Happy Monday! ;) I’m sure everyone here is up and at ’em, having a cheerful day. (heavy sarcasm here) With Adam Wainwright‘s injury, there’s a chance that Lance Lynn will be our opening day starter. A few thoughts on that. 1) While Lynn is still young, he’s a three time 15 game winner who’s pitched [...]
As detailed here in an article by Derrick Goold, Mike Matheny did something cool. I admit, I’m not Matheny’s biggest fan, and have been very critical in the past, especially the preference he seems to have of playing veterans or “his guys” over rookies or trade acquisitions. I’ll probably be critical of him in the [...]
Three things I wonder about when I’m not playing my latest addiction: OOTP Online Leagues (Two of them no less, a fictional league and a realistic one) Should the Cards keep Matt Carpenter as their leadoff hitter? I say yes. I like his OBP skills up top, and I think Heywayd, who has a little [...]
There is a small concern that Carlos Martinez might struggle this season, to which I say: Hogwash. Two reasons he’ll be fine, both of which are mental, as he has the stuff. Quite a few hitters/pitchers have do, it’s just that the mental side often gets in the way. 1) Dedication to Oscar. He’s dedicating [...]
(Staggers over to the coffee machine and drinks a whole pot of coffee) (Eyes are now wide open) I THINK I’M AWAKE NOW… Anyways, good morning, here’s a post to start the week off. It is things to ponder about the Cards and baseball in general while we count, millisecond by millisecond, the days until [...]
Recently I caught a re-run of The Bucket List, a good movie where two dying people come up with a list of things to do before they die. Conveniently, one (Jack Nicholson’s character) is rich, so they can do just about everything on the list. So if 2015 was the last baseball season I’d ever [...]
The latest UCB project is this: If you could time warp to any Cards game and watch it, which would you choose? There are many obvious options, like game six of the 2011 series. But I wanted something different. I ruled out the following things: Playoff games. Chances are quite a few people will choose [...]
This is part four of the series. Here are links to parts one, part two, and part three. “Mr. Mozeliak, here is the second email, containing the bullpen I’d use in 2015. I tried to keep the bullpen relatively inexpensive, as I figured the market for cheap relievers would be plentiful if I searched hard [...]
I’m continuing my series on building a new team for an expansion city. Today in my third post of the series I’ll cover the bench. Here’s part one and here is part two. “Mr. Mozeliak, here’s the bench. I focused, for the most part, on players with a decent amount of flexibility. With one exception, [...]
Building A New Team Efficiently, Part Two I’m continuing my series on building a new team for an expansion city on a 90 million dollar budget. Here’s part one if you haven’t seen it already. Today I’ll cover the rotation. “Mr. Mozeliak, here is the second email, containing the starting rotation I’d use in 2015. [...]
Building A New Team Efficiently Part One: The Lineup Time to start a project I’ve been thinking about forever. After all the off-season is a good time to work on such things, as there is plenty of time to kill before things start up again. I waited until after the winter meetings to let a [...]
For December’s UCB Project, we’re all looking back at what 2014 brought us, and I figure many will cite similar things, so I thought I’d scratch off my top five interesting things (things like Taveras’ death, a loss that still echoes to this day) and move on down the list, to find perhaps a few [...]
