February 2, 2025 -
Aaron Morey
I enjoyed this recent article by Sam Miller on MLB official scorers’ increasing reluctance to rule plays as errors. I especially liked that he included a set of replays at the
November 23, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
It’s no secret the Cardinals need pitching, pitching, pitching this offseason. They have a decent number of likely average-ish arms, but what they really need is a top-tier pitcher or two to separate themselves from the pack. We can assume they’ll
October 9, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
As a postmortem on the Cardinals’ season, I looked at their actual wins vs. their “expected” wins based on WAR (I’m using Fangraphs WAR here). I’d been tracking this throughout the season, so I wasn’t surprised to see that at the trade deadline, t
September 15, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
Something I love about baseball culture is that certain guys, even among their hundreds of professional baseball-playing peers, are considered more baseball than the others. They get nicknames like Teddy Baseball, Mr. Baseball, Jimmy Ball
August 24, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
This is a thought exercise for me. I’m trying to suss out the different levels of “poor performance” that a team can have, and think about how much of it is attributable to bad luck, poor preparation, or just the weirdness of baseball. I po
August 9, 2023 -
Aaron Morey
The St. Louis Cardinals have massively under-performed this year. They were considered at the start of the season to be the favorite in the NL Central. Instead they are 16 games below .500. What happened? The long answer is “a whole lot wen
October 2, 2020 -
Aaron Morey
https://twitter.com/cespedesbbq/status/1311867992129630209?s=21 The biggest argument among baseball fans circa 2012 was bat flips: are they cool? Do they show up