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  Titles: Top Cardinals Players of the Twenty Twenties  
  2020 - WC Lost to SD  
  2021 - WC Lost to LA Pitchers:  
  2022 - Won Division; WC Lost to Philly Adam Wainwright (4.14) -    32  
    Miles Mikolas (437) -  28  
  Ballpark: Ryan Helsley (7.55) -  25  
  Busch Stadium III Sonny Gray (3.2) -  18  
    Giovanny Gallegos (2.26) -    14  
  Team Name: Andre Pallante (3,2) -  12  
  Cardinals Jack Flaherty (16.9) -   11  
    Alex Reyes (0.53)  -  10  
  Owners:  Dakota Hudson (1.55) -   10  
  Southwest Bank Consortium - William DeWitt Principal Owner Kwang Hyun Kim (1.92) -   8  
       
  General Managers: Catchers:  
  Mike Mozeliak (President) Willson Contreras (8.0) -  27  
D:\InBook\Cards\2020\CardsPedroPagesStatsWeb.htm Mike Girsch (General Manager) Yadier Molina (2.23) -    9  
    Pedro Pages (2.17) -  6  
  Managers:    
  Mike Shildt (2020-2021) First Basemen:  
  Oliver Marmol (2022-2025) Paul Goldschmidt (20.16) -  41  
    Albert Pujols (2.17) -  7  
  Hall of Famers:    
  None Second Basemen:  
    Brendan Donovan (811.4) -  23  
  Rookie of the Year:  Nolan Gorman (3.5) -  11  
  None    
    ShortStop:  
  MVP Tommy Edman (3.04) -   29  
  2022 - Paul Goldschmidt Masyn Winn (6.5) -  17  
       
