Cardinals 2013 Regular Season Wrap-Up: Steve Hands out Team Awards

Other Fun Notes

– For the fifth time in six years, Yadier Molina led the majors among catchers who qualified for the batting title in fewest stolen bases allowed. Only AJ Ellis had a higher CS percentage than Yadier, but he also allowed 35 stolen bases (Yadier allowed 26) while catching 1,043 fewer innings.

– The Cardinals finished the season with a +187 run differential. After a brief glance at their Baseball Reference page, this would appear to be the fifth-best run differential in the team’s history (not counting the years when the Browns/Maroons/Perfectos were in the AA):

+275 – 1942

+220 – 1930

+201 – 1931

+196 – 2004

+187 – 2013

– In case you didn’t notice, the rookies for the Cardinals were good this year. Really good. Matheny had to lean on the farm system quite a bit this year, and they not only responded, they excelled.

Not counting the contributions of Maikel Cleto, the rookie pitching staff combined for the following:

3.10 ERA, .230 avg against, .352 slugging against, 2.93 K/BB ratio

How’d the veteran pitchers do? Not counting Rob Johnson’s appearance:

3.58 ERA, .259 avg against, .373 slugging against, 2.67 K/BB ratio.

Not too shabby.

Anyways, that’s it for now, folks. I’ll be posting during / after each series. In the meantime, let’s go Cardinals.

97 down. 11 to go.

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