Entering this week's series against the San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Jose Martinez was easily the team's best hitter throughout the 2018 season. While he did have a mediocre month or so in the middle of it, Martinez had an OPS+ of 147. For those unfamiliar with the stat OPS+, it is…
Today, we face the Padres. Jack Flaherty vs. Jordan Lyles. Despite being much younger than Lyles, Flaherty is a much better pitcher. The Padres have eight other baseball men playing tonight, batting in a certain order. Their names, from my memory, are: Janky Hoss Hunter Renfroe Franmil Spanky Xian Shorty (Freddy) Raffy The Cardinals also…
In advance of our first run at the Friars, John J. Fleming wrote a great piece about a nondescript 50-year-old team in one of the most beautiful climates on earth. I'm here to tell you the rest of the story. John's absolutely right when he concludes: For half a century, the Padres have, for the…
For baseball fans, one of the all-time great pastimes is picking on the team's manager. In part, this is because we of limited athletic ability know we cannot do what the players on the field are doing, and thus imagining ourselves in that position requires quite a bit of imagination, but we can all think…
This afternoon, the St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball team owned in 2018 by Bill DeWitt Jr., played the Cincinnati Reds, a professional baseball team owned in 2018 by the St. Louis Cardinals. Here were the lineups each team fielded. https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1005835254853259264 https://twitter.com/Reds/status/1005818343398477825 Billy Hamilton has like a .800 career OBP against the Cardinals (citation needed)…
Balls sailing swiftly Great American Ballpark Every hitter's dream The Cardinals entered play today with an 8-0 record over the Reds this season. Even as bad as the Reds have been, this is pretty impressive. The Cardinals need to keep beating up on bad teams to stay in the running for the division, and…
The Cardinals start a three-game, weekend series in Cincinnati tonight. St. Louis has not lost to the Reds in 2018 and look to continue their dominance against the last place team as they send Luke Weaver to the mound with Matt Harvey starting for Cincy. Should be a fun night in the Queen City. Let’s…
The Cardinals are headed to Cincinnati fresh off a disappointing series against the Marlins. Can they keep their perfect record against the lowly Reds?
The Cardinals chose a whole lot of players in the MLB Draft, and we're offering our takes as a staff on how we thought they did.
In the sixth inning of yesterday's game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins, second baseman Starlin Castro hit a relatively lazy, certainly gettable fly ball to right field. Cardinals right fielder Dexter Fowler got to the ball on time and, well, he did this. https://twitter.com/cardinalsgifs/status/1004798873951277057 For those unable to watch the GIF,…
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