Twelve Days of Christmas 2008: Day 6
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Six hits a-spraying ^,
A five-rule draftee%;
Four exceeding arms$,
Three million fans#,
Two Dewan gloves,
and another Pujols MVP.
^Skip Schumaker collected six hits on July 26 — all singles — the first six-hit game by a Cardinal in 73 years.
%Brian Barton contributed 1.6 Wins Above Replacement Player (WARP3), the most for a Cardinal Rule-V draft pick since Alberto Castillo’s 2.9 in 1998.
$The Cardinals’ top four starting pitchers all exceeded their pre-season projected VORP, more than doubling their collective expected total:
| Player | Projected | Actual | Difference |
| Wainwright | 23.4 | 32.4 | +9.0 |
| Lohse | 15.0 | 38.4 | +23.4 |
| Wellemeyer | 12.4 | 36.3 | +23.9 |
| Looper | 6.3 | 24.6 | +18.3 |
| Total | 57.1 | 131.7 | +74.6 |
#The Cardinals had their third-highest attendance in franchise history with 3,432,917 fans, marking the 11th time in team history that they surpassed three million. The Cardinals sold out 40 of their 81 home dates in 2008.