Redbird Droppings: All The Transactions 2024
It’s been a busy off-season for both the Cardinals, and former Cardinals. The team has brought in (or brought back) 30 players along with 11 international players, while sending out 37 players.
Redbird Droppings: Clean The 2023 House?
What should the Redbirds do at the deadline? Also, are there other issues then just the roster? I’ve been pretty quiet this season; it’s hard to write about a team playing this badly that shouldn’t be this bad. Coming into the season, this was not a bad team; not a perfect team by any stretch,…
Monday Afternoon GM: Do You Want the Good News, Or the Bad News?
What a week? The Cardinals get swept by the Tampa Bay Rays, but take 2 out of 3 against the Reds. Normally a 2-4 record would not be good for the standings; yet somehow the Cardinals ended up moving past the Brewers and taking first place. The Rays series was bad; they struggled to hit…
Tuesday Afternoon GM: Splitsville
I’m a day late due to Memorial day, but content is the same (although I’ll look at yesterday’s game next week). Could we say last week was a rough week? On paper, splitting a 2-game series with the Blue Jays and a 4-game series with the Brewers looks acceptable; in reality, it didn’t feel as…
Cardinal Mail Bag: 2021, Stanton, Rolen
I will get questions from time to time via email or Facebook about the Cardinals. I’ve gotten a few recently and thought I’d address them here. What do you think is the best course of action for the 2021 team? Joe C. There are plenty of options for the Cardinals this off-season, but I don’t…
The NL Central All “Gone” Team
I was listening to Ben Fred Friday on Scoops with Danny Mac when Ben Frederickson said that you could make a competitive team with players that have left the NL Central this winter. It got me thinking, how would this team compare to the 2020 Cardinals? So I’ve put together a 25-man roster of NL…
The 2020 Cardinals Off-Season Salary Matrix
Today starts the beginning of 2020-21 Free Agency. The Cardinals have 4 free agents: Brad Miller, Yadier Molina, Adam Wainwright, and Matt Wieters. They also have to decide today if they execute the club option on Kolten Wong; he’ll either make $12.5M or enter free agency. The team also currently has 41 players on the…
The Cardinals WAR Totals
Each year, I look at the WAR for individual Cardinal players and look at how they were acquired to see where the Cardinals are struggling to find players. This year is done, but the exercise is pretty meaningless compared to a normal season; I found a few different reasons for this. First, the short season…
NL Wild Card Preview 2020: Cardinals vs Padres
The Cardinals got the short end of the playoff seeding; while it’s a miracle they got a 5 seed (Covid-19 outbreak, roster shuffling, etc), they face the #4 Padres, who had the second best record in the NL. The teams never faced each other this year, but had a history of playoff matchups: the Padres…
