{"id":663529,"date":"2026-04-04T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:32:20","slug":"national-media-is-changing-its-tune-around-the-new-look-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663529\/","title":{"rendered":"National media is changing its tune around the new-look St. Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the 2026 season, most people had the Cardinals<\/a> projected to finish last place, in the cellar of the NL Central. Not only were they supposed to be bad, but it was also said to be a historic kind of bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For an organization as deeply rooted in winning as the Cardinals, you can imagine how unsettled fans were after seeing these projections. But based on recent recalculations, the Redbirds might not be so busted after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Different baseball outlets have deemed the Cardinals watchable early on. <\/p>\n

The national media<\/a> is taking notice of the Redbirds’ early-season success after dooming them to last place. Baseball personalities like Jake Storiale of Talkin\u2019 Baseball, Chris Rose of the Rose Rotation, Peter Appel of JustBaseball Media<\/a>, and Greg Amsinger of MLB Network have shown immediate interest in the Cardinals’ impact tremors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people in baseball media threw the Cardinals to the side. Not me,\u201d said Appel. He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s a team playing with nothing to lose. They intrigue me early on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chris Rose, on a segment with Talkin\u2019 Baseball, continued the Redbirds hype train.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that the Cardinals were going to be horrific to watch this year. In the offseason, I remember asking myself, \u201cWhen was the last time they lost 95 games in a year?\u201d Because that could really happen with how the NL Central has improved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rose seems about ready to recant his predetermined conclusion for the Cardinals in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jake Storiale<\/a> added his two cents, \u201cThe Cardinals could have a better season than the Pirates, and I feel like two weeks ago, that sounded sinful to say.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greg Amsinger appeared on KMOX Sports with STL Sports Central columnist Brenden Schaeffer prior to the season. He seems to have spearheaded this Redbird renaissance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the team,\u201d<\/a> Amsinger said. \u201cThe rotation is filled with nothing but high-upside guys. It\u2019s not solidified, but all five guys have upside. Nationally, people are writing the Cardinals off in a division which is silly to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In years past, most of the hype around The Lou has been internally sponsored. Beat writers, columnists, and other smaller networks that seemed to think they could root the Redbirds to a 12th World Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, in the first year of the Chaim Bloom regime, St. Louis has capitalized on the new culture. They\u2019re playing a fun brand of baseball, and the game is taking notice. The season is still incredibly young, but this kind of media buildup is worth noticing, especially the way in which it\u2019s surfaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the 2026 season, most people had the Cardinals projected to finish last place, in the cellar of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-663529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348816666587518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}