As you all know, Yadier Molina is up for an extension, talks about which are going to resume when the season starts. Well, recently, Ken Rosenthal wrote an article about Yadi’s influence on Puerto Rico’s entry into the World Baseball Championship (WBC). Here is the article. According to the article, Yadi has been studying the opposing [...]
As you all know, we lost Alex Reyes for a season due to a torn UCL and our favorite surgery, Tommy John. The question becomes, how do you replace him? There are two ways: Directly and indirectly. Directly, of course, is by replacing his innings. Trevor Hooth over at Redbird Rants covered this here in an excellent article [...]
As we all know, Alex Reyes underwent an MRI today, and the worst happened: a UCL tear and Tommy John surgery resulting in a lost season and possibly decreased velocity when he comes back, meaning there is a chance, when he finally returns, that we’ll never see the dynamo that we saw at the end of [...]
I enjoyed talking about our catching prospect Carson Kelly, so I thought I’d look at another prospect, Harrison Bader. Bader made it to AAA last year, where he struggled. That was only in 161 AB’s though, and he had hit in all previous levels. Plus, remember, we just drafted him in 2015, as a 3rd [...]
Good day all, been a while. I thought I’d dust off the keyboard and talk about one of my favorite stories of 2016: Aledmys Diaz. Last year, Diaz hit .300 with 17 homers and 65 RBI in 460 PA’s. He also had healthy .369 OBP. While we knew he had talent, the year exceeded all [...]
Yadier Molina recently let the Cards know that he was interested in an extension. My co-hort C70 already covered this here, but I wanted to give my two cents. First let me just say that, as a fan. Yadi is my favorite Cardinal right now, and one of my all-time favorites. I can’t imagine the Cards without [...]
We focus on the stars in baseball (and rightly so in most cases) but sometimes who wins comes down to how deep a team is. Look at the Dodgers last year: They had a ton of injuries, but thanks to depth and front office resourcefulness, they made the playoffs and made the Cubs’ lives interesting. [...]
The Cardinals, as you know, are in the market for a center fielder. They are rumored to be in on Dexter Fowler, which would be a nice acquisition, but I thought I’d explore another option, as well as compare those two to one that got away. Here are the 2016 stats for our three CF [...]
The Cards reportedly have signed Brett Cecil, a former Blue Jays reliever. Cecil, a lefty, was a valuable man out of Toronto’s bullpen from 2013-2015, before struggling last year, and even that (he started slow before finishing better) makes him look like a solid buy low candidate. Except… 7 million plus per year isn’t that [...]
Hey all, been a while. I got depressed by the Cards near miss, then even more depressed when the Cubs won. Due respect to them, though, they got the job done (in spite of their 184 million dollar free agent, Jason Heyward, who contributed good D and nothing else. Remember when everyone wanted to re-sign [...]
There’s been plenty said about how the team missed the playoffs and some vitriol tossed at Mike Matheny and others. Basically what you’d expect when a team comes one game short. I’d rather focus on the positive, though, so here are 3 things from 2016 that made me smile during the season and give me [...]
As the Cardinals struggle to make the playoffs this year and the lynch mob gets ready to hang Mike Matheny should we fall short, I thought it might be time for some perspective, good or bad. I looked into Cardinals team history for managers to compare Matheny with, skipping Tony La Russa (who did have [...]
