A Mariners-Cardinals series is still a pretty interesting novelty. The two teams last played in 2013 in Busch Stadium, where the Cardinals took the series 2-1. You have to go all the way back to 2002, just a few days before the terrible week that saw the losses of Jack Buck and Darryl Kile, to find [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals won both parts of a split squad day on Saturday, March 12. Since that nice two-win day, the club is 1-9-3, with the only win coming against a Miami Marlins team that, with their two wins against the Cards in that stretch, now has a better record than St. Louis. It’s [...]
It’s been a few days between posts, so there’s plenty to catch up on in this look back at 2011! Catching Up on the Cardinals Work has been pretty busy the last few days, so I’ve been unable to find the time to jot down any thoughts about how the last few games have gone. [...]
As the Cardinals played to an 8-8 tie with the Braves yesterday, a potential new member of the club was packing his bags over in Mets camp. With an abundance of shortstops, the New York nine released Ruben Tejada to save some money on his contract. With the fact that Jhonny Peralta‘s loss still hangs over [...]
We continue to look back on the 2011 season. Today, a player that’s now turned media member gets some time in the spotlight. Cards Lose a Close One Maybe it’s a sign that spring training is hitting its serious stage, but yesterday’s game could have easily been mistaken for a regular season affair. Sure, the [...]
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 [...]
We continue our look back at the championship season of 2011. Thankfully, neither of these issues turned out to be that significant, though at the time there were plenty of worries. First Win of the Year Might Be Costly The Cardinals won their first game of the spring yesterday. They hope they didn’t lose much [...]
Baseball gets closer each and every day, even if we add an extra one into the calendar. (Happy Leap Day, everyone.) Wednesday, players wearing the birds on the bat–to be fair, not many that you’d recognize, but still–will take on Florida Atlantic University in the first action of the season. Until then, we continue to [...]
While everyone is already in camp and most have been there for a while, today is the first full squad workout of the spring. Carlos Peguero gets the “last man in camp” award. Perhaps he had a good reason, but you’d think coming from another organization you’d like to get to your new club early, [...]
Pitchers and catchers have been at it for a half week now. Guess it’s time for me to start getting back into this regular blogging habit, huh? That’s a little easier to do after a weekend of 70 degree temperatures that made it feel so much like early April. That sort of weather just screams [...]
You’ve heard me talk about Howard Megdal’s book The Cardinals Way a number of times, including the review that ran yesterday. Howard was gracious enough to answer some emailed questions about his experience writing the book. As noted elsewhere (and often, with the Playing Pepper series coming), you can purchase the book here and it’ll [...]
It’s been a long time, it seems, since Stephen Piscotty struck out against Hector Rondon to end last year’s 2015 National League Divisional Series and send St. Louis home for the winter. Ever since that moment, we’ve been looking toward the time where 2016 spring training would start and we could begin to remove that [...]
