The old SportsCenter catchphrase was “a good carpenter never blames his tools”. However, a good carpenter still has to have tools. Right now, it’s hard to know what tools Matt Carpenter is bringing to the table. Let’s look at some numbers. As you know, I’m not the most stat-savvy guy out there (so, so far [...]
All season long, there have been some, shall we say, debatable choices made by Mike Shildt in regard to deploying his personnel. Over the last week or so, that hasn’t changed. However, as surprising as it is, at least some of them have borne a lot of fruit. A sampling: Tommy Edman starting in right [...]
Ever since last week’s bust at the trading deadline, there’s been a lot of vitriol and blame thrown at the front office of the Cardinals. If only John Mozeliak and Michael Girsch would have done something, this team would not now be in third place, 3 1/2 games behind a Cubs team that seems to [...]
It was about last week at this time when the Cardinals announced that Michael Wacha would be sliding back into the rotation the next time the fifth starter came around. There was some question about when that would be, since with two off days last week a fifth starter could be skipped this time around. [...]
We’re 1/2 an hour past the trading deadline. The ONLY trading deadline, I feel compelled to remind you. We can’t delude ourselves about players clearing waivers or anything like that. Rosters, save for waiver wire moves (which, given the recent activity of the Cardinals with Adalberto Mejia and Zac Rosscup, has to be noted), are [...]
Often we as fans take some games as a sign that things are going well. A win happens in an almost supernatural way and we think, “It’s on now. Here we go.” Now, sometimes it is a sign and sometimes it is just a game. Sometimes the team comes out flat and loses the next [...]
Since the All-Star Break, the Cardinals are 5-2. That sort of record is nice, but especially in the last couple of days, how they’ve put together a W is probably more notable than the fact that they did. Let’s start with yesterday. A day game after a tough loss (which, as we noted, looked familiar). [...]
Monday night, you could really believe things were changing for the Cardinals. You had an excellent outing by Miles Mikolas, just one pitch short of throwing a Maddux, and it was backed up by two homers by Tyler O’Neill and seven overall runs, though again a solid portion of them came from Pittsburgh bumbling around [...]
In 2011, the Cardinals held their first Blogger Day event. It was held the first weekend of the season and Jaime Garcia blanked the Padres 2-0 behind RBI from Ryan Theriot and Yadier Molina, getting the Cards their first win of the season. Their last win brought home trophy #11. This weekend, the bloggers again [...]
It’s not going to get any better, I don’t think. I’m not necessarily talking about the Cardinals, though I think there’s a case to be made that what you see may be what you get. No, I’m talking about my ability to stay up to date and write in a semi-regular manner instead of letting [...]
Let’s see how far we have to go to have the Cardinals average three runs a game over that span. Three runs a game isn’t much–after all, we noted earlier in the year that they have only a handful of wins with three or less runs, which isn’t terribly uncommon around the league–but I think [...]
Folks, we’ve talked about Jordan Hicks and we’ve talked about Mike Shildt, but we’ve not actually talked about games in almost two weeks. We have to do Heroes and Goats (though if things don’t turn around with my habits, this might be the last year of hitting every game) so a quick run-down. I’ll try [...]
