Michael Lance Lynn

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: May 12, 1987 in Indianapolis, IN
High School: Brownsburg HS (Brownsburg, IN)
School: University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (39th pick) of the 2008 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 2011 (Age 24)   vs. SFG 5.1 IP, 4 H, 5 SO, 0 BB, 5 ER, L
Team: Cardinals 2011-2013
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$513k (13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 1.119, Arb Eligible: 2015, Free Agent: 2018 [*],
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• 5/18 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 42: Late Inning Lapses: With the flurry of today’s news and activities, I’m going to keep this recap short. The Cardinals (27-15) lose the...
• 5/18 Call to the Pen: Matt Moore Leads Dominating Pitchers: This could be a year of the pitcher. There are so many starters off to a fast start that candidates for the All-Star team are...
• 5/17 El Maquino: WHY ARE STOLEN BASES UP AGAINST YADIER MOLINA?: > I like to poke fun at Cards fans on Twitter during games when, as one loud, incontrovertible voice, they declare that one...
• 5/15 Billy-Ball.com: Clayton Kershaw throws a lot of pitches… a lot: Clayton Kershaw allowed the Nationals just five hits while striking out 11 over 8.2 innings in the Dodgers’ 2-0 victory....
• 5/14 Mets Chronicle: Preview: Game 36 - Mets at Cardinals - Gee vs Gast : New York Mets (14-21) at St. Louis Cardinals (24-13) 8:15 PM ET SeasonRd/HmLast StartLast 3 App STARTERSGSRECERAAIPRECERADATEOPPDECIPHERRECIPERA ...
• 5/14 Baseball News Source: MLB Scores: Upton Homers in Return to Arizona, Yankees Split DH With Indians: Justin Upton returned to Arizona and had four hits including a home run to help the Atlanta Braves stop a three-game losing streak....
• 5/14 i70baseball.com: Joe Kelly would be better choice to start during Jake Westbrook absence: The St. Louis Cardinals suffered the first crack in their best-in-baseball starting rotation Sunday when they placed Jake Westbrook...
• 5/14 TheLeadoffWalk: Day 43 Observations: Braves 10, Diamondbacks 1 Justin Upton: After predictably cooling off from his early-season pace for home runs,...
• 5/14 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 37: Gettin’ Wiggy With ItTroubled early innings from Lance Lynn (W 6-1) and Mets starter Jeremy Hefner created a 3-3 deadlock until the seventh. ......
• 5/13 El Maquino: CARDS ON TOP AFTER CRAZY NIGHT: > Lance Lynn got off to a really bad start in the first two innings, escaping a bases-loaded jam in the first after 24 pitches...
• 5/13 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 35: Loss to Cardinals: Cardinals 6 Mets 3 Often, baseball is a game won by the team that doesn’t beat itself. The Mets provided an example of that...
• 5/13 New York Mets Report: Mets Add Rick Ankiel As Their Season Goes To The Brink: How much will Rick Ankiel help the Mets is hard to say. After all, he misses on 42 percent of his swings, which even exceeds Ike...
• 5/13 Mets Merized: Mets vs Cardinals: Ankiel In CF, Davis Batting Cleanup, Hefner Looks To Stop Slide: Starting Lineup Mike Baxter – RF Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Lucas Duda – LF John Buck – C...
• 5/13 Mets Chronicle: Mets Series Matchup Report: Mets Hitters vs Cardinals Starters (Games 35-38): METS (14-20, fourth place/NL East) vs. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (23-13, first place/NL Central) Monday 5/13: RHP Jeremy Hefner...
• 5/13 numberFire: MLB Daily Fantasy Helper: Monday 5/13/13: Zombie Anibal Sanchez: Must... feed... on... Astros... strikeouts...See More Anibal Sanchez Hector Santiago Lance Lynn Ryan...
• 5/13 Billy-Ball.com: MLB SCHEDULE: May 13, 2013: AL Yankees (David Phelps and Vidal Nuno) at Indians (Justin Masterson and Trevor Bauer), DH, 12:05 Astros (Bud Norris) at Tigers...
• 5/13 Mets Merized: Mets Lose Third Straight In 3-2 Loss To Bucs: PRETTY IN PINK? The Mets were beaten by the Pittsburgh Pirates by the score of 3-2 this afternoon in front of a nicely packed...
• 5/12 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 34: Loss to Pirates: Pirates 3 Mets 2 Matt Harvey sh*ts the bed on Mother’s Day as the Mets lose the series and drop into fourth place in the...
• 5/12 Mets Merized: Harvey Solid, But Mets Lose Third Straight In 3-2 Loss To Bucs: PRETTY IN PINK? The Mets were beaten by the Pittsburgh Pirates by the score of 3-2 this afternoon in front of a nicely packed...
• 5/11 i70baseball.com: Shelby Miller makes early case for National League Rookie of the Year: The St. Louis Cardinals knew rookie right-handed starting pitcher Shelby Miller had talent since they drafted him No. 19 overall...
• 5/11 fantasyteamadvice.com: Updated Two Start Pitchers for week 7 – fantasy baseball 2013 – waiver wire SP – streamer options: There were still a number of rainouts in week 6 as we press on into the month of May, meaning there were plenty of rotation changes...
• 5/10 i70baseball.com: Cardinals/Cubs: Three Things To Walk With: The St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs began the newest chapter in one of sport’s greatest rivalries on Tuesday. In the end,...
• 5/9 BaseballGuys.com: Draft Day Challenge, May 7: Daily baseball is all the rage in the fantasy sports world, so I will be covering the game a couple of times a week here at BaseballGuys.com....
• 5/9 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: 5 players exceeding expectations for the Cardinals in 2013: The St. Louis Cardinals entered the 2013 season with expectations of competing for a National League Central Division crown...
• 5/8 Billy-Ball.com: Look at all the starters who allowed no more than two earned runs last night: Matt Harvey was baseball’s pitching star last night…again. Harvey allowed only an infield single by Alex Rios with...
• 5/8 TheLeadoffWalk: Day 37 Observations: Pitchers: Pirates 4, Mariners 1 Mark Melancon and Jason Grilli: It simply wasn’t fair for the Mariners to have to face...
• 5/7 El Maquino: MOLINA GAFFE LEAVES US WONDERING WHAT MIGHT’VE BEEN: > The Cardinals’ win streak died tonight in Wrigleyville, and it didn’t necessarily have to. Lance Lynn was dominant...
• 5/7 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Offense is quiet as Cardinals fall 2-1 to Cubs: St. Louis Cardinals starter Lance Lynn entered Tuesday night's game at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs with an undefeated...
• 5/7 Born on Third - Cubs Blog: Wood brilliant again as Cubs edge Cards: Full Box Score As a baseball fan these games are fun to watch.  No matter what the records are the Cubs and Cardinals always...
• 5/7 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 32: Soft-Tossing Lefty: It’s always a fun weird time at Wrigley Field, but the strangest aspect of tonight’s showdown between the Cardinals...
• 5/7 Redbird Rants: Cardinals fall to Chicago: The St. Louis Cardinals fell 2-1 to the Chicago Cubs despite what was an otherwise quality start from starting pitcher Lance Lynn....
• 5/7 Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn Looks To Make It 6 Straight Again: Lance Lynn and the St. Louis Cardinals are both headed in the right direction.  The team as a whole has won 6 straight games....
• 5/7 Obstructed View: Series mini-preview: St. Louis Cardinals (20-11) at Chicago Cubs (12-20): It's a short series, so I'll make this a short post. The Cardinals are good. The Cubs are not.  Pitching Probables...
• 5/7 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Tuesday boasts a number of excellent pitching matchups and a large number of interleague games. One contest that falls under both...
• 5/7 Born on Third - Cubs Blog: Series Preview – Cardinals @ Cubs; May 7 – May 8, 2013: Bring on the Cardinals.  The Red Birds and their fans descend on Wrigley Field tonight for a quick two game series against...
• 5/7 Billy-Ball.com: MLB SCHEDULE: May 7, 2013: AL Royals (Ervin Santana) at Orioles (Wei-Yin Chen), 7:05 A’s (Tommy Milone) at Indians (Zach McAllister), 7:05 Twins (Scott...
• 5/7 fantasyteamadvice.com: Pitching Planner for the week ahead – Two start pitchers for week 6: Lets get those pitching rotations set for the week ahead shall we?  This article will deal with the two start pitchers for week...
• 5/7 Born on Third - Cubs Blog: Feldman turns in second straight gem to get Cubs back in win column: Full Box Score Those are fun games to watch, and this was the first game all year where everyone could sit back and enjoy the...
• 5/6 Atlanta Bullpen: Justin Upton Leading MVP Candidate: Still early in the season, but Braves right fielder Justin Upton is the favorite to win the National League MVP Award, according...
• 5/3 Redbird Rants: Shelby Miller’s Inning Count: Cruising into tonight, Shelby Miller looks to continue his hot April with a similar May. With a 3-2 record, Miller boasts a 2.05...
• 5/3 Mets Chronicle: Mets News: Matt Harvey named NL Pitcher of the Month for April: Mets News: After going 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA in six starts, Matt Harvey has been named NL Pitcher of the Month for April. Harvey...
• 5/2 Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn goes 7 innings, beats Reds: Whatever Lance Lynn did during the offseason is helping. The third-year Cardinal pitched 7 innings of one-run ball against the...
• 5/2 Billy-Ball.com: Lance Lynn knows how to win: Lance Lynn won his 10th straight decision as the Cardinals topped the Cincinnati Reds 4-2. Lynn (5-0) struck out five and walked...
• 5/2 i70baseball.com: Cardinals/Reds: Three Things To Walk With: The Cardinals brought an end to a brief slide over the weekend with a series win over the Cincinnati Reds. As the club moves back...
• 5/2 mlbreports.com : No Kyle Lohse In St. Louis – No Problem: Young Pitchers Are Thriving For The Cardinals: Like us on Facebook here Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 By Landen Crouch (Cardinals Correspondent) If you are interested to know why...
• 5/1 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 27: Lynn Support: Cincinnati and St. Louis spent the opening month of the season in very similar dilemmas – great starting pitching sustaining...
• 5/1 Blog Red Machine: Reds v Cardinals – 5/1: Starting Pitchers and Lineups: The rubber game of the three game series today. The Reds took the first game by a score of 2-1. The Cards won last night’s...
• 5/1 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: There’s plenty of afternoon action in the tight NL Central. The Pirates try to prevent a sweep by the Brewers as Jeanmar...
• 5/1 The Flagrant Fan: MLB Game Picks - Wednesday: May 1, 2013: Happy May Day! The month of April is in the books and it was a good month here. And it also ended well with a 10-5 day. The...

• 4/30 El Maquino: ONE MONTH IN, CARDS HAVE BEST ROTATION IN THE GAME: > The bullpen is the worst in Baseball.  The offense, at least lately, has been destitute.  But the one constant so far...
• 4/29 Redbird Dugout: ESPN’s Best Pitchers?: ESPN posted this image to their Baseball Tonight Facebook page tonight with the caption, “The best pitcher in baseball...
• 4/29 Blog Red Machine: Three Up, Three Down — 4/29/13 (Reds @ Cardinals): Well, that was ugly. The Reds’ offensive slide from the series vs the Cubs continued well into the series in the nation’s...
• 4/28 El Maquino: STILL NOWHERE TO TURN REGARDING BULLPEN FIXES: > What a mess. Shelby Miller was not fantastic today, but he did his job.  A high pitch count mounted early in the game,...
• 4/28 The Cardinal Nation Blog: St. Louis Cardinals starters pitch countsA look at how deeply St. Louis Cardinals starting pitchers are going into their games based on pitch counts....
• 4/28 Blog Red Machine: Reds Fantasy Roundup: Week Five: Ouch. Watching Reds baseball over the past 3 games has not been a pleasant experience. After getting subsequently 1-hit for the...
• 4/27 Raise the Jolly Roger: Cardinals 9, Pirates 1: This game was extremely frustrating for a number of reasons. The Pirates fell behind as quickly as possible, couldn’t get...
• 4/27 Raise the Jolly Roger: Game 23 Preview: Pirates at Cardinals: Pirates (13-9) at Cardinals (13-8) 8:15 PM–Busch Stadium, St. Louis MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT The Bucs take on the Cards...
• 4/27 El Maquino: BELTRAN POWERS UP, LYNN CRUISES; CARDINALS WIN 9-1: > The game started out with a bang—actually two—and Lance Lynn took it from there. After Lynn worked around led off infield...
• 4/27 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 22: HeadhuntingThe Cardinals returned home after a successful road trip only to quickly  find themselves in the middle of a brawl ......
• 4/27 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pirates Game 23 Recap - Cardinals 9, Pirates 1: -I was unable to watch a vast majority of this game because of other obligations so this will be brief. It looks like I picked...
• 4/26 Redbird Rants: Lynnsanity follows the St. Louis Cardinals Back Home To Busch: Lance Lynn seems to have finally turned a corner in his last start, and he returns home tonight with his St. Louis Cardinals brethren...
• 4/26 StanGraphs: Pittsburgh Pirates (13-9) at St. Louis Cardinals (13-8): 7:25 PM: News time: Matt Adams is on the DL with a severe case of awesomeness, so apparently Jermaine Curtis is... Continue reading...
• 4/26 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 23: Ho hum.  Another series win for the Blazin’ Buccos. What’s most surprising?  The Division standings?  The fact...
• 4/25 MLBTradeRumors: Projected Super Two Cutoff: The projected Super Two cutoff is two years and 119 days of Major League service time, according to Ryan Galla of CAA Baseball....
• 4/24 Redbird Dugout: Game 21 Notes: Cardinals 4, Nationals 2: Garcia tames the road demon Jaime Garcia got into trouble in the sixth, but regardless it should be a positive outcome for him...
• 4/24 The Flagrant Fan: Cardinals' rotation is killing it: A couple of years ago, when Jaime Garcia was considered the first or second best starting pitcher on the St. Louis Cardinals,...
• 4/22 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Links: Bullpen, Taveras: The Cardinals enter play Monday with the worst bullpen ERA in baseball following the early injury to closer Jason Motte. Here's...
• 4/21 Redbird Dugout: Should Lance Lynn move to closer?: It’s easier to make a defense for Lance Lynn staying in the rotation after he tossed 7 innings of 1-hit baseball opposite...
• 4/21 mlbreports.com : Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – April 21, 2013: On today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I ask if Don Mattingly‘s job as Dodger manager is in danger?...
• 4/21 Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn powers Cardinals past Phillies: Lance Lynn is looking like the Lance Lynn that we saw in the first half of last season rather that what he did in the second half....
