65 PLAYERS INVITED FOR 24TH YEAR OF TRAINING IN JUPITER, FLA ST. LOUIS, MO., February 11, 2021 – The St. Louis Cardinals will be opening their 24th year of Spring Training in Jupiter, Fla. when the team’s pitchers and catchers report on Wednesday, February 17. The Cardinals full squad will conduct their first workouts on…
Like I’ve done for the last few years, I’m working through my Cardinals projections for the upcoming season. The process this year is trickier; normally I take a 3 year average of the players stats for a portion of the projections, but this past season saw the 60 game season, so there was a little…
The Cardinals kept the surprises going on Thursday by trading Dexter Fowler and $12.75M to the Los Angeles Angels for a player to be later or cash. The deal clears out an outfield spot on the roster; Fowler was penciled in as the right fielder to start the season. Now Dylan Carlson will probably be…
The Cardinals offense is in need of help; that’s nothing new, though. Over the last 18 months, fans have been salivating at the thought of adding Nolan Arenado; he’s an impact bat at a position of need. Apparently, those talks have restarted again, along with the possibility that Arenado would rework his opt out clause….
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…
As I do every year, I’ve started a composite ranking of St. Louis Cardinals prospects heading into the 2021 season. As other sites release their lists, I’ll update the list below. You’ll see the mean, median, and mode of all the lists added and the players ranked by average ranking. You’ll also see the high…
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…
With the announcement that Dinelson Lamet and Mike Clevinger were not available for the Padres, the Cardinals were able to catch a break and take advantage of Chris Paddack in Game 1 of the series. The issue I saw was the Cardinals offense goes in spurts; what happens the next day after the team scores…
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…
If you go onto Cardinal Facebook Pages, you’ll notice that there are a few common complaints around the team right now. The team is not good, they didn’t make moves at the deadline, they let the wrong players go, they can’t scout players. While there are some truths there, people are focusing on the wrong…
A week ago, if you asked a Cardinals fan what the team needed to do to improve, the first thing they would say was promote Dylan Carlson. The myth of the man had grown to a point that he was the savior for the season. It kind of reminds me of another outfield prospect with…
