St. Louis Cardinals off Season Report

Season Wrap Up The Cardinals won as many games in 2008 as they did when they won the World Series just two seasons earlier, but they found themselves outside of the playoff picture when the season ended. With an 86-76 record, the Cards once again had a very solid season with Tony La Russa at the helm. Having the MVP in Albert Pujols certainly didn't hurt, but the lack of pitching didn't help either. Offense was not the team's problem in '08 as they posted the second best OPS in the league at .783 and scored the fourth most runs in the league with 779. Pitching is where the team experienced some trouble as they really didn't have any big names to turn to when they really needed a win. While the pitching wasn't putrid, it was just bad enough to keep them from making the post season as their 4.19 team ERA (which ranked seventh in the NL) and their 725 runs allowed (ranking tenth in the league). Second year general manager John Mozeliak will try to remedy this p...