I am 100% confident that Cardinal nation, players and their front office will vehemently deny everything contained in this site and all of the pages. It is expected. I would be surprised if they did not use phrases like "what a reach", "it's rediculous" or anything else they can think of to dismiss it. It's human nature. I will say that many of the items here are not backed by evidence if you consider evidence "admission". As a result, it's just more information for baseball fans to store in this information overload age.
I remember AJ Hinch, Jeff Luhnow, Carlos Beltran, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmiero and many others said similar things when they were first being asked/questioned. The whole purpose is to just get information out there so baseball fans are aware of this and can use their own judgement to draw their own conclusions.
As a fan, it's been an eventful offseason with the Houston Astros. I am not trying to declare that the Astros are innocent, I do notice that everyone and their brother is focusing on beating on them. My only point is that cheating and sign stealing have been around since the beginning of baseball. The Astros and the Black Sox of 1919 are not the only team to have this controversy.
The Cardinals have been a successful franchise over the years having won 11 world series titles and 19 pennants.
A lot has been made about the Astros and what happened to Clayton Kershaw and Yu Darvish in the 2017 world series. Tho it's true now that their signs were probably compromised, back in 2013 and 2014, Clayton Kershaw had dominant seasons in the majors but had 2 similar meltdowns in the playoffs vs the St. Louis Cardinals in back to back post seasons.
Bill Plaschke of the LA times wrote about it.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cardinals-hacking-plaschke-20150617-column.html
There is also a site that I stumbled upon which ranks the Cardinals as outliers in several areas when it came to "comebacks to win games". It's a special skill of being able to "be more clutch than the other teams". Their success in that has been at their home stadium. I hope the creator or creators of this site don't mind the link to it
The posts contain items and bits that baseball fans should at least be aware of in order to draw their own conclusions. Please know that I am not stating that they "did" any of these things with 100% certainty as fact. You can call it circumstantial. You can call it whatever you like. The main thing here is to present information to you for you to make your own conclusions.
I remember AJ Hinch, Jeff Luhnow, Carlos Beltran, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmiero and many others said similar things when they were first being asked/questioned. The whole purpose is to just get information out there so baseball fans are aware of this and can use their own judgement to draw their own conclusions.
As a fan, it's been an eventful offseason with the Houston Astros. I am not trying to declare that the Astros are innocent, I do notice that everyone and their brother is focusing on beating on them. My only point is that cheating and sign stealing have been around since the beginning of baseball. The Astros and the Black Sox of 1919 are not the only team to have this controversy.
The Cardinals have been a successful franchise over the years having won 11 world series titles and 19 pennants.
A lot has been made about the Astros and what happened to Clayton Kershaw and Yu Darvish in the 2017 world series. Tho it's true now that their signs were probably compromised, back in 2013 and 2014, Clayton Kershaw had dominant seasons in the majors but had 2 similar meltdowns in the playoffs vs the St. Louis Cardinals in back to back post seasons.
Bill Plaschke of the LA times wrote about it.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cardinals-hacking-plaschke-20150617-column.html
There is also a site that I stumbled upon which ranks the Cardinals as outliers in several areas when it came to "comebacks to win games". It's a special skill of being able to "be more clutch than the other teams". Their success in that has been at their home stadium. I hope the creator or creators of this site don't mind the link to it
The posts contain items and bits that baseball fans should at least be aware of in order to draw their own conclusions. Please know that I am not stating that they "did" any of these things with 100% certainty as fact. You can call it circumstantial. You can call it whatever you like. The main thing here is to present information to you for you to make your own conclusions.
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