Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Cardinals head into the offseason with a premier super-elite talent as their number-one target. They put on a good show in chasing that talent. For a while, it looks like it might happen. Then it doesn’t. Some other team nobody counted on ends up taking the […]
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If you’re a Cardinals fan, there are very few reasons to like Mike Matheny. The team has gotten steadily worse on his watch, and despite him now being in his sixth season, he’s seemingly learned precious little about any of the managerial aspects of the game that fans have access to. He might well be […]
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Wednesday night, something magical happened for the Cardinals. Down 5-4 late-ish to the Royals, the club was about to squander a golden scoring opportunity when Yadier Molina strode to the plate with the bases loaded. Yadier Molina shouldn’t be batting fifth. Or Dexter Fowler fourth. But hey, as Mike Matheny errors go, at least Fowler […]
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Earlier this season, SBNation ran a contest asking baseball fans to write why they rooted for their team. I don’t know who actually won. I read some really good submissions from Cardinals fans on Viva El Birdos, though, so I’m hoping one of them got something neat out of the contest. I didn’t submit anything. […]
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A friendly disclaimer because I gather this is a sensitive subject for some: truly nothing in here is a personal attack! My intention isn’t to call the folks engaged in this behavior stupid, or bad analysts. I can 100% guarantee that many of the people who’re looking–perhaps myopically–at barrels are better at quantitative analysis than […]
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On Opening Day (or Opening Day: Part 2, or whatever you want to call Monday), the Reds put up the above image when Joey Votto came to bat. Pay special attention to the “advanced stats” section on the right side of the scoreboard. Seemingly at random, the Reds grabbed a handful of sabermetric stats and threw […]
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The Cardinals signed Dexter Fowler, a pretty good center fielder, to a five-year deal at the end of the Winter Meetings, for the like half dozen of you who’re reading a Cardinals-centric site but somehow missed this crucial detail. It’s a good deal, as free agency goes. The Cardinals had a clear hole (largely of […]
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Cross-posted at Viva El Birdos. Let’s get this out of the way: Cardinals fans are racists. Some of them, anyway. It’s not exactly a controversial statement. It’s easy to find examples of Cardinals fans spewing some of the most vile racist rhetoric imaginable—and goodness knows there are oodles of Twitter accounts that’ll do the work […]
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