2009 Cardinals Player Grades: Second Base (Josh)

by Josh February 7, 2010

Our initial goal was to have this series done by say…Turkey Day or so but in my mind President’s Day makes a lot more sense. And here’s why — the Cardinals had no clue how the last three months were going to play out and the results to me were still going to be skewed […]

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Kyle McClellan on UCB Radio Hour

by Nick February 5, 2010

Join us tomorrow, along with Daniel from C70 at the Bat, as we talk ball (among other things) with Kyle McClellan on the UCB Radio Hour podcast. The Cardinal pitcher will be joining us from Jupiter, FL where he is already gearing up for Spring Training. We’ll be sticking to a finite set of questions […]

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Cardinals Team of the Decade : 2000-2009

by Nick February 3, 2010

The United Cardinal Bloggers‘ January project tasked us bloggers with putting together a Cardinals team made up of the best at each position, in our opinion, during the recently completed decade.  Not really any other restrictions placed on this one, other than it was due on Friday.  Oops.  Better late than never. Not surprisingly, there […]

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2009 Cardinals Player Grades: First Base (Nick)

by Nick February 3, 2010

Hey, remember this series? Let’s see if we can knock out a few more positions before pitchers and catchers report, eh? By games played at the position of first base: G GS 1B ▾ Albert Pujols 160 158 159 Yadier Molina 140 136 6 Chris Duncan 87 71 6 David Freese 17 5 3 Mark […]

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Off-season? Time to mess with the site

by Nick February 2, 2010

The doldrums of winter, with no regular baseball to watch, generally lends itself to filling time with something other than writing – if for no other reason than a lack of things to write about. Here, that typically means futzing around with the site structure, engine, and appearance. To that end, I want to bring […]

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ESPN’s Law Ranks Cardinal Farm System

by Andrew February 1, 2010

ESPN’s Keith Law from Scouts Inc. ranked the St. Louis Cardinal minor league system 29th out of 30 in his yearly organizational rankings list. St. Louis’ system was depleted by the mid-season trade acquisitions of Mark DeRosa and Matt Holliday. While having a poor minor league system is never a good thing, on the optimistic […]

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From Caravan to Calero: 2 Blogging Weeks

by Josh January 28, 2010

Disappointment comes in many forms, especially when you are a true fan. A little bit of me dies inside every time St. Louis signs a former Cub, but that is just silly, right? The bigger trouble is knowing that former Cards will play in other uniforms, but does it have to be the Royals and […]

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SABR Day in America – January 30

by Nick January 27, 2010

Pitchers Hit Eighth is a proud member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and as such, we feel the need to publicize “SABR Day in America” which is taking place this Saturday. From the SABR press release on the day’s event: “SABR DAY” TO BE CELEBRATED ACROSS NORTH AMERICA ON JANUARY 30 On Saturday, […]

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Where Mozeliak Should Apply The “Dry Powder”

by Andrew January 22, 2010

Entertain this post in the hypothetical, if you will. Its July 12th, 2010, the All-Star Break, and all is terribly wrong in the world of Cardinal Nation. Forget the relatively frigid weather of the winter and indulge yourself in a warm summer day. Don’t get too comfortable though. After all, it’s not the Winter-Warmup that […]

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Cardinals making moves in Taiwan?

by Nick January 20, 2010

Picked up this tidbit from the blog Taiwan Baseball: The St. Louis Cardinals are sending a scout (Matt Slater?) to Taiwan, marking the team’s initial presence on the island. Supposedly the scout is interested in CCU RHP Hao-Chun Chiu, Kao-Yuan HS left handed hitter Chi-Hung Hsu, and two kids from Nan-Ying HS. There are currently […]

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