Like most of you, I’m absolutely enamored with watching Magneuris Sierra do pretty much anything on a baseball field. He’s dynamic, exciting and possibly the only player on the team faster than Mike Leake. He represents the future of Cardinals baseball. That’s why he’s nearly out of time. Here are five reasons why it may [...]
If you’ve paid attention to John Mozeliak for any length of time, you’ve heard him say this line in one form or another. It’s his fallback answer for questions about anything from anticipated roster moves to how he decides which argyle socks to wear with a certain bow tie on a given night. He’ll change [...]
With a seemingly innocuous social media reminder regarding one of approximately 471 promotions at Busch Stadium this year, the Cardinals managed to author a tweet that launched a thousand negative reactions. Running the gamut from predictably insensitive to “meh” to unparalleled outrage, those reactions provide a reminder that social media users enjoy getting offended and [...]
Every single time Ryan Braun plays in St. Louis, he’s met with boos. Loud ones. Energetic ones with a viciousness powered by raw dislike bordering on hatred. You can practically smell the loathing through the KMOX audio feed. The former NL #MVPee gets similar treatment in other stadiums as well, but the Best Fans in [...]
In the movement to heap more and more raw data on fans, the undeniably ubiquitous Statcast represents the omnipresent data shovel. Every piece of action on the field becomes translated into data which then spawns its own metadata which is really just data about data. Life in this new quantifiable hardball reality requires some adjustments [...]
Mo: “Jhonny, how are you feeling today? The trainer told me that you were feeling a bit under the weather.” Jhonny: “I feel fine, John Mozeliak. Really. Never felt better actually.” Mo: “Are you sure? Because I’m concerned about your physical and emotional well being. If you aren’t 100%, then I need to know what [...]
Mo: “Neal, Mo here. Heard the news about Marte. Thought I’d give you a call to offer my sympathies and a shoulder to cry one. I’d offer to be the big spoon, but you didn’t make it into town for this series.” Neal: “Great to hear from you, Moz. I sure appreciate you calling [...]
Somewhere beyond the Matheny bashing, hypothetical lineup construction machinations, and the usual angst one expects with a 3-9 team lies an unspeakable, horrific possibility. Maybe the window of opportunity for the Wainwright/Molina era teams has finally closed, and nobody knows it yet. Perhaps the level of baseball played through the first 12 games more accurately [...]
