For the first time in my time as a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, I am writing this sentence: the St. Louis Cardinals, over a month into the season, have the worst record in the National League. The Cardinals currently sit eleven games under .500, playing the season at a crisp 52 win pace.…
Mike Shannon was the perfect icon of St. Louis baseball
Between his 882 Major League Baseball games played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the many thousands of games he broadcast as the team's radio announcer, there are generations of St. Louisans who have spent as much time with Mike Shannon as they have spent with all but a handful of people in their lives.…
Did Nolan Arenado lock up his Hall of Fame induction last weekend?
On Saturday, Nolan Arenado went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts. He did make a pretty nifty defensive play, but it would be safe to say that this was not going to be the game his supporters note when crafting his case for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame five years after his retirement. But…
The time is now for the Cardinals to extend Jordan Walker
If the Cardinals believe in Jordan Walker, now is the time to secure his services for the long term
The five most pleasantly surprising St. Louis Cardinals of 2023 (so far)
It's rather difficult to analyze the first six games of the St. Louis Cardinals season. Entering the season, I thought the first week was going to be tricky--three games each against the Toronto Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves, two of the arguably five or so best teams in baseball, is not an easy task.…
The continuum
On May 22, 2002, the newest St. Louis Cardinal, Jordan Walker, was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia. In St. Louis, in the fourth-to-final season at the former Busch Memorial Stadium, the Cardinals hosted the Houston Astros. The game concluded in the bottom of the ninth inning thanks to a lead-off home run off the bat…
The ten likeliest major award winners on the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals
In 2022, the St. Louis Cardinals had their first major award winner (Most Valuable Player, Cy Young Award, Rookie of the Year) since 2009 when first baseman/plain hamburger aficionado Paul Goldschmidt took home the award as the National League's Most Valuable Player. You may be asking yourself--is this enough? Is winning the most major of…
What comes next for Dylan Carlson and Juan Yepez?
Since it was announced on Saturday that twenty year-old super-prospect Jordan Walker would make the St. Louis Cardinals' Opening Day roster, the overall reaction from St. Louis fans has been overwhelmingly positive. Walker, a consensus top-five prospect in all of baseball and the most ballyhooed St. Louis Cardinals prospect since no more recently than Oscar…
Who should crack the 2023 St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day roster?
It's a funny tradition in March--we know all about the obvious, huge names, ones which if omitted from the final slate would cause riots, but instead we fixate on the fringes. We concern ourselves with the final cuts and we talk ourselves into the significance of the mediocre, but when it comes down to it,…
No, but seriously, why *shouldn’t* the Cardinals break the bank for Shohei Ohtani?
I would never be so brazen as to proclaim that I discovered Shohei Ohtani, nor even that I was the first person to wish him to the St. Louis Cardinals, but I would say I was pretty early on the beat. I've been pushing for the Cardinals to sign Shohei Ohtani for so long that…
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