The idea that a baseball player is entitled to anything beyond the salary which he has been promised from a baseball team has never been a notion that made much sense to me. And I say this as somebody who is generally fiercely pro-labor: when Adam Wainwright signed his current five-year, $97.5 million contract which…
Normally, we post a recap to St. Louis Cardinals games on this website. For whatever reason, today's game just kind of slipped through the cracks. It's probably for the best.
It's the end of the Washington Nationals' pseudo-dynastic hold on the NL East as we know it and I feel...partially guilty on behalf of the St. Louis Cardinals. The beginning of this run, whether we truly grasped it at the time, was in 2009, when the Nationals drafted San Diego State starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg…
I want a holiday in the sun, and this fine Sunday is a De Facto Saturday. I want to see some history, in the form of a franchise-record 11th consecutive series victory. These are Sex Pistols references. The St. Louis Cardinals are playing the Cincinnati Reds at Busch Stadium and I am going to let…
The Cardinals enter play today very much in the hunt, both for the Division and the Wild Card. Going 8-2 in their last 10 games hasn't allowed the team to gain much ground, however; the Cubs have also gone 8-2, while the Brewers have gone 7-3. The Cardinals are four games back of the division…
Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is back, but despite the Reds offense suddenly looking a lot more competent ahead of this weekend's series against the St. Louis Cardinals, this ain't exactly The Big Red Machine. The Big Red Machine, the nickname given to the Cincinnati Reds (particularly its offense) in the 1970s, peaked in…
The Cards play the Pirates in an ultimate showdown of pitchers entering the game with ERA's of 3.56. We shall see who will win tonight's ERA wars. Tonight you have O'Neill, Bader, and Martinez in the outfield, while Carpenter, Dejong, G. Garcia, and Adams line the infield. A win will keep the streak of series'…
Aesthetically, Matt Carpenter has checked every possible box for the label of "fan favorite" for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is a classic overachiever--he was drafted in the 13th round at age 23 out of Texas Christian University, signing for a famously low bonus of $1,000 (this has much more to do with his lack…
Despite facing a reeling Pittsburgh Pirates team with a chance to gain some separation in the wild card race, the St. Louis Cardinals managed just five hits on the night were shut out tonight for the first time since July 11. Miles Mikolas got off to a rough start that was aided in part by…
A month ago, arranging a pitching staff for a St. Louis Cardinals postseason run was nothing more than a framing device for an article. It certainly wasn't based in any sort of reality--it was just a way of asking for the best four starting pitchers on the Cardinals. But a lot has chanaged in the…
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