Resurgence Cardinals Allowed Back from relegation - Face Verlander

 The St. Louis Cardinals are back in our Statis-Pro league.  They started so badly this season we dropped them from the 10 NL teams we originally picked to play through our Statis-Pro Baseball season and added the Pittsburgh Pirates after their start, but now we will keep both teams for an 11-team Statis-Pro NL season. A couple of notes:

1. Below are the teams we included in both our AL season (being played in Montana) and NL season (played in Milwaukee). To check on where teams rank and make these decisions, we run the following calculation - we weigh this year's record and run differential twice, then last year's same two factors twice, and then calculate them all together and rank teams. None of the other nine relegated teams in the two Statis-Pro leagues were in the top seven in their respective league, but the Cardinals recent 13-5 mark put them back up to No. 5 in the NL, so we added them back in with the other green teams.

2. Below that image is the setup for their first game back against the Mets. The five players in the upper left are pretty good St. Louis cards that are not on the current roster so are currently not used in the game.

3. The next image is the list of current players we went from and we have marked if each player for the Cardinals, as well as for the Dodgers and Braves who had not yet been checked, had an existing card or needed a replacement card in addition to those like the five in #2 above that were dropped because they were not on the list. 

4. Only two new cards were added from checking the three teams against current rosters. Kevin Pillar is not on the Braves roster, and the next image shows his card being printed from page 107 of this set of Batters' cards. The other player is the Dodgers lefty Victor Gonzalez, who did not have a card so we looked up his Zips projected ERA (ERA 4.06) and made up a standard card by adding his name and that he is left handed and only a relief pitcher (thus SR/RR: 0/4).  He is now on page 46 of the Statis-Pro pitcher cards. Now we are ready to play!

Her is the process ... Developing.

Team	Player check list	Depth	Position	L or R	New Stl?	card
Braves	Ronald Acuna	1	Batters	R	AAA	existing
Braves	Ehire Adrianza	10	Batters	S		No card
Braves	Ozzie Albies	1	Batters	S		existing
Braves	Orlando Arcia	1	Batters	R		existing
Braves	Travis d'Arnaud	2	Batters	R		existing
Braves	Michael Harris	1	Batters	L		existing
Braves	Sam Hilliard	2	Batters	L	A	existing
Braves	Sean Murphy	1	Batters	R		existing
Braves	Matt Olson	1	Batters	L		existing
Braves	Marcell Ozuna	1	Batters	R		existing
Braves	Kevin Pillar	2	Batters	R		pg 101 FA
Braves	Austin Riley	1	Batters	R		existing
Braves	Eddie Rosario	1	Batters	L		existing
Braves	Braden Shewmake	2	Batters	L		No card
Braves	Kolby Allard	60	Pitchers	L		No card
Braves	Nick Anderson	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Jesse Chavez	5	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Bryce Elder	3	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Max Fried	15	Pitchers	L		existing
Braves	Raisel Iglesias	1	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Joe Jimenez	3	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Dylan Lee	6	Pitchers	L		existing
Braves	Collin McHugh	4	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	AJ Minter	1	Pitchers	L		existing
Braves	Charlie Morton	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Spencer Strider	1	Pitchers	R		existing
Braves	Kyle Wright	15	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Nolan Arenado	1	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Tres Barrera	3	Batters	R		No card
Cardinals	Alec Burleson	2	Batters	L		existing
Cardinals	Dylan Carlson	1	Batters	S		existing
Cardinals	Willson Contreras	1	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Paul DeJong	2	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Brendan Donovan	1	Batters	L		existing
Cardinals	Tommy Edman	1	Batters	S		existing
Cardinals	Paul Goldschmidt	1	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Nolan Gorman	1	Batters	L		existing
Cardinals	Andrew Knizner	1	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Lars Nootbaar	1	Batters	L		existing
Cardinals	Tyler O'Neill	10	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Juan Yepez	3	Batters	R		existing
Cardinals	Genesis Cabrera	5	Pitchers	L		existing
Cardinals	Jack Flaherty	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Giovanny Gallegos	1	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Ryan Helsley	1	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Jordan Hicks	3	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Steven Matz	5	Pitchers	L		existing
Cardinals	Miles Mikolas	3	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Jordan Montgomery	1	Pitchers	L		existing
Cardinals	Packy Naughton	15	Pitchers	L		No card
Cardinals	Chris Stratton	4	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Drew VerHagen	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Cardinals	Adam Wainwright	4	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Austin Barnes	2	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Mookie Betts	1	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Freddie Freeman	1	Batters	L		existing
Dodgers	Jason Heyward	2	Batters	L		existing
Dodgers	Gavin Lux	60	Batters	L		don't use
Dodgers	JD Martinez	1	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Max Muncy	1	Batters	L		existing
Dodgers	James Outman	1	Batters	L		existing
Dodgers	David Peralta	1	Batters	L		No card
Dodgers	Miguel Rojas	1	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Will Smith	1	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Chris Taylor	2	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Trayce Thompson	2	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Miguel Vargas	1	Batters	R		existing
Dodgers	Yency Almonte	3	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Phil Bickford	5	Pitchers	R		No card
Dodgers	Justin Bruihl	6	Pitchers	L		No card
Dodgers	Caleb Ferguson	1	Pitchers	L		existing
Dodgers	Tony Gonsolin	3	Pitchers	R	pb 2-8	existing
Dodgers	Victor Gonzalez	4	Pitchers	L		4.06 proj, pg 46
Dodgers	Brusdar Graterol	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Michael Grove	15	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Clayton Kershaw	2	Pitchers	L		existing
Dodgers	Dustin May	4	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Shelby Miller	2	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Evan Phillips	1	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Noah Syndergaard	0	Pitchers	R		existing
Dodgers	Julio Urias	1	Pitchers	L	pb 2-8	existing