Despite the fact that I own and operate a website about Major League Baseball, I actually don't watch MLB Network all that much. I don't have a great answer as to why--maybe I'm mentally programmed to gravitate towards ESPN to such a degree that even though I've stopped watching ESPN for the most part unless…
More information is almost always better than less and thus the introduction of Statcast data a few seasons ago was a good thing. There was nothing groundbreaking about it per se. A high exit velocity is pretty much the same thing as making good contact, a concept which has been around forever. A good sprint…
Hello, fellow Sleep Refusers. John here to take you through tonight's (probably last night's, by the time this ends) game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers. Let's take a look at the lineups. https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1031696161806143493 https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1031662524624584704 So on the surface, the Dodgers have the pitching edge tonight. Austin Gomber has pitched well, but…
I attended the final game of the Mike Matheny era, and it was one of the most defeating games I've ever attended. Granted, there were rain delays and it was against the Reds and blaming Mike Matheny directly for the loss would be more than a bit unfair, but there was absolutely no energy. And…
The rookie campaign of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Harrison Bader is as bewildering and unexpected as any Cardinals debutante since, well, I guess Paul DeJong last year. And Aledmys Diaz the year before that. And most people weren't expecting young Allen Craig or Matt Carpenter to be such certifiable Professional Hitters as relatively old rookies.…
Having already clinched their seventh consecutive series victory on Saturday night, the St. Louis Cardinals arrived back at Busch Stadium this afternoon with a chance to sweep the Milwaukee Brewers and create a game-and-a-half gap between the two NL Central and Wild Card contenders. In years past, this meant the notorious "Sunday lineup". But now…
The Cardinals are on a hot streak, going 9-1 in their last 10 games. The only loss during this stretch was a 5-4 loss to the Nationals on Thursday night. They’ve scored at least four runs in every game since the August 7 contest at Miami. The Brewers, meanwhile, are 3-7 in their last 10…
The Cardinals and Brewers start a three-game series today. This is the most important series for the Cardinals thus far, a designation that will be usurped by every subsequent series until the end of the season. Such is life when you're 1 1/2 games out of a playoff spot with around 40 games to play.…
The Cardinals look for the four game sweep of the Nationals, who today are a below .500 team. Luke Weaver will face off against TanNer rOark. I'll be reporting live from the game, which I've never done, so we'll see how it goes his toes. First Inning Things started off well for Weaver as he…
Enos Slaughter did it. So did Stan Musial. So did Terry Pendleton and Ray Lankford and Brian Jordan. Throwing Stan Musial into any statistical grouping of St. Louis Cardinals players is going to skew the sample considerably, but there is an obvious logic to believing that a player who begins his Major League career with…
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