In these days of power – power hitting, power pitching, other aspects of the game, while not gone are much less talked about and sometimes forgotten. One of those aspects is speed. Not speed itself per se, but what having it can do. By having speed, a player (and the team he’s on) can create [...]
Outside of St. Louis Cardinals fanbase this season, all the talk seems to have focused on the Cubs and how good they are. Inside there has been some lamenting at times that the Cardinals can’t win the division. In response to that I say: Remember 2011. That year the Cards finished second in the division [...]
As you all know, a while back the Cardinals replaced a struggling Trevor Rosenthal with Sueng-hwan Oh, a Korean IFA we signed on the off-season. So how has Oh performed so far? In 11 save chances this year, he’s converted 9 while blowing 2. His ERA is currently 2.02 Rosenthal had 18 opportunities, blew 4. [...]
For those of you from St. Louis, you’re probably familiar with Six Flags over Mid-America. For people, not from that area, Six Flags is our local amusement park, full of roller coasters and other fun things. I haven’t been there in ages, but I still remember my favorite ride, the Screaming Eagle roller coaster. As [...]
A few days ago, a did a poll on twitter asking the following question: Who would be the better long term asset for the Cards, Aledmys Diaz or Stephen Piscotty? Here are the results. Overwhelmingly the voters chose Piscotty. Currently both Diaz and Piscotty have the exact same WAR: 3.1. Diaz, of course was an [...]
First off, congratulations to Matt Carpenter who made the All-Star team and will be in San Diego despite being unable to play. I also want to congratulate Aledmys Diaz for making the All-Star roster as his replacement. I can’t help but wondering though whether Diaz deserved to be on the roster from the beginning and [...]
Amidst all the chaos of the Cardinals season (winning streaks, losing streaks, starters struggling, Trevor blowing up nightly, Mike being Mike) there has been one rock, one guy who’s carried over from what he did last year and kept doing it: Matt Carpenter. He currently has a slash line of .296/.413/.576 with 13 homers and [...]
I just very recently got a new computer. I needed an upgrade. Not the shiniest one out there, but an upgrade over the one I had. Like my PC, Mike Leake wasn’t the shiniest toy out there when we got him. David Price was out there, we were working on re-signing Heyward, etc. None of [...]
Yesterday I conducted a little poll about our new third baseman Jhonny Peralta (yes Peralta has been with the team for a bit, but he hasn’t been our regular third baseman before). Here are the results. This isolates his fielding from everything else. After all, he’s not going to whack two doubles every night like he [...]
Recently it was announced that when Jhonny Peralta gets back, he’ll play third base, Matt Carpenter (who is perhaps my favorite player on the team) will shift to second base, and Aledmys Diaz will stay at shortstop. Where does that leave Kolten Wong? And before you say utility role, isn’t that what we acquired Jedd [...]
Someone mentioned the other day, that down the road, Seung-hwan Oh, a 33 year old Korean closer who we signed in the off-season to join our bullpen, would eventually supplant Trevor Rosenthal as our closer. I thought I’d take a closer look at the two and compare them. Oh, who I mentioned is a former [...]
I posted this idea in my Monday post here. Basically on one hand we have a veteran player who’s been around forever that is starting to show signs of aging. Our Goliath. On the otherhand we have a minor league journeyman who got a good chance this year and has taken advantage of it. Our David. [...]
