Mitchell Plassmeyer's Baseball Blog

The St. Louis Cardinals have moved into the spot of the second best team in baseball.  They have in fact been so hot lately they just beat the Brewers who have been rolling lately with their stud lineup.  The Cardinals are now 15-9 and of course have a stellar home record.  They are currently 10-3 at home which isn't surprising, but their road record has been anything but stellar at 5-6. In their last 10 games they are 7-3 and have had the biggest run differential in baseball over that stretch.  They trail only the Rays in record but have played one less game so we will see how this plays out over the next month or so with the season being so long. Baseball has a funny way of trading fortunes and things taking many twists and turns, but that is why we love this game.  The Cardinals success has come from a seemingly revived pitching staff from years past and solid bullpen, but the most impressive thing has been the lineup and hitting.  Ozuna has come wound ...

Christian Yelich has basically already locked up the NL MVP Award and we are about 20 games into the season.  He has come out hot and stayed hot ever since the season started up. He's played in almost every game this year and already has a WAR of 1.3 which is absurd to start the year. He is batting .359 to date with 9 home runs already.  This absurd pace is something we havent seen in quite some time in the baseball world and cant wait to keep an eye on all season.  He has become one of those players that every at-bat he has you want to tune in and see it.  He slugging a hot .800 with an on base percentage of .446 on this hot streak.  I cant wait to see what this season has in store for him even though he is in the same division as my Cardinals.  He's a guy who never has issues off the field and had stayed healthy almost his whole career so itll be cool to see if it stays that way what the numbers will end up being a year end.  The Brewers were in need...

As we roll on into the first few weeks of the season we have seen a few interesting things happen that we have not seen in years past.  We have seen teams decide to not wait long to sign their star or big players to multiple year extensions.  This has been a little uncommon from the norm.  Most of the time players wait to go into free agency to test the waters, but now we have seen once of the worst and longest lasting free agency periods for guys in recent past.  In the new era of young stars climbing up the ranks in swarms.  The people of the world have taken notice to the damning trails of free agency.  Players are now going to be more concerned with job security compared to getting the biggest deal they can.  It has been made readily known now in the MLB the players are losing a lot of power in making their big time earnings.  Players will now take a little less money in return for knowing they have an easy road ahead and a job in return....