Where does Albert Pujols rank among the twenty greatest living baseball players? Spoiler alert: Somewhere!
The 20 Greatest Living Baseball Players
Albert Pujols, Corey Dickerson, and the paradox of efficiency
Before I start discussing two members of the 2022 St. Louis Cardinals, I will begin in the time and place where you surely assumed this would begin--the college football realignment landscape of a decade ago. Technically, this was the realignment landscape of major college athletic conferences in general, but the reality was the purpose of…
How late-stage Mike Matheny helped to build the 2022 St. Louis Cardinals for the better
You gotta love a happy accident
Brendan Donovan and Jack Flaherty: A tale of two teammates and an evolving culture
In which one Cardinal tried to dig out of controversy, and another steered right into it
Nolan Gorman prepares to usher in a new generation of St. Louis Cardinals baseball players
Tonight, Nolan Gorman will (likely) become the first Cardinal born in the 2000s. A look back at each decade's first ever St. Louis Cardinal.
Was Albert Pujols the greatest Position Player Pitcher in history?
I watched almost zero minutes of the St. Louis Cardinals game on Sunday night. I was busy making and eating dinner, and by the time I got to checking the score of the baseball game, it was uncompetitive and there were three Games Seven in the NBA and NHL postseasons available to watch that night…
A brief history of St. Louis’s greatest sporting triumphs over every major North American sports market
Tonight, the St. Louis Blues will square off against the Colorado Avalanche in Game 1 of the National Hockey League's Western Conference Semifinal. And if the Blues defeat the 2021-22 President's Trophy winners, awarded to the team with the league's highest points total, it will without question be the greatest St. Louis over Denver triumph…
A new re-evaluation of the Paul DeJong extension
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?
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…
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