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Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cardinals and Mariners summon that devil magic MLB Winter Meetings have been occurring this week since Sunday! Today was the first BIG NEWS and that news favored the Cardinals with a rare Top 5 draft pick in 2025! This is incredibly exciting news especially since they just had the 7th pick overall in 2024. A hope … [Read more...] about Winter Meetings 2024

Photo credit should read MIKE FIALA/AFP via Getty Images Just like we all drew it up. It is here I will make a confession: I had hunch that the St. Louis Cardinals were going someone win a top-6 draft pick this lottery. The rest of the writers can confirm this: at around 4:15pm I sent a message asking someone to write up a post in the unlikely even the Cardinals won a … [Read more...] about The St. Louis Cardinals will pick fifth overall in the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft

Here are the odds... We discussed this a little already, but the Major League Baseball Draft Lottery — the lottery that determines which of the 16 eligible teams this year will win a top-6 draft pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. Technically the St. Louis Cardinals have a shot at the number one draft pick through this lottery. It is large shot, but a shot nonetheless. In case you … [Read more...] about The MLB Draft Lottery is this afternoon

The best trade and extend player of the Mo era? | Jeff Curry-Imagn Images This looks at talent acquisition via trades and free agency, not draft-and-develop Earlier in the off-season, I published a study of how teams acquire players and how those acquisition strategies correlate with success. The original impetus of the study was to determine if “draft and development” … [Read more...] about How do the Cardinals compare to the league with talent acquisition?

Jeff Le-Imagn Images Our first episode of the month of December features a fun conversation between the writers and Fansided’s Redbird Rants site editor and co-host of “Dealin the Cards” Josh Jacobs Happy Monday Everyone! The Winter Meetings are here, Juan Soto has made a decision and the rest of baseball can now get on with its offseason priorities! This week we had a … [Read more...] about Episode 5 Interview with Josh Jacobs