Selig’s plans often lead nowhere
Considerable segments of the baseball world are up in arms over MLB Commissioner Bud Selig’s remarks as part of the fallout from the Alex Rodriguez steroid revelations. Speaking to USAToday, Selig was...
View ArticleCardinals minor matters – March 1
Does Ludwick wish for Team USA do over? On Friday, Colorado’s Brad Hawpe injured his hand when it was stepped on and spiked on a play at second base. (Note to Skip Schumaker: Please stop sliding...
View ArticleCards minors spring game reports – March 23
Monday’s opponents: Florida Marlins on the other side of the Jupiter complex. Five games with Quad Cities 1 and 2 both in action. Tuesday’s opponents: Camp day as the MLB team is off, too. Games will...
View ArticleCardinals cut nine minor leaguers
The nine players released by the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday are Hyang-Nam Choi, Russ Haltiwanger, Jon Mikrut, Brian Cartie, Zach Pitts, Matt Spade, Wayne Daman, Jose Mateo and Jameson Maj. Two...
View ArticleCards release seven more minor leaguers
As they further trim to set their four full-season club rosters, the St. Louis Cardinals made seven minor league player releases on Tuesday morning. They are: Justin Knoedler Ricky Noland Dylan...
View ArticleCardinals minor matters – April 1
Glaus out for a long time no matter what you call it After the big summit meeting this morning that included the Cardinals, doctors and Troy Glaus, the “fresh approach” to treat the slow-to-heal...
View ArticlePerdomo’s moves from StL to SF to SD reinforce mistake
Reliever Luis Perdomo, left unprotected by the St. Louis Cardinals this past winter and subsequently selected by the San Francisco Giants with the sixth pick overall in December’s Rule 5 Draft, has...
View ArticleOne in a row for Springfield’s green staff
While two members of the 2008 Springfield Cardinals pitching staff, Luis Perdomo and Luke Gregerson, made their major league debuts last week wearing the uniform of the San Diego Padres, the pitchers...
View ArticleDoes the Cardinals’ signing of Joe Williams have a deeper meaning?
Early in the week on Scout.com, I wrote about Springfield lefty Joe Williams (pictured), a disciple of Dr. Mike Marshall who was recently signed by the St. Louis Cardinals organization after farm...
View ArticleOpen letter from Dr. Mike Marshall
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Dear Sir, A reader of my website sent me a copies of your articles “Joe Williams: Not Your Normal Prospect” posted on May 18, 2009 and “Does the Cardinals’ signing of Joe...
View ArticleWill Holliday pull a Lohse or a Weaver this off-season?
While Matt Holliday’s hitting surge as a Cardinal is good for the present, will it damage his chances of remaining with the club in 2010 and beyond? Having covered the Colorado Rockies since its...
View ArticleCardinals happily serve as Red Sox dumping ground
Listening to St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak discussing the club’s acquisition of future Hall of Famer John Smoltz (pictured) Wednesday afternoon made me think about the recent...
View ArticleMight the Cardinals let Holliday and Boras pull a “Drew” on them?
Here is the environment. The St. Louis Cardinals want Matt Holliday back. All indications are that the outfielder and his agent Scott Boras are heading out into the open market. Boras has made...
View ArticleAre the Jays stalking the Cardinals?
It was a garden-variety transaction, easily lost among the many housekeeping kinds of moves teams make this time of year as they prepare for the free agent and Rule 5 seasons. “The Toronto Blue Jays...
View ArticleLa Russa turns down a cold Natty Light
Poor Jim Riggleman, hounded by the specter of Tony La Russa everywhere he goes. Riggleman had to leave the St. Louis Cardinals organization to get a shot at managing again only to find La Russa still...
View ArticleCardinals minor matters: November 16
Following are links to a few Sunday newspaper articles of particular interest to me as a St. Louis Cardinals watcher. Keeping good men down The Detroit News has a nice article on the Tigers’ version...
View ArticleCardinals lose important instructor Radison
One of the downsides of ex-St. Louis Cardinals organization members taking on more responsibility elsewhere is the good people they invariably pull away with them. Such is the case currently in...
View Article‘Tis the early Holliday season for Cardinals second-guessers
“Unreasonable expectations”, “exit strategies”, “blowing it”, “disappointing the fans”, scream the headlines. It’s that season once again – the rhetoric season – the annual pre-second-guessing of St....
View ArticleBay keeps Cardinals Holliday cooking cold while Mo stirs pot
The St. Louis Cardinals are experiencing some extra spice in their Holliday cooking due to an unwanted touch of Bay while the GM puts the heat on the super agent. In multiple reports, St. Louis...
View ArticleCardinals lessons from Teixeira, the Yankees and stealth mode
Can the St. Louis Cardinals learn anything from a dissection of the New York Yankees’ 2008 pursuit of Mark Teixeira? One of this week’s prevailing storylines regarding free agent Matt Holliday is the...
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