Although he is just 31 years old and is not yet technically eligible for enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey has already crafted a more-than-worthy case for enshrinement among Major League Baseball's all-time immortals. The veteran backstop has been among baseball's most valuable players since his rookie…
Editor's note: Mike Bauer (intelligent, talented) wrote this very good post last week about whether the St. Louis Cardinals would fire manager Mike Matheny during the season. I, site manager John Fleming (naive, bad at planning) told him that we should run the post on Monday morning, since there was "no chance" Matheny would be…
Yesterday, I wrote a preview of the series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians in which I did not once use the latter team's actual nickname, because the team's nickname isn't as good as what it could be. In the Dead Ball era, the formal nickname of Cleveland's American League baseball team…
In the first round of the 2009 MLB Draft, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Texas high school pitcher Shelby Miller with the 19th overall pick. By most standards, Miller was a very good pick--he's already the seventh-best #19 pick in history (if this sounds like a familiar topic, it is) and he has a very…
There are two things that stand out immediately about St. Louis Cardinals rookie relief pitcher Jordan Hicks--he throws preposterously hard and he is very young. There really isn't much to say about the former--"Aroldis Chapman is the only person in the same stratosphere of velocity" and call it a day from there. That Hicks has…
Entering this week's series against the San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Jose Martinez was easily the team's best hitter throughout the 2018 season. While he did have a mediocre month or so in the middle of it, Martinez had an OPS+ of 147. For those unfamiliar with the stat OPS+, it is…
Red Schoendienst was a great player and manager, but an even greater ambassador for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Last night, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Nolan Gorman from Sandra Day O'Connor High School in Phoenix, AZ with the 19th overall selection in the first round of the 2018 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. If you are looking for an in-depth scouting report on this pick, this is the right place. By which…
By any reasonable measure, Matt Carpenter's 2018 to this point has been a disappointment. After an abysmal start to the season offensively, Carpenter has rebounded significantly, but he has still been only roughly average at the plate. While Carpenter has logged material innings at first, second, and third base, he is generally not well-regarded defensively--his…
He's not quite a Hall of Famer. But Adam Wainwright is a great of his era and a Cardinals legend.
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