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

http://i.imgur.com/1SoQT8O.png

pirates are 3-19 in their last ∞ or whatever at busch

and these have been *good* games for pedro alvarez

Pirates 2.38 ERA at Busch in 2015... 0-5

It is weird both teams have great records and feature a black hole at 1b

Cardinal pitching and cluster luck

Cardinals pitchers have a collective 81.5 percent left-on-base percentage, a rate that hasn’t been seen since — well, ever, actually.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-st-louis-cardinals-cluster-luck/

‏@dgoold 19m minutes ago
If you had the trifecta of Moss-Pham-Piscotty in #Cardinals outfield on Aug. 17, 2015, then please take your ticket to the window. #stlcards

;_;

If I was Bourjos I'd be flipping tables over all over the place

thanks for jinxing us, SI

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMszZcKWEAAeU0L.jpg

clint hurdle is supposedly reading 'the matheny manifesto'

lol

the NL Central is #blessed

#grit and #god going hand in hand

Moss is batting cleanup. new team motto "can't hit, can't score, who cares"

well, worst case scenario is .500 for the year

you and your bloody worst cases

at least it appears that, should they make it, the Mets will get the West winner in the division series, while the Central battles itself.

it would add a new, professional wrestling-like layer of excitement to the playoffs if the top-seeded team in each league could choose their opponent in the first round

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/812fsONhUZL.jpg

coming in february, from a former mets beat writer

the Cards have lotsa arms and wings for all that embracing

while the Central battles itself.

on a related note: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/on-the-inequity-of-the-2015-nl-wild-card-game/

as the kids say, it is what it is

i just hope there isn't a situation like last year in which the pirates are unlikely to catch the cards but it's still vaguely possible on the final weekend, so they use cole and end up with jeff locke facing arrieta in the wild card game

(the cubs *would* go with arrieta over lester, right, despite the big contract?)

or vice versa -- the cubs could easily pass the pirates

it's going to be a really interesting chase. seems like every time i check the score the pirates/cubs have won AGAIN (and sure it feels the same for you!)

it's darn greedy if ya ask me that 3 NL central teams are all but a lock to take 3 out of 7 postseason spots

^^^^ secret dodger fan

nothing secret about it! they and the mets have always been my NL teams

got no gripe with the bucs either tho

randy flores is yr new scouting director

wow, good ol' randy flores! i didn't even know he was still involved in the organization tbh, not that i follow that side of things too closely

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/bIdvTa2nysZFbkVUNXvSJxEoXAI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4018788/WAR_FROM_PLAYERS_AGE-25_AND_YOUNGER.0.png

heyward, grichuk, wong, piscotty
wacha, martinez, rosenthal, siegrist

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-sabermetrics-analysis/2015/9/1/9237583/cardinals-have-the-most-productive-young-players-in-mlb

padres second oldest fml

or 'lowest', i guess

infinitely better than the tigers!

This team is pretty good. No idea wtf Nats were doing with their bullpen but cool by me.

moss with a BOOMING HR to right!

dan thinks it was the longest HR to right in Busch III's history

454 ft, it seems. man, that was absolutely crushed way into the upper deck. i can't imagine seeing a 480 ft HR in person

giancarlo stanton, somewhere, remains nonplussed

St. Louis Cardinals ‏@Cardinals 14 minutes ago
Current Cardinals Lineup:
Cruz 3B
Piscotty LF
Bourjos CF
Socolovich RHP
Moss 1B
Stanley C
Jay RF
Reynolds 2B
Kozma SS

fun fact from ozzie's inning in the booth in the midst of an otherwise dreadful beatdown: he has a 4 handicap in golf! that's pretty amazing, but if anyone could pick up golf after retirement and get that good, it would be him. i can imagine his dexterity just transferring over to club control

/ozzie fanfic

i'm not ready for the cubs to be good

yeah

oof

their hitting...speed...defense...youth...
oof

i guess i'm not sure of their speed/defense but based on the beatdowns from the last two nights they appear to be there

/ozzie fanfic

I never did link to that series of Matheny-entire-pitching-staff pr0n, but i don't want to soil anybody's browser history.

matt adams!

so grichuk is playing center despite a messed-up shoulder because they 'want his bat in the lineup'

first inning he runs down a rizzo hit in the gap, has to flip to heyward to throw the ball back in

WTF

too bad Bourjos and Jay are both injured...oh wait, they're not! why is Grichuk starting in CF?

seriously, out of all the matheny fuckups, this has to be #1

was he just hoping no one would hit it to him, somehow?

he did hit a homer tho, so his wing can't be THAT bad

players that are above Bourjos in the CF depth chart, according to Mike Matheny

- early season Jon Jay with a bum wrist who can't hit and has a ISO around .050
- randal grichuk (admittedly this turned out reaaaaally well while he was healthy)
- tommy pham
- recent Jon Jay with a bum wrist
- randal grichuk with an arm in a sling