If I can keep it up all month, 31 days of positive posts! There's going to be enough negativity going around with the Cardinals not in the post-season. Day 8 Today's topic probably doesn't need any more press around these parts. I mean, less than a month ago started #YadiWeek. I'm going to link you back to here to see more about him. I don't do this because I can't find more to write about him. I don't do this to take the lazy way out. I don't do this for any other reason tha

The 2006 Cardinals, in my mind, get a bit of a bad rap as “the worst team to ever win the World Series”. Yes, they scuffled down the stretch. Yes, they only won 83 games. Yes, they didn’t clinch the division until the last day. All that said, this was the same team that had won 105 and 100 games the prior two seasons with minimal changes and still had the MV3 core going for it. One of the changes, at least from the 2004 squad, was that Yadier Molina was the everyday catch

It's #YadiWeek, boys and girls! Why are we doing this ridiculous exercise? Why wouldn't we? Yadier Molina is absolutely ridiculously good and we should celebrate every day, much less every week, much less THIS WEEK that we have left with the future Hall of Famer and current Cardinal great. His Hitting Let me build this up a bit. Cardinals fans marvel at Ozzie Smith's transformation as a hitter. In Smith's first 4 years in the league, as a San Diego Padre, he had an OPS+ of 66

Mikolas cruises to 17th win with 7 strong innings, Carp belts 36th HR, Cafecíto & Muñoz drive in pair, sweep Giants 9-2 The Liz King delivered one of the best starts all season this afternoon, no-hitting the Giants thru the first 4 innings, striking out 4. In fact, he had a perfect game up until Muñoz dropped a pop out with 2 outs in the 4th inning, allowing Longoria to reach base. Mikolas was efficient too, like even better than his standards. Here’s his pitch count by inn

***As part of "#YadiWeek" here at Birds On The Black, I'm going to try my hardest to give you a pre-2004 write up of the one and only Yadier Molina. This is a view of the prospect. A picture of the last moment that Yadi wasn't a Cardinals' 25-man staple. Since my brain is basically mush, it should be easy for me to take the time machine back to January 2004 and pretend like the last 15 years of Major League baseball didn't happen. Let's have some fun!!! The last thing is, Yad