• 4/20 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 17: The Return Of Lynn: Lance Lynn, one of the worst-hitting pitchers in history, reached a dubious mark with three more hitless at-bats. That matters...
• 4/20 Phillies Nation: Phillies Bats Go Missing In Loss To Cardinals: Cliff Lee was cold and the bats were colder. The recipe was toxic, and made for a long and boring night for the Phillies, who...
• 4/20 Phillies Nation: Gameday: Phillies (7-10) vs. Cardinals (9-7): Philadelphia Phillies (7-10) vs St. Louis Cardinals (9-7) Cliff Lee (2-0, 1.52) vs Lance Lynn (2-0, 5.40) Time: 7:05, Citizens...
• 4/19 Phillies Nation: Phillies Offense Explodes In Shortened Win vs Cards: In a rain-shortened game, the Phillies offense exploded for eight runs in Friday night’s contest against the Cardinals....
• 4/18 Redbird Rants: Is Lance Lynn the Answer at Closer?: On April 10th, Joe Strauss, columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, put forward an idea that could potentially save, pun intended,...
• 4/18 PhoulBallz.com: Series Preview: Cardinals at Phillies, April 18-21: Here's a review of the pitching match ups and other key stats from the upcoming four-game series between the Cardinals and...
• 4/18 i70baseball.com: Cardinals/Pirates: Three things to walk with: The Cardinals leave out of Pittsburgh with essentially a split series due to the rain out of Tuesday evening, and also with a...
• 4/17 The Bleacher Blues: Where Are They Now? 2008 MLB Draft Edition: The 1st round of the June 2008 MLB Amateur Draft has yielded a number of all-stars and a National League MVP. The draft was almost...
• 4/15 El Maquino: CARDS BLAST THEIR WAY TO VICTORY, BULLPEN MANAGEMENT NOTWITHSTANDING: > The Cardinals got it all out of their systems in the first three innings against the Pirates, driving in all ten of their...
• 4/15 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Offensive outburst leads Cards over Pirates 10-3: The St. Louis Cardinals have been led by solid starting pitching all season while manager Mike Matheny's very potent offense...
• 4/15 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 13: Pirate’s Booty: The shock-and-awe Cardinal offense unleashed merciless devastation in a seven-run second inning in support of a shaky Lance Lynn,...
• 4/15 Raise the Jolly Roger: Game 13 Preview: Pirates vs. Cardinals: Cardinals (7-5) at Pirates (6-6) 7:05 PM–PNC Park, Pittsburgh MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT We’re only twelve games in...
• 4/15 Billy-Ball.com: MLB Schedule: April 15, 2013: AL Rays (Jeremy Hellickson) at Red Sox (Ryan Dempster), 11:05 – Marathon Madness White Sox (Gavin Floyd) at Blue Jays (Mark...
• 4/15 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 13: What a win!  A sweep!  A statement! Here’s what Jared Hughes told TiGO about his first win of the season! ”    ...
• 4/15 The Flagrant Fan: MLB Game Picks - Monday: April 15, 2013: Happy Jackie Robinson Day and Patriots Day to all of you in Massachusetts and Maine. Nine games are taking place today, so...
• 4/13 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Fantasy Baseball Week 3 - Preferred Pitching Matchups: Every season, fantasy owners rely on streaming starting pitching. If you don't know which pitchers will get two starts that week,...
• 4/13 El Maquino: WAINWRIGHT CONTINUES ROTATION’S DOMINANCE; OFFENSIVE OUTBURST PUTS AWAY BREWERS: > Adam Wainwright was the story in a game that saw the Cardinals score eight total runs and seven in one inning. Wainwright...
• 4/12 fantasyteamadvice.com: UPDATED – Two start pitchers for week 3 – April 15th through April 21st 2013 fantasy baseball: There are an abundance of 2 start options for week 3, but as you will quickly realize, very few of them are elite.  I was only...
• 4/12 i70baseball.com: Cardinals vs. Reds: Three Things to Walk With: The Cardinals opened their home season with the usual rolling out of the red carpet with Clydesdales, Hall of Famers and currently...
• 4/12 Redbird Rants: Matt Adams rakes in the spring: Matt Adams pounded pitchers in each of the three first series in 2013. Now he just needs a suitable title to go with his giant...
• 4/11 STLCardinalBaseball: Solutions For The Looming Bullpen CrisisSo apparently Jason Motte‘s elbow is shot. Until just a few weeks ago, Motte was one of the soundest aspects ......
• 4/10 Redbird Rants: Cardinal bats power Lance Lynn to victory: The matchup last night saw a pitching duel between Cardinals starting pitcher Lance Lynn and Reds starter Bronson Arroyo. Arroyo...
• 4/10 Blog Red Machine: What a Difference a Day Makes: Reds Go From Lions to Lambs:   What a difference a day makes. On Monday the Reds scored nine runs on five hits and a bunch of walks and errors in the...
• 4/10 TheLeadoffWalk: Reds vs. Cardinals: Day Nine Observations: Cardinals 5, Reds 1 Cardinals Bullpen: One day after allowing nine runs as a group, St. Louis’s relievers were able...
• 4/10 El Maquino: CARDS REWARD LYNN’S EFFORT; MOTTE IN QUESTION: > Lance Lynn laid waste to the Reds for six innings, striking out ten and only giving up one.  His pitch count went up drastically...
• 4/9 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis vs Cincinnati: Lance Lynn and Matt Adams lead Cardinals over Reds : St. Louis Cardinals starter Lance Lynn is much skinnier this year, but he still carries with him a heavy, mid-nineties fastball....
• 4/9 Blog Red Machine: Game Thread: Reds v. Cardinals – 4/9/13: Here’s hoping the bats for the Reds kept their heat from yesterday’s 9th inning. I’ve never watched an inning...
• 4/8 fantasyteamadvice.com: Two start pitchers for week 3 – 2 start pitchers fantasy baseball 2013: There are an abundance of 2 start options for week 3, but as you will quickly realize, very few of them are elite.  I was only...
• 4/8 Blog Red Machine: Reds Fantasy Roundup: Week Two: Welcome back to my weekly fantasy post about the Reds. First of all, I must apologize for being a bit late on this post. I was...
• 4/4 El Maquino: FIVE HOURS, THIRTY-TWO MINUTES: > It is noon. Nine hours and forty-five minutes ago, a baseball game ended. Lance Lynn got the start eleven hours and twenty...
• 4/4 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 3: Neverending Misery: Ineffective pitching and timely hitting combined for a tug-of-war between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Cardinals that lasted...
• 4/4 Redbird Dugout: Cards drop series to Diamondbacks: It was a pretty weird series against the Diamondbacks and it was capped off by a marathon game that sent most Cardinal fans to...
• 4/3 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Polls: St. Louis Cardinals pitching leaders in 2013Readers can vote on a series of pitching-related questions regarding the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 4/2 TheFantasyFix.com: 2013 Fantasy Baseball: Week 1 Tools of the Trade: TheFantasyFix.com’s “Tools of the Trade” is a unique guide for owners to use while attempting to make an even trade...
• 4/1 StanGraphs: 2013 Cardinals Preview-The Pitchers:   It’s opening day, which pretty much means it’s the best day that there is. It’s all I can do... Continue...
• 4/1 TheFantasyFix.com: Fantasy Baseball Week 1 Waiver Wire: 3 to Cut, 3 to Catch, 3 to Keep: Welcome to fantasy baseball’s answer to “Marry, Bop, Kill” – “3 to Cut, 3 to Catch, 3 to Keep”. Each week, I’ll...
• 4/1 fantasyteamadvice.com: Two start pitchers for fantasy baseball 2013 week 2: Throughout the fantasy baseball season I will release my two start pitcher articles for the week ahead.  With opening day underway,...
• 4/1 STLCardinalBaseball: Hopes And Dreams On Opening DayWhen I was a teenager, I liked to imagine that I could pitch. No matter how badly I played during ......
• 4/1 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: St. Louis Cardinals: by MLBTR's Steve Adams The Cardinals didn't make any significant changes, but spent big to retain their own players following...

• 3/29 Marlin Maniac: Bats Go Silent As Miami Marlins Lose Spring Finale to St. Louis Cardinals: Are you a fan of baseball? Well, if you’re reading this right now chances are you enjoy watching the sport. The real question...
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Extending Adam Wainwright: Reports from the St. Louis Dispatch indicate the Cardinals and pitcher Adam Wainwright are working on a long-term extension...
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Spring Spotlight: Shelby Miller: Cardinals rookie right-hander Shelby Miller entered his Tuesday afternoon start with the intention of locking down the...
• 3/28 StlSportsMinute.com: Adam Wainwright's contract extension looks like a bargain for Cardinals: The St. Louis Cardinals locked up ace Adam Wainwright with a 5-year, $97.5 million contract extension on Wednesday afternoon....
• 3/28 Baseball News Source: St.Louis Cardinals Extend Adam Wainwright: Five years $97.5 Million: Adam Wainwright will stay in St. Louis through 2018. The 31 year old right-handed ace was inked to a five year extension reportedly...
• 3/27 El Maquino: CARDS PLACE THEIR CHIPS ON WAINWRIGHT: > Adam Wainwright finally received his highly-anti**** payday, getting $97.5 million from the Cardinals over the next five...
• 3/27 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: 2013 NL Central Preview: St. Louis Cardinals with @athooks: Just as quickly as the MLB season ended last year it is ready to kick back up again in 2013. Spring Training has been going on...
• 3/26 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: 2013 Fantasy Baseball Player Profiles: Shelby MillerThere’s always a tendency to look young in fantasy baseball. One of the trendy names this year has been Shelby More......
• 3/26 MLB Dirt: What To Expect From These Third and Fourth Year Pitchers: Dan Marino has already told you what to expect from these third and fourth year hitters, now he tells you what to expect from...
• 3/25 mlbreports.com : St. Louis Cardinals 2013 Payroll and Contracts Going Forward: Like us on Facebook here Wednesday, March.25/2013 By Landen Crouch ( Cardinals Correspondent) I believe we can expect more of...
• 3/25 Blog Red Machine: What’s Up in the NL Central: It’s nice to browse through blogs of teams that are in the NL Central. You can get some great info and even a laugh or two...
• 3/24 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Predicting the number of wins for each Cardinals' starting pitcher: One of the most important facets of any successful team in Major League Baseball is having a reliable and steady starting...
• 3/23 StlSportsMinute.com: UCB Roundtable: Which Cardinals' players will improve the most from last season?: With the season set to begin in just a matter of days, many baseball fans are preparing research to draft their fantasy baseball...
• 3/23 fantasyteamadvice.com: Drafting with the 1st overall pick in NL only snake drafts – 2013 fantasy baseball ESPN roto league sleepers: Drafting with the first overall pick is usually a breeze, but NL only drafts could have their share of complications, as players...
• 3/23 Through The Fence Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals preview: Expect more of the same: The 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals were unable to repeat that same success in 2012, but they did manage to have...
• 3/22 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Rotation: Are Innings A Concern?The St. Louis Cardinals, according to many sources, seem to be searching for starting pitching. ...
• 3/22 MLB Injury News: Tigers rumors: Cardinals, Padres interested in Rick Porcello: Some outlets report that the Detroit Tigers could enter the regular season with Rick Porcello, while others believe a trade is...
• 3/20 StanGraphs: The Chris Carpenter Panic Button (Or Why There Isn’t One): When the news fell down upon us that Cardinal legend and distributor of mean Chris Carpenter would miss the 2013 season and, in...
• 3/19 Redbird Rants: The K-Zone: Trade Whispers: Are the Cardinals actively looking to make a deal right now with GM Jeff Luhnow and the Houston Astros? The following tweet was...
• 3/19 StoopSports.com: Needing Lynn: Jesse Dougherty- Going into the 2013 season, the St. Louis Cardinals are boasting one of the best lineups in all of baseball....
• 3/19 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: How To Assemble a $40 Rotation: I don’t like leagues that use Quality Starts as a category, which is a purely selfish reason, being that I’ve More......
• 3/18 Redbird Dugout: Position Battle: Starting Pitcher #5: With the Cardinals getting into the final two weeks of camp, the final jostling for spots on the roster are beginning to take...
• 3/18 El Maquino: LAST SPOT: ADAMS OR CEDENO?: > When Spring Training first began, the implication was that the fight for the last roster spot was between Adron Chambers...
• 3/17 Marlin Maniac: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Recap: Miami Marlins vs St. Louis Cardinal 3/17/13: Welcome to another edition of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Marlins game recap. Today we are recapping the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 3/17 Marlin Maniac: Christian Yelich homers again in Miami Marlins victory over New York Mets, 4-2: The Miami Marlins had a great day Saturday. First they recieved news that two of their top players, Giancarlo Stanton and Steve...
• 3/16 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Will Adam Wainwright sign contract extension before opening day?: On Friday, the St. Louis Cardinals announced that ace starter Adam Wainwright would make the opening day start when the team...
• 3/15 STLCardinalBaseball: The Tough Decisions Ahead: Just two weeks remain until the Cardinals make the trip northwest and start the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks. In my...
• 3/15 Billy-Ball.com: From the Bill Chuck Files…Nine to Know: Pedey, Pedro, Pujols, Pierre and more: The Cardinals, Rockies, and Rangers all finished the 2012 season with 1526 hits, the most in the majors. Umpire Chad Fairchild...
• 3/14 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Lance Lynn and Jaime Garcia are keys to Cardinals' rotation: As the beginning of the 2013 season draws closer, there has been plenty of talk about the contract talks surrounding ace Adam...
• 3/13 Redbird Rants: The K-Zone: Examining The Back End of the Roster: When you take a minute to examine the Cardinals 40 man roster it becomes fairly apparent that there are only a couple of spots...
• 3/13 We Talk Fantasy Sports: RotoBaller - Starting Pitching Tier Rankings: This article originally appeared on www.RotoBaller.com: RotoBaller.com Rankings: 2013 Starting Pitcher Rankings with ADP ComparisonRotoBaller.com...
• 3/12 The DoubleDay: Top 10 Prospect Non-Roster Invitees: Every Spring top prospects from around the majors get the call to report for training.  It's an exciting moment for young...
• 3/12 CardinalsFarm.com: Five players the St. Louis Cardinals could have taken in the 2008 Draft: With the 2008 draft review in the rear view mirror I thought I would dedicate a post to a very fun but dangerous game. Projecting...
• 3/11 Porcupines in Pinstripes: Spring Training Roundup – March 11: Hiroki Kuroda dominated the St. Louis Cardinal offense, and the New York offense pushed across four runs on seven hits as the...
