They are hitting 1.5 dingers a game. Put in perspective, the 1982 WS Champion team hit a home run at a .4 rate per game.

Sweep of the Brewers. Early lead of the NL Central. 15-9. Overall, when they are not playing in that bandbox in Milwaukee, they aren’t playing half bad.

The rotation has the third worst WAR in the league to this point. It's a major concern. With that said, the offense has taken it up two levels with Ozuna and DeJong producing well, and the steady upward creep of Goldschmidt's production.

That Martinez is only going to be brought back as a reliever speaks poorly to his durability, maturity, and/or both. If they can't trust him to not party like an animal, it makes that extension look shitty.

I think Flaherty and Mikolas will be fine. Beyond that I’m not sure what we can count on.

From Bernie’s column on the Athletic:

When the Cardinals beat Milwaukee on Wednesday, it was Shildt’s 93rd game as their manager.

Coincidentally, Shildt took over for Matheny 93 games into the 2018 season.

In Matheny’s 93 games last season, the Cardinals went 47-46 for a .505 winning percentage.

In Shildt’s first 93 games after replacing Matheny, the Cardinals went 56-37 for a winning percentage of .602.

Sure, Shildt has Goldschmidt, who was acquired last offseason. Matheny didn’t have Goldschmidt. Doesn’t that matter?

Well, yes and no. Goldschmidt would help any manager. But Shildt didn’t have Goldy last summer when he led the Cardinals to a 41-28 record after Matheny’s ouster.

Bottom line: No National League team has won more regular-season games than the Cardinals since Shildt moved into the manager’s office July 15.

Good grief Matheny was shit.

They shouldn't have extended Mikolas

doesnt look like the same guy from last year at all.

12-1 pisspounding at home by the ****ing Reds.

Glad I was watching the draft.

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Reyes fractured his pinky punching a wall in Memphis

Really? WTF? Such talent wasted. :(

Well at least it was his left hand

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alex Reyes punched a wall after his last start and fractured his left pinky. He&#39;ll relocate to extended spring training to continue throwing, but will be out of active competition for about three weeks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stlcards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#stlcards</a></p>&mdash; Jenifer Langosch (@LangoschMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/LangoschMLB/status/1122529112747388928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Miller, Martinez, Wacha, Reyes

All of them billed as studs, all of them disappointments.

This FO cannot evaluate its own players at all.

I did the same thing once when I was young and stupid and pissed.

The good news is it's the kind of thing you only do once.

Martinez and Reyes both physically have #1 starter skills. Where both are failing is mentally. Both need to grow the **** up. Your not teenagers anymore. Be an adult for crissakes.