Bill DeWitt Pantsed Himself Again, and the Post-Dispatch Is Letting Him Off...
In the hours after the news broke yesterday that Jason Heyward had signed with the Cubs, it initially appeared that something remarkable had happened—that Heyward had turned down an offer from the...
View ArticleWe’re Never Going to Know the Truth About the Cardinals’ Heyward Offer
It’s been more than a month since an atom bomb detonated in the middle of the Cardinals’ offseason in the form of Jason Heyward’s decision to accept an eight-year, $184 million contract offer from the...
View ArticleIt Might Get Better, But Then It’s Probably Going to Get Worse
And so it was that the 2016 season collapsed into a ruthless parody of itself, an occasionally dramatic but mostly soul-deadening 7-9 stretch against three wild-card rivals and two NL bottom-feeders, a...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Everything Is Going to Be Okay
The Cardinals are probably not going to make the postseason every year in perpetuity. Compared to the past 20 seasons of Cardinals baseball, one can see how coming to terms with that reality is...
View ArticleDexter Fowler Is an Answer
The Cardinals were neither long nor shy in signaling one of their top priorities heading into the offseason. Days after finishing the season 17½ games back of the Cubs and one game short of a wild-card...
View ArticleThe Matheny-Fowler Rumors Are Seriously Alarming
With the Winter Meetings well underway, all indications are that the Cardinals’ pursuit of Dexter Fowler—the best outfielder on the free-agent market and a solid, straightforward answer to some of the...
View ArticlePicking Up the Pieces
Here’s a needlessly elaborate version of a hypothetical first proposed to me by sometimes Double Birds contributor Adam Felder: On Sunday evening, just before the Cardinals open the regular season...
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