It makes most sense to start with Adam Wainwright when examining results thus far. I must admit, I was left scratching my head a little bit when Wainwright’s extension was announced… it seemed a year or two too long, and last year was good but not great. But all doubts have been silenced with his start to the 2013 season. It already looks like his teammates will be hard pressed to surpass his value.
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The two standouts that the St. Louis Cardinals have thus far this season are young players: Matt Carpenter and Matt Adams. Both lead the team in WAR and are effective hitters, if not amazing ones.
It is too early to say just how amazing, but look at this: Matt Adams leads the team with 3 home runs and is just destroying the ball. I could list his God-like power numbers or wRC+, but it’s pointless. The guy is just off to a great start. Matt Carpenter has seen a lot more playing time and we can derive more info from it: his updated ZiPS projection is 3 WAR and he leads the team in batting average. Him being able to hold his own at second base as well as play third base with some at times flashy defense make him a very excellent player. Is he the next Ben Zobrist? I certainly hope so!
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The Cardinals made another late season run, but came up a game short in the NL Championship Series. They had a quiet off-season, so did they do enough to return to the playoffs?
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Oh my, how time does fly. It is that time of year again! Pitchers and catchers have reported, and now teams have started playing spring training games. If one is particularly caught in the moment, one might be worried that the Cardinals are 0-2 so far in spring training play.
But since that’s only two games, and spring training results have little to no correlation to regular season results, I’m not too worried as a fan. Things to be worried about have been shown in early projections: a possibly scary combination of aging veterans and high-BABIP younger stars can make some within the baseball community shudder. But still, I’m not especially worried.
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Each year, the United Cardinal Bloggers vote for various awards associated with the Cardinals. Here is the ballot for the Cardinal Blogger Awards.
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So I’ve been doing some digging into the Cardinals numbers from this season, and just for fun started looking at the build of the roster from this year. I wanted to specifically see where a majority of the players came from; the project then morphed into which GM brought more value this year – Walt Jocketty or John Mozeliak?
It may seem silly, since Jocketty has been out with the Cardinals for 5 seasons and with the Reds for almost that full-time. But you might be surprised by what I found.
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While Holliday kinda botched his slide in the game the other day while the whole Cardinals team played like a little league team, he has gained the ire of many baseball fans across the nation. But if someone like Ozzie Smith takes out the second baseman, no one seems to think that’s a big deal. Sliding and taking out someone is part of the game, and it appears that double standards are a big part of the game these days as well.
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What a night for baseball. C.C. Sabathia single handedly shut down the Orioles, then the most thrilling game of the young post-season. Let’s quickly recap…
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Here’s the final Baseball Bloggers Alliance Award ballot – the Stan Musial Award for each league’s most valuable player. Each member of the BBA will nominate 5 players from each league for the award; the player with the most nominations wins.
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With the St. Louis Cardinals stumbling down the stretch and the second wild card on the line, they have decided to leave top prospect Oscar Taveras off the major league roster. This comes when Carlos Beltran is looking like his Mets’ days and the club relying on players like Pete Kozma and Dan Descalso in regular roles.
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