Back in 2009, I had the idea of doing a season preview of each team by asking bloggers that followed that club questions and posting the answers. We’re back for the ninth edition of Playing Pepper! We’ll cover one team a day from now right up until Opening Day (not counting weekends). This series is [...]
Fans Can Purchase Tickets to 3+ Games Beginning Wednesday at 10AM ST. LOUIS, Mo., February 21, 2017 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that individual tickets for the 2017 season will go on sale this Friday, February 24, beginning at 10 a.m. CT. Fans who wish to purchase tickets to three or more games [...]
As you all know, we lost Alex Reyes for a season due to a torn UCL and our favorite surgery, Tommy John. The question becomes, how do you replace him? There are two ways: Directly and indirectly. Directly, of course, is by replacing his innings. Trevor Hooth over at Redbird Rants covered this here in an excellent article [...]
Back in 2009, I had the idea of doing a season preview of each team by asking bloggers that followed that club questions and posting the answers. We’re back for the ninth edition of Playing Pepper! We’ll cover one team a day from now right up until Opening Day (not counting weekends). This series is [...]
I don’t care how long this post gets, we are finishing up looking at all of John Mozeliak’s trades in this post. Last time we linked to all the former posts, so if you’ve missed any you can find them there. Some of the trades in this post may be hard to grade, as they [...]
Every fanbase has their underbelly, as it were. Those fans that root for the same team as you do, but do so in crude, entitled, arrogant, jerky fashion. Again, there is that segment in every fanbase, I believe. It’s just that the Cardinals segment tends to draw a bit more attention from the world at [...]
As we all know, Alex Reyes underwent an MRI today, and the worst happened: a UCL tear and Tommy John surgery resulting in a lost season and possibly decreased velocity when he comes back, meaning there is a chance, when he finally returns, that we’ll never see the dynamo that we saw at the end of [...]
Per John Mozeliak’s press conference this morning, Alex Reyes will have Tommy John surgery as feared. Dr. George Paletta will do the surgery there in Jupiter. Sad but expected.
We had waited for four months. With no October baseball last year, the wait for pitchers and catchers was longer than ever and anticipation had that much longer to build up. With everyone reporting yesterday, the excitement had reached a high and we exulted that baseball was back. That didn’t last an hour. Cardinal fans [...]
THIRTY PROSPECTS TO ATTEND MINOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING EARLY PROGRAM JUPITER, Fla., February 14, 2017 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have invited 30 of their minor league prospects to attend the team’s Spring Training Early Program (S.T.E.P.) at the Cardinals Complex in Jupiter, Fla. beginning on Saturday, February 25. The remainder [...]
We made it. It’s been a long, cold winter since we saw the Cardinals last on the field. (Cold metaphorically, at least. Around here, the temps have actually been unseasonably warm, especially of late.) No October baseball. The Cubs winning the World Series. The fairly cool hot stove time (though not ice cold, of course, [...]
It’s hard to believe that spring training is really just over a week away. To get into that mindset, I called up Nate and Ben, hosts of Talking About Birds, to make some sense of the big Cardinal news of late as well as what to look for as the players start to show up [...]
