B-Schaeff Daily: St. Louis Cardinals Talk, Every Day

In Ep. 549 of B-Schaeff Daily, Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals 7-4 win over the Mets from Saturday, April 27, 2024. Sonny Gray was stupendous once again, striking out nine hitters and allowing only one earned run over six innings. But he also issued a few walks, one of which becoming costly as it followed an uncharacteristic Nolan Arenado error. The four-run inning that followed the erro...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals 4-2 win over the Mets on Friday night at Citi Field. Ryan Helsley and the rest of the bullpen was nails again -- and the Cardinals have still needed Hels for each and every one of their wins on the season. Miles Mikolas gave the Cardinals a bit more than he had been providing while the offense got its start early thanks to homers by Burleson and Contreras....

Brenden Schaeffer and Josh Jacobs (Dealin' The Cards podcast) sit down to discuss a really interesting hypothetical. Could the Cardinals institute a mini-rebuild—perhaps more accurately, a retool—of not only the MLB roster but possibly the entire structure of the organization if 2024 doesn't live up to the hopes of ultimately fielding a contender in St. Louis? And if so, what exactly might...

Brenden Schaeffer takes a look at how the Cardinals prospects from the MLB Pipeline list have fared so far in their minor league seasons in 2024. We run down the Top 30 prospects in the organization per Pipeline with some notes on each while diving into their stats in the early portion of the year. Who has stood out and made a positive impression that could inform a potential future call up to St....

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 5-1 win over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at Busch Stadium. Willson Contreras beat his former (occasional) batterymate Jordan Montgomery for a double in the sixth to help spark the Cardinals' scoring against Arizona. That's a moment that the Cardinal catcher probably enjoyed quiiiite a bit. Kyle Gibson was sturdy as nails for...

Brenden Schaeffer hops on to discuss breaking news as the Cardinals have demoted Jordan Walker and Zack Thompson to Memphis in a roster shakeup Wednesday. Is this a necessary move in order to get the most out of Walker in the long run? Become a subscriber to the B-Schaeff Daily Spotify feed for an ad-free listening experience: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bschaeffer12/subscribe

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals 14-1 loss to the D-backs on Tuesday, April 24, 2024 at Busch Stadium. Oli Marmol shared his belief that Steven Matz actually had one of his better outings on Tuesday, which just isn't something that makes sense to say for the manager in that postgame even if he believed it. Zack Thompson got shelled in relief and the offense went dormant again against...

Brenden Schaeffer and Charlie Marlow recap the Cardinals' must-needed walk-off win from Monday night in the critically acclaimed Low Hanging Fruit podcast. Okay, so the critics haven't noticed us, I lied a minute ago. Anyway. Lots of Cardinals talk as the boys try to ascertain how much Monday's win will actually mean in terms of getting the Redbirds going moving forward. To listen to p...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals thrilling walk-off win over the Diamondbacks, 5-3 at Busch Stadium on Monday, April 22, 2024. Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Gorman played the heroes for the offense, launching deep home runs in key moments to help the Cardinals come from behind to win and end their four-game losing skid. Hear all about the game that Lars Nootbaar believes was the win of the y...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 2-0 loss to the Brewers in a live stream on YouTube, Sunday, April 22, 2024. This is the audio from that stream. Sonny Gray was masterful for St. Louis, posting 12 strikeouts in 6.1 innings. One ill-timed hit in the seventh made him the loser in the game as the Cardinals went 0-for-9 with RISP while leaving all 10 men that they put on base still stran...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals poor offensive trends in 2024 after the club was shutout by the Brewers on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at Busch Stadium. Sonny Gray struck out 12 and pitched a great ball game... But it was all for naught as the lineup failed to contribute even one run. Does the lineup owe their ace an apology? Note: This is not B-Schaeff Daily for Sunday night. Another podcast...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 12-5 loss to the Brewers on Saturday at Busch Stadium (4/20/24) as Miles Mikolas had another start in which he was unable to get through five innings. Mikolas allowed three home runs to the Milwaukee lineup, wasting a rare example of quality run support provided by the Cardinal offense. The bullpen was rough, too, as the Cardinals dropped the second s...

In a podcast originally recorded Friday (before Mikolas gave up some soft contact that went over the fence Saturday) Brenden chats with Josh Jacobs of the Dealin' The Cards podcast about all things Cardinals, diving into the off-season makeover of the pitching before getting into the struggling offense and other topics. Follow this channel for Cardinals content all season!

