Here’s a needlessly elaborate version of a hypothetical first proposed to me by sometimes Double Birds contributor Adam Felder: On Sunday evening, just before the Cardinals open the regular season against the Cubs at Busch Stadium, an Omnipotent Time-Traveling Baseball Genie appears before you in a blinding seraphic vision. He offers you a deal: he […]
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With the Winter Meetings well underway, all indications are that the Cardinals’ pursuit of Dexter Fowler—the best outfielder on the free-agent market and a solid, straightforward answer to some of the club’s biggest needs—is a real thing. Ken Rosenthal reported late Monday night that the Cardinals had met with Fowler’s representatives and “made him an […]
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The Cardinals were neither long nor shy in signaling one of their top priorities heading into the offseason. Days after finishing the season 17½ games back of the Cubs and one game short of a wild-card spot, John Mozeliak acknowledged—as straightforwardly as the circumlocutory bow-tie enthusiast has ever acknowledged anything—that the club would seek an upgrade in center […]
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The Cardinals are probably not going to make the postseason every year in perpetuity. Compared to the past 20 seasons of Cardinals baseball, one can see how coming to terms with that reality is disheartening. But through the prism of every other baseball team in the world, the Cardinals are in solid shape. St. Louis […]
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And so it was that the 2016 season collapsed into a ruthless parody of itself, an occasionally dramatic but mostly soul-deadening 7-9 stretch against three wild-card rivals and two NL bottom-feeders, a five-act meditation on the futility of human endeavor and the impossibility of change. The Cardinals lost two straight to the Dodgers, needed a […]
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It’s been more than a month since an atom bomb detonated in the middle of the Cardinals’ offseason in the form of Jason Heyward’s decision to accept an eight-year, $184 million contract offer from the Chicago Cubs, and we’re still no closer to understanding exactly how that decision went down. We’re probably never going to […]
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In the hours after the news broke yesterday that Jason Heyward had signed with the Cubs, it initially appeared that something remarkable had happened—that Heyward had turned down an offer from the Cardinals in excess of $200 million and taken nearly $20 million less to play for Chicago. This quickly caused a great deal of […]
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