• 3/11 CardinalsFarm.com: Lance Lynn leads a poor 2008 Cardinals Draft Class: The fifth year in a series of draft reviews, the 2008 draft has turned out to be very mediocre. Of the 51 draft picks, only 4...
• 3/10 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Draft Strategy: Dream to Stream: As we noted in our starting pitcher rankings, it’s an incredibly deep year for starting pitching. Most of the We Talk team has...
• 3/7 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Rotation In The Spotlight: The St. Louis Cardinals entered spring training with the fifth starter position in the rotation up for grabs. It appears that...
• 3/4 MLB Dirt: Kurt Heyer: Seeking to Go from College World Series Champ to the Majors: The St. Louis Cardinals have received recognition in recent seasons because of the excellent pitching prospects that have been...
• 3/3 StoopSports.com: 30 in 30: St. Louis Cardinals: To lead you into the MLB season Stoop Sports’ MLB staff is embarking on a 30 day journey, where we will give you pre-season...

• 2/27 i70baseball.com: Wacha Wacha Wow: Fans have been hearing for some time now that this is a great farm system. Spring training gives them their first chance to see...
• 2/27 El Maquino: IT’S TIME TO STOP BEING DELUSIONAL ABOUT THE WAINWRIGHT SITUATION: THE BIG PIECE > Been seeing a lot of campaigning by Cards fans for the team to re-sign Adam Wainwright.  Urgent campaigning....
• 2/23 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Discussing the expectations for Lance Lynn in 2013: In 2012, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Lance Lynn shocked everyone with an outstanding performance during the first...
• 2/22 MLB Injury News: Cardinals’ Shelby Miller cleared to resume throwing: St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Shelby Miller was scratched from a scheduled throwing session on Thursday after experiencing...
• 2/21 Redlegs Review: 2013 NL Central Preview: St. Louis Cardinals: by: Scott Eddy Staff Writer It was another magical campaign for the Cardinals last year. Once again left for dead by...
• 2/20 StlSportsMinute.com: UCB Roundtable: What should the Cardinals do with all of their young pitching prospects?: It is widely known at this point that the St. Louis Cardinals are absolutely stacked with young, talented pitching that is...
• 2/20 StanGraphs: The Chris Carpenter Panic Button (Or Why There Isn’t One): When the news fell down upon us that Cardinal legend and distributor of mean Chris Carpenter would miss the 2013 season and, in...
• 2/15 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals UCB Radio recap: Spring training version: With pitchers and catchers already having a couple of days of workouts under their belts, there does not seem like a better...
• 2/15 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: In John Mozelaik we trust: The St. Louis Cardinals just inked a three year contract extension with general manager John Mozeliak on Thursday.  This...
• 2/13 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Jason Motte praises Cardinals' young guns: With pitchers and catchers hard at work in Jupiter, Florida, many of the St. Louis Cardinals are getting back together for...
• 2/12 Redbird Rants: Cardinals prospect Carlos Martinez’ Spring Training Delayed: St. Louis Cardinals prospect Carlos Martinez is expected to make it to Spring Training in Jupiter, Florida, but it is not known...
• 2/12 Redbird Dugout: Lynn’s comments ignite fans: Many St. Louis Cardinals fans and bloggers today have jumped all over Lance Lynn thanks to a quote tweeted by Cardinals.com beat...
• 2/12 i70baseball.com: Is Lance Lynn Out Of Line?: The St. Louis Cardinals opened camp on Tuesday morning with the traditional pitchers and catchers workouts. It did not take long...
• 2/11 i70baseball.com: David Freese and the time value of money: The St. Louis Cardinals reached an agreement with third baseman David Freese on Friday on a deal for the 2013 season. However,...
• 2/10 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The $75 million 2014 St. Louis Cardinals: A theoretical exercise to determine how difficult would it be for the St. Louis Cardinals to reduce payroll to $75 million in...
• 2/9 Redbird Rants: What I Expect to See in Spring Training: Spring training for major league baseball is the time for clubs to see who will be on their roster to begin the season. Skills...
• 2/8 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan – 2013: Good News…Freese Signs – The St. Louis Cardinals and David Freese avoided arbitration.  Figures weren’t available but the...
• 2/8 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Ballpark Village 101: With 47 custom shovels at the ready to commemorate the event, a small army of Burberry-clad townsfolk braved the chilly weather...
• 2/8 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Chris Carpenter overreaction reactionConsidering the current state of the St. Louis Cardinals rotation and beyond....
• 2/7 Baseball Analytics: The Fantasy Baseball Diary: Lance Lynn and Shelby Miller: Today the news broke that Chris Carpenter will likely miss the entire 2013 season. Any time there’s an injury it presents...
• 2/6 STLCardinalBaseball: The State Of The 2013 Pitching Staff Without Chris Carpenter: Following yesterday’s dispiriting press conference that all but closed the lid on the brilliant Cardinal career of Chris...
• 2/6 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Pitching Forced to Evolve Post-Carpenter: The future in regards to competitive baseball is not looking too promising for Chris Carpenter. How does this impact each of...
• 2/6 MLB Injury News: Cardinals rumors: St. Louis has ‘negligible’ interest in Kyle Lohse: With the news that St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Chris Carpenter is expected to miss the entire 2013 season due to an injury...
• 2/6 Call to the Pen: Chris Carpenter Likely To Miss 2013 Season: At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, the St. Louis Cardinals and GM John Mozeliak announced that veteran right-hander Chris...
• 2/5 Baseball Jerks: Chris Carpenter Likely Out For Season, Could Be Forced To Retire: The St. Louis Cardinals are still a few weeks away from Spring Training, but already, their 2013 season is off on the wrong foot....
• 2/5 SocraticGadfly: Put a dent in #Stlcards hopes for 2013? Carp out for year, likely career: The gutty Chris Carpenter , who rehabbed without deer antler spray to make it back for the St. Louis Cardinals' 2012 postseason...
• 2/5 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Two Dodgers Make the Keith Law 100, Plus Chris Withrow & Pedro Baez Find New Homes: All sorts of news in the Dodger organization today… *** Corey Seager & Zach Lee make the Keith Law Top 100 list. Seager...
• 2/5 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Have "Negligible" Interest In Lohse: The Cardinals don't expect Chris Carpenter to pitch for them in 2013, and the right-hander's career could be over. But it doesn't...
• 2/5 MLB Injury News: Cardinals RHP Chris Carpenter out for 2013; Considering retirement: St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Chris Carpenter is very unlikely to pitch during the 2013 season, the team has announced. Considering...
• 2/5 Baseball News Source: St Louis Cardinals: Chris Carpenter Will Miss 2013 – Considering Retirement: The St Louis Cardinals Sr. VP/GM John Mozeliak  announced that it is unlikely that pitcher Chris Carpenter will pitch in...
• 2/5 MLBTradeRumors: Chris Carpenter Likely To Miss 2013 Season: Cardinals GM John Mozeliak announced that Chris Carpenter can't continue to throw and will likely miss the 2013 season (Twitter...
• 2/5 i70baseball.com: Finding Fernando Salas: It is a pivotal season for the up and down Fernando Salas, and he has potentially as tough of a future to determine as any arm...
• 2/1 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Cardinals Hitting & Pitching Projections: St. Louis Cardinals — Predicted Finish: First Place, NL Central The Cardinals have about as many fantasy options as any team...

• 1/28 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy baseball: What to expect from Lance Lynn in 2013: Last spring, the biggest question mark concerning the St. Louis Cardinals was the mysterious Lance Lynn. The guy who was picked...
• 1/28 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak might be best in MLB: In just four years, St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak has done just about everything an organization could ask...
• 1/27 Mets360.com: With Marcum signed will Collin McHugh fit best in the bullpen?: As of a week ago it looked as though Mets fans were going to see an open battle between Collin McHugh, Jenrry Mejia, and Jeremy...
• 1/20 STLCardinalBaseball: Molina Needs To Learn Something From Stan The Man: Yesterday Cardinal fans mourned the loss of their greatest champion, the incomparable Stan Musial. Every tribute that subsequently...
• 1/18 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Projected top five St. Louis Cardinals stories of 2013A look ahead to the top projected stories across the Cardinal Nation in 2013....
• 1/18 i70baseball.com: Jaime Garcia won’t pitch in WBC, and that’s good for St. Louis Cardinals: Whenever the World Baseball Classic rolls around, questions abound about who will parti**** in the tournament and whether or not...
• 1/16 Splash Hit Blog: The Best Individual Seasons of 2012: 81st through 100th: Idea: Rank the best individual seasons of the 2012 MLB regular season (Spring Training, Minor Leagues, and Postseason are not...
• 1/12 Redbird Rants: Time to Modify Rules for Free Agent Salaries, Part 1: At some point, Major League Baseball should consider modifying some of the rules regarding free agency. How would you feel if...
• 1/10 Redbird Dugout: What to do about Chris Carpenter?: When I think about the greatest Cardinals’ pitcher of the last decade, my mind immediately goes to Chris Carpenter. I think...
• 1/10 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #1: NLDS comeback over WashingtonIn the 2012 National League Division Series, the St. Louis Cardinals came back to defeat the favored Washington Nationals....
• 1/9 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 Cardinals top story #2: The NLCS collapse: Needing just one win to return to the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals lost three straight to San Francisco in the National...
• 1/7 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals might be smart to re-sign Kyle Lohse: The St. Louis Cardinals have a solid starting rotation that includes two ace-caliber pitchers, a couple of decent No. 3 and No....
• 1/3 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #6: Matheny’s managerial rookie year: On November 13, 2011, Mike Matheny was named as the new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, replacing retired Tony La Russa. While...

• 12/29 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #11: All-star Lynn wins 18 gamesIn his first year in the St. Louis Cardinals’ rotation, second-year pitcher Lance Lynn led his team in victories....
• 12/24 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Will Mo play the prospect market this winter?The St. Louis Cardinals are well-stocked in an in-demand commodity this off-season, but will they exploit their advantage?...
• 12/21 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Jackson and other eight-team pitchers have a common thread: New Chicago Cub Edwin Jackson and four other well-traveled starting pitchers share one prior fact - they are all former St. Louis...
• 12/20 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #16: Kelly steps in and deliversTwice, rookie right-hander Joe Kelly moved into the rotation for others and delivered for the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals....
• 12/19 StanGraphs: Can the Cardinals Afford Wainwright?: Not long ago, we wrote a loving post about Adam Wainwright and how it was time for the organization to step up and resign him...
• 12/18 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Comparing Cardinals Winter Warm-Up autograph prices: Autograph prices at the St. Louis Cardinals fan event, Winter Warm-Up, are flat for 2013, though there will be many fewer freebies....
• 12/16 El Maquino: I DOUBT KEEPING WAINWRIGHT WILL BE PRUDENT: I was surprised to see that a mass majority of responders to my most recent Twitter poll said that the Cardinals should hang on...
• 12/10 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Will Greinke create opportunity for Miller and Rosenthal?The hot market for free agent pitching could improve the rotation bids of young St. Louis Cardinals starting pitchers....
• 12/9 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals finally get a bullpen veteran by signing Randy Choate: The St. Louis Cardinals didn’t make many moves during last week’s Winter Meetings, but they did complete an important deal...
• 12/7 STLCardinalBaseball: Trading Jaime GarciaJaime Garcia has been irritating me since at least the middle of the 2011 season. His inconsistencies (made worse by ......
• 12/7 StanGraphs: With Choate on Board, Bullpen Set: Well, that’s over with. We effectively campaigned against Sean Burnett, and John Mozeliak listened — instead, he signed...
• 12/2 Redbird Rants: Cardinal Blogger Awards: The Cardinal Blogger Awards are an annual feature for the United Cardinals Bloggers, of which I am a member. After careful consideration...

• 11/29 Redbird Rants: Could the St. Louis Cardinals make some moves?: The one thing I hate about the Hot Stove season is when I hear that the Cardinals are looking at moving players to another team....
• 11/27 Pitchers Hit Eighth: United Cardinal Bloggers Awards Ballot – Gr33nazn: Every year the members of the United Cardinal Bloggers (UCB) pause for a few moments to bestow honors and blah, blah, blah. ...
• 11/14 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Should we share the Cardinals’ optimism for Garcia and Furcal?: The St. Louis Cardinals are pleased with the progress shown by two injured players, but does that mean the club should stop looking...
• 11/14 StanGraphs: Cardinals Cut Ties With Kyle McClellan: Kyle McClellan has been logging important amounts of innings with the Cardinals since 2008, but the fire-haired righty will not...
• 11/11 STLCardinalBaseball: Why The Cardinals Should Pursue Asdrubal CabreraRumors are already swirling in the young off-season and one of the more recent rumors ......
• 11/11 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals would likely have to pay steep price to land Asdrubal CabreraThe St. Louis Cardinals have good, young pitchers, but they could also use an upgrade at shortstop....
• 11/9 StanGraphs: 2012 Cardinals Review: The Pitchers: The Rotation Every time someone makes an argument that begins with, “If you’d have told me on [insert arbitrary past...
• 11/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Will Leitch’s two month Twitter conversation AT the Cardinals: Denouement (The Playoffs): Sometime in mid-August (ok, August 12 to be exact – it’s right there on the Tweeter box) Cardinal fan Will Leitch began a...
• 11/7 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Should the Cardinals trade starting pitching for a shortstop?: If you were running the St. Louis Cardinals, would you be willing to give up one of your top pitching prospects for a shortstop?...
• 11/6 WahoosOnFirst: FanSided MLB 2012 Awards: NL Rookie of the Year: Bryce Harper: For many fans, the end-of-season player awards are one of the biggest highlights of the long MLB offseason. There’s just one...

• 10/31 StanGraphs: NL Central Review: 2012 NL Central Predicted Standings St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pirates Chicago Cubs Houston...
• 10/31 AroundTheFoghorn: Twelve Ways The ’12 Giants Made History: Marco Scutaro exulting in a cinematic downpour as the Giants clinched the pennant. A viral #RallyZito hashtag that united Giants...
• 10/30 STLCardinalBaseball: STL Cardinal Baseball 2012 Awards: With the end of the 2012 season it is time to officially unveil the biggest awards known to mankind, the STL Cardinal Baseball...
• 10/28 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Notes: Astros, Cardinals, Braun, Cubs: Earlier today, MLBTR gave you the latest news and notes from the AL East and the NL West. Now, let's visit the NL Central,...
• 10/28 MLBTradeRumors: : Earlier today, MLBTR gave you the latest news and notes from the AL East and the NL West. Now, let's visit the NL Central, which...
• 10/27 Redbird Rants: My Season Ending Report Card for the Redbirds, Part I: Now that the season is over for the St. Louis Cardinals, I’ll give them “my” report card based on my opinion and what I’ve...
