Alex Crisafulli 7/7

Feb 15, 2018
5 min

Cardinals observations from the 2018 Baseball Prospectus Annual

The 2018 Baseball Prospectus Annual hit stores and arrived in homes last week. It's always great and you should buy it, especially since...

Alex Crisafulli

Feb 10, 2018
2 min

BotB Shorts: Maybe the DH isn't so bad

Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs penned an article on Thursday on the current state of the designated hitter. It's a good piece but if you...

What PECOTA says about the 2018 Cardinals

Alex Crisafulli

Feb 8, 2018
4 min

What PECOTA says about the 2018 Cardinals

PECOTA projections were unveiled at Baseball Prospectus on Wednesday, which means everyone in Kansas City is angry. Overall – and someone...

BotB Shorts: The Cardinals are pinch-hitting golden gods

Alex Crisafulli

Feb 3, 2018
2 min

BotB Shorts: The Cardinals are pinch-hitting golden gods

On Thursday, Rob Mains of Baseball Prospectus - one of the best observers on this here sport of baseball that you will find - described...

Ray Lankford: One damn fine baseball player

Alex Crisafulli

Feb 2, 2018
4 min

Ray Lankford: One damn fine baseball player

There's a familiar line early in Major League just before the first pitch in the bottom of the 1st of Cleveland's Opening Day, when...

BotB Shorts: Popular and valuable names throughout Cardinals history

Alex Crisafulli

Jan 20, 2018
1 min

BotB Shorts: Popular and valuable names throughout Cardinals history

On episode 1,164 (sheesh) of the excellent baseball podcast Effectively Wild, hosts Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan answered a listener's...

Play Index: Stan Musial per 600 plate appearances edition

Alex Crisafulli

Jan 16, 2018
3 min

Play Index: Stan Musial per 600 plate appearances edition

By the time Stan Musial's nearly incomparable career came to end, he had compiled 3,630 total hits, with 725 doubles, 177 triples, and...

Getting Chris Carpenter into the HOF (with help from Carlos Zambrano)

Alex Crisafulli

Jan 10, 2018
4 min

Getting Chris Carpenter into the HOF (with help from Carlos Zambrano)

Just before the new year, Joe Posnanski fired off what was basically a “who was better” tweet for Chris Carpenter and Carlos Zambrano,...

Play Index: Marcell Ozuna doubles, home runs edition

Alex Crisafulli

Dec 28, 2017
2 min

Play Index: Marcell Ozuna doubles, home runs edition

New big-bat carrying acquisition Marcell Ozuna was one of only 17 players in Major League Baseball to hit at least 30 doubles and 30 home...

Alex Crisafulli

Dec 15, 2017
5 min

Dexter Fowler one year later

*photo taken by: @kat_allen311 With the recent trade for Marcell Ozuna, and the 2017 emergence of Tommy Pham, it stands that Dexter...

Lance Lynn's third-time-through-the-order luck ran out in 2017

Alex Crisafulli

Nov 28, 2017
3 min

Lance Lynn's third-time-through-the-order luck ran out in 2017

Last April I was exploring FanGraphs' new Splits Leaderboards when I stumbled upon something pretty interesting: Lance Lynn pitched very...

Using the 1985 Cardinals to compare baseball then to now

Alex Crisafulli

Nov 22, 2017
4 min

Using the 1985 Cardinals to compare baseball then to now

Baseball has changed. Perhaps radically so if judging by the recent numbers. This past season there were 412 more home runs hit than the...

The Cardinals excelled at hitting with runners on base in 2017

Alex Crisafulli

Nov 2, 2017
2 min

The Cardinals excelled at hitting with runners on base in 2017

On the most recent FanGraphs Audio podcast, David Cameron mentioned to host Carson Cistulli that batters typically have better numbers...