Our All Time Top 50 St. Louis Cardinals have been revised to reflect the 2024 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 St. Louis Cardinals.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.
Last year, the Cardinals won 83 Games, but did not make the playoffs. The rebuilding squad saw minimal movement in the top 50, and the only new entrant was based on the new algorithm.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes
1. Stan Musial
2. Albert Pujols
3. Rogers Hornsby
4. Bob Gibson
5. Ozzie Smith
You can find the entire list here.
The only new addition was Ripper Collins, who as discussed above, enters via the new system.
We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
Our All-Time Top 50 St. Louis Cardinals Have Been Revised to Reflect the 2023 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out, and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 St. Louis Cardinals.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, St. Louis had a very disappointing season, and were nowhere close to the playoffs. Regardless, there was one new entrant and one change.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. Stan Musial
4. Bob Gibson
5. Ozzie Smith
You can find the entire list here.
Adam Wainwright reached 200 Wins last year, but bluntly, he was not very good. He had an ERA near 8 and a bWAR of -2.0. As such, he dropped a spot, going from #10 to #11.
The only new entrant was Paul Goldschmidt. The 2022 National League MVP debuts at #46.
We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
Our All-Time Top 50 St. Louis Cardinals have been revised to reflect the 2022 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022 revision of our top 50 St. Louis Cardinals.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the storied history of the Cardinals saw another playoff appearance, but with the 100 years more of existence, it is hard to crack into the top 50. There are noe new entrants into the top 50, with only one elevation.
As always, we present our top five, which had no changes.
1. Stan Musial
3. Bob Gibson
5. Ozzie Smith
You can find the entire list here.
Please note that Pujols, who returned to St. Louis for one final season, was not able to overtake Musial for the top spot.
The only change was Starting Pitcher, Adam Wainwright, who inched up one rank to #10.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
5. Ozzie Smith
We bet the San Diego Padres would like to have this one back.
At the time of being traded from San Diego, Ozzie Smith was regarded as only a defensive gem that was never going to give you much in terms of offense. While he was never going to be confused with a Cal Ripken with his bat, he did raise his Batting Average and OBP as a St. Louis Cardinal and he would slap 1,944 of his 2,460 Hits with the Redbirds. Smith was not known for extra base hits, but once aboard the base paths he was solid with 13 straight 20 Stolen Base Seasons, with 433 in total for the team. Smith became a good enough hitter that in 1987 he was awarded the Silver Slugger. It is also worth noting that he didn’t Strikeout much as he would twice finish atop the National League leader board in AB per SO, was the runner up three times and finished in the top five another seven times as a Cardinal.
Awards = HOF? Part Twenty-Six: Gold Glove Shortstop
Needless to say, different awards in different sports yield hall of fame potential. In basketball, the team sport with the least amount of players on a roster, the dividend for greatness much higher. In baseball, it is not as much as a great individual season does not have the same impact.
We are now taking a look at the Gold Glove Award, given annually to the best defensive player in MLB in each respective position.
Homer Simpson to the Baseball HOF?
Homer Simpson has twice been a Semi-Finalist for our Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame. By the way, you can vote for the Class of 2017 here! As it turns out, Homer Simpson will be “inducted” into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Now for all of the purists out there, don’t get too concerned. This is not an actual induction, but more of a celebration of 25th Anniversary of one of the most famous episodes of The Simpsons; “Homer at the Bat”. The event will take place on May 27, where in the morning a round table discussion featuring the program’s executive producers Al Jean and Mike Reiss, director Jim Reardon, executive story editor Jeff Martin and casting director Bonnie Pietila. That round table is impressive enough, but two of Homer’s “teammates”, Wade Boggs and Ozzie Smith will also be present for the discussion.
Following the discussion, Simpson will be mock inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Simpsons exhibit in Cooperstown will open.
To recap, the episode saw Springfield Power Plan owner, Montgomery Burns, stack his team with the best ringers for his company softball team. In addition to Boggs and Smith, Burns procured the services of Steve Sax, Don Mattingly, Ken Griffey Jr., Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, Mike Scioscia and Darryl Strawberry so that his team could defeat their rivals, the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant team.
“Home Run” Simpson was benched in favor of slugger, Darryl Strawberry, but pinch hit for Strawberry as Burns was “playing the percentages” as Simpson batted left. Simpson drove in the winning run, albeit by being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Admittedly, this is one of the favorite episodes amongst those of us at Notinhalloffame.com.
As always, the Hall of Fame news remains interesting.