From the Betting Window: Saturday’s Plays and a Quick Explanation of Baseball Betting
“I don’t understand how baseball betting works.” I hear this a lot. While there is a runline (more on that in a moment), there is no point spread when it…
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If Teams Want Norris, Cards Should Make a Deal and Let Hicks Close Games
Every year near baseball’s trade deadline, teams fill needs. Big stars like J.D. Martinez and Manny Machado get moved and usually a contender needs a catcher like Jonathan Lucroy or…
Shildt’s ‘Inclusive’ Approach Should Be Refreshing for These Cardinals
Sometimes things just spiral out of control for a coach or manager in sports, and there’s no way of reeling things back in. That’s what happened to Mike Matheny. After…
Complain All You Want About Cardinals Ownership, But Things Could Be a Lot Worse
Another weekend of sweeping the Cincinnati Reds has the Cardinals in first place in the National League Central, and there’s a reason for that. For all the criticism Bill DeWitt…
There’s Good and Not So Good from Cardinals Spring Training So Far
The Cardinals have a week and a half of spring training games under their belt, and there are good signs, and warning signs. Here are three of each after nine grapefruit…
Cardinals Lineup Ranks Highly According to MLB Network, Pitchers Not So Much.
MLB Network completed their “Top 10 right now” series last weekend, and if pitching wasn’t such a big deal in baseball, the Cardinals would have to feel pretty good about…
Cardinals Don’t Seem All-In for 2018 Season
As the Cardinals Winter Warmup came and went over the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend and club President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak, manager Mike Matheny and Chairman Bill DeWitt,…
Cardinals Winter Meetings Mission: Two Big Bats and a Reliever
Baseball’s Winter Meetings begin December 10 in Orlando, and as the Cardinals try to form the foundation of a team that returns to the playoffs and hopefully the World Series…
Time for the Cardinals to Seize the Day…A List of Offseason Trade Targets
We are officially into MLB transaction season, and this is an important one for the Cardinals. They admit they need a back-end reliever and a big bat in the middle…
How Whitey Herzog’s Cardinals Won Before the Analytics Revolution
With the Dodgers, whose GM Farhan Zaidi has degrees from MIT and Cal, and the Astros led by GM Jeff Luhnow (Penn and Northwestern), advancing to the World Series, the…