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Cardinal hitters (the red dots) against the rest of the league (shown as a 4 quartile box plot). Ohtani is the blue dot outlier at the very top. I am back with Part 3 of the 2024-2025 Off-season Analysis. These are links to Part 1 and Part 2. What I’m going to do in this part is examine the position player side of the roster at an individual level and try and … [Read more...] about 2024-2025 Off-season Plan, Part 3 – The Offense

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Yesterday, I was thinking about potential offseason targets for the Cardinals that could be within their price range. Mind you, nothing sexy is going to happen this winter. If the Cardinals sign anybody, the moves will be for value free agents. The biggest possible move the Cardinals could make in my opinion would be to … [Read more...] about Could the Cardinals sign Enrique Hernandez for 2025?

It’s funny what connections one’s mind makes. The announcement of Fernando Valenzuela’s death brought about a memory for me. Not of him pitching. I was too young for that. My parents were still 10 years from even meeting when Fernandomania engrossed the nation. It started when Jeff Passan tweeted his first 8 starts, which almost singlehandedly gave him both the Rookie of … [Read more...] about An Old Memory