Cardinals news and notes: El Gallo, Yadi, and Marp

Dexter Fowler is somehow back with the Chicago Cubs and the entire situation sounds like a mess.  Ken Rosenthal has all of the perplexing details here.

Yesterday here at VEB, where things make better sense, we shared some mighty fine content.

Carlos Martinez

• Graphs, GIFs, charts, and all sorts of goodness here in Joe Schwarz's analysis of Carlos Martinez's pitching sequence for all of his strikeouts in 2015.  It's a great piece on our favorite player so check it out if you missed it yesterday.
• What exactly is Carlos doing in this picture?  No, really, what is he doing?  This is all that's showing up on my computer:

Yadier Molina

• I rambled on and on about Yadier Molina and what he's meant to the Cardinals.  We are really going to miss him when his days are done.

Matt Carpenter is underrated

• Matt Carpenter has been one of the best players in the National League the last few years yet, as Craig Edwards explained, MLB Network had him ranked as the #88th best player in baseball.  I think Joe might be on to something:

@lil_scooter93 My thought process is whoever was making the list got to #87 and was like "crap, forgot Carpenter, let's just put him here."

— stlCupofJoe (@stlCupofJoe) February 25, 2016

Spring Training Television Schedule

• The Cardinals' Spring Training television schedule is out and it looks like a lot of the games will be available in some way or another.  Craig asked VEBers if they'd be interested in game threads for the Spring Training games and this is where the results currently stand:

Be sure to have your voice be heard and have a great weekend.