• 10/27 SocraticGadfly: #Cardinalnation — #Stlcards look in good shape for 2013: What will Trevor Rosenthal's role, and spot on the team, be for the 2013 Cardinals??St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
• 10/26 StlSportsMinute.com: Wiber: Cardinals must sort rotation and upgrade middle infield during off-season: You might be asking yourself what happened to the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series against the...
• 10/25 SocraticGadfly: Adios, 2012 #StlCards; what’s up for 2013?: Yahoo Sports’ baseball blog, Big League Stew, has yet to have anybody write an official concession speech for this year’s...
• 10/25 Baseball News Source: Cardinals News – Lohse, Berkman Not Expected Back in 2013: St. Louis Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse  finished the regular season with a  2.86 ERA and 1.09 WHIP in 33 starts (211 innings),...
• 10/25 StanGraphs: The 2013 Rotation: The Contenders: We’re certain to go into topics like these in much greater depth in the coming weeks of the long off-season, but I couldn’t...
• 10/25 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Kyle Lohse On The Move?: The buzz around the St. Louis Cardinals has been that Kyle Lohse will not be resigned.  That was confirmed by GM John Mozeliak...
• 10/24 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: The Honeymoon Is All That Could Cure The Hurt: As a St. Louis Cardinals fan since the days of Ozzie Smith, there are few things in the time of my fandom that have hurt worse...
• 10/23 Tyler's Think Tank: The Tigers Win the Pennant: That was easy. After taking four straight games from the New York Yankees, the Detroit Tigers are World Series bound and...
• 10/23 Redbird Rants: Reflections: Like many St. Louis Cardinals fans, I went to bed hurting last night not just for myself but for the players, fans, and management....
• 10/23 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The Titanic’s Deck Chairs Are Now In Order: The 2012 season for the St. Louis Cardinals came to a rather abrupt, sobering halt tonight.  Taking time to reflect and collect...
• 10/23 StlSportsMinute.com: Poll: Has Kyle Lohse pitched his last game in a Cardinals uniform?: St. Louis Cardinals fans had high expectations for Kyle Lohse's Game Seven start against the San Francisco Giants in the...
• 10/22 Baseball News Source: National League Central – 2013 Team Needs and Outlook: The Cincinnati Reds captured the National League Central in 2012, but … Editor’s Note: Baseball News Source provided a...
• 10/22 Mets360.com: Mets Minors: 2008 Draft time capsule (Ike Davis & Reese Havens): The 2008 draft was an okay year for the Mets but expectations were high, given that they had 3 picks in the first 33 overall....
• 10/22 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Unearned runs killing Cardinals in post-seasonOver 25 percent of the runs allowed by the St. Louis Cardinals in this post-season have been unearned....
• 10/22 i70baseball.com: On Fourth Inning Weirdness and Power Outages: Game 5 of the NLCS did not go quite as planned for the St. Louis Cardinals, though that should not have been much of a surprise...
• 10/21 Motor City Bengals: Delmon Young or Quintin Berry?: Jim Leyland has announced his World Series game 1 lineup – at least as a proposal – to the Detroit News. This is a...
• 10/21 mlbreports.com : An Early Preview of the 2012 World Series: Sunday October 21st, 2012 Sam Evans: With St. Louis and San Francisco in a battle to be the National League representative in...
• 10/20 El Maquino: ZITO DELAYS THE PARTY: THE BIG PIECE Today I saw literally half a dozen articles reminding all of us how forgotten Albert Pujols is and complained on...
• 10/20 El Maquino: CARDS DESTROY THE GIANTS, WITHIN A WIN OF DETROIT REMATCH: THE POSTGAME The Cardinals absolutely ran over the Giants tonight, bringing themselves within one win of their second consecutive...
• 10/20 El Maquino: WAITING FOR GAME THREE…: THE NEWS > Matt Cain talked about how he’ll approach Holliday tomorrow following his rough slide yesterday.  He said...
• 10/20 El Maquino: THAT HURT: PERTURBED GIANTS EVEN UP SERIES: THE POSTGAME In the first inning, Matt Holliday took Marco Scutaro out on a brutal slide.  I’m a Cards fan, but I’m...
• 10/20 El Maquino: CARDS’ TOP POSTSEASON PERFORMERS DO WHAT THEY DO, TAKE GAME ONE: THE POSTGAME Madison Bumgarner got absolutely rocked by the heavy-hitting Cardinal lineup, who were able to amass a 6-0 lead from...
• 10/20 Raising Matt Cain: Two for the Show: The Giants live to play another do-or-die game after a brilliant start in St. Louis by Barry Zito. The lefty stepped up to save...
• 10/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn suffers loss in Game 5: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed four unearned runs on four hits over 3 2/3 innings in a loss in Game 5 of the NLCS against...[+] the San Francisco Giants Friday, Oct. 19. He walked two and struck out six.
• 10/20 Baseball News Source: Zito, Giants Send NLCS Back To San Francisco With 5-0 Win:  Zito delivered a dominant performance in Game 5 Barry Zito pitched 7-2/3 shutout innings, striking out six, as the Giants...
• 10/20 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan: 13-2012: Cards “giveaway” Game 5 – Not to take anything away from the San Francisco Giants but, our St. Louis Cardinals seemed to...
• 10/19 Baseball Musings: Cardinals Threaten: Yadier Molina singles and David Freese doubles to put Cardinals on 2nd and 3rd with none out in the bottom of the second. Barry...
• 10/19 Baseball Musings: Lancing the Giants: Lance Lynn strikes out all three Giants batters he faces in the second. That’s six up and six down for the Cardinals righty,...
• 10/19 StanGraphs: NLCS Game Five: San Francisco Giants (94-68) at St. Louis Cardinals (88-74): 7:18 PM Lance Lynn looked dynamite, yes dyanmite, in his first inning of work. I feel like it’s time to warn you all that...
• 10/19 Baseball Musings: Game Five UnderwayLance Lynn induces a ground out by Angel Pagan and game five of the NLCS between the Giants and Cardinals is underway. ...
• 10/19 Baseball Musings: Playoffs Today: The Cardinals take their first of three shots at eliminating the Giants as Barry Zito squares off against Lance Lynn in St. Louis....
• 10/19 Redbird Rants: One Win Away from the World Series: One week ago, the St. Louis Cardinals gave me the best birthday gift ever with an epic comeback over the Washington Nationals...
• 10/19 The Flagrant Fan: Game Picks - Friday: October 19, 2012: The playoff picks were 2-0 yesterday and three for three in the last three picks. That is much better for the psyche of the...
• 10/19 22gigantes.com: Giants at Cardinals: NLCS Game 5 Preview: Backs squarely against the wall, the San Francisco Giants are down to their last hope, and it comes in the most ironic of forms...
• 10/19 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Game 5 of the NLCS: Wow, Zito gets an NLCS start.  Before the start of this series, it was a toss-up between starting Lincecum or Zito in Game...
• 10/19 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Beat Giants – A Win Away From World Series: Cardinals are one win away from the World Series Adam Wainwright threw just 96 pitches to get through seven innings of work and...
• 10/16 mlbreports.com : 2012 NLCS Preview: The Clash Of The Comeback Kids: Tuesday October 16th, 2012 Jake Dal Porto: You might’ve heard about the Giants’ historical comeback. You might heard about...
• 10/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn in line to start Game 5: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn is in line to start Game 5 Friday, Oct. 19, despite failing to make it through four innings...[+] in his Game 1 start against the San Francisco Giants.
• 10/15 MLBTradeRumors: Lohse Hasn't Received Offer From Cardinals: It's been a career season for Kyle Lohse, but despite that fact the right-hander informs Jim Bowden of MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM...
• 10/15 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Fewer Cardinals quality starts but more quality relief: Solid bullpen work has helped the St. Louis Cardinals win a dozen games in the last two post-seasons when their starter left early....
• 10/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Cardinals defeat Giants, dodge karma: Just like that, less than 48 hours removed from another thrilling do-or-die postseason victory, the Cardinals have negated the...
• 10/15 STLCardinalBaseball: NLCS GAME 1: Mirror, Mirror: The Cardinals and the Giants both spent the first four innings pounding the opposing starters for ten total runs. Then the respective...
• 10/15 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Score Early and Hold Off Giants in Game 1 of NLCS: Beltran connected in the fourth inning off Bumgarner The St. Louis Cardinals scored six runs in the first four innings and held...
• 10/15 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 6 San Francisco Giants 4: After the heroics and magic of Friday night's miraculous comeback victory over the Washington Nationals to win the NLDS, many...
• 10/14 Baseball Musings: Giants Get a Hit: Marco Scutaro singles leading off the bottom of the fourth, the first hit on the night for the Giants off starter Lance Lynn....
• 10/14 Baseball Musings: Stingy Lynn: Lance Lynn just completed his third no-hit inning of the night. He issued a walk to Pablo Sandoval in the first, and that’s...
• 10/14 MLB Dirt: My Rookie of the Year Award Ballot: The Rookie of the Year Award, also referred to as the Jackie Robinson Award by the BBWAA and the Willie Mays Award by the BBA,...
• 10/14 StanGraphs: NLCS Game One: St. Louis Cardinals (88-74) at San Francisco Giants (94-68): 7:23 PM The Cardinals went in order, but not without Carlos Beltran hitting one to left with authority. It should also be noted...
• 10/14 Baseball Musings: Playoffs Today: Anibal Sanchez and Hiroki Kuroda face off as the Tigers and Yankees play game two of the 2012 ALCS. Jayson Nix takes over at shortstop...
• 10/14 PaulLebowitz.com: NLCS Preview and Predictions—San Francisco Giants vs St. Louis Cardinals: San Francisco Giants (94-68; 1st place, NL West; defeated Cincinnati Reds 3 games to 2 in NLDS) vs St. Louis Cardinals (88-74;...
• 10/14 The Flagrant Fan: Game Picks - Sunday: October 14, 2012: Last night's game between the Yankees and the Tigers was crushing. It was not crushing because the Yankees lost. Teams lose...
• 10/14 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2012 Giants: Game 1 of the NLCS: Wow, isn't baseball amazing?  Every game, you see the same old, same old, but in spite of how long the history is, there...
• 10/13 AroundTheFoghorn: Around The Foghorn’s San Francisco Giants / St. Louis Cardinals LCS Preview: Another round, another set of previews here at Around The Foghorn. Stuart and I both went two for two in our NLDS predictions,...
• 10/13 Redbird Rants: St. Louis Cardinals face the San Francisco Giants in NLCS 2012: Well, the St. Louis Cardinals have given Cardinal Nation the thrills and chills to last a lifetime in the last two seasons. After...
• 10/12 mlbreports.com : St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals: Ready for NLDS Game 5 Tonight!: Friday October 12th, 2012 Dedrick Hendrix:   As recently as two months ago, neither Chris Carpenter nor Pete Kozma factored into...
• 10/12 District On Deck: Why I Don’t Want to See Jordan Zimmermann In Game 5: Last night, one of the most understated Nationals, Jordan Zimmermann showed a lot of emotion. Not only walking off the mound after...
• 10/12 District On Deck: Number 13 Not Unlucky for Werth: It wasn’t the comprehensive victory Nationals fans were hoping for, the one that solved all the team’s current issues...
• 10/11 StlSportsMinute.com: Poll: Should Mike Matheny have gone with Lance Lynn or Jason Motte in the ninth?: The way the St. Louis Cardinals lost Game Four of their National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals was...
• 10/11 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals held to three hits twice in NLDS: The St. Louis Cardinals had three or fewer hits just 12 times in 205 prior post-season games, but now it has happened twice in...
• 10/11 District On Deck: NLDS Game 4: Nationals 2, Cardinals 1: Let’s face it. There wasn’t much to get excited about over the last two games. But, after the Nationals best-pitched...
• 10/11 STLCardinalBaseball: NLDS GAME 4: Strikeout: The Cardinals, while eyeing up a swift NLDS victory over the Washington Nationals, unfortunately took their eye off the ball....
• 10/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn available in relief: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn is available to pitch in relief against the Washington Nationals in Game 4 of the National League...[+] Division Series Thursday, Oct. 11. Lynn tossed 50 pitches in a relief outing Monday, Oct. 8, and he wasn't available in Game 3 Wednesday, Oct. 10. Lynn is the likeliest candidate to enter the starting rotation to replace SP Jaime Garcia (shoulder), too.
• 10/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn unavailable todaySt. Louis Cardinals P Lance Lynn is unavailable out of the bullpen for Game 3. He's not ruled out for Game 4, though....[+] St. Louis Cardinals P Lance Lynn is unavailable out of the bullpen for Game 3. He's not ruled out for Game 4, though.
• 10/10 StanGraphs: My First Playoff Game, My First Playoff Loss: In over two decades of increasingly rabid baseball fandom, I had never been to a single postseason game until Sunday. That’s...
• 10/10 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Kelly, Rosenthal continue success of rookie relievers in postseason debut – Miller next?: Joe Kelly and Trevor Rosenthal made their postseason debuts on Monday, each successfully preventing the Nationals from scoring...
• 10/10 MLB Injury News: Cardinals Injury News: Jaime Garcia, Shelby Miller: The St. Louis Cardinals have replaced injured left-hander Jaime Garcia on their National League Division Series roster with...
• 10/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Down Goes Jaime, Down Goes Jaime!: Jaime Garcia departed yesterday’s NLDS game after just 2 innings and 51 pitches.  Though he appeared to labor through those...
• 10/9 MLB Injury News: Cardinals Injury News: Jaime Garcia Removed from NLDS Roster: The St. Louis Cardinals will remove left-hander Jaime Garcia from their National League Division Series roster because of...
• 10/9 El Maquino: CARDS GO FULL BLAST ON NATS, TIE SERIES: THE RACES TODAY St. Louis (1) beats Washington (1) New York (1) @ Baltimore (0), rain TOMORROW San Francisco (2) @ Cincinnati...
• 10/9 STLCardinalBaseball: NLDS GAME 2: Powerhouse: After flailing grotesquely in a 3-2 loss in Game 1, the Cardinals needed to come out and make a statement to the Nationals in...
• 10/9 District On Deck: NLDS Game 2: Cardinals 12, Nationals 4: It was a day late, but the St. Louis Cardinals finally showed a post-season audience one of baseball’s best offenses. Just...
• 10/9 Redbird Dugout: Offense shows up in Game 2: The St. Louis Cardinals entered Monday evening’s game down 0-1 to the Washington Nationals in a unique National League Division...
• 10/9 The Cardinal Nation Blog: How would you replace Jaime Garcia?Considering the St. Louis Cardinals’ roster alternatives if Jaime Garcia is out....