  No Hitters: Third Base:  
  None Nolan Arenado (18.5) -  34  
     
  Cy Young: Outfield:  
  None Lars Nootbaar (8.8) - 17  
    Tyler O'Neill (8.24) -    17  
  Notable Events: Harrison Bader (5.99) -    16  
  The Cardinals, who have been the best overall team in baseball in the 21st Dylan Carlson (5.65) -    14  
  century, have been irrelevant for the past three years (2023-2025). Alec Burleson (2.19) -  14  
  Management decided after the season that there was no point in being in Victor Scott (1.7) -  10  
  baseball purgatory churning out mediocre 78-84 records so they were going Ivan Herrera (3.91) -  8  
  all out. The last remnants of the high times were dealt for whatever the Cards    
  could get - P Sonny Gray, P Miles Mikolas, C Willson Contreras,  Notable Events:  
  1B Paul Goldschmidt, 2B Brendan Donovan and 3B Nolan Arenado. 2020 - The Cardinals are, by far, the most successful major league team of  
  The rebuild is going to be a Project because there's not much there that you the twenty first century. Thru 2022, they have had only one losing season in  
  would possibly build a contender on moving forward: P Matthew Liberatore, the twenty three years. The run also includes eleven Division Championships   
  C Ivan Herrera, 1B Alec Burleson, SS Masyn Winn, 2B JJ Westerholt,  and seven second places.    
  P Liam Doyle and OF Jordan Walker (maybe).   
   2020 - William O. DeWitt Jr. has owned the club since 1995. He's been  
  Starting Pitchers:  remarkably astute in hiring brilliant management teams.  
  □ LHP Matthew Liberatore, 26,'20 Trade from TB, '25 8-12 4.21 DeWitt has been willing to spend where needed, but what has really made  
  □ RHP Dustin May, 28, '26 FA from Boston, '25 7-11 4.06 Cardinal management superb during DeWitt's tenure is that they have been   
  □ RHP Michael McGreevy, 25, '21 first round, '25 8-4 4.42 the most successful franchise in baseball while still being frugal most of the time.  
  □ RHP Andre Pallante, 27, '19 4th round, '25 6-15 5.31 The 2019 post season, however, DeWitt could have loosened the purse  
  □ RHP Richard Fitts, 26, '26 trade from Boston, '25 2-4 5.00  strings a bit more and kept free agent Marcell Ozuna because he was   
  □ RHP Kyle Leahy, 29, '18 17th round, '25 4-2 3.07 missed tremendously when he was gone. DeWitt has recently made headlines   
  □ RHP Hunter Dobbins, 26, '26 trade from Boston, '25 4-1 4.13  complaining about the difficulty of making a profit as a major league  
  Not a lot of high ceiling guys here as the Cards went with youth. baseball team owner in these times. This kind of talk can't be very heartening to  
  Middle of the rotation starter is as high as any of these guys will go and Cardinals fans moving forward.  
  they are not even bottom of the rotation starters for a contender right now.  
  2020 - John Mozeliak has been running the baseball side of the operation since  
  Relief Pitchers: 2007. He had a tough act to follow in Walt Jocketty, but the Cardinals didn't  
  □ CLOSER Riley O'Brien, 31, '22 Trade from Reds, '25 3-1 2.06 6 saves miss a beat. Mozeliak stepped up to President of Baseball Operations in  
  □ RHP Jo Jo Romero, 29, '22 Trade from Phillies, '25 4-6 2.07 8 saves 2017 with Mike Girsch moving into the GM slot.    
  □ RHP Ryne Stanek, 35, '26 FA from Mets, '25 4-6 5.30  
  □ RHP Ryan Fernandez, 28, '24 Rule 5 draft from Boston, '25 0-4 7.71 2022 -  Mike Schildt who had been the field manager since 2018 was replaced by   
  □ RHP Gordon Graceffo, 26,'21 draft 5th round, '25 3-1 6.28 Oliver Marmol in 2022. Marmol will not be able to make a silk purse out of a  
  O'Brien and Romero are pretty good pitchers. Hard to say if they would be  sow's ear.  
  closer material on a good team but certainly part of the mix on a contender.  
  Which, if they continue to pitch well with the Cards this season, is where they 2023 - The Cards plummet twenty two games in the standings and dip  
  will end up after the trade deadline. The lions share of that decline is due to the retirement of Albert Pujols  
  who had a nice '22 at 24-68.270 but that production wasn't replaced.  
  Regulars: Paul Goldschmidt, 35, seriously started showing his age as he went  
  □ C Ivan Herrera, 26, '16 IFA, '25 19 66 .284 from 35-115.317 to 25-80-268. The acquisition of catcher Wilson Contreras  
  □ 1B Alec Burleson, 27, '20 2nd round pick, '25 18 69 .290 offset the decline a bit. He replaced retired star Yadier Molina.  
  □ 2B JJ Wetherholt, 23, '24 draft 7th overall pick, '25 AA-AAA 17 59 .306  
  □ SS Masyn Winn. 24, '20 draft 2nd round pick, '25 9 51 .253 2024 - Retool Time.   
  □ 3B Nolan Gorman, 26, '18 1st round pick, '25 14 46 .205 The Cards were 71-91 and there is no reason to think this team is going to get  
  □ OF Lars Nootbaar, 28, ;18 8th round pick, '25 13 48 .234 any better anytime soon. Just the opposite. It's been an amazing run for St. Louis  
  □ CF Victor Scott, 25, '22 5th round pick, '25 6 37 .216 34SB,  with fourteen ninety plus win seasons in the first twenty two full years of this  
  □ OF Jordan Walker. 24, '20 1st round pick, '25 6 41 .215 century. But, it's over. Cards management was not ready, however, to go  
  □ IF Thomas Saggese, 24,'23 Trade from Texas,  '25 2 25 .258 into full rebuild mode just yet. Hard to adjust to the new reality without a  
  □ C Pedro Pages, 27, '19 6th round pick, '25 11 45 .230 period of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance   
  □ IF Jose Fermin, 27, '23 Trade from Cleveland, '25 1 9 .283 Not at acceptance quite yet  
  □ IF Ramon Urias, 32, '26 FA from Houston, '25 3 10 .222  
  □ OF Nathan Church, 25, '22 11th round pick ,'25 1 8 .179  
  □ OF Nelson Velazquez, 27, '26 FA from Pirates, '24 8 27 .200  
  This lineup won't scare anybody. And there are no future stars to be found here.  
  That being said, Herrera, Wethholt, Burleson and Winn are players that could    
  fit with a contender. Walker and Scott are more suspects than prospects at this    
  stage of the game.