Yesterday, Baseball Reference rolled out arguably its most ambitious project since, well, the very first day the website included statistics for every player in the history of the National and American Leagues. It was a project that at once feels long overdue but also like such a research challenge that demanding such a free and…
I promise the Cardinals will be just fine without you
Last night, for the first time since October 12, 2019, the St. Louis Cardinals played a home baseball game played at its full stadium capacity. With 45,494 seats at Busch Stadium, plus the potential for a few thousand more via Standing Room Only spots, the June 14 tilt against the Miami Marlins had the potential…
Should the Cardinals trade for Max Scherzer? A look at the pros and cons
Max Scherzer, 36, is scheduled to become a free agent at the conclusion of the 2021 Major League Baseball season. His team, the Washington Nationals, is currently in last place in the National League East, 7.5 games behind the New York Mets and with, per Baseball Prospectus's PECOTA standings, just a 5% chance at reaching…
The peculiar ascent of Tyler O’Neill
There was quite a bit of hype, some of it substantiated and some of it a bit overdone, around several units on the St. Louis Cardinals entering the 2021 season. The corner infield duo of Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt were to fortify the team's offense and defense by themselves. The starting rotation had a…
Why are the worst players in St. Louis Cardinals history?
On Friday night, Seattle Mariners catcher José Godoy made history when he became the 20,000th player in Major League Baseball history. The former St. Louis Cardinals farmhand drew a walk in his second plate appearance, in a game which was not particularly notable beyond the history being made. It does seem weird to give Godoy…
The five St. Louis Cardinals who already have Hall of Fame resumés
Hall of Fame cases are a lot easier to make when you think about the lesser Hall of Famers.
Albert Pujols and the dream final act
After plenty of conjecture and very little tangible evidence, rumors of Albert Pujols reuniting with the St. Louis Cardinals following a nine-plus year stint with the Los Angeles Angels were formally put to bed today when the Los Angeles Dodgers officially announced the signing of the greatest living St. Louis Cardinal to serve, presumably, in…
Tommy Edman, Nolan Arenado, and the Cardinals players who could break a century-old franchise record in 2021
One of the strangest runs in St. Louis Cardinals history may continue beyond this season
Breaking Brad: The great lie of Albert Pujols’s legendary 2005 NLCS home run, and why we should stop telling it
Albert Pujols did not break Brad Lidge. And that makes his home run even better.
The statistical case for (and the emotional case against) signing Albert Pujols
Thursday's news that Albert Pujols, the greatest living St. Louis Cardinal, was designated for assignment by the Los Angeles Angels invited a whole host of emotions. Pujols, in the final year of a ten-year contract which lured the long-time Cardinal to Anaheim in the Fall of 2011, is by any measure a shell of his…
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