That’s one way to spend a long weekend in Chicago. A team that was wondering how it would manage innings for five games then went ahead and played two consecutive extra inning affairs. They also covered all those innings with no reliever appearing in more than one game. I mean, when was the last time [...]
If you’ve read this space enough or listened to the podcasts, you know that I’m not necessarily on the Dakota Hudson bandwagon. He tends to work slow, his control is iffy, and he doesn’t have much of a strikeout ability for when times get tough. There’s no doubt he can be valuable, especially with the [...]
There’s been a lot of good moments this year, even if the overall product has been perhaps more meh than you’d like, One of the consistent joys of 2022, though, has been watching the old masters continue to ply their craft. It’s not the same as in years past, because age gets to everyone and [...]
We think of growth as a steady progression, especially when it comes to baseball players. A guy that was great in A ball last year should be able to show improvement at AA the next year. A pitcher that threw 80 innings as a rookie should be able to go 120 as a sophomore. We [...]
One of the great things about baseball–about most sports, really–is that redemption doesn’t necessarily take that long. You can have a terrible night but come through in a big moment in the end and you are a hero. Or Hero, in this case. Paul Goldschmidt started off last night 0-4, which is remarkable given just [...]
Are you feeling scrawny? Not quite up to your physical capabilities? Are you looking for a little more muscle, a little more oomph in your day? Head over to your local PNC Nutrition store. There you can bulk up against middling pitchers and feel much better about yourself when you leave than when you came [...]
So I haven’t written in this space in over a week (and the Substack longer) for various reasons, the largest of which was that I kept resetting my alarm to get more sleep and therefore didn’t have time to write before work. However, another reason that it’s been harder to write is that, well, the [...]
When Whitney Houston sang that she “believe[d] that children are our future”, I’m sure she had a game like last night in mind. The scoring started with Juan Yepez blasting his second career home run, giving him five extra base hits in his first seven career games. The next two scored on a double by [...]
The Cardinals won Friday night on a ninth-inning single by Dylan Carlson. It was a good game against a tough foe, their second in a row against the Giants, and it gave the Cardinals something they hadn’t had all season long–a three game winning streak. Surely things were looking up and the team that we [...]
Perhaps we should just all reach a breaking point more often, because after two games against the Royals where the Cardinals could only muster one run in each game, they’ve now gotten a fresh supply of runs and are spending them like there’s no tomorrow. Ten against the Royals on Wednesday, seven last night against [...]
This idea of a feast or famine offense isn’t at all a new thing. We’ve been talking about this for years, it seems like (and it definitely pre-dates the Jeff Albert era, if you are wondering) and one of the last times I wrote on this topic, I said we needed a new term because [...]
For the second straight day, the Cards faced the Royals and mustered only one run in the process. Unlike Monday afternoon in Busch, though, one run wasn’t nearly enough to win last night in Kansas City. Perhaps the club can find a recently deceased tauntaun to put them in, because heaven knows they need to [...]
