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National League
by PH8 on October 15, 2009 |
[Ed. note - As a charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) (along with fellow UCB members C70 at the Bat, Fungoes, and Stan Musial's Stance), PH8 been afforded the honor of carrying an official vote for a couple of the BBA's 2009 MLB Awards. You can find [...]
Posted in: Awards, Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Blogs, Current Cardinals, National League
Tagged with: 2009 NL Rookie of the Year, Andrew McCutchen, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Chris Coghlan, Colby Rasmus, FanGraphs, Florida Marlins, Garrett Jones, J.A. Happ, NL Awards, Nyjer Morgan, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Randy Wells, Tommy Hanson, Washington Nationals
by PH8 on October 12, 2009 |
[Ed. note - As a charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) (along with fellow UCB members C70 at the Bat, Fungoes, and Stan Musial's Stance), PH8 been afforded the honor of carrying an official vote for a couple of the BBA's 2009 MLB Awards. You can find [...]
Posted in: Awards, Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Blogs, Cardinals Coaches, Current Cardinals, National League
Tagged with: Adrian Gonzalez, Bud Black, C70 at the Bat, Chris Carpenter, Clint Hurdle, Colorado Rockies, Fungoes, Jim Tracy, Kyle Lohse, Matt Holliday, NL Manager of the Year, Ryan Ludwick, San Diego Padres, Stan Musial's Stance, The Hardball Times, Tony LaRussa
by PH8 on October 8, 2009 |
I had planned to put this up this morning and never found the time.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint), it now serves as a great distraction from the late innings of Game One between the Cards and Dodgers out at Chavez Ravine.
Assembled below is a wide-ranging smorgasboard of links culled from across the intarwebz [...]
Posted in: Blogs, Current Cardinals, Media, National League, Playoffs
Tagged with: AccuScore, Albert Pujols, Baseball Analysts, Big League Stew, Chavez Ravine, Deadspin, Dodger Stadium, Dodger Thoughts, George Lopez, Jon Weisman, Los Angeles Times, Memories of Kevin Malone, MLB Fanhouse, NL Division Series, NLDS, SBNation, TBS, The Hardball Times, True Blue LA, Viva El Birdos, Will Leitch, Yahoo! Sports
by PH8 on September 29, 2009 |
NLDS
St. Louis Cardinals (90-66) versus Los Angeles Dodgers (93-64)
NLDS
Colorado Rockies (88-68) versus Philadelphia Phillies (90-66)
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The Phillies and Dodgers continue to play similar to the Cards, that is, relatively poorly compared to their prior months. Philly is 4-6 in their last ten, with the Cards and Dodgers both 5-5.
Philadelphia would get the second seed today, by [...]
Posted in: National League, Playoffs
Tagged with: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, NL Playoffs, NL Wild Card, NLDS, Philadelphia Phillies, St Louis Cardinals, Wild Card
by PH8 on July 16, 2009 |
With the home team hosting the All-Star Game this season, I expected to experience a Renaissance of sorts. You see, the All-Star Game and its surrounding Festivities have not really captivated me for years. Sure, I saw the Ted Williams tribute a few years ago. I watched them close old Yankee Stadium [...]
Posted in: American League, Events, National League, Playoffs
Tagged with: All Star Break, All-Star Game, Joe Torre, MLB, MLB Home Run Derby, Ted Williams, World Series, Yankee Stadium
by PH8 on June 29, 2009 |
Saturday brought not only a much needed win for the St. Louis Cardinals, but also another bat for their sometimes slumping offense.
Many Cardinal fans had been clamoring for weeks for Cards GM John Mozeliak to acquire the versatile Mark DeRosa from the Cleveland Indians, and the deal was made late Saturday night for reliever Chris [...]
Posted in: Cardinals Coaches, Cardinals Front Office, Current Cardinals, Former Cardinals, Media, Minor League Cardinals, NL Central Division, National League
Tagged with: Chris Perez, Cleveland Indians, foxsports.com, Francisco Samuel, Jess Todd, John Mozeliak, JP Morosi, Mark DeRosa, Mark Shapiro, NL Central Division, Tony LaRussa, Troy Glaus
[Ed. note - I started putting this together before any accumulated statistics in tonight's game against the Marlins.]
Cardinals are 28-5 when they hold the opposition to four runs or less.
Sadly, four of those five losses have come since May 16.
Cardinals are 20-4 when scoring five or more runs.
Only ten of those twenty wins have come [...]
Chris Carpenter’s fine outing against the Cincinnati Reds last night had me wondering:
The Cardinals’ starting pitching staff has been phenominal (with a few hiccups) in the last month or so, but are they clearly distancing themselves from the rest of the league in that regard?
Well, classic metrics tell us it is so.
The Cardinal pitching staff [...]
Posted in: Blogs, Cardinals Coaches, Current Cardinals, Media, NL Central Division, National League
Tagged with: Aaron Harang, Adam Wainwright, Bill James, Bird Land, Bullpen, Chicago Cubs, Chris Carpenter, Cincinnati Reds, Edinson Volquez, Game Score, Houston Astros, Jake Peavy, Joel Pineiro, Johnny Cueto, Kerry Wood, Kyle Lohse, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, NL Central, NL Central Division, San Diego Padres, Starting Rotation, Tony LaRussa, Twitter, Yovani Gallardo