Over the last two years, the St. Louis Cardinals have had three franchise icons and MLB legends — Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright — retire from the sport, with the latter two spending the entirety of their respective careers with the NL’s most decorated franchise.
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Liberatore takes the mound
Pre-Game
· Injuries are mounting up a bit. Middleton joins Edman, Gray and Nootbar among the wounded. Today is the next step in Gray’s progression back, with an up-down bullpen session plotted out for him.
· Along the same lines, Cardinals confirm the obvious. Miles Mikolas will be Opening Day starter in place of Sonny Gray.
· The last spring game in Florida is one week from today. The season draws...
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Pivotal season in this case is not necessarily a clear concept
Last year, I started something that I I’ll continue, which is that there were certain players on the major league squad who entered the season with what I would call a pivotal season. This is a bit of a nebulous concept admittedly. In the life of a major league baseball player, every season is pivotal. Teams will discard you if you stop performing.
But some seasons are more important than...
St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas will be the team's starter for Opening Day in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on March 28, manager Oliver Marmol announced Sunday.
The Cardinals play 2 today!
Spring Breakout game: 9:15 AM
Cardinals vs Astros: 12:05 PM
Have a great Sunday!
St. Louis Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas brought out something like a farmers vs. bankers comparison to explain the difference between his club and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The site’s minor league experts break down the site’s top 20 prospect list.
Good morning, Viva El Birdos!
The VEB writers were back this week to take prospects! The VEB Top 20 Prospect list came to a conclusion on Thursday, with Travis Honey-MAN taking the final spot. Our minor league experts joined (not a minor league expect) yours truly to run down the list.
We provide a little breakdown of many of the prospects, do a little prospect grouping, and tell you what we would have done...
The St. Louis Cardinals have stabilized the managerial position for the next several seasons. The franchise announced Friday that it had signed manager Oliver…
The Cardinals have agreed to a contract extension with manager Oli Marmol, MLB.com’s John Denton reports.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol received a nice little extension ahead of Opening Day.
Oliver Marmol was entering the final year of his contract until the St. Louis Cardinals agreed to a contract extension with the manager. Marmol, 37, has managed a 164-160 record since taking over following the team’s dismissal of Mike Shildt.
The St. Louis Cardinals signed manager Oliver Marmol to a two-year contract extension through the 2026 season. His original three-year deal was set to expire at the end of the 2024 campaign.
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Opening Day is two weeks away!
The Cardinals will open up against the Dodgers on March 28, hopefully with Sonny Gray on the mound to kick off the series.
In recent articles, I’ve talked about what I think of the Cardinals roster heading into the season. This is not a great roster, but it should be better than it was last year.
The NL Central is going to be an interesting division. Not because there are powerhouses or World...
St. Louis Cardinals projected starting center fielder Tommy Edman is expected to start the regular season on the injured list with continued wrist discomfort.
The Cardinals will be without a key defensive piece to open the season.
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Plus my top 20
We have made it to the end. With the last vote of the top 20, Travis Honeyman sneaks onto the list somewhat narrowly over Zach Showalter. The closest analogue to Showalter on last year’s list was Alec Willis (who was 20th), but Showalter is a better prospect than he was. So I think this is a deeper system than last year easily. That completes the top 20 at:
Masyn Winn Tink Hence Victor Scott II Tekoah Roby Thomas...It was a rough year for the St Louis Cardinals in 2023, losing 91 games and putting together their worst full season since 1990. Before last year the Cardinals
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I’m back.
Hi, Viva El Birdos!
I’m back. Not that I ever really left.
If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you’ll know that I had to finish my dissertation this winter/spring. I’ve spent the last month or so type type typing away on it. I submitted it Monday afternoon, to my great relief. I’ll have to defend it sometime by the end of the month, depending on the schedules of my advisors. Then I’m sure I’ll...
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Let’s try to break this down.
Ah baseball; the smell of fresh earth, the comradery of a team, the spirit of competition, the sights and sounds of grown men hurling projectiles in each other’s vicinity while others try to hit those projectiles with sticks. It is a beautiful game, especially when it gives us moments like Lance Lynn getting thrown out of a Spring Training game.
You might be asking yourself “Now how in tarnation did ol’ Lance get...
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A few pitchers have stood out to me while the Opening Day outfield is a major question mark.
Last week I broke up my spring training notebook into two parts with the first one covering pitchers and the second one covering hitters. Those notebook focused on changes and tweaks that I had noticed or that the Cardinals great team of beat writers had noticed.
If you want to read those notebooks, you can read the pitching one here and the hitting one here.
This...