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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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