For each of the last 11 seasons, a different Cardinal has led the team in Wins Above Replacement. Who is the most likely to extend the streak in 2022?
Who is the most likely player to keep the St. Louis Cardinals WAR streak alive?
Albert Pujols still doesn’t make sense for the current-day St. Louis Cardinals
In 2021, following a dreaful month and a half start to the season, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim released Albert Pujols. Pujols, whom the Angels signed coming off one of the finest first eleven season stretches in baseball history, had been a major disappointment since departing the St. Louis Cardinals for the Los Angeles…
The ten worst owners in St. Louis sports history
In sharp contrast to previous Major League Baseball work stoppages, there is a decidedly anti-ownership fervor that had been largely absent. While those who have sided with the Major League Baseball Players Association will occasionally fixate on those who side with ownership (or, as is more often the case, those who posit false equivalencies between…
What would Adam Wainwright need to do in 2022 to deserve Hall of Fame induction?
Adam Wainwright is the greatest St. Louis Cardinals pitcher since Bob Gibson, and arguably the greatest St. Louis Cardinals pitcher in history other than Bob Gibson. The minute Adam Wainwright is eligible, he will easily cruise into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, with the only possible road block being if he gets caught…
Curt Flood, Ted Simmons, and the labor heroes of the St. Louis Cardinals
Curt Flood and Ted Simmons are among the greatest St. Louis Cardinals of all-time and were among the sport's leaders in player empowerment.
Let’s take a deep breath and build a Hall of Fame ballot
There are thirty candidates. Only ten can make the ballot. Let's fake-vote.
Constructing a dream 26-man roster for the last 26 years for every team in Major League Baseball
In which we dig up a years-old thought exercise, modernize it slightly, and do it thirty times
Take Ozzie Smith’s name out of your mouth when making a Omar Vizquel Hall of Fame case
It is impossible for me to conceive of a semi-credible argument for Omar Vizquel, who is presently on his fifth ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, without mentioning the name of Ozzie Smith. Smith, who was elected to Cooperstown on his first ballot, is the embodiment of a specific type of shortstop--one renowned…
Who is the greatest “overpaid” St. Louis Cardinal?
As you have likely heard, but which likely has not yet tangibly impacted your experience as a consumer, Major League Baseball owners locked out its players on December 2. Despite implications from commissioner Rob Manfred, this was not a requirement of MLB owners, as the league's collective bargaining agreement had not expired, but it was…
Wander Franco and the ten Cardinals pre-free agency extensions of the 21st century
Upon being called up to the Tampa Bay Rays on June 22, 2021, twenty year-old shortstop Wander Franco earned the Major League Baseball minimum of $570,500 for the remainder of the season. The extension which Franco signed with the Rays on Tuesday pays him more than that per each of his 308 career MLB plate…
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