We had waited for four months. With no October baseball last year, the wait for pitchers and catchers was longer than ever and anticipation had that much longer to build up. With everyone reporting yesterday, the excitement had reached a high and we exulted that baseball was back. That didn’t last an hour. Cardinal fans [...]
We made it. It’s been a long, cold winter since we saw the Cardinals last on the field. (Cold metaphorically, at least. Around here, the temps have actually been unseasonably warm, especially of late.) No October baseball. The Cubs winning the World Series. The fairly cool hot stove time (though not ice cold, of course, [...]
It’s hard to believe that spring training is really just over a week away. To get into that mindset, I called up Nate and Ben, hosts of Talking About Birds, to make some sense of the big Cardinal news of late as well as what to look for as the players start to show up [...]
We’ve come to the end of our review of John Mozeliak’s trades since he took over as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in October 2007. In this post, we’ll tackle the last three years and we’ll leave an overall look for one more final post. (Edit: Ha ha, no we won’t. This post [...]
You remember how we spent a lot of time talking about the craziness of the Cardinals going to arbitration with their best pitcher? You know how we said it sounded like John Mozeliak had taken an extension off the table, that they were plowing full speed ahead to this confrontation with their ace? Well, in [...]
You might have figured out by now, if you’ve been around for any length of time, that I’m a person that likes his routine. Not only in my personal life, but most definitely when it comes to filling this site with content. Every off-season we do the Exit Interviews. Later this month, we’ll start Playing [...]
As you all know by now, yesterday Major League Baseball finally issued their punishment for what has been termed, probably incorrectly, as the “hacking scandal”. (It’s not like Chris Correa was some sort of computer genius generating phishing emails or fighting firewalls, he just figured out some passwords.) Commissioner Rob Manfred not only took away [...]
I think you could argue that 2011 was the high point of John Mozeliak’s trading tenure, at least so far. There are still some very interesting trades to talk about, it’s true, but I don’t think Mo’s “shrewd dealer” reputation was ever as high as it was when he was coming off a World Series [...]
I got the chance to chat with Brendan Schaeffer of KMOV and 590 The Fan this weekend and had quite an enjoyable conversation. We talked about him growing up a Cardinal fan and how he was able to transition from that fandom to the more impartial journalism jobs he has today. We also talked a [...]
As you know, we’ve been taking a look at the trading history of Cardinal general manager John Mozeliak. If you’ve missed out, we tackled 2007-2008 here, 2009 here, and 2010 in the last installment. Today, we’ll tackle the year of the last World Championship. There aren’t many deals here, but since one of them takes [...]
With all the news that came out of the Winter Warmup this weekend, I got the guys (Twitter users StlCardsCards, KeeneMLB, and johnrabe) back together to talk about arbitration, player usage, and anything else that might come up. You probably won’t be surprised where our track leads. C70: We had a lot of things come out [...]
We’ve come to the third of our continuing series of posts looking back at the trades John Mozeliak has made since he became the full-time general manager in October of 2007. While not all of them are memorable or notable, 2010 was the year Mo made more trades than any other single year. Some of [...]
