There are a lot of good things about Winter Warm-Up. For one, it raises a lot of money for Cardinals Care. (Kudos to Adam Wainwright for pledging part of his karaoke receipts to help defray the loss of a day this year.) It lets folks meet the players and get autographs. And, most importantly for [...]
I was really glad to get to talk with Laura and Holly of the podcast STLCardGals. There are a few podcasts that are my must-listen shows and theirs is right at the top of the list. It was fun to talk about their history in St. Louis and their thoughts on the upcoming season. Check [...]
Last week, we started our examination of the trade history of Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak. He came out with a bang in 2007, trading two pieces of what we would now term “the core” and then wrapped up 2008 with what is one of his most disappointing trades. In the next two years, Mo [...]
There are many aspects to a general manager’s job. There is supervising the minor league system. There is negotiating with free agents. There’s dealing with the league, interacting with the coaching staff, and a myriad of other things, many of which the public never really sees. One of the biggest aspects of the job, though, [...]
The Cardinals settled their first arb-eligible case today, agreeing on a $2.8 million deal with Matt Adams per Jon Heyman. The Cards have not gone to arbitration since 1999 (Darren Oliver), but there is more work to do to keep that streak alive.
Daniel sits down with John Nagel of CardinalsFarm fame (and his regular Meet Me at Musial partner, but that’s much less impressive). They chat about growing up in St. Louis and how that influenced everything, why John is so interested in the minor leagues, and why he decided to get back into the site game [...]
2017 has rolled in and is starting to get its bearings, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk a little more about New Year’s Resolutions. While the team in general probably has things like “hit better with runners on base”, “actually catch the ball when it is hit to you”, and “not blow a late [...]
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne? I don’t have much to say here, but it seemed nice to end the year on a run of five straight days of posting, something that I don’t think this blog has seen since….well, all the [...]
Every year, as part of the general United Cardinal Bloggers calendar, members are encouraged to write about their picks for the top five stories that happened in the last calendar year. I forgot to remind the membership to do that this year, but I figured I’d go ahead and take a crack at it anyway. [...]
Back in the old days, Rob Neyer and Rany Jazayerli used to have a back-and-forth correspondence on the Royals. (Here’s the last one of them I could find.) Everyone’s favorite Twitterer StlCardsCards came to me and thought it might be worth trying that out with a few of our Twitter friends. I think it went [...]
As you know, I’m a fan of a number of Cardinal podcasts and, of late, the Two Birds on a Bat Show has entered into my rotation. Besides their interesting back-and-forth, they also have a regular segment with Bengie Molina, whom you all know as a former major leaguer, a former Cardinal hitting coach, and [...]
Happy holidays to you all! I hope that you had a great Christmas and the return to work this week (assuming you are returning to work, of course) isn’t terribly painful. It’s been a long time since I sat down to write an actual post here. There’s a reason why the median age of bloggers [...]
