Chris Carpenter
Drew Silva from NBCSports.com’s Hardball Talk blog and Rotoworld.com joins us to talk about the Cardinals and the NL Central. We touched on several topics (ranging across a couple recording dates) including the Cards’ defense, bullpen, Chris Carpenter‘s struggles, and Ryan Theriot versus Brendan Ryan (and Tyler Greene, and Nick Punto, and Daniel Descalso, and […]
Well, Josh and I have been talking about doing this since the end of last season, and now it’s slowly becoming a reality. It is with great pleasure (and lots of unpolished baseball chatter) that we bring to you the Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast (more on the name later). Episode 0.5 is enumerated as such because […]
After scoring just 15 runs in the first 6 games of the season, it’s fairly safe to say that the Cardinals are not lighting anybody up on offense. With the Redbirds sitting at 2-4, I’m willing to look at the bright side of things for a moment, though. They’ve wasted two pretty good outings by […]
The rumors of Albert Pujols‘ demise have been greatly exaggerated (already). He may have another 700 plate appearances to compensate for his lousy opening day performance, and he does have a history of putting up decent numbers by season’s end. Despite the 0-everything from AP, the Cardinals still had the lead in the 9th with […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals,General PH8 Stuff
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Bryan Augentstein, Chris Carpenter, Colby Rasmus, David Freese, Jon Jay, Kyle McClellan, Matt Holliday, Ryan Franklin, Ryan Theriot
This is one last desperate plea from Statler, Waldorf, and myself. Kyle McClellan joined the two Muppets in the back of the theater, but he doesn’t want to speak on his on behalf at this point. That’s fine. I’m bringing the heat and blathering enough for all 4 of us. We’ve got one simple message. Leave […]
Okay, so I’ve given you plenty of ideas on how to keep busy until spring training without getting arrested (no, it didn’t cover all the way until the regular season). I’ve also provided some etiquette reminders just so everybody remembers how to behave themselves when baseball gets back into a park near you. Finally, I provided […]
Zack Greinke suffered an injury during an “off-the-field” activity a few weeks ago. Turns out that the activity was basketball, and his injury was a broken rib. Greinke injured himself going after a rebound, and all this happened before he threw a single pitch in a spring training game. Greinke then went on to make […]
“You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away and know when to run” ~Kenny Rogers (The Gambler) Those words of wisdom probably apply just as well to free agency as they do to poker, and there are certainly some parallels to be drawn. You can’t win every […]
Posted in: Free Agents
Tagged with: Adron Chambers, Brandon Dickson, Chris Carpenter, CJ Wilson, Daniel Descalso, Jered Weaver, Jose Reyes, Kenny Rogers, Lance Lynn, Mark Buehrle, PJ Walters, The Gambler, Zack Cox
It’s one thing to look at the 2011 Cardinals and think about tweaking one thing here or making an adjustment there. Rebuilding is an altogether different approach, but few people really want to think about the “R” word right now. What about looking at the team by deconstructing it first? It’s like taking apart your […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Allen Craig, Chris Carpenter, Colby Rasmus, David Freese, Fernando Salas, Jaime Garcia, Jake Westbrook, Jason Motte, Jon Jay, Kyle Lohse, Kyle McClellan, Lance Berkman, Lance Lynn, Matt Holliday, Mitchell Boggs, Ryan Franklin, Ryan Theriot, Skip Schumaker, Trever Miller, Tyler Greene, Yadier Molina
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. With that in mind, let’s hope that the M*A*S*H unit in Jupiter, Florida can patch Carp and Boggs back together without either one missing significant time. I’m not actually all that familiar with the training staff, but I’m not above calling in Dr. “Hawkeye” Pierce, Winchester, […]