Bold St. Louis Cardinals predictions for the 2020 season

The Cardinals have a bottom-five offense

Last season, the Cardinals struggled to score runs at times. If you look at their projected lineup it has some players on the downward trajectory of their careers, and some players with relatively little MLB experience.

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That could be a recipe for a bad offense. It could also lead to a very capable offense as well, but there is just so much uncertainty. For an offense that lost their cleanup hitter Marcell Ozuna, and their top pinch hitter and bench bat (DH) Jose Martinez, it’s hard to see the offense replacing that and also making up for the shortcomings that existed last season even with those two players.

I was an advocate of adding a proven power hitter in the offseason, but that didn’t happen. Now the Cardinals have to hope that what they have is enough.

In conclusion, fans can see some exciting and crazy things happen in this short 2020 season. It’s going to be wild division races and high stakes baseball on a daily basis. Some of these predictions are more positive and some more negative, but even for being “bold” predictions, I tried to stay in the realm of sincere possibility.

What do you think, am I way off or could I be onto something? We’ll all find out when baseball returns at the end of the month.