• 10/9 Baseball Musings: Garcia Hurt: Jaime Garcia left the Cardinals game early to due an aggravation of his shoulder injury. If he can’t continue in the playoffs,...
• 10/9 Baseball Musings: Zimmermann Gone: Trailing 5-1 in the top of the fourth, the Nationals pinch hit for Jordan Zimmermann. He allowed a home run in the third as the...
• 10/7 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals first-ever playoff loss with 10-strikeout starterAdam Wainwright struck out 10 Washington Nationals, but his St. Louis Cardinals lost on Sunday....
• 10/7 StanGraphs: NLDS Game One: Washington Nationals (98-64) at St. Louis Cardinals (88-74): 5:52 PM A pathetic offensive effort from the Cardinals here in Game One results in an uninspiring 3-2 loss. It’s hard to...
• 10/6 STLCardinalBaseball: Who could be the next Cardinals post season hero?: Every post season there is always one or two players who stand above the rest and make a name for themselves in October. Players...
• 10/6 i70baseball.com: Wild, Indeed…: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves in the first ever Wild Card game Friday and are headed to the NLDS to face the...
• 10/5 El Maquino: INSANE.: THE BIG PIECE/POSTGAME I said before this absolutely insane game that I thought the Cardinals would lose this game and rightfully...
• 10/5 Tomahawk Take: Breaking Down Kyle Lohse And The Bullpen: After revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the Cardinals lineup yesterday, I will now focus on their single-most important...
• 10/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn ready in reliefSt. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn will be ready to piggyback SP Kyle Lohse in the Wild Card game Friday, Oct. 5....[+] St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn will be ready to piggyback SP Kyle Lohse in the Wild Card game Friday, Oct. 5.
• 10/3 StanGraphs: Cincinnati Reds (97-64) at St. Louis Cardinals (87-74): 9:53 PM This one’s all over, and so is the 2012 regular season for the Cardinals! They finish they year at 88-74, and StanGraphs...
• 10/3 Redbird Dugout: Miller dominant in starting debut: Early Wednesday morning the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers. In doing so, the knocked the Dodgers out of...
• 10/3 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: The St. Louis Cardinals Are Playoff Bound: The St. Louis Cardinals are a team ready for post-season play.  With the end of the 2012 regular season quickly approaching,...
• 10/2 MLB Injury News: Mike Adams' Injury Could Cost Him a New Contract With the Rangers: Pitching wins championships.  The Boston Red Sox know this.  Until they went out and got Curt Schilling...
• 10/1 El Maquino: ALL EYES ON THE WEST COAST…: THE POSTGAME The Cardinals are on a warpath, and even the two best teams in the League have been able to stop them. Jaime Garcia...
• 10/1 Baseball News Source: Garcia Pitches Cardinals Closer to NL Wild Card: Garcia limited Cincinnati to two runs and six hits over 6.2 innings After back-to-back 13-win seasons in which he posted ERAs...
• 10/1 Redlegs Review: Homer Bailey named National League Player of the Week: Press release from MLB... Cincinnati Reds pitcher Homer Bailey, who tossed the Club’s first no-hitter since 1988 on...
• 10/1 Tomahawk Take: Who Might the Braves Face in the Wild Card Game: There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about who the Braves should put out there to pitch the Wild Card 1-Game ultrapalooza sudden...

• 9/30 Baseball Musings: NL Race Roundup: The Brewers fell out of playoff contention as they lost to the Astros 7-0. Jordan Lyles pitched a four-hitter, but Milwuakee starter...
• 9/30 El Maquino: CARDS DECIMATE NL’S BEST–AGAIN: THE POSTGAME For the second time in three days, the Cardinals took the best team in the National League for a ride, beating the...
• 9/30 District On Deck: Game 159: Cardinals 10, Nationals 4: Put the champagne on ice, and send it back to D.C. We don’t need it today. Ross Detwiler lasted only 2.1 innings, allowing...
• 9/30 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: The day starts off with a great pitching matchup in a game that will help determine who goes to the playoffs. Zack Greinke and...
• 9/28 Baseball Analytics: R.A. Dickey, 20-game winner: Yesterday afternoon, R.A. Dickey (20-6) became the first 20-game winner on a sub-.500 team since Roger Clemens did...
• 9/27 STLCardinalBaseball: A Look At The Possible Pitching Rotation For The Playoffs: On this final off-day of the 2012 season, the Cardinals find themselves on the brink of clinching the second wild card spot (um...
• 9/26 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 156: The Mystifying Curse Of Bud Norris, Part 6: Following huge wins by Jaime Garcia and Lance Lynn, Chris Carpenter took the mound intent on pitching himself past them and into...
• 9/26 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week in Review—9/17/12 to 9/23/12: The Cardinals are sprinting down the playoff hunt stretch now and this past week saw the beginning of a line of nine games against...
• 9/25 Climbing Tal's Hill: Final homestand of 2012 taking shape: What started out as a promising farewell to 2012 and the National League has quickly turned sour. The Astros pulled off a pair...
• 9/25 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Lance Lynn a throwback to Ernie BroglioLance Lynn has done something no other St. Louis Cardinals pitcher has accomplished since 1960....
• 9/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn on a roll: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed a run and struck out nine in seven innings to beat the Houston Astros Monday, Sept....[+] 24. He's 4-0 with a 0.89 ERA in his last four outings.
• 9/24 El Maquino: CARDS WIN SEVENTH IN EIGHT GAMES: THE BIG PIECE Hopefully by now, EM readers are confident that I stand by my tenant of never writing anything that I wouldn’t...
• 9/24 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 154: The Case For Lynn: As questions abound about how the rotation will be set for the upcoming rounds of playoffs, Lance Lynn made another convincing...
• 9/24 Crashburn Alley: Obscure Former Phillies Hour, Vol. 1: David Dellucci: I had a little compulsive fit on Twitter over the weekend in which I went to Jeromy Burnitz‘s Baseball Reference page and...
• 9/24 Mastersball.com: LABR FAAB Report: Week of September 24: Each week, your friends at Mastersball will post the results of the weekly LABR FAAB run, featuring the winning bid as well...
• 9/24 The Flagrant Fan: Game Picks - Monday: September 24, 2012: Sunday was not a good day from any perspective. As a Fan, the favorite baseball team lost. Tiger did not win and the favorite...
• 9/23 Redbird Rants: Good Day for Cardinal Nation…Sort Of: Well, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs Saturday afternoon 5-4. This despite the usual occurrences that seem to be...
• 9/20 Redbird Rants: Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn Turns In Another Quality Start: Lance Lynn provided the pitching and Yadier Molina and David Freese provided the power as the St. Louis Cardinals won their 3rd...
• 9/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn pitches well: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn delivered 6 1/3 shutout innings to beat the Houston Astros Wednesday, Sept. 19. He has allowed...[+] one run in 12 1/3 innings since returning to the rotation.
• 9/19 El Maquino: LYNN’S GOLDEN AGAIN: THE POSTGAME Lance Lynn followed up a surprisingly good start agains the Dodgers with another great one against the Astros (6...
• 9/19 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 149: Historic Homers: As the Cardinals took the field tonight, they owned a two-game lead over the second-place Dodgers, who lost the first game of...
• 9/19 Redbird Rants: Checking In With the Top Prospects: Joe Kelly: Joe Kelly, a California native, played his college ball at University of California in Riverside. He converted from a high school...
• 9/18 StanGraphs: Spare the Women and Children, Chris Carpenter is Coming!: The Chris Carpenter news cycle has been quite a depressing one all season long until a couple of weeks ago. First there was his...
• 9/18 Redbird Rants: Checking In With the Top Prospects: Lance Lynn: Coming in to the 2012 season, Lance Lynn was rated as the team’s number 13 prospect over at Fangraphs. Lynn was drafted...
• 9/18 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week In Review: Cardinals maintain one game lead: The Cardinals had a rough week as they went 2-5 in their last seven games. Thankfully, though, no one really seems to want to...
• 9/17 El Maquino: CARPENTER COMETH: THE BIG PIECE On March 23, Chris Carpenter was injured in spring training with nerve irritation in his in his pitching shoulder;...
• 9/17 STLCardinalBaseball: GAMES 144-147: Dodging Bullets: Sorry about the late recap! Life sometimes gets in the way! After dropping three straight to the Padres in a series that almost...
• 9/17 Mastersball.com: LABR FAAB Report: Week of September 17: Each week, your friends at Mastersball will post the results of the weekly LABR FAAB run, featuring the winning bid as well...
• 9/16 Rum Bunter: Pittsburgh Pirates Pedro Alvarez Has 29 Homeruns: Each One Photoshopped Here: The Pittsburgh Pirates Pedro Alvarez has 29 home runs this season. The Bucs slugger has ten no doubt homers puts him in the National...
• 9/14 Baseball News Source: Carpenter’s Unexpected Return Needed by Cardinals: Carpenter is slated to make his 2012 season debut next week Chris Carpenter was expected to serve as a cheerleader from the St....
• 9/14 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan:9-2012: Losing Streak Ends – the St. Louis Cardinals ended their three game losing streak but, if you watched or listened to the game...
• 9/14 El Maquino: LYNN LEAVES NO ROOM FOR DOUBT, WINS PIVOTAL GAME ONE VS. DODGERS: THE BIG PIECE It just wasn’t the same. The Angels were getting besten up by the Oakland A’s, who are fending them...
• 9/14 StanGraphs: Stop Talking About the Wild Card: As I type this pre-scheduled post, it’s just after 11:00 PM and the Cardinals are deadlocked with the Dodgers at 1-1 in...
• 9/14 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals Increase Wild Card Lead Behind Lance Lynn: This season has certainly been marked by high drama and high stakes for the St. Louis Cardinals.  With a win last night over...
• 9/14 Lasorda's Lair: Cardinals Take Game One as Dodgers Sink Further Back in the Wild Card Race: Dodgers 1 6 0 Cardinals 2 10 1 WP- Lynn (15-7) LP- Rodriguez (0-1) S- Motte (34)   Tonight was the first game of a huge series...
• 9/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn deals: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed a run and struck out seven in seven innings to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday,...[+] Sept. 13.
• 9/13 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Cardinals @ Dodgers, September 13, 2012: Lynn vs Beckett: I’m honestly not really sure what else to say at this point. The starting pitching and the defense have each been decent...
• 9/13 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Return Home For Critical Series With RedBirds: Dodgers Lineup vs. St. Louis M.Ellis 4 Ethier 9 Kemp 8 Gonzalez 3 Ramirez 6 Victorino 7 Cruz 5 Ellis 2 Beckett 1 Lance Lynn-14-7...
• 9/13 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Tampa Bay tries to salvage the last game of their series against the Orioles as they send Jeremy Hellickson against Chen Wei-Yin....
• 9/12 StanGraphs: Cardinals Not Geared for Deep Playoff Run: A year ago, the Cardinal roster was an assortment of peaking parts all working together and rounding into form at the right time....
• 9/11 StlSportsMinute.com: Lance Lynn to start against Dodgers on Thursday: Want to talk more Cardinals baseball?  Check out the RealSportsLounge.com!  When it was announced...
• 9/11 El Maquino: THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, LANCE!: THE NEWS > Lance Berkman was in Houston today getting a medical evaluation which, per John Mozeliak, was to see if he will...
• 9/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn to start Thursday: St. Louis Cardinals P Lance Lynn will start Thursday, Sept. 13, against the Los Angeles Dodgers in place of the injured SP Jake...[+] Westbrook (oblique).
• 9/9 Baseball News Source: Jake Westbrook’s Status Unclear After Oblique Injury: Westbrook could be lost for the season Jake Westbrook, a right-handed starter known for his durability, could be lost for the...
• 9/9 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 5 Milwaukee Brewers 4 (10 innings): The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 in ten innings on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium. - (Photo credit:...
• 9/9 El Maquino: ALLEN CRAIG SAVES THE DAY!: THE POSTGAME Per usual, the offense didn’t operate they way you’d like it to.  But unlike how its been over the past...
• 9/8 El Maquino: IT’S TWO IN THE MORNING. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR OFFENSE IS?: THE POSTGAME The Cards put two up against Yovani Gallardo in the very first inning and didn’t score again for six more innings...
• 9/8 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 137: Stinkin’ In The Rain: Kyle Lohse carried the Cardinals into the seventh, sparing the bullpen in an effort to gain his 15th win. However, seventh inning...
• 9/8 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Rain-Soaked Marathon Ends In Cardinals Loss: After a rain delay of more than 2 hours, the St. Louis Cardinals finally took the field against the Milwaukee Brewers last night....
• 9/8 Baseball Musings: Late Night Braun: The Cardinals/Brewers game did not end until 2 AM CDT due to rain delays and extra innings. Ryan Braun broke a 4-4 tie in the...
• 9/7 Reviewing the Brew: Series Six Pack: Brewers head to St. Louis: The Milwaukee Brewers (67-70) have begun to somewhat turn their season around even though it is September. Despite it being too...
• 9/6 Baseball News Source: Shelby Miller Makes MLB Debut For Cardinals in Relief: Shelby Miller Makes MLB Debut Out of the Bullpen Over 78 appearances in professional baseball since he was a first round pick...
• 9/6 Redbird Rants: Shelby Miller Gets Call, Chris Carpenter To Pitch Soon: It’s finally happened. Shelby Miller, the top St. Louis Cardinals prospect, has finally gotten the promotion that he deserves....
• 9/5 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Jaime Garcia and Cardinals Take Game 2: The St. Louis Cardinals seem to be hitting their stride this month, and it bodes well for their playoff chances.  Though they...
• 9/5 StanGraphs: Shelby Miller and His Possible Uses: It seems like just yesterday when one of approximately 33 Lance Berkman injuries this season led to the call-up of heralded power...
• 9/4 El Maquino: HOLLIDAY GOES DOWN IN 10-HIT WIN: THE POSTGAME Could it be?  Could the Cardinals really be back to turning in consistent, flowing offense? For four straight games,...
• 9/4 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 135: Jekyll Not Hyde: One never knows what will happen when Jaime Garcia takes the mound. Sometimes Jekyll appears and pitches brilliantly, and sometimes...
• 9/4 MLB Injury News: Chris Carpenter Could Make Late-Season Return for Cardinals: While the thoracic outlet surgery that St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Chris Carpenter underwent this July was...
• 9/4 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Carpenter, Miller and playoff-race piggybackingWill Chris Carpenter return to starting in September for the St. Louis Cardinals? Who might his pitching partner be?...
• 9/3 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals Come Close, Lose Another 1-Run Game: The St. Louis Cardinals lack of success in one-run games has become a frustration not only for fans, but also for team management...
