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 [...]
Most of you probably know what a steamer prediction is, but for those of you that don’t, it’s a prediction system that forecasts a player’s performance in the upcoming season based on past performance and minor league history. I thought I’d look at the steamer predictions for a few of our players. I started with [...]
Most of you probably know what a Steamer prediction is, but for those of you that don’t, it’s a prediction system that forecasts a player’s performance in the upcoming season based on past performance and minor league history. I thought I’d look at the Steamer predictions for a few of our players, particularly our young [...]
Sorry, Meant to publish this earlier in the week and scheduled it to do so automatically, or so i thought, as I was preoccupied, but it didn’t post. Anyway, here it is. Let’s do a little comparison of two player’s stats from last year. Name Batting Average Home Runs On Base Percentage Slugging Percentage [...]
You notice I didn’t say the NL Central, but the NL itself. The reason, while we do indeed have plenty of challenges in our division, it seems to me we have one clear threat if we want to represent our league in the World Series. And that’s *after* this team traded one of its sluggers [...]
One of the thing lost in the flurry of moves this week was a simple number switch. Carlos Martinez switched numbers, changing from number 44 to the number 18, formerly used by his good friend Oscar Taveras. I was already a fan of Carlos’ and was looking forward to his full conversion to starter this [...]
Growing up, I relied on my brothers after the age of 13, because that is, as I’ve mentioned in the past, when my father died. He left a hole that two of my older brothers filled. As we got older though, we drifted apart. Part of that was natural, but another part was the fact [...]
Jason Heyward only hit 11 homers last year, which I think is a part of the reason he got traded. If Heyward produces at the exact same level he did last year though, with excellent defense, a touch of speed and hitting righties well, without an increase in home runs, I’d be happy. The only [...]
I originally had a different idea here, examining possible free agent relievers to add to the the team, but Mo went out and grabbed Matt Belisle, so that left me scrambling, then a random thought popped into my head, and I’m running with it. Basically, if all Cardinals players from the past showed up in [...]
Let’s get this out of the way: Max Scherzer, one of the elite free agents, probably won’t be coming to St. Louis. He’ll probably sign with a large market team like the New York Yankees. I thought I’d take a look at him anyways and see if he’d be a good fit or not for [...]
Former San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval just signed with the Boston Red Sox for a ton of money. Sandoval, who won three rings in five years with the Giants, cited the need “for a new challenge” leaving unsaid that he was basically taking the money and running. This reminds me a little of [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts of late. I’m working on getting back to posting at least every other day, but it’s slow season and plus life gets in the way sometimes… Like last Thursday. Ever have one of those days, where not everything goes wrong, but one or two *BIG* things goes wrong, and [...]
