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

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the latest example of Devil Magic in our midst as the Cards scored five in the ninth to comeback and stun the Nats. {raise for Montgomery, Edman and others inbound.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals' win over the Nats from Tuesday as Quintana returned to his roots as a quality game-manager. Nolan Gorman burst out offensively after a recent lull in production. And Ryan Helsley has the coolest entrance in MLB.

Brenden Schaeffer hops back behind the microphone for the first time as a FATHER (wow) to discuss the birth of his beautiful baby boy and chat a little Cardinals baseball before going to find approximately 31 minutes of precious sleep.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down another troubling outing for Dakota Hudson and explains why Oli Marmol's reaction to it could be telling in terms of where the team may look to go from here. Jake Woodford gets praised and we talk about his possible role moving forward. It's not a simple as a 1-for-1 swap, though, with Jack Flaherty's return to the rotation looming--and potentially soon.

Brenden Schaeffer discusses Albert Pujols passing Barry Bonds by homering off the 450th different pitcher of his MLB career; and wouldn't you know it, it's a local product who attended Brenden's same high school who gave up the blast. Small world. More discussion of the homer, the chase for 700 as well as the impact of Tyler O'Neill's resurgence for the Cardinals lineup. We also dig into the weeds...

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals weekend at Busch as the Redbirds came back twice in the series to win games and take two of three from the defending World Champs. What kind of omen is that for October? And which members of the lineup are giving the most confidence that the Cardinals could be on a special trajectory?

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down Thursday's 8-3 win for the Cardinals over the Cubs in Chicago, including a discussion on Goldschmidt's triple crown chances and more of an amazing turnaround by Corey Dickerson at the plate. He just keeps doing it, en route to a franchise record in Thursday's win.

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals Wednesday night loss to the Cubs at Wrigley as Nolan Arenado was ejected in the third inning by John Libka after a questionable check swing call. I give my thoughts on that play and we hear from Oli Marmol on his. Plus more talk about Noot, platoon splits and how the best Cardinals' linuep against RHP might feature Corey Dickerson at this point...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals doubleheader split against the Cubs on Tuesday at Wrigley, looking into the offensive troubles from game one and the triumphs from game two. We also discuss more deeply the resurgence of Corey Dickerson and ponder whether Tuesday's outing gets Jake Woodford out of purgatory in the Cardinals pitching pecking order.

Brenden Schaeffer dives into the Cardinals 1-0 over the Cubs on Monday at Wrigley as Jordan Montgomery throws a Maddux, a 99-pitch one-hitter. Oh, and Albert Pujols went deep AGAIN. 693. His latest heroics inspired the question: Is this the greatest stretch of his MLB career? Brenden researched that question for about an hour and came up with some fascinating results. You won't wanna miss this pod...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals 6-4 win over the D-backs Sunday as Lars Nootbarr and Brendan Donovan continue to rake atop the STL lineup. Oli Marmol got ejected and had a hilarious response, plus an update on Yadi's weekend trip to Puerto Rico.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down a jam-packed Cardinals win over the D-backs, 16-7 on Saturday. Pujols hits 691 and 692... Is 700 gonna happen? Goldy is the MVP. Hudson still needs to fix the walks. And what do we make of the Yadi situation? All that and more in this episode of the show.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down a streak-breaking win for the Cardinals Friday as Mikolas was brilliant once again. And those Goldy and Nado fellas weren't so bad themselves.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the 13-0 win for the Cardinals over the Rockies Thursday as Albert Pujols provided another amazing memory after Oli Marmol decided to pinch-hit him into a 6-0 game in the third inning. Spoiler alert: Good decision, Skip! We also get into more discussion on how the Cardinals roster is set up as good as it has been for quite some time, at least offensively. And Waino re...

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the Cardinals 5-1 win over the Rockies Wednesday as Nolan Gorman and Brendan Donovan make the most of their opportunities offensively. Plus, Jordan Montgomery continues to be precisely the the doctor ordered as he and Jose Quintana have provided previously unforeseen consistency to the starting pitching in St. Louis.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the bizarre game between the Cardinals and Rockies at Busch on Tuesday. Did St. Louis find a way to win or did Colorado, one of the worst road teams in baseball, find a way to lose? Thoughts on Jose Quintana, Jordan Hicks and more on today's episode breaking down a Cardinals win.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down Albert Pujols' memorable day at the office as his two home runs and one epic bat flipped helped push the Cardinals to a series win over the Brewers at Busch Stadium on Sunday. We get into the heroics from Albert and the offense along with the ace-like bounceback from starter Miles Mikolas.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals' 3-2 loss to the Brewers from Saturday as the Redbirds let Wainwright's latest masterpiece go for naught. Plety on this episode regarding how Corbin Burnes, a Manfred Man and Corey Dickerson ended up contributing to a tough loss to swallow for St. Louis.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down Friday's Cardinals win over the Brewers as they extend the lead in the NL Central behind the second straight day of homers from both Goldy and Arenado. Jordan Montgomery was also brilliant again, throwing a career-high pitch count en route to another batch of scoreless innings. 

Brenden Schaeffer discusses Thursday's 8-6 loss to the Rockies, including the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hear why Brenden is still irked with Hudson after a generally solid start. Brenden also weighs in on the Twitter notion that Oli Marmol should stop asking Jordan Hicks to get more than three outs in a given relief appearance. We also boast only slightly about the Leadoff Noot prediction comin...

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals' 9-5 win on Wednesday in Colorado as the offense erupted with major contributions from Pujols, Arenado, DeJong and Nootbaar. We discuss each player in-depth as well as the reason Quintana's quality effort surprised Brenden more than it should have. 

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down arguably the ugliest Cardinals loss of the year and searches for what we should be taking away from it, if anything. A discussion on the bullpen move that probably needs to be made this week, as well as a look at two underperforming spots in the STL lineup. 

With the Cardinals off-day Monday night, Brenden Schaeffer took some time to dive into a look ahead at how the 2023 Cardinals starting rotation could shake out. Who are the candidates, does Wainwright retire, do the Cardinals make any trades or re-sign any pending free agents? Speculative predictions on all of that within today's episode.

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down Sunday's marathon win over the Yankees to complete the sweep of the weekend series at Busch. Nolan Arenado is catching fire in a big way. And don't sleep on Paul DeJong, either, as his damaging swings continued in a major way Sunday. Also, does the construction of the bullpen need tweaking after what we saw Sunday? Plenty of fun in this episode from another thrilling...

Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals' second improbable, gritty win in as many days as they beat the Yankees 1-0 in Jordan Montgomery's STL debut. Defense from Nolan A. and Noot came up huge in the win. We talk bobbleheads, Matty C walk-up songs and so much more in tonight's episode. Plus, hear audio from Nolan Arenado that probably didn't play in many places due to the lack of a local TV p...