Glaus half full or half empty?
Yesterday, out of the blue, we learned that Troy Glaus underwent surgery to repair a torn muscle near his right shoulder and could miss 5 weeks or more of the season. That sucks and certainly calls...
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Nick Punto
Image via Wikipedia In case you haven’t already heard, the Cardinals signed Nick Punto. With a team that increasingly looks to be more and more dictated by the whims of a certain sunglassed manager,...
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I already kicked this dead horse once, but I finally got around to downloading the latest CAIRO projections, which come complete with platoon splits. I wish I would’ve known about that before I dinked...
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Game 4 Analytics
Page Link Another loss, another eh performance by the offense. The Good: Berkman showed the solid on base skill that the Cards need from him over the long haul drawing two walks to add to his...
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Games 10 & 11 Analytics
Hello offense! Game 10 The Good: Kyle McClellan led the team with another strong outing (6.0 IP, 7 H, 4 BB, 4 SO, 1 R; .264 WPA). Despite not having his best stuff – as evidenced by worse control and...
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Early 2011 Trends: Cardinal Hitters
At FanGraphs, Steve Slowinski called attention to the fact that many players are now reaching significant thresholds in playing time. Thanks to research from Pizza Cutter (all links can be found here),...
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NLDS (Cards @ Phils) Game 1 Analytics
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Well, the Cardinals league-leading offense trumped the Phillies league-leading pitching staff… and they still lost game 1 of the NLDS. After surrendering a 3-run...
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NLDS (Cards VS Phils) Games 4 & 5 Analytics
For the sake of efficiency, I’m abandoning the usual format of discussing each game’s “good, bad, and/or ugly/impressive” moment. Instead, I’ll just make some brief comments before the NLCS kicks off...
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The Cardinals & Swing Percentage
Being that we aren’t quite out of April, it’s a little early to read into most statistics but certain numbers become meaningful before others. Under the definition of ‘sample size’ in FanGraphs’...
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