Chuck Brownson

When Dakota Hudson arrived on the scene in St. Louis last year it didn’t take him long to impress the coaching staff and work his way into high leverage situ...

As Michael Wacha took the mound in the 1st inning of Saturday’s start against the Brewers one of the Cards’ announcers made the statement that last year Wach...

Opening day, baby! Time to play some baseball. With the season getting started, I thought it a good idea to take a look at the Cardinals’ schedule for the se...

I hate to kick the season off with such a somber tone, so hopefully all this will be for naught...but I'm a little worried. There’s a lot of optimism in Card...

A few weeks back, I wrote extensively about the Cards’ bullpen needs and encouraged them to be aggressive with their pen. At the time I really didn’t even co...

(If you haven’t gotten a chance to read Bruno’s piece on his own experience with depression, I encourage you to do so. This piece will be different but there...

Sam Hinkie, formerly of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, made tanking famous by deliberately putting bad teams on the court expressly for the purpose of ending ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of weeks, you’re probably aware that the Cards have had some discussions with the Dbacks about tra...

The purpose of this piece isn’t meant to be specifically about the Cards’ attempt to sign Bryce Harper this offseason but is more meant to be a general comme...

A little more than a week ago, I posted part 1 of my attempt to solve the Ozuna conundrum – to figure out why he could hit the ball basically as well in 2018...

Let’s play a little game. Take a look at the table below and see if you can identify the 2 players. If you’re a Cardinals’ fan – and I know you are – and you...

In my last 2 posts I’ve written about what the Cardinals’ 1st 2 options should be for this offseason. Plan A should be adding Bryce Harper and plan B should ...

About a week ago, I wrote about how the Cardinals needed to spend the money it took to sign Bryce Harper. He would fill a need in the middle of the Cardinals...

The Cardinals should sign Bryce Harper. I know that’s not a particularly novel or bold statement. The Cardinals have a desperate need for a star, middle-of-t...

I just love Jose Martinez. The dude’s smile is infectious and you can tell that he truly loves the game of baseball. And he can really hit. He is as much a “...

This is the 4th part of my series on remaking the Cardinals’ bullpen in 2019. It’s clear that the current makeup of the Cardinals’ bullpen is simply unworkab...

(This is the 3rd part of a multi-part series on the bullpen and the steps that the Cardinals need to take to fix it.) A couple of days ago I posted about the...

(This is the 2nd part of a multi-part series on the bullpen and the steps that the Cardinals need to take to fix it.) A couple of days ago, I took a look at ...

(This is the first of a multi-part series on the bullpen and the steps that need to be taken to fix what has become one of the team's chief problems.) It’s p...

I want to make it clear as I begin here that I am not an expert on pitcher injuries, or pitchers, or injuries of any kind. I do read a lot, especially as it ...