Cardinals spring training hitting and pitching in the last decade

Comparing St. Louis Cardinals spring vs. regular season batting average and ERA during the 2000-2009 period. Recently, I looked at St. Louis Cardinals spring training wins, losses and rankings in comparison to the regular season. I thought I might take a similar view, but this time though the lens of team batting average and ERA. In the data below, I only have the Cardinals’ spring rankings in the last four years. Their regular season record in batting is quite amazing. In the last decade, the Cardinals have always been in the top half of the league in batting average, though their spring training hitting was not good in 2006 or 2007. I also listed the top individual hitter each spring and regular season. We are again reminded of Albert Pujols’ greatness. Who remembered that among all the problems that Khalil Greene batted .408 with David Freese right behind at .386 last spring? Me either. Having a .400 hitter or two each spring is par for the course, but it helps by having Pujols a...