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Play a Hard 9 is moving 10 Jan 2011 | 10:25 am
Since starting PAH9 back years ago, I never really imagined some of the doors it would open for me as a blogger. Not saying I really “went places”, but I went further than I had expected. And to be a...
Want to write at PAH9? 4 Jan 2011 | 05:03 pm
We at PAH9 are looking for some new contributors. As no surprise to anyone that reads this blog on a regular basis it’s going to help your cause if you come at things from a sabermetric/analytic persp...
Average Pujolsian Seasons 3 Jan 2011 | 09:03 am
Joe Posnanski tweeted a remarkable statistic that helps encapsulate the greatness of Albert Pujols: A Christmas baseball thought: Albert Pujols has averaged .331, 43 doubles, 41 homers, 119 runs, 123...
Some Christmas Eve links 25 Dec 2010 | 05:50 am
The guys over at Bullpen Banter had Daniel Descalso as their #10 2nd base prospect. On a related prospect note, Future Redbirds is doing some cool draft retrospective stuff. Check is out. Here is an ...
The Graphical Player 2011 25 Dec 2010 | 04:39 am
If anyone plays fantasy baseball and plans on purchasing a book/magazine for guidance next season, consider The Graphical Player 2011. Player summaries for Cardinals’ pitchers and hitters were written...
Cardinals 2011 Zips – Hitters 24 Dec 2010 | 06:40 am
Somehow I missed on Monday that Dan at Baseball Think Factory posted his Cardinals Zips projections. Here are the projections converted to wOBA first for the MLBers (all calculations use the PAs in Z...
The Year in Cardinal Baseball UCB Style 15 Dec 2010 | 04:33 pm
This year the United Cardinal Bloggers created its first collaborative document in the form of a year end review. A good cross section of writers across the UCB wrote articles. Yours truly penned an a...
Musings on the Cards Moves 13 Dec 2010 | 08:05 am
I haven’t really formed a powerful opinion of the Card’s off-season. All of the moves have really been “eh” moves. They’re fine on the face, but not likely to substantially improve the club. I’ll t...
Will Boog and/or Theriot Rebound Offensively in 2011? 5 Dec 2010 | 07:06 am
First of all, go read Fungoes’ excellent take on the Cardinals’ decision to replace Brendan Ryan with Ryan Theriot in 2011. Having realized that each player had terrible offensive seasons in 2010, I ...
PAH9 Roundtable Discussion: Cards Prospect Man Crush 28 Nov 2010 | 10:31 am
The discussion question of the day is who is your prospect man-crush (non Shelby Miller division, we all have man crushes on him)? Steve: My prospect man crush is Matt Carpenter, which would have bee...