• 9/3 El Maquino: CARDS WIN, MILLER COMING UP, CARP COMING BACK AND QUESTIONING MIKE MATHENY: THE POSTGAME Looks like the Cards have finally figured out how to piece some runs together.  For today, at least. They put up...
• 9/3 Mastersball.com: LABR FAAB Report: Week of September 3: Each week, your friends at Mastersball will post the results of the weekly LABR FAAB run, featuring the winning bid as well...
• 9/3 High Heat Stats: Sunday NL Summary: A quick rundown of games from today’s NL action involving the leading teams. Nats 4, Cardinals 3 – Stephen Strasburg went...
• 9/3 STLCardinalBaseball: Mellow Mike And The Lack Of Fire: When we were the first Cardinal outlet to accurately predict and lobby for the hiring of Mike Matheny as a replacement for Tony...
• 9/3 Rum Bunter: Photoshopping Our Way Through All 27 Pedro Alvarez Bombs: Pedro Alvarez has hit 25 homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pittsburgh Pirates Pedro Alvarez has 27 home runs this season. ...
• 9/2 El Maquino: LYNN BLOWS IT: THE BIG PIECE What Mike Matheny should have done with the lineup today: Not start Pete Kozma.  The guy’s  on the Major...
• 9/2 District On Deck: Game 133: Nationals 4, Cardinals 3: As  Stephen Srasburg’s starts in 2012 start to dwindle, each one offers new moments to savor. The right-hander was dominant...
• 9/2 STLCardinalBaseball: The Final Month – A Few Questions: One of the most frustrating and tumultuous seasons in Cardinal history has come down to its final month. Due to a variety of factors,...
• 9/2 mlbreports.com : Will The Cardinals Repeat?: Sunday September 2, 2012             John Burns: The season for the reigning World Champions the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 9/1 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Boast Strength in Starting Pitching: Cardinals have young starting pitchers under team control At 71-61, the St. Louis Cardinals own a half-game lead over Pittsburgh...
• 9/1 Call to the Pen: Chris Carpenter May Pitch in 2012: After missing all of this season with various shoulder-related ailments, St. Louis Cardinal starter Chris Carpenter has recently...

• 8/31 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan: 7-2012:   Cards Struggle – The St. Louis Cardinals are struggling right now and have picked the worst possible time to do so, as...
• 8/31 Redbird Rants: Redbird Roundtable Discussion #1 – Shelby Miller:     As you, our readers, have probably figured out, Redbird Rants is not a one-man show. We are a team of passionate...
• 8/31 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: 3 Straight Losses Have Cardinals Reeling: Thursday night marked the St. Louis Cardinals third straight loss.  With a chance to gain ground on the Cincinnati Reds in the...
• 8/31 District On Deck: Game 130: Nationals 8, Cardinals 1: The Nationals began a long home stand with their first series against the St. Louis Cardinals this year. Edwin Jackson pitched...
• 8/30 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 131: Dead In The Water: A mumbling, wild Jaime Garcia looked more like a Mexican Rick Ankiel, throwing head-high curveballs and home run pitches almost...
• 8/29 Blog Red Machine: Snub Providing Motivation for Cueto, Phillips: Upon the announcement of the National League All-Star team, two Reds players whose exclusion created a harsh backlash were those...
• 8/29 Rum Bunter: Pedro Alvarez Has 25 Home Runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates: Here They All Are in Their Photoshop Glory:   Pedro Alvarez has hit 25 homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The sound off of Pedro Alvarez’s bat last night at PNC...
• 8/28 i70baseball.com: An in-depth look at the National League Wild CardThis past offseason, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig expanded the playoff system. ...
• 8/28 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Lohse Helps His Cause & Holliday Goes Deep: A rain delay is the only thing that prevented Kyle Lohse from having yet another quality start last night.  He did however go...
• 8/28 Redbird Rants: How Optimistic Are You?: Last week, the Cardinals swept the Astros and then took two of three from the Reds in Cincinnati.  Unfortunately, their week...
• 8/28 The Cardinal Nation Blog: It is time for us to stop taking Kyle Lohse for grantedSt. Louis Cardinal Kyle Lohse has quietly put together one of the best seasons among National League pitchers....
• 8/27 El Maquino: LEADING MVP CANDIDATE HELPS CARDS BEAT BUCS: THE BIG PIECE I don’t know why Matt Holliday doesn’t get the publicity that a hitter of his caliber deserves, but...
• 8/27 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 128: Raining On A Pirate Parade: The Pirates have been something of a Cinderella story this season, defying the odds to make a three-horse race in the National...
• 8/27 StanGraphs: The Demise of Sir Lancelot is Greatly Exaggerated: After another shaky outing Friday night against the Reds, Lance Lynn finds himself swapped out of the rotation, replaced by the...
• 8/26 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals’ comeback in Cincinnati marks beginning of division race: The most impressive part of Friday’s game, and the part that should give Cardinals fans optimism for September, is that the...
• 8/25 El Maquino: PITCHING LAPSES AND NO-SHOW O LEADS TO LOSS: THE POSTGAME > Lapses by Jaime Garcia and Brandon Dickson killed the Cards in this game. Jaime’s came when a should-have-been...
• 8/25 Redbird Rants: Matheny preparing the Cards for October: Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. What better way to start that beating the Cincinnati Reds on a Friday night. The Cardinal’s...
• 8/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Joe Kelly moved into rotation: Confirming a previous report, St. Louis Cardinals P Joe Kelly has been moved into the starting rotation and will start against...[+] the Pittsburgh Pirates Wednesday, Aug. 29. SP Lance Lynn has been moved into the bullpen but will be unavailable for several days.
• 8/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn could be moved to bullpen: A move which would send St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn to the bullpen appears to be imminent. P Joe Kelly would move from the...[+] bullpen into the starting rotation.
• 8/25 Redbird Rants: Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary.:   It’s August 25, 2012.  On this day in 1944, the Allies liberated Paris, in 1950, President Harry Truman ordered...
• 8/24 Redlegs Review: 10 facts about the Cardinals series: Friday marks the return of the St. Louis Cardinals (68-56) to Great American Ball Park as they square off for a weekend...
• 8/24 Redlegs Review: Reds settle for a series split in Philly, lose 4-3 in 11: The Reds (76-50) had their sights on winning a series in Philadelphia on Thursday night, but were forced to settle...
• 8/24 El Maquino: LYNN AND KELLY DISTANCE THEMSELVES BEFORE CARDS BUST UP LATOS: THE POSTGAME The Cards looked dead in the water through the sloppy first five innings after Lance Lynn was barrelled over in the...
• 8/24 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 125: Message Sent!: In the first head-to-head confrontation between the Cardinals and the Reds since the Cardinals suffered a humiliating sweep after...
• 8/24 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: The Angels try to gain on Detroit in the wild card race as they send Zack Greinke against Rick Porcello. Since joining the Angels,...
• 8/24 Full Spectrum Baseball: 25 Random Thoughts on BaseballRandom thoughts are fun. Baseball is fun. Put the two together and you get 25 Random Thoughts on Baseball!...
• 8/23 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Kyle Lohse, Cardinals: It’s unclear whether there will be room for Kyle Lohse in the Cardinals’ rotation next year following the extension signed...
• 8/22 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 123: Quality Starter: With the infamous demon Bud Norris on the mound for Houston, the Cardinals turned to their surprising ace Kyle Lohse for help....
• 8/22 StanGraphs: Contract Extension: Cardinals Ink Westbrook to Extra Year, Love Grounders: Since he’s one of our own, we’re going to do a little bit more analysis in the Jake Westbrook extension than we normally...
• 8/22 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Don’t forget about Carlos Martinez: How does Carlos Martinez’ Double-A results stack up against more highly-touted prospects Shelby Miller and Trevor Rosenthal?...
• 8/22 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The New Deal: Jake Westbrook: Cardinals just announced that the team has reached an agreement with pitcher Jake Westbrook that keeps him in St. Louis through...
• 8/21 El Maquino: WESTBROOK GETS AN EXTENSION, WAINWRIGHT HAS A CAREER-BEST GAME: THE POSTGAME When you play the historically-bad Astros, you can’t lose.  And boy did the Cardinals not lose on Tuesday...
• 8/21 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Make First Rotation Decision by Extending Westbrook: Steady starting pitching has been the hallmark of the St. Louis Cardinals in recent years. Even without Adam Wainwright in 2011...
• 8/21 Redbird Dugout: Westbrook signs new deal: The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have signed Jake Westbrook to a new deal. The deal is essentially a 1 year deal...
• 8/21 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Extend Jake Westbrook: 5:22pm: Westbrook will earn $8.75MM in 2013, while the 2014 mutual option is for $9.5MM with a $1MM buyout, according to Joe Strauss...
• 8/21 Redbird Rants: Who Would Win?: In 2011, the St. Louis Cardinals caught the Atlanta Braves to win the National League Wild Card.  They then went on to win the...
• 8/19 El Maquino: HERE COMES THE CAVALRY: THE POSTGAME Setting aside for now the obvious standings implications, only two important things happened after 19 innings and...
• 8/19 Throw the Challenge Flag: Game 120: Erik Bedard runs out of gas early, offense blows multiple chances: A series against the St. Louis Cardinals is never easy but usually it's because of how well they play. Not this time. The...
• 8/19 i70baseball.com: Next two weeks could determine St. Louis Cardinals fate: The Cardinals will get a three-game home series against the Houston Astros as an opportunity to build some collateral before they...
• 8/19 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals hold off ninth inning rally: The Cardinals rallied back from a loss on Friday night to hold off the Pirates in the ninth inning and pick up a key victory and...
• 8/18 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 120: The Return Of Clutch: The return of Yadier Molina proved inspirational, as his two-run double in the fifth rescued the Cardinals from an imploding performance...
• 8/18 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pirates Game 120 Recap - Cardinals 5, Pirates 4: In a baseball season there is a general rule of thumb when it comes to a team's record that will stay true for most teams that...
• 8/18 Operation Shutdown: Gameday 120 - Cardinals: Pirates (66-53) at Cardinals (64-55)4:05 PM ETTV: FOX Busch Stadium - St. Louis, MOStarting PitchersPittsburgh - Erik Bedard...
• 8/18 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Pirates at Cardinals: Pirates (66-53) at Cardinals (64-55) 4:05 PM EST–Busch Stadium, St. Louis Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: FOX The Bucs meet...
• 8/18 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Erik Bedard faces Lance Lynn as the Pirates and Cardinals continue their battle for the NL Wild Card. A Pittsburgh win today means...
• 8/18 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 120: Recap What’s more important, the win or Jmac’s great start? I think they are about equal.  We need two things to...
• 8/17 Climbing Tal's Hill: Astros looking for revenge against D-Backs: When the Astros traveled to Arizona last month for a three-game series against the Diamondbacks things didn’t turn out so...
• 8/16 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals, Braves taking different rotation route toward Wild CardsThe St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves may have both considered a six-man rotation, but the latter is doing it....
• 8/15 El Maquino: CARDS HEAD INTO SHORTHANDED STRETCH WITH A BLOWOUT: THE BIG PIECE: THE FUENTES IMPLICATIONS We don’t know why Brian Fuentes left the Cardinals in the heat of a playoff race;...
• 8/14 El Maquino: THE BULLPEN DID IT / TAKING THE NATS’ GM TO TASK: THE BIG PIECE: TAKING THE NATS’ GM TO TASK Before the season began, they were coming off an 80-81 season with optimism that...
• 8/14 El Maquino: CARDS SCRATCH OUT A SWEEP: THE POSTGAME: CARDS 3, BREWERS 0 > It was another play-to-the-score game for the Cardinals in their it’s-a-boy blue...
• 8/14 The Cardinal Nation Blog: What to do when Jaime Garcia returns?: The St. Louis Cardinals will need to make a change to their rotation when Jaime Garcia returns on Sunday. Vote on your preference....
• 8/13 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals can’t come through in extra innings: The Cardinals went into Philadelphia last night with a 1-1 series tie but couldn’t get a run in extra inning baseball. After...
• 8/13 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week in Review—-8/6/12 to 8/12/12: This past week featured a 4 game series against the Giants at home and then a 3 game series against the Phillies on the road....
• 8/12 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 115: Not Enough: The Cardinals came in hoping to win the series in Philly and bring the Cardinals to a two game winning streak.  After a not so...
• 8/10 PhoulBallz.com: Series Preview: Cardinals vs. Phillies, August 10-12: It's not the usual full preview, but here is the pitching match up review for this weekend's Cardinals vs. Phillies series...Friday,...
• 8/8 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals can’t return from Lynn’s early struggles: The Cardinals dropped a close game to the Giants on Tuesday night. Lance Lynn gave up a three run home run in the first inning...
• 8/7 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 110: Flashes Of Leather: A frustrating outing from Lance Lynn kept the game out of reach despite another huge game from Allen Craig. Despite showing off...
• 8/7 Giants Nirvana: Buster Posey, Barry Zito Help Giants Even Series: Well, that went better than I’d expected. With Barry Zito going up against a tremendous offense, I wasn’t exactly...
• 8/7 StanGraphs: San Francisco Giants (59-49) at St. Louis Cardinals (59-49): 9:53 PM: That’s another win, the fourth in a row for the now 60-49 Cardinals. The Reds are losing to Milwaukee 5-2 as the...
• 8/6 StanGraphs: Live Blog: San Francisco Giants (59-49) at St. Louis Cardinals (59-49): 9:53 PM: That’s another win, the fourth in a row for the now 60-49 Cardinals. The Reds are losing to Milwaukee 5-2 as the...
• 8/6 The Baseball Page: 2012 MLB Saber-Metrics Power Rankings: If you asked baseball saber-metrics guru Bill James to name the best...
• 8/6 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Wanted: Workhorse, Consumer of Innings: Set aside all concerns about the relative importance of FIP, xFIP, and quality starts.  Free your mind of the shackles that ERA...
• 8/5 The Baseball Page: National League Post-Deadline Preview: This Ain't a Scene, It's An Arms Race (Part Two) NL Central: This...
• 8/3 Reviewing the Brew: MLB2k12 Franchise: Brewers Game Two: Okay, maybe I should quit while I’m ahead because all franchise mode has done so far is make me miss Zack Greinke. In game...
• 8/3 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan: Issue 3-2012:   Twenty Win Club – Now that we have less than sixty games before playoffs, it’s time to see how close Lance Lynn...
• 8/3 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals can’t control late inning onslaught: The Cardinals dropped a game to the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night thanks to some late inning crooked numbers put up by the...
