One of the limitations to the Winter Warm-Up has been the time constraints. For good or bad, keeping the presentations to an hour really leaves it up to the host on how the the show flows. This was on prime display for both of the afternoon sessions on Sunday but also perfectly explained how the [...]
While it was always obvious that this edition of the Winter Warm-Up would be different, the virtual event couldn’t explain why something just felt off. First it was the Infielder session yesterday followed by the Bullpen group this morning. Separate hosts handled the festivities so it wasn’t intentional but what finally hit me was how [...]
Curious what a year without Minor League games would do to St. Louis prospects? You should no longer worry after hearing how prepared two of the brightest are entering a crucial campaign. Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore have grown up in the game together and now look to make it hard for the Cardinals to [...]
It figures that my phone woke me up with snow this morning. Nothing says welcome to winter quite like a fresh dusting but at least the last year taught us that some things will not be stopped! And with that I welcome you to the Winter Warm-Up for 2021. No one outside of maybe Lance [...]
BADER, HICKS & REYES AGREE TO 2021 CONTRACTS TO AVOID ARBITRATION ST. LOUIS, Mo. – January 15, 2021– The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have reached agreements on one-year contracts for the upcoming 2021 season with outfielder Harrison Bader and pitchers Jordan Hicks and Alex Reyes, avoiding salary arbitration. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. [...]
Given the limitations the St. Louis Cardinals have, whether self-imposed or not, as a result of the loss of revenue relating to COVID-19, the situations around Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright are pretty much the only game in town when it comes to something to interest us this winter. There’s no Paul Goldschmidt trade as [...]
Earlier today we finished up our march through the best Cardinals Twitter accounts, crowning beat writer Derrick Goold as the best for 2020 (which, when you think about it, might be a backhanded complement). Now let’s look at things from a few different angles. As you probably saw, people were named on a varying amount [...]
We’ve made it to the end of our Twitter list. While we’ll shuffle the numbers a little this afternoon, we need to get the Fab Five* of Cardinals Twitter listed out. *–It’s really seven, because…..you’ll see. Number 5: buffa82 @ksdknews baseball columnist and film critic. Love coffee and cigars, but hates bugs. Part time radio/podcaster. [...]
Top 10. Rarified air. Not only that, we’ve got ourselves a poll jumper as well, what might be one of the biggest leaps into the Top 10 in a while. So let’s find out who it is! Number 10: birdsontheblack St. Louis Cardinals & MiLB affiliates blog. We do this because we love it. It [...]
We’re knocking on the door of the Top 10 and this is a group that’d be well poised to cover it if it was an actual story. We’re media heavy in this one! Number 15: hochman Sports columnist for my hometown paper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday). Author of 3 books, including: “The Big 50 – [...]
This morning we took a look at the first group of our Top 25. This afternoon, we’ll keep it going with five more really solid follows! Number 20: tarawellman TV host & producer. Baseball lover. Cupcake connoisseur. Just assume it’s sarcasm. #BirdSeeds • #BeLikeMik • Contributor at @birdsontheblack Waino. Bueno. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #robertoclementeaward — Tara Wellman [...]
All right, now we get down to the nitty-gritty, assuming anyone even says that any more. They probably don’t. Anyway, we’ve gone through a lot of great accounts but, according to the voting, these were the very best ones. As is our tradition, we’ll look at each of these in a little more depth, starting [...]
