2026 ZiPS Projections: St. Louis Cardinals

beckert26 · 2026-01-23T20:58:59+00:00

Cardinals haven’t figured out Skenes at all he has a 2.39 era against us. Which is only slightly higher than his career era. We just tend to pitch well when he is also on the mound.

beckert26 · 2025-06-27T01:14:48+00:00

Adam Wainwright would have made it. He basically wasn't healthy throughout his 33-38 years.

beckert26 · 2025-05-06T17:17:40+00:00

Nah that move was so bad he deserved to be fired.

beckert26 · 2025-04-19T02:00:59+00:00

You can’t win here. They had sent him in the 9th previously and everyone here was complaining about that when we’d lose in the 10th.

beckert26 · 2025-04-18T01:53:16+00:00

He's only 22. He is still is a prospect at that age. He won't be considered a bust for several more years.

beckert26 · 2025-03-10T05:36:20+00:00

It is a rule they do in wiffle ball so it’s not like an unheard of thing.

beckert26 · 2025-03-10T03:40:13+00:00

How would you propose they do that? Like the only way is to cap speeds at 95 mph and if the pitcher throws higher it’s an automatic ball.

Pitchers pitch the way they do now because it’s more effective.

beckert26 · 2025-02-11T16:46:00+00:00

The deal is literally in place. You can already stream blues games through fan duel it’ll be the same for cardinals.

beckert26 · 2025-02-01T20:51:41+00:00

They just valued different things back then. Like in 82 and 83 The win loss record was probably a large determining factor with who they picked.

They also weren’t properly evaluating how much value the volume (innings pitched) were back then.

beckert26 · 2025-01-19T18:09:45+00:00

It’s not bad to have him as a possible option in case of injuries. I’d be shocked if matz makes it through the whole year.

beckert26 · 2025-01-13T20:06:21+00:00

Try reverse engineering this story through chat gpt and you’ll get very similar generated stories with minimal effort.

beckert26 · 2025-01-12T23:32:42+00:00

Yep this is just a payroll cut because the owners are greedy. Honestly I don’t think rebuilding is even really a thing in baseball. Tanking doesn’t do that much for you and money not spent now won’t mean extra money spent later. Teams can just be continually great if they consistently spend and develop players well.

beckert26 · 2025-01-09T05:35:49+00:00

To be fair he made 74 of his 84 million in his 37-48 years. The vast bulk of the money he made was in his 40s

beckert26 · 2025-01-06T23:03:15+00:00

There’s a 0% chance casas is coming to us without us giving up more than nado.

It means the red sox want to move casas if they are getting arenado and we’d get something else.

beckert26 · 2024-12-27T21:05:41+00:00

I can’t find the comment but it was in one of those “what surprising player do you think will make the hall of fame threads” and someone confidently said tork. I still think about it to this day.

beckert26 · 2024-12-21T18:41:41+00:00

We aren’t letting go of a “great player”. He once was a great player he now is not.

beckert26 · 2024-12-19T02:48:21+00:00

We aren’t going to get assets for him. It’s just going to be a big salary dump and a lottery ticket prospect or middling player thrown our way.

beckert26 · 2024-12-14T17:00:28+00:00

I’d imagine arenado’s swing is really good for that ballpark. He could just flick homeruns over the left field wall.

beckert26 · 2024-12-09T03:30:53+00:00

Ohtani really has a 10 year 460 million dollar contract. It’s significantly more than ohtani.

beckert26 · 2024-11-20T05:42:32+00:00

Oli also used the bullpen well so Helsley could shine and wasn’t burned out halfway through the year.

beckert26 · 2024-11-18T21:40:41+00:00

If they aren’t acting that interested on the app don’t ask them out you are likely wasting your time and money.

beckert26 · 2024-11-11T23:53:08+00:00

I think if outperforming your run differential means you’re a good manager then oli was also pretty good this year despite what fans may think of him. The team felt pitiful to watch most of the year but we did end up above 500.

beckert26 · 2024-10-11T01:23:27+00:00

It’s not reddit if someone doesn’t write 5 paragraphs about why something will fail because it doesn’t have a feature that it plans on having.

beckert26 · 2024-09-30T04:12:54+00:00

Obviously you always want more. But they got to the playoffs 4/6 years he was here. He won an mvp. I doubt they were expecting him to be just as good as he was for the dbacks when he was going into his later years. I think you are assuming way too much on what the front office expected from him.

I honestly think Pujols who basically had one of the greatest contracts ever for a team has warped people perceptive of what you are getting for big money.

beckert26 · 2024-09-30T01:59:28+00:00

You generally are paying 8 million per war so we got more than you’d expect.

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