Zach Gifford

Over the last couple weeks, reports surfaced detailing how Major League Baseball may attempt to play a COVID-shortened 2020 season. First we had “Baseball Ci...

Earlier this morning, Tara Wellman sent me a link to this video of Matt Carpenter talking about his approach at the plate: For the tl;dw crowd, Matt Carpente...

Spring has finally sprung, and the St. Louis Cardinals have begun playing exhibition baseball games. And, while the games don’t count, there’s some intrigue ...

At the start of spring training, John Brebbia was spotted using an Edgertronic and sensor to analyze his spin rate, spin axis, and pitch velocity. Edgertroni...

For a two month period lasting from All-Star game until September 22nd, John Brebbia was arguably the St. Louis Cardinals best reliever. His 2.96 ERA trailed...

On Tuesday night, the Boston Red Sox partnered with the Los Angeles Dodgers to drop a bomb on the baseball world, sending Mookie Betts and David Price to LA ...

When the Nolan Arenado to St. Louis trade rumors started swirling, Dakota Hudson was mentioned as a potential centerpiece for the Rockies. Hudson, fresh off ...

Last week, Statcast released their long-awaited new defensive metric, Infielder Outs Above Average (OAA). For the uninitiated, Infielder OAA estimates the ch...

Last week, the St. Louis Cardinals made noise for the first time this offseason by striking a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. The swap, centered around former ...

According to this report today from Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Colorado Rockies are almost certainly going to trade their franchise cornerstone, and ...

Back in November, the FanGraphs staff ranked Marcell Ozuna as the seventh best available free agent. In that article, Kiley McDaniel and the FanGraphs crowd ...

On Tuesday night, after weeks of reading everyone’s year-in-review post and reflecting back on 2019, we celebrated the new year and turned the calendar to 20...

On Tuesday night, Yadier Molina made his 22nd consecutive start behind the plate for the St. Louis Cardinals. Since July 1st, the only game Molina didn’t sta...

As a minor league starter, Gomber succeeded using a repertoire which featured three average or slightly better pitches. For the first month of his tenure in ...

On Sunday afternoon in the final game of a five game series with the Chicago Cubs, Matt Carpenter failed to hit a home run. Normally, a homer-less game would...

When I watched the St. Louis Cardinals press conference to introduce interim manager Mike Shildt, a consistent theme stood out to me: the Cardinals needed a ...

Mike Mayers is striking out everyone. Well, not exactly everyone. But we don’t really know how he's doing it. Mayers has never had much success piling up str...

Earlier this season, former Viva El Birdos writer Andy Schrag discussed how the timeliness of production shapes our perception of that production. How we view...

Joe Schwarz of The Athletic joins me to talk St. Louis Cardinals baseball. With Greg Holland is back off the DL, Joe and I discuss whether fans should expect...

On Monday night, the Cardinals managed to climb back into a game that started out with Miles Mikolas handing the Phillies a four run first inning lead. They ...