Founded in 2004, Fungoes focuses on “Cardinals’ news from a Sabermetric point of view.” The blog is a charter member of the ESPN SweetSpot blog network and a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and the United Cardinal Bloggers. Fungoes also supports the Bob Broeg (St. Louis) Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Editor and chief writer Matt Philip (a.k.a. Pip) has been blogging since 2004 at Fungoes. Pip is a member of the Bob Broeg (St. Louis) Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. He believes Keith Hernandez was the greatest-fielding first baseman of all-time and that the second-best was his mustache.