• 8/2 Pitchers Hit Eighth: A New and Very Depressing Stat Called EffWAR: Beyond the Pythagorean win/loss method of calculating what a team’s record should be based on a number of factors, even...
• 8/2 MLBTradeRumors: Updates On Converted Relievers Now Starting: Building a rotation through free agency can be expensive and frustrating, so teams are understandably open to alternatives. One...

• 7/30 Redbird Dugout: The Monday Musial – July 30th: Here the Cardinals’ sit today, 7.5 games back in the NL Central with a 54-48 record after 102 games. After 102 games last year...
• 7/30 i70baseball.com: Winning Games and Spinning Wheels: The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 9-6 Friday afternoon. It was the Cards’ fourth victory over the Cubs in the...
• 7/30 Pitchers Hit Eighth: No Sacred Cows Here: Be realistic, and please admit that you have certain players you do not wish to see leave the Cardinals or the farm system. ...
• 7/28 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals put on power show against the Cubs: The Cardinals tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in each of the first five innings on Friday. They held off a late...
• 7/27 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 100: Homer Happy Hundred: Where to begin? In typical Cards/Cubs style, this game proved to be an aggressive slugfest. Both starters were clubbed early...
• 7/27 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals unload on Dodgers for series win: The Cardinals hosted the Dodgers for the fourth game in their four game set. Going into the game with a 2-1 series lead, they...
• 7/26 Baseball News Source: Andrew McCutchen, Chris Sale and MLB’s Biggest Salary Bargains: Baseball players get paid. Period. North America’s only major team sport to operate without a salary cap has often been...
• 7/26 Through The Fence Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals quietly making another late push for postseason: There hasn’t been much talk lately about the St. Louis Cardinals, as the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds have taken the...
• 7/25 StanGraphs: Appreciating Matt Holliday: In yesterday’s post, Brian examined Adam Wainwright‘s season and concluded that fans needed to realize he’s...
• 7/23 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week In Review: 7/16/12 To 7/22/12:   The St. Louis Cardinals had a 4-2 week this week, without much shift in the overall NL Central standings.  Though there...
• 7/23 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Headley, Longoria, Lynn: On this date three years ago left-hander Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game against the Rays with an impressive effort punctuated...
• 7/23 High Heat Stats: Sunday game notes: Belated additions above the line: Dodgers 8, @Mets 3 (12): “LITROD” — Luck is the residue of design. Ramon...
• 7/23 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals complete sweep with 7-0 trouncing: The Cardinals successfully swept the rebuilding Chicago Cubs with a 7-0 victory yesterday. The sweep was necessary to keep pace...
• 7/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn on a roll: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn has allowed one run in his last 19 innings, spanning three starts. He threw six shutout innings...[+] to beat the Chicago Cubs Sunday, July 22.
• 7/22 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 95: Return To Form: The Cardinals spent the weekend whipping the hapless Cubs, capping their resurgence with a 7-0 clubbing. Lance Lynn gained his...
• 7/22 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals sink Cubs with record-tying seventh inning: I guess the Cardinals didn’t appreciate my comment about not being able to score runs. Saturday’s game was looking...
• 7/19 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals drop series to Brewers, fall down the standings: The downside of being a writer is that sometimes life takes over. I just recently started a new job and I was working at 5 AM...
• 7/19 StanGraphs: Things Have to Get Better, Right?: Alright, so everything’s not going so well at the moment for the Cardinals. Several key players have missed time due to...
• 7/17 STLCardinalBaseball: Game 90: Some magic left after all: After eight innings of excruciating and painfully boring baseball, the ice cold bats of the Cardinals roared in the ninth to pull...
• 7/17 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week in Review—-7/9/12 to 7/15/12 All Star Week:   All Star week makes it a shortened week for baseball.  I will briefly recap the All Star game focusing on the contributions...
• 7/17 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 3 Milwaukee Brewers 2: The St. Louis Cardinals Cap scored three runs in the ninth inning to come back and beat Milwaukee 3-2. - (Photo credit: Wikipedia) St....
• 7/17 Call to the Pen: MLB Scoreboard: Cincinnati Reds Drop Game to Arizona Diamondbacks, Lose Joey Votto: NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Cincinnati Reds 3 The Cincinnati Reds didn’t lose a game in the standings to the...
• 7/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn fans 10 in ND: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed a run on six hits and no walks while fanning 10 in seven innings in his no-decision...[+] against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, July 16.
• 7/16 STLCardinalBaseball: Player Spotlight: Trevor Rosenthal: This season the bullpen has been nothing short of a disaster, also it has been quite the carousel. Though the set-up and closer...
• 7/16 Reviewing the Brew: Taking a look at the Brewers’ July: The one thing that the Milwaukee Brewers (42-46) can count on from here on out are tough games. July poses no time for the Brewers...
• 7/16 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals can’t avoid sweep; lose to Reds: The Cardinals came up short in the third straight game against the Reds last night as they dropped the third game 4-2. Due to...
• 7/16 The Cardinal Nation Blog: What does the Trevor Rosenthal promotion mean?Looking at the St. Louis Cardinals pitching prospect’s surprising jump from Double-A to the majors from multiple angles....
• 7/16 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Cardinal Nation Showing Baby Reesa Some Love: The response to the “STARS 4 Baby Reesa” so far has been nothing short of overwhelming.  The wonderful people at...
• 7/16 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: It’s return night in Boston as Kevin Youkilis leads the White Sox against his former team and Carl Crawford makes his 2012...
• 7/13 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy: Three keys to Cardinals second half: The St. Louis Cardinals are once again in the play off mix and here are three keys to their success during the second half...
• 7/12 Redbird Dugout: The Monday Musial – July 9th: For some reason the post didn’t post as scheduled on Monday. However, here it is! Read everything like it happened on Monday....
• 7/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Giving Lance Lynn a few more days off: The St. Louis Cardinals have decided to push back SP Lance Lynn a few days to give him a few more days of rest. He was expected...[+] to start Saturday, July 14, but will now start Monday, July 16. He has pitched 103 innings so far this season, which is 17 2/3 innings less than he did the entire 2011 season.
• 7/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Shelby Miller no longer untouchable?: The St. Louis Cardinals are looking to acquire pitching, and top prospect SP Shelby Miller may no longer be untouchable in trade...[+] talks. The Cardinals would like to acquire an impact starting pitcher that would allow SPs Lance Lynn or Joe Kelly to shift to the bullpen.
• 7/11 The Baseball Page: MLB Power Rankings: Week 15: It was a big week in baseball, as we head into the All Star break. Texas...
• 7/11 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinal All Stars do the team proud with solid showing: The Cardinals had six All Stars this year in total. Rafael Furcal and Carlos Beltran were chosen to start, Yadier Molina was initially...
• 7/10 StlSportsMinute.com: Lance Lynn does not appear in All-Star game: Lance Lynn never had a chance to give Tony La Russa the ball in the All-Star game on Tuesday night.  That is because...
• 7/9 Baseball Reality Tour: First Half MLB Awards: It's the All-Star Break. Time to see how our MLB Awards ballots would look if voting on performances of the first half.AL Jackie...
• 7/8 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy: Mozeliak must fix Cardinals bullpen: St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliaz has some work to do on his bullpen if he hopes his team can repeat in 2012....
• 7/8 StlSportsMinute.com: Poll: Should the Cardinals re-sign Kyle Lohse?: Kyle Lohse will be a free agent at the end of the season. Should the Cardinals bring the quality starter back?  Vote...
• 7/6 StlSportsMinute.com: Tony La Russa fires back at Dusty Baker: Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is taking some heat for not selecting some former division rivals...
• 7/6 StlSportsMinute.com: Has Lance Lynn pitched himself out of an All-Star selection?: With Lance Lynn's recent struggles, it will be hard for National League All-Star manager Tony La Russa to select him...
• 7/6 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: Pittsburgh Pirates 7 St. Louis Cardinals 3: The St. Louis Cardinals fell 7-3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday afternoon. - (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The...
• 7/6 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 83: A Fine Lynn: Lance Lynn was forced to be perfect thanks to a stubborn offense, but he eventually received a handful of runs as the Cardinals...
• 7/6 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals take fourth game in series with Rockies: The Cardinals hosted the Rockies in the fourth game of a four game set. The Redbirds entered the night with a 2-1 lead in the...
• 7/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn back in All-Star form: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed four hits and two walks while striking out seven in six shutout innings to beat the...[+] Colorado Rockies Thursday, July 5. He was 0-2 with a 9.98 ERA in his previous three starts.
• 7/5 Redbird Rants: Just Before the Break: Just 4 games remain before the 2012 All-Star break for the St. Louis Cardinals.  All 4 are home games, which should bode well...
• 7/5 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Wainwright holds Rockies for Cardinals second win of series: The Cardinals were outhit last night, but came away with a 4-1 win against the Colorado Rockies last night. The win ensured a...
• 7/3 StanGraphs: Chris Carpenter is Done for the Year, No One is Surprised: As expected, we learned today that Chris Carpenter will miss the entire 2012 season thanks to the mystery injury that has kept...
• 7/3 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Carp Season Over: Chris Carpenter will have season-ending surgery which means that he will not throw a truly meaningful pitch in the 2012 season. ...
• 7/3 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The Even More or Less Unofficial Twitter Guide to Reds and Brewers Fans – The ReBUTTal: In case you missed it, Bob Netherton over at the blog On the Outside Corner absolutely made every attempt to paint the black yesterday...
• 7/2 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Biggest Small Market All-Star Snubs: We need to face facts folks. The All-Star game, with voting starting just a few weeks into the season, is a po**** contest...
• 7/2 Yankees Fans Unite: Travel Day: It’s Almost All-Star Game time, a midseason look at individual awards leaders, and more as MLB approaches the halfway mark...
• 7/1 Raise the Jolly Roger: McCutchen and Hanrahan make All-Star team; McDonald, Grilli, and Burnett snubbed: The rosters for next week’s All-Star game have been released, and two Pirates are on the list. That’s one more than...
• 7/1 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals drop third straight: The Cardinals took on the Pirates in the second game of their three game series last night. The results weren’t as bad as...

• 6/30 Raise the Jolly Roger: Big day (if Cutch is OK): Other than a briefly-terrifying  (but apparently not serious) injury to Andrew McCutchen, today’s game was pretty darn...
• 6/30 Throw the Challenge Flag: Game 77: Jeff Karstens Strong, Pedro Alvarez Hits Grand Slam: Coming into Saturday afternoon's game with the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates were on a three game winning streak....
• 6/30 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 78: Cold On A Hot Afternoon: Lance Lynn‘s third straight ineffective start combined with clueless at-bats to doom the Cardinals (40-38) in a flat 7-3...
• 6/30 Operation Shutdown: Gameday 77 - Cardinals:  Pirates (41-35) at Cardinals (40-37)2:15 PM ETTV: ROOT SportsBusch Stadium - St. Louis, MOStarting PitchersPittsburgh -...
• 6/30 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pirates Game 77 Recap - Pirates 7, Cardinals 3: Last night was an offensive explosion that gave the Pirates a fairly easy win but today it was a great mixture of clutch offense...
• 6/30 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 77: That was fun, huh?  Even a pretty awful Kevin Correia start couldn’t ruin the night.  Remember back when the Pirates were...
• 6/30 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals demolished in series opener against Pirates: The Cardinals kicked off a three game home set with the Pirates in poor fashion on Thursday night as they were defeated 14-5....
• 6/30 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Pirates at Cardinals: Pirates (41-35) at Cardinals (40-37) 2:15 PM EST–Busch Stadium, St. Louis Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT Sports The...
• 6/27 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 76: They Shoot Bullpens, Don’t They?: Joe Kelly produced yet another quality start full of **** and vinegar, and had a chance to win his second game. However, he left...
• 6/27 StanGraphs: Kyle Lohse is Worth a Big Contract: In 2008, the Cardinals inked Kyle Lohse to a one-year deal worth $4.25 million late in the spring. Lohse then proceeded to throw...
• 6/27 STLCardinalBaseball: What Starting Pitchers Should The Cardinals Pursue By The Trade Deadline?: It’s becoming painfully obvious that the Cardinals need to acquire at least one starting pitcher and one lefty reliever...
• 6/25 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals set to begin second surge as All-Star break approaches: The St. Louis Cardinals began their World Series title defense in impressive fashion, going 14-8 in April and leading the NL Central...
• 6/25 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week In Review 6/19/12 to 6/24/12:   The St. Louis Cardinals sure know how to make things interesting.  They mustered only one win against the Detroit Tigers,...
• 6/25 Bus League Baseball: Projected USA 2013 World Baseball Classic Roster: Pitchers: With the announcement a couple weeks ago that Joe Torre will manage Team USA in the 2013 World Baseball Classic, I can justify...
• 6/25 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals complete sweep of Kansas City Royals: The Cardinals entered Kauffman Stadium with the sour taste of a 1-2 series loss against the Royals at home. With returning players...
• 6/24 STLCardinalBaseball: Game 73: Royal Sweep: The Cardinals came into the third game of the series with brooms in hand and ready to continue their winning streak.  Behind...
• 6/24 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals take second game with great Wainwright start: After demolishing the Royals on Friday, the Cardinals continued their offensive onslaught yesterday with an 8-2 victory over the...
• 6/22 Kings of Kauffman: I-70 Series Preview Cardinals at Royals June 22-24: This weekend the I-70 series has the defending champions making their way west to Kansas City. Last week the two teams played...
• 6/22 Redbird Rants: Is Hope On The Horizon?:   In my first Redbird Rants Article I noted that there are several positives to look at when analyzing the Cardinals 2012...
• 6/21 Redbird Rants: Interview with TBS Baseball Analyst John Smoltz: I recently read Starting and Closing by longtime Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz, who briefly played for the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 6/21 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Cardinals’ Top Ten Pitching Starts of 2012 by Game Score: Jake Westbrook sure twirled a gem last night didn’t he? Look at the smile on his face at the end of the game, shaking hands...
• 6/20 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: They Lince-come and they Lince-go: It’s a sad day when you realize that your favorite player in all of sports, well second to Steve Nash, is on the brink of complete...
• 6/20 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 68: Without A Fight: Lance Lynn labored through a rough night against Detroit as his offense stumbled behind him. The Cardinals managed just three...
• 6/20 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals drop first game in series with Detroit: The Cardinals have really developed a bad habit of dropping the first game. They have now lost the first game in their last six...
• 6/19 Phillies Nation: Hamels Cruises To 10th Win: The Phillies started out their 10 game home stand the right way defeating the Colorado Rockies 7-2.  Cole Hamels looked fantastic...