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 2-1 loss to the Brewers in 10 innings from Friday, April 19, 2024. The lineup is still struggling tremendously and it wasted a strong outing from Gibby in the process. Nolan Gorman picked up the golden sombrero with 4 Ks in an 0-for-5 effort. He stranded seven on base, including four runners with RISP and two outs. Paul Goldschmidt went 0-for-5, too,...

Brenden Schaeffer and Charlie Marlow discuss how concerning the slow start is for Paul Goldschmidt, with boys guys giving their expectations for where the struggling slugger's OPS will finish at the end of the season. Plus, we get into other Cardinals topics including what lineup changes we might consider as a result of the current issues with the offense, what a 2025 1B tandem could look like...

KMOX Cardinals Clubhouse Reporter and Lindenwood grad Ethan Hannaford joins Brenden Schaeffer on Ep. 540 of the B-Schaeff Daily podcast to discuss the St. Louis Cardinals after their 9-10 start to the season (4/18/24). Ethan and Brenden break down the status of the lineup while highlighting their biggest concerns and surprises to this point. We also break down our thoughts on the rotation and the...

In Ep. 539 of the St. Louis Cardinals podcast 'B-Schaeff Daily,' Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 6-3 loss to the Athletics from Wednesday as the offense failed to take full advantage of the six hits and five walks allowed by Paul Blackburn. Steven Matz was doing decently -- until he hit the dreaded fifth inning that seems to so often plague him. More discouraging signs from...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 3-2 win over the Athletics on Tuesday night, April 16, 2024. Following up Sonny Gray's electric outing from Monday, Lance Lynn guided the Cardinals through seven strong innings before the bullpen slammed the door. Ryan Helsley has pitched in every win so far this year for STL! It's a good thing, too, that St. Louis got the effort that it did f...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 3-1 win over the Athletics on Monday, April 15, 2024. This audio comes from a YouTube Live stream that took place postgame Monday night. On another pitch limit, Sonny Gray worked with what he had to twirl six more scoreless innings, bringing his total for the season to 11.0 shutout frames. Offensively, the Cardinals didn't get much -- but they got...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 5-0 loss to the D-backs from Sunday, April 14, 2024. Masyn Winn was out of the lineup for the fourth time in 16 games with Brandon Crawford playing shortstop instead as Oli Marmol and the Cardinals continue to manage Winn's workload in the early going. But fans are wondering why a 22-year-old shortstop necessarily needs so much careful management...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 4-2 loss to the Diamondbacks on Saturday night, April 13, 2024. Kyle Gibson gave up a costly three-run home run to Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and after the game he conceded that he should have let Willson Contreras call the slider that he was angling for before PitchCom issues caused some problems for the St. Louis battery ahead of the fateful pitch to Gurri...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 9-6 win over the D-backs on Friday, April 12, 2024 out in Arizona. This podcast is the audio from a live stream that took place on YouTube Live. (channel: youtube.com/@bschaeffer12) St. Louis erupted for six runs thanks to home runs from Nolan Arenado (finally!) and Lars Nootbaar (sheesh, took him long enough) to race out to a big lead. But Matz and Galle...

On the Cardinals off-day, Brenden Schaeffer discusses Jordan Montgomery firing Scott Boras as his agent, moving forward with Wasserman Group instead after Boras bungled the free agency of Montgomery and his other clients this winter. Plus, formal charges have been filed against Ippei Mizuhara, the disgraced former interpreter of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani. We get into the weeds on the crimina...

Brenden Schaeffer and Charlie Marlow discuss the situation surrounding Victor Scott, Lars Nootbaar the Cardinals outfield in general, concern level on Goldy, Arenado and Jordan Walker, the current status of the starting rotation and bullpen, and more. The guys also take a look at why the Cardinals seem to send players like Jordan Hicks and Tyler O'Neill to other teams that ultimately get the m...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals' 4-3 loss to the Phillies on Wednesday as rookie outfielder Victor Scott II had an unfortunate afternoon in the field and on the bases to contribute to the Redbirds dropping the series finale. But Brenden comes out in favor of the reported decision by the Cardinals not to overreact to that specific game with a move to demote Scott to Memphis upon the r...