It’s one of those rites of spring, one of those signs that baseball is returning. For the eighth straight year, we’re Playing Pepper! We’ll ask six questions of bloggers for each major league team as a way of getting familiar with those teams that don’t wear the birds on the bat. This year, this series will [...]
As I’m prepping these, I realize that I was much more prolific in my younger blogger days. Sure, I write pretty regularly now, but it’s harder to get out of bed to write about spring games than it apparently was back then! A Game of Inches Often it’s said that baseball is a game of [...]
It’s one of those rites of spring, one of those signs that baseball is returning. For the eighth straight year, we’re Playing Pepper! We’ll ask six questions of bloggers for each major league team as a way of getting familiar with those teams that don’t wear the birds on the bat. This year, this series will [...]
When you start looking back at the 2011 season, you stumble across names you’d forgotten. I completely forgot Brandon Dickson was actually competing for a spot on that team. To be fair, I’d pretty much forgotten Dickson entirely. Spring Love The old baseball saying is, never fall in love too early in spring. A day [...]
It’s one of those rites of spring, one of those signs that baseball is returning. For the eighth straight year, we’re Playing Pepper! We’ll ask six questions of bloggers for each major league team as a way of getting familiar with those teams that don’t wear the birds on the bat. This year, this series will [...]
We said yesterday that, more likely than not, Aledmys Diaz will be plying his trade in Memphis to start the year. Diaz, however, would like to start a different conversation. Diaz raked four hits, including two doubles, in yesterday’s 5-3 win over the Minnesota Twins in Grapefruit League action. It impressed the manager, as Mike [...]
No look back on the 2011 championship season would be complete without following the progress of David Freese. Here we see his first game of the year. I think we remember his last few. Freese-ing Them Out We’ve been waiting for David Freese to get into the ballgame. Apparently, so has he. On a day [...]
It’s one of those rites of spring, one of those signs that baseball is returning. For the eighth straight year, we’re Playing Pepper! We’ll ask six questions of bloggers for each major league team as a way of getting familiar with those teams that don’t wear the birds on the bat. This year, this series will [...]
What’s spring training without a major injury for the Cardinals? Nobody really knows. Yesterday morning, Jhonny Peralta left camp in street clothes, bound for St. Louis and a second opinion on what the Florida MRI had told him, that he had a tear in his thumb ligament (perhaps he’s been hanging out with Yadier Molina [...]
We take a look at a weekend of games from 2011. Remember when we had feast or famine offense, instead of mainly just famine? The Name of the Game Is Pitching Three different games, three interesting pitching lines. Granted, one of them was interesting in the car-wreck sort of way, but it may have a [...]
It’s one of those rites of spring, one of those signs that baseball is returning. For the eighth straight year, we’re Playing Pepper! We’ll ask six questions of bloggers for each major league team as a way of getting familiar with those teams that don’t wear the birds on the bat. This year, this series will [...]
Jhonny Peralta left camp today on his way back to St. Louis. Cards GM John Mozeliak says he will be examined, but initial fears are a thumb tear, keeping Peralta out 2-3 months. More on this later today or tomorrow.
