New Series and Upcoming Posts

After discussing how to move forward and make Busch Birds the best Cardinals blog it can be, kotheb and I have decided to change some of our approach. We will no longer be posting Series Previews and Recaps or Game Recaps during the baseball season. Instead, we are going to focus our content in a new way to hopefully make this a more enjoyable visit for all of you.

We will be maintaining a core group of series during the coming months. Some will run continuously into the future while others will occur annually during the offseason. Each of our series will have a new post at least once a week to hopefully keep you, the reader, interested in the series. We are going to be revamping our Prospect Introduction Series in this new approximately weekly post format. We will also be adding some new series, including a Baseball Economics Series, a 2009 Season in Review Series, and an Organization Depth Chart Series. Below is a synopsis of each new series that will begin appearing this week.

The Baseball Economics Series is a project that I am very excited about. I just completed an Economics of Sports course with a well respected sports economist that regularly appears in the media both locally and nationally. I will be taking the information that I learned in that class about the economics of Major League Baseball and applying it to events of interest to Cardinals fans. The first post in this series will look at the economic impact of the current long term contracts in the Cardinals organization on the team's ability to retain Albert Pujols and possibly Matt Holliday well into the next decade. Check back on Thursday for this inaugural Baseball Economics Series post.

The 2009 Season in Review Series will look at the individual performance of members of the St. Louis Cardinals during the 2009 season. The series will also discuss published projections for each players success in 2010 and beyond. If you have any requests for players to be discussed sooner rather than later please use the comment section of this post. The first post in this series is currently slated to cover Brendan Ryan's breakout 2009 season and will be available on Friday.

Finally, the Organizational Depth Chart Series will take a slightly different angle on the top prospects list that many Cardinals aficionados publish during the offseason. Rather than approaching the entire organization as a group, each entry in the series will highlight the top talent that the organization has to offer at a specific position. The first position to be examined will be the catchers in the Cardinals organization. Check back on Sunday for that post.

In between posts for each series we will continue to post about the offseason happenings as they occur. Hopefully this has given you some insight into where we are trying to take Busch Birds. I think we will be able to produce more consistently interesting content in this new approach. As always, we want our readers to enjoy spending time on our site so your feedback is welcome and necessary for Busch Birds to continue improving.

-ambill10