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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This offseason marked five years since Albert Pujols, quite possibly the greatest Cardinal ever, turned down an incomprehensibly lucrative offer to remain a Cardinal for life in favor of a slightly more incomprehensibly lucrative offer to go elsewhere. The occasion passed without much notice, but if you’ve listened closely enough, you may have heard some doubt start to seep in at […]
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For a moment there, right after the Fowler signing, the Cardinals actually managed to convince some of us that they weren’t going to call it an offseason. The club, wrote Derrick Goold, “could become more aggressive than previously believed, turning toward free-agent sluggers Mark Trumbo and Edwin Encarnación as possible pursuits.” Maybe such a change […]
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There are a number of reactions you could have to yesterday’s rollout of the Sporting News’ Cardinal-less list of the 50 best players in baseball. You could make a convincing case that Matt Carpenter belongs on it. You could make a highly dubious case, as panelist Derrick Goold apparently did, that Yadier Molina belongs on […]
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Position players were due to officially report to camp in Jupiter today, with the Cardinals’ first full-squad workout of the spring scheduled for tomorrow morning. One player who won’t be participating is Yadier Molina, who is still recovering from two thumb surgeries in the offseason and may or may not be ready for Opening Day. […]
Continue reading →When asked over the weekend by a Hall of Fame beat writer about the biggest story of the Cardinals’ offseason, Mike Matheny decided to answer, and when he answered he politely refused to concede that his club is old and bad, causing friend of the blog Patrick Redford and others to conclude that the Cards […]
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Originally published on Medium. During my junior year of high school, I spent most of the season as my team’s designated hitter. Aside from a few weeks of glory during my senior year when the team got our act together just enough to win the sectional, it was my favorite season of baseball. I wasn’t […]
Continue reading →Originally published on Medium. I don’t know what you were doing in the week leading up to July 31 of last year, but odds are that you were having a better week than the St. Louis Cardinals. Having been swept in a weekend series in Atlanta, the Redbirds limped into a crucial five-game showdown in […]
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