Cardinals to Play 18 of 30 Spring Training Games at Roger Dean Stadium ST LOUIS, Mo., January 11, 2018 – Individual tickets for 2018 Cardinals Spring Training games at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida, will go on sale this Saturday, January 13, beginning at 9:00 a.m. CT (excluding tickets for the March 2 game…
The Cardinals were able to acquire their Plan B after Giancarlo Stanton declined to accept a trade to St. Louis; they traded for Marcell Ozuna of the Marlins. The cost was marginal at best, with RHP Sandy Alcantara, OF Magnerius Sierra, RHP Zac Gallen, and LHP Daniel Castano heading to the Marlins. While Alcanara and…
I recently had the chance to talk with St. Louis Cardinals prospect Daniel Poncedeleon. We talked getting drafted, the Cardinals system, taking a line drive off the head, and this upcoming season. The intro music is from the Euclids; the clip was from their track Social Damage. The featured song this week is Cityscapes from…
Each year, I track prospect rankings to help create my own rankings. I’ve thrown them in spreadsheets for years, but decided that this year I would publish them. The below document has a tab for each team, an overall (for top 100 overall lists), and a key with the locations of the actual rankings. Each…
Each year I compare the Cardinals offense to that of the NL and MLB as a whole. This year, per a request, I have expanded it to compare 20 years of data between the team and the league. This will give a general idea of if the Cardinals offense has been shifting with league-wide trends,…
The biggest name that Cardinal fans drool over is Giancarlo Stanton, the highly paid slugger of the Miami Marlins. Stanton’s name has been a trade rumor staple since rumors circulated about the Marlins ownership changes prior to the 2017 season. The reason is simple: Stanton is a very expensive player. Stanton signed a 13-year, $325M…
Part of my usual season recap for the Cardinals is to look at their numbers versus the league averages. In preparing that, I decided to also look at year to year trends of the Cardinals. I compiled stats for the last 20 years to see how this year’s team compared to those of the past….
Greg Holland was one of the premier closer with the Kansas City Royals, then he fell to Tommy John surgery and missed the 2016 season. He returned last season with the Colorado Rockies to pretty good results. He declined his player option for 2018 and will re-enter the free agent market. Bob Nightengale tweeted that…
This week I run an interview I did back in July with John Sickels of Minor League Ball. We talked Cardinal prospects, including Luke Weaver, Jack Flaherty, Sandy Alcantara, Carson Kelly, and more. The intro music is from the Euclids; the clip was from their track Social Damage. The featured song of the week was…
Every season, I break down where the Cardinals got their players and how much value they got by each transaction type. The Cardinals used 48 players this season and their Baseball Reference WAR was 36.2 between hitting/fielding and pitching. The Cardinals acquired players by 6 different means: the draft, amateur free agency (aka International Free…
Welcome to the Pop Culture Abstract Podcast. We talk anything pop culture. For the first episode, I talk with Justin Birnbaum of Base Knock MLB; we talk about the MLB Post Season (Clayton Kershaw, Corey Kluber, Justin Verlander, Chris Sale) and what the Mets will do in the off-season (Jay Bruce, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard)….
