Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the Cardinals first loss of the 2025 season, a 5-4 defeat in extra innings to the Angels at a sparsely populated Busch Stadium.

In front of the smallest crowd in Busch III's history, the Cardinals saw walks come back to haunt their pitchers, while not getting enough thump at the plate aside from solo homers by Nootbaar and Donovan off a lefty SP.

Key decisions and moments late came around to help determine the outcome. Ivan Herrera removed early for defensive reasons, Brendan Donovan with a mental mistake on a chopper in the 10th inning and a decision not to pinch-hit Nolan Gorman for Masyn Winn with the game on the line against a RHP.

We dive into Oliver Marmol's thoughts on a number of the key moments and whether we generally had much of an issue with the way the manager approached the key moments of this contest.

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Brenden Schaeffer breaks down an eventful opening day for the St. Louis Cardinals after spending it at Busch Stadium.

​In the St. Louis Cardinals' Opening Day game against the Minnesota Twins on March 27, 2025, the Cardinals secured a 5-3 victory.

Lars Nootbaar energized the offense with a two-run homer and a single, while Nolan Arenado added a solo home run in the eighth inning, for which he received a huge curtain call.

Starting pitcher Sonny Gray delivered a solid performance, striking out six over five innings.

The bullpen, highlighted by closer Ryan Helsley, maintained the lead to seal the win.

Additionally, outfielder Victor Scott II made a remarkable catch in the sixth inning, preventing potential runs.

Brenden breaks it all down. Hear from key contributors like Arenado and Gray all within this episode of B-Schaeff Daily!

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Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the projected opening day lineup for Oliver Marmol and the Cardinals after the team used a new alignment in the exhibition game against the Memphis Redbirds on Monday night in Memphis.

With a new lead-off hitter and several swaps on down the order, what do we think of the new alignment?

Plus, Brenden ranks the nine hitters according to his projections for the 2025 season. How many of the nine do we project will be better than league-average at the plate?

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Brenden Schaeffer breaks down the reveal of the Cardinals opening day roster from Sunday morning as St. Louis ended up throwing some curveballs our way with some of these final decisions.

Liberatore in the rotation. McGreevy to Memphis. Victor Scott is the center fielder. Matz to the bullpen, but only for a little while? Siani still makes the team, but the odd man out had already been told he would make it? What happened there?

Let's break it down!

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Brenden Schaeffer discusses the roster conundrum for the St. Louis Cardinals when it comes to CF Victor Scott II. With another home run on Wednesday, Scott is forcing his way into the opening day conversation.

But Alec Burleson also homered on Wednesday... Are the Cardinals stuck between a rock and a hard place with how to prioritize the various young players vying for opportunities on the roster?

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Brenden Schaeffer gives his update on a few Cardinals roster battles as camp gears toward the finish line over the next two weeks.

Plus, some mock lineups to guess at what things might look like depending on how CF shakes out!

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The St. Louis Cardinals signed their first free agent to a MLB contract of the entire off-season on Thursday. Phil Maton joins the bullpen.

Brenden Schaeffer discusses the move as well as Gordon Graceffo being cut from big-league camp on Thursday and connects the dots on the two moves to outline how the Cardinals might be viewing their pitching staff and the depth behind it at this point in the calendar.

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Brenden Schaeffer discusses the recent revelation by Yadier Molina in an article by Katie Woo for The Athletic that he when he's ready to take on the role of MLB manager, he would not necessarily let a little detail like the Cardinals' managerial role being occupied stop him from pursuing that dream.

In fact, if they asked, Yadi would even be willing to manage the Chicago Cubs, evidently.

We discuss Yadi's latest foray into a public expression of a future desire to be a big-league manager, coming as Albert Pujols takes on the role of manager for the Dominican national team in the 2026 WBC.

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Brenden Schaeffer discusses Sonny Gray getting bit by the home run ball again in Monday's outing, continuing a trend that got him during the 2024 season, his first with the St. Louis Cardinals.

After Gray has now allowed five HRs across two spring training outings, is this a concern that could follow Sonny into the new season?

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After one Cardinals opening day roster projection called into question the degree to which Andre Pallante is locked into a rotation spot, we discussed the right-hander's struggles from his spring outing on Sunday and whether or not we could see the Cardinals pulling him out of the rotation to begin the season.

Hey, Michael McGreevy does deserve a spot... But should it come at Pallante's expense? We break it all down.

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Article discussed with Katie Woo's roster projection: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6179191/2025/03/07/cardinals-opening-day-roster-projection-spring-training/