I'm just going to come right out and say it. #STLCards manager, Oliver Marmol, had one hell of a weekend in Chicago. I'm going to call it his Master Class in Load Management. Coming into the weekend, there was a litany of articles discussing the fact that the St. Louis Cardinals had an innings problem in the rotation and bullpen. The problem essentially was this question: "Where are the Cardinals going to go to cover the innings they will need to cover this year with the play

Fellow Birds on the Black contributor, Tara Wellman, was recently on another podcast and, at the very end of what I thought was a fantastic job running down the Cardinals line up construction and story lines coming into the 2021 season, she talked a bit about 2020 veteran/rookie phenom Kwang-Hyun Kim. She gave her thoughts on why she believes KK, as #STLCards fans affectionately call him, might have had the success he did in 2020. This thought fascinated me and while Tara was

Today, since I believe we'll be shut down very soon in regards to baseball's 2020 season, I'm going to take a look at Statcast's (VERY EARLY) returns on the #STLCards' 2020 season. After 4 games, they are about what we thought they would be in these parts of the Twitterverse. That is: Pitching = very good. Hitting = Middle of the road. Let's peruse a list of (again, way too early) team stats here. Batting average: .242 (.010 above league average) - 12th in majors (middle of t

I have been doing some research over the past couple of weeks that led me to find a very interesting tidbit of data that I felt the need to share with all of my fellow #STLCards fans that happen to read these pages here at Birds On The Black. It is about a left-handed pitcher in the organization that not many people seem to discuss. Tyler Webb is a pitcher that does not get much acclaim in these parts, or any parts of Cardinal fandom that I follow closely. (He was covered her