Fans are demanding the firing of Oli Marmol. He’s an easy scapegoat, but to an enraged fan base Marmol’s managerial skills or perceived flaws are largely irrelevant to the much larger picture. The public just wants someone to pay for the team’s .430 winning percentage...
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S The Cardinals are discovering different ways to lose games. Usually the problem is the offense, and that was a factor in Saturday’s 5-3 defeat at Milwaukee. This time the bullpen deserved criticism because Andrew Kittredge was birched for a...
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S After getting a two-game break from his severe slump and troubling season, Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt returned to the lineup Friday and went 0 for 4 in the team’s depressing 11-2 loss at Milwaukee. The box-score blank left Goldy...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals took it on the noggin from the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night. The final score was 7-1. The verdict: the Cardinals stink, and the court adamantly rejects any appeal of our ruling. Offensively the Cardinals are Bob Uecker, a .200...
Late in the evening of April 16, the visiting Cardinals defeated Oakland to win the first two games of the series. This was no time to rejoice, but the Redbirds were looking pretty solid. They had a 9-9 record and were two games out of first place in the NL Central....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Willson Contreras was the lionheart of the St. Louis offense. Before breaking a forearm on Tuesday night, Contreras was the team’s finest hitter. The most feared hitter. He had the most confidence and the least amount of fear. His competitive...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Broken arm. Broken season. Not him. Please. Not Willson Contreras. The Cardinals can’t lose him. The fans can’t lose him. He’s the team’s best player. He’s the one guy the team and the public can count on to post up in every game that he plays with...
This is a follow-up to something I wrote on Monday. So let’s get back to that and go straight to the heart of the matter. The Cardinals won’t have a productive offense unless their hitters wake up and take smarter at-bats. Everyone keeps talking about how hard the St....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After failing to get a hit in his last 18 at-bats over five games, Paul Goldschmidt’s batting average plummeted to .203 on the season. Put that with a .297 onbase percentage and a sickly .273 slugging percentage, and we’ve witnessed the worst...
