If it’s OK with you, I’ll take a pass on offering a review of the CBA negotiations and the peace agreement between MLB’s owners and players. The entire process was fatiguing and frustrating, and baseball is boring enough during normal times. So why waste additional...
BERNIE BITS At least one too-early projection system is down on your St. Louis Cardinals. That would be from good, ol’ PECOTA over at Baseball Prospectus. In posting the lockout-state projections the editors at BP advised us to relax. “Take them for what they...
Major League Baseball will return at some point in 2022. Until then, I’ll keep my mind and typing fingers busy by taking an advance look at the 2022 Cardinals. The roster isn’t completely set, and we don’t know if the front office will go outside the organization for...
Greetings. Today I complete my year-end review of Cardinal players. In Part One, I covered the position players. In Part Two, I assessed the starting pitchers. Now we’re here at Part Three, and it’s time to inspect the relevant relievers. I appreciate...
Good afternoon. I was watching the MLB Network this week when a panel of commentators discussed the Cardinals’ remarkable late-season run, an exhilarating mad dash highlighted by the current 16-game winning streak. I enjoyed the take offered by Hall of Fame pitcher...
Welcome To The Redbird Review The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. 16 … consecutive … games. Lawdy, I need to head to the fainting couch. Then again, what’s the big deal? After all, the Cardinals won 16 games during...
Welcome to The Redbird Review Doubleheader at Wrigley Field? Wish I could be there. But I’m in the mood to type words for you — as always! Let’s start with this: The Cardinals are RIDICULOUS. You’re not supposed to win 12 in a row and 14 of 15 and do it...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals are streaking and peaking. Eleven consecutive wins. Twelve victories in the last 13 games. They’ve opened a four-game lead over Cincinnati in the bidding for the second NL wild-card ticket. FanGraphs assesses STL’s...
Welcome to The Redbird Review For many weeks now, interested if confused observers have tried to make sense of the straggly, goofy wrangle for the NL’s No. 2 wild card. This bewilderment often leads to a familiar question. My baseball-writing friend Bob Nightengale of...
