman is crushing baseballs at alarming rates. In 95 plate appearances with the AAA Memphis Redbirds, Gorman has 11 home runs and a 1.067 OPS. A third baseman by trade, Gorman has played exclusively at second base this season while in the…
The confounding Wednesday suspensions hypocrisy
Let me be very clear: I hate hit-by-pitches. They are an unavoidable part of baseball, of course, and most of them are unintentional and relatively harmless, but in a perfect world, pitchers simply would not throw baseballs that hit pitchers. I hate when guys on my favorite team get hit; I hate when guys on…
Is Moisés Gómez the best player in professional baseball? An investigation
If you had never heard of Moisés Gómez a few days ago, you were certainly not the only person to read this article who hadn't, a thing I can say with absolute certainty because I, person actively writing this article, will eventually read the article, and I hadn't heard of him. Admittedly, I am not…
How the 2022 St. Louis Cardinals rotation stacks up to a former World Series champion
I'm not going to sugarcoat it (too much): I am not optimistic about the St. Louis Cardinals' starting rotation. It is the reason that I am predicting the Cardinals to finish a few games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Central this season despite a superior starting lineup. But it's also fun, and…
The 2022 St. Louis Cardinals and the next generational passage
On September 23, 2005, 22,472 fans gathered into Milwaukee's Miller Park to watch the hometown Brewers face the St. Louis Cardinals on a Friday night. The Cardinals had already clinched their second consecutive National League Central title, while the Brewers had recently been officially eliminated from Wild Card contention, so the stakes were minimal--if I…
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a “fan favorite” signing
I will start off by acknowledging my prior history--I was and am extremely skeptical of the St. Louis Cardinals' signing of Albert Pujols for reasons that I have published in the past and about which I will expand upon in a moment. But it would be willful ignorance to pretend that what the Cardinals did…
A 2022 (mostly just two teams in the) NL Central preview
The 2022 National League Central. Five teams enter. Three teams try to compete. Two teams actually compete. A division preview.
Albert Pujols and the myth of the burned bridge
Albert Pujols never had to forgive St. Louis because he never felt mad at St. Louis because he's smarter than us.
A borderline playoff team is worse now
The argument for the St. Louis Cardinals signing Albert Pujols is entirely sentimental. There is a reason that Albert Pujols was never seriously tied to another Major League Baseball team this off-season—his value is entirely based on what he did over a decade ago for the team which signed him. He is the slowest runner…
St. Louis Bullpen 