In the event of Rapture all other teams will be Left Behind: the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals

Stan McNeal of Cardinals Gameday Magazine tweeted that the Cardinals placed Grichuk on the 15-day disabled list after Saturday's game due to a back injury he reportedly suffered in the weight room on Friday and promoted infielder Dean Anna to take his place on the bench.

i'm glad the cards aren't in the same division as the indians."

I kinda wish the 'central' did include the White Sox, Indians and Tigers.

You mean consolidating the national and American leagues while keeping their three divisions? That would be really interesting!

Yeah...I think the whole AL/NL thing is done anyway. Put the Mets, Phillies in the East with the Yanks, O's etc. That's what TV wants is NY vs. NY and LA vs. LA, make it real.

Make baseball more of a regional sport thing where you don't play every team every year, you play out of your division on a 'strength of schedule' based on prior year performance.

I love the NL/AL thing, honestly. One of the things that attracted to baseball in the first place. But I see how this would be the logical business thing to do.

akin to mlb's continuing inability to solve things like the a's stadium or the nats/o's television thing, i think there are too many interests to be placated for such a change

would travel savings make up for losing lucrative homestands with the yankees/sox? etc

man, carpenter is on fire so far this year. holliday, too. if they could just get all three Matts going at the same time, it would really make my day.

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i'll go down in flames with Lackey!!

quite the match-up today Scherzer v Wacha

and a 7-game stretch against the brewers/phillies coming up, could be a good opportunity to build up a little early season lead in the standings.

The brewers are like one of my fantasy teams where I forgot to draft pitching until round 10.

Things were just going too well ;(

@LangoschMLB: Waino to get MRI on Monday. #stlcards aren't speculating, but haven't ruled out possible achilles injury.

Come to St. Louis, Cole Hamels.

I didn't realize marco gonzalez was also on the DL (shoulder tightness) in AAA. Ugh, I hate hearing the words Tyler Lyons, but it might be that time again.

At least Yadi dodged a bullet (?)

Wainwright out for the season :(

Bring on the DH!

wainwright out for 9-12 months, torn left achilles

molina's back in the starting lineup tonight. heyward isn't (although he could probably use a day off anyway so hopefully his absence doesn't indicate anything more serious)

https://twitter.com/OnionSports/status/593064680282824704

lol

so tim cooney gets the start thursday

alright, the philly pitcher is making his debut today and doesn't appear to be very good. former RP who converted to a SP in 2014 with poor results. doing meh in 2015 and now called up.

their maddening tendency to score 3 to 4 runs in every single game ever (or at least it seems to me) is gonna start getting really old once the starters stop dominating.

first all-panamanian battery ever, tho

could be a high point of the phillies' season

2 Matts Matted In, this triggers the rapture!

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matheny's decision to bat jay leadoff to 'kickstart the offense' pays off!

this offense is a suddenly roaring lawnmower XL -T that also creates a mediocre starting pitcher to wail on

i appreciate tim cooney wearing 66 as a tribute to mario lemieux

rip

yeah, he looked awful. luckily he's just filling in until Marco Gonzalez is ready to go (i'd assume). lyons may take the next start, though.

if you're gonna top out at 86, your breaking ball and change have to be filthy and your command has to be spot on. Cooney's probably a couple years away.

so awkward when they kept cutting to his mom

Would you guys take Lohse back? You need a starter, the Brewer need prospects, bing.

uh you know, maybe you guys hold onto Lohse for a while...*sprints in opposite direction*

Choate with the 1 pitch day of work

The Cardinals' five current rotation members—Lance Lynn ($7 million), Carlos Martinez ($522,000), Michael Wacha ($520,000), John Lackey ($507,500), and Cooney ($507,500)—cost a collective $9.075 million. Garcia and Wainwright constitute $28.875 million worth of starting pitching on the DL.

do you see how you are

oh man

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playing slightly above .500 rest of the way would probably be enough for playoffs

Yeah, I was just thinking that too. It would be nice if the offense could *click* though. i love how everyone was loving the new look lineup when we were wailing on philadelphia, but as soon as we played a decent team the bats went silent.

we have a 2.21 team era but wahhhh the bats are silent wahhhh

mookie you're acting like your team just lost three heartbreaking games in a row or something

for real though, the pitching has been absurdly good but it can't last for too much longer

(actually the pirates' pitching has been really good too -- they're second in era behind the cardinals, albeit half a run behind -- but they've not taken much advantage. mccutchen should never have cut his hair)

jfc, Matheny is on Fresh Air this morning

Baseball’s Mike Matheny on Coaching Kids and Major Leaguers
The show talks with former major league catcher, and former coach of a youth baseball team Mike Matheny. When he began coaching kids he set up rules for parents that included no screaming, no swearing and even no shouts of encouragement during their kids’ games. He’s written a new book, "The Matheny Manifesto," about his approach to sports. He’s now manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.

too bad fresh air isn't a call-in show. it'd be awesome to call in pretending to have question about the rapture or something, but then ambush him with questions about how often he lets his starting pitchers bat in the bottom of the 6th inning with runners on, only to sub in a relief pitcher with one out in the top of the 7th

Our pen has 3 double A guys right now. Feel like one of these Cubs games could see a long man take a beating.

since i enjoy searching for bad news, here is some:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/yadier-molina-forgot-how-to-frame-a-pitch/

Yadier Molina is falling apart. It’s not his hitting, and it’s not his base running. It’s too early in the season to say much that is meaningful about those skills, which can take months of stats to become reliable.

It’s the Cardinals catcher’s defense that’s a mess. Molina’s pitch framing has collapsed, dropping from third-best in 2013 to 60th in 2015.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/a/26250

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the cardinals announcers were so sanctimonious about why running on the field is bad, it was ridiculous

Matt Carpenter: 1st Cardinals player with 20 extra-base hits in the team's first 26 games of a season since Stan Musial in 1954.

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo)

well at least they can't walk off in pittsburgh

21 (or 22) and 7 is pretty damn hardcore, especially after losing one's #1 starter