The St. Louis Cardinals announced the signing of free agent LHP Kwang Hyun Kim to a 2 year, $8 million deal this afternoon. The deal also includes up to $1.5 million in incentives in each season of the contract. The Cardinals’ 40 man roster is currently full, so they will need to make a corresponding move when [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have announced that RHP Adam Wainwright has signed a 1 year deal to keep him with St. Louis through the 2020 season. The 38-year-old Wainwright will return for his 16th season with the Cardinals after a solid 2019 campaign. In 31 starts, Wainwright had a 4.19 ERA over 171.2 innings pitched, which was [...]
Last Monday the Cardinals announced that President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak had his contract extended through 2023 as well as General Manager Mike Girsch and Manager Mike Shildt through 2022. We learned a few things about the Cardinals’ offseason plans from it being unlikely that the team will be a big spender this weekend to the effort to create opportunities. [...]
Today is the first official day of free agency as players and teams are able to talk to all available free agents. Teams must also tender qualifying offers to their outgoing free agents by today. Those offers are 1 year, $17.8 million contracts for 2020. The Cardinals only have one outgoing free agent who may [...]
“I don’t give a f*** who we play. We’re gonna f*** them up. We’re gonna take it right to them the whole f***ing way. We’re gonna kick their f*** a**.” Those were the words of Cardinals’ manager Mike Shildt to his team after they won Game 5 of the National League Divisional Series against the [...]
The Cardinals hit the natural halfway point of the season this week as the league pauses for the All Star Break. They find themselves at 44–44 and 2 games out of a division lead. Of course, they’re also 2.5 games out of last place as the NL Central first to fifth is closer than first [...]
It’s July 1st and the Major League Baseball trade deadline now stands 31 days away and we are entering the beginning of trade season. There is one question that every member of the Cardinals’ front office should be asking themselves: what can they do to make this team better? Something important to note is that [...]
After three straight seasons of missing the playoffs, this season’s edition of the Cardinals doesn’t feel much different than what we’ve seen before. For all the talk over the last few years of improving the team, the team’s performance on the field has yet to make a substantial leap forward. Many assumed that the acquisition [...]
This past week I was listening to Golic and Wingo on my way to work and they had former NHL player Eddie Olczyk on to talk about the Stanley Cup Finals. During the spot he sort of mocked the fact that the St. Louis Blues had yet to remove the interim tag from interim head coach [...]
In the 9th inning yesterday afternoon Jordan Hicks had to be bailed out by fellow reliever John Gant who came in and slammed the door on the Chicago Cubs to secure a 2–1 Cardinals victory. But it wasn’t the first time that Hicks has arrived on the mound looking shaky. After saving 9 games in [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have announced that they have signed LHP Andrew Miller to a two year contract with a third-year vesting option. The contract is 2 years, $25 million with a $12 million option that will vest with 110 appearances over those first two seasons. There is also a $500k incentive for a yet [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have traded 3B Patrick Wisdom to the Texas Rangers in exchange for IF/OF Drew Robinson according to the Rangers. The numbers Wisdom, 27, was drafted by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2012 MLB Draft and made his long awaited Major League debut last season. In 32 games, he [...]