• 6/19 Operation Shutdown: Power Rankings: 6/19: ESPN's weekly MLB Power Rankings came out last night, and the Pirates are sitting in the 16th spot. I think that the Pirates...
• 6/19 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Lance Lynn and the Cardinals visit Detroit to face Justin Verlander. Lynn goes for his 11th win to tie R.A. Dickey for the major...
• 6/18 Full Spectrum Baseball: NL Pitching Planner: June 18 – June 24Fresh off his perfect game, Matt Cain headlines this week's list of two-start pitchers in the NL. ...
• 6/18 FanSided: Redbirds Week in Review---6/11/12 to 6/17/12:     The interleague odyssey continues.  Two series this week against the White Sox and the Royals.  The Cardinals...
• 6/17 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals’ pitching will determine team’s fateThe St. Louis Cardinals entered the 2012 season with a potent, yet aging, offense that was prone to injuries. ...
• 6/16 STLCardinalBaseball: Game 65: A Royal pain: The Cardinals bats looked rattled as they could barely muster up some runs and the game ended in a dramatic fashion. With two...
• 6/16 i70baseball.com: Signs of Life: This week, the St. Louis Cardinals began to show what they are capable of again, at least from a pitching standpoint. But they...
• 6/15 High Heat Stats: Thursday early games / Late Wednesday notes: @Reds 12, Indians 7: Joey Votto reversed a 2-0 deficit with a 3-run bomb, Brandon Phillips had a second straight big game, and...
• 6/15 60ft6in.com: Factor12 Leaders: Week 10: The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers....
• 6/15 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Freese powers Cardinals to a series win: The Cardinals took on the White Sox in the deciding third game of their three game set. The White Sox won the first game, while...
• 6/14 STLCardinalBaseball: Case for Lance Lynn to start the All Star game: With the All Star game less than a month away, I think it is fair for us to take a look ahead and think of who will be starting...
• 6/14 i70baseball.com: A tale of two teams: In today's world, most major league teams don't have the depth to withstand a constant rash of injuries, and the Cardinals are...
• 6/14 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Lance Lynn shuts down White Sox as Cardinals even series: I don’t know what’s happened to Lance Lynn, but I like it. It was starting to look like he had hit a wall, but his...
• 6/14 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Lance Lynn tops Dizzy Dean but still chases Bob GibsonOK, it was just one stat over two starts, but St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn logged two rare high-strikeout games....
• 6/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn dynamite: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed three hits and a walk while striking out a career-high 12 batters in 7 1/3 scoreless...[+] frames for the win over the Chicago White Sox Wednesday, June 13.
• 6/14 Baseball Musings: Night of the Pitcher: In addition to R.A. Dickey and Matt Cain, a number of pitchers hurled gems Wednesday night. Felix Doubront of Boston allowed three...
• 6/13 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 63: Lynncinerator: For once Lance Lynn didn’t have 17 runs of support, but it didn’t matter. Sasquatch mowed through the White Sox,...
• 6/13 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: The Nationals go for a sweep of the Blue Jays as youngsters battle in Toronto. Stephen Strasburg takes on Kyle Drabek. The two...
• 6/12 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 62: No Support: When your starter surrenders just two runs, you should have a good shot at winning the game. However, the Cardinals’ (31-31)...
• 6/11 The Cardinal Nation Blog: How rough was the Cardinals’ last 30 days?Looking back at the St. Louis Cardinals’ play over the last 30 days does not provide comfort....
• 6/10 FanSided: St. Louis Cardinals Notes: Joe KellyThe St. Louis Cardinals have transferred ...
• 6/9 i70baseball.com: Big TroubleThe St. Louis Cardinals placed lefty Jaime Garcia on the 15-day disabled list because of a shoulder strain....
• 6/8 STLCardinalBaseball: Game 58- Two in a Row: This is my first game recap EVER so bare with me here. Last night the struggling Cardinals learned even more bad news, placing...
• 6/8 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals crush Astros as Lynn fans career high: The Cardinals were apparently tired of people doubting their offensive prowess, so they decided to go off on the Houston Astros...
• 6/8 Redbird Rants: Garcia’s injury requires Cardinals to examine the trade market: With news coming out that Jaime Garcia is back in St Louis for examination after a poor two inning outing in his last start, it...
• 6/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn fans 11 in win: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed two runs on six hits and two walks while fanning a career-high 11 batters in his win...[+] over the Houston Astros Thursday, June 7.
• 6/6 STLCardinalBaseball: A Look Back At Past Cardinal Drafts: Many fans throw an apathetic glance at the MLB Draft. Unlike the drafts in many other sports, baseball players chosen in the baseball...
• 6/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | No innings limit for Lance Lynn: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn doesn't have an innings limit on him this season. Manager Mike Matheny said SP Chris Carpenter's...[+] (shoulder) return from injury 'would go into the equation.'
• 6/3 Baseball Reality Tour: MLB Pitchers with Best Stuff: The quantitative bounties found in Fangraphs linear weights help us understand most of the who, what, how, or why certain things...
• 6/2 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 53: When It Rains: One day after being no-hit by Johan Santana, the Cardinals fared only a little bit better against the knuckleball of R.A. Dickey....
• 6/2 i70baseball.com: United Cardinal Bloggers Progressive Game Blog: For the last four years, the United Cardinal Bloggers have come together to tell the story of an entire game from multiple voices...
• 6/2 Philly Phanatics: Phillies notebook: Hooray for Hollywood: Cole Hamels, nicknamed “Hollywood” by some for his SoCal origins and matinee idol look, has been nothing short of...
• 6/2 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Friday’s rainout works to the advantage of the Atlanta Braves as they skip Mike Minor and Brandon Beachy against Stephen...
• 6/1 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 52: Win Over Cardinals: Mets 8 Cardinals 0 OK, it’s out of the way. Can we move on, now, please? Mets Game Notes Unbelievable to see Cardinals hitters...
• 6/1 Up Along First: Series Preview: Mets Welcome Back Carlos Beltran and Cardinals for Wrap-Around Series: Tonight, the Mets begin a four-game series with the defending champion Cardinals. The Cardinals have been continuing on last year’s...
• 6/1 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Regression – The Silent Killer: Ask a group of Cardinal fans about why the team sits 1.5 games behind the Reds in the NL Central division, and the 2 words most...

• 5/30 STLCardinalBaseball: Down on the Farm: End of May: The Cardinals farm system really is proving its worth so far in the young season. Matt Adams has already been promoted and is...
• 5/29 Roto Think Tank: Valuations to Date: N.L. Pitchers: Last week I took at peek at what American League pitchers have earned to date. Today, I'll take a gander at what their National...
• 5/29 Full Spectrum Baseball: NL Pitching Planner: May 28 – June 3The NL two-fers feature some quality youngsters, some lefties and at least one veteran having a comeback year....
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn gets eighth win: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed two runs on five hits in seven innings against the Atlanta Braves Monday, May 28, to...[+] pick up his eighth win of the season. He struck out eight batters and walked one in the game.
• 5/26 Redbird Dugout: Good news on Jay, Linebrink: Yesterday came news on two guys that the Cardinals could really use right now, but both find themselves on the Disabled List....
• 5/24 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 44: April Form: The Cardinals returned to the kind of play that propelled them through a fairy tale April. Solid starting pitching, excellent...
• 5/24 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Happy Birthday Lance Lynn: It’s Lance Lynn‘s birthday, hence the reason for this post. Actually, Lance Lynn‘s birthday was 12 days ago,...
• 5/24 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals sweep Padres with offensive showing.: The Cardinals completed a sweep of the Padres with a good showing by the offense and a somewhat lucky start by Lance Lynn. Also,...
• 5/24 Chicken Friars: St Louis Cardinals Complete the Sweep of the San Diego Padres: The Padres were able to strike for three quick runs in the first inning, but they couldn’t hold the lead.  And they couldn’t...
• 5/23 Pitchers Hit Eighth: It’s Not Easy Being Greene:   Perhaps no Cardinals player receives more scrutiny day in, day out for performances in small sample sizes than Tyler Greene. ...
• 5/20 FanSided: St. Louis Cardinals Start to Resemble a M.A.S.H. Unit:   The injuries for the St. Louis Cardinals are starting to pile up at an alarming rate. The recent road trip has been brutal...
• 5/20 i70baseball.com: Testing the Depth: Questions about the health of the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals started popping up before the ink was dry on the contracts signed by...
• 5/19 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 39: Inexcusable: Facing baseball’s best team in May, the Cardinals’ offense fought valiantly while everything else collapsed as the...
• 5/18 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers host Cardinals in tilt between two of MLB's best, plus other notes: In the only non-interleague series, the Dodgers are hosting the Cardinals -- two of the most historic franchise in baseball,...
• 5/18 El Maquino: Breakdown: Cards Lose McClellan And Craig: A crappy news update whether you’re just now waking up or are just up too late: Kyle McClellan will hit the disabled list...
• 5/17 El Maquino: Back From The Dead!: Albert Pujols went yard for the second day in a row.  As you can see here, his swing is back to normal after being mechanically...
• 5/16 FanSided: Matheny Handles the First Slide:   It was statistically a matter of time before the St. Louis Cardinals hit a slight swoon.  You can't win them all is a...
• 5/15 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 34: Disappointed Mothers: In honor of Mother’s Day, the Cardinals gave away a David Freese bobblehead, North Star ice cream, and an entire series...
• 5/15 i70baseball.com: Time To Second Guess?Decisions based on small sample sizes can kill you....
• 5/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Several surprising names atop MLB stats in the early going: Wait a second. Carlos Beltran leads the National League in home runs? You read that correctly. Beltran, signed by the Cardinals...
• 5/14 FanSided: Redbird Rants Recap 5/7-5/13: Let's look back at the week that was Redbird fans as the Cardinals took on the Diamondbacks and the Braves [caption id="attachment_7......
• 5/14 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Lance Lynn struggles in first loss of the season:   In the Mother’s Day game, the pink bats were red hot for the Atlanta Braves as they handed Lance Lynn his first of...
• 5/14 El Maquino: > CARDS GET CUT UP BY THEIR FIRST TRUE CHALLENGE: Coming into this weekend’s Cardinals–Braves series, both of the top offenses in the League were set to bout in what...
• 5/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn loses first start: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn fell to 6-1 in his loss to the Atlanta Braves Sunday, May 13. He allowed three runs on four...[+] hits and three walks while fanning seven in six innings. He has struck out 27 batters in his last 25 2/3 innings over his past four starts.
• 5/13 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 33: Disappointed Mothers: In honor of Mother’s Day, the Cardinals gave away a David Freese bobblehead, North Star ice cream, and an entire series...
• 5/13 FanSided: Braves Win 7-4 in Series Finale Against Cardinals: Braves secure series sweep with a 7-4 win A combination of solid pitching and timely hitting led the Braves to a 7-4 victory and...
• 5/13 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Andy Pettitte returns to major league baseball as he starts for the Yankees against the Mariners. This is about as good as the...
• 5/12 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The Cardinals Have A Math Problem:   Indeed, the limitations of the 25 man roster impose certain constraints on the Cardinals that some teams do not have. ...
• 5/12 Redbird Rants: Could Chris Carpenter be an option out of the bullpen?: St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter has been on the shelf since early in spring training because of a nerve issue that caused...
• 5/11 Redbird Dugout: April Grades: Pitching Staff: Yesterday I tackled my April Grades for the Cardinals’ position players and today I will tackle the grades for the Cardinals’...
• 5/10 STLCardinalBaseball: What Should Happen To Lance Lynn?: One of the most exciting pitching-related stories of the new baseball season is the emergence of Lance Lynn as a potential top-of-the-rotation...
• 5/10 Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn: Star on the RiseLance Lynn‘s success with the St. Louis Cardinals this season is no fluke. It … [visit site to read more]...
• 5/10 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Tweenie Birds: Admit it.  The “Baby Birds” are no longer babies, if they ever really even were at all.  Maybe these guys seem new...
• 5/8 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 29: Back To Back To Back To Back: In a performance reminiscient of the bombing run they went on in Arizona in 2011, the Cardinals (18-11) ignited in the desert...
• 5/8 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Cardinals homer-happy in 9-6 win over Diamondbacks: Lance Lynn was once again excellent in five innings of shutout ball en route to his Major League leading sixth win of the season....
• 5/8 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The first five Cardinals in the order again go deepMonday was the second time in St. Louis Cardinals’ history that their first five hitters launched home runs....
• 5/8 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Lance Lynn Brings High Heat To The Desert: Just watch 1 Lance Lynn start, and you’ll notice that everything works off his four-seam fastball.  That’s the one...
• 5/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn now 6-0: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn gave up three hits to become the majors' first six-game winner and the Cardinals held on for...[+] a 9-6 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday, May 7.
• 5/7 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: The Rangers continue their tour of playing first-place teams as they travel to Baltimore to meet the Orioles. Matt Harrison takes...
• 5/6 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: This Week In Small Market Baseball - 5-6-2012: As a staunch Red Sox fan, there is a certain amount of relief in knowing that I have another outlet in which to pour...
• 5/6 Full Spectrum Baseball: NL Pitching Planner: May 7 – 13 Those of you languishing in the middle of the pack, don't fret, its still early....
• 5/4 60ft6in.com: Factor12 Rating Leaders: Week 4: The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers....
• 5/3 MLBTradeRumors: Updates On Converted Relievers Now Starting: One way for teams to avoid building their rotations through free agency is to move relief pitchers to the starting rotation. Few...
• 5/2 Operation Shutdown: Gameday 24 - Cardinals:  Pirates (10-13) at Cardinals (15-8)8:15 PM ETTV: ROOT SportsPhoto: mitchell3417 / Flickr.comBusch Stadium - St. Louis, MO...
• 5/2 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Pirates at Cardinals: Pirates (10-13) at Cardinals (15-8) 8:15 PM EST–Busch Stadium, St. Louis Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT Sports The...
• 5/2 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 24: That was not enjoyable.  The good news is that the Pirates still kept the bats going.  The bad news is the pitching fell apart....

• 4/30 The Cardinal Nation Blog: St. Louis Cardinals checkup: April 2012Looking back at how the National League Central leaders performed in April and ahead to their May schedule....
• 4/30 Pitchers Hit Eighth: 135 Is A Serious-er-er Number: That’s right.  The magic number for the Cardinals to eliminate the Chicago Cubs from the NL Central division title is 135. ...
• 4/29 El Maquino: > CASUALTIES OUTSIDE BUSCH: Conflicting reports have as many as a hundred people injured in a blown over tent near Busch Stadium after the Cards’  7-3...
• 4/28 STLCardinalBaseball: The Winning Formula: If you would have told me that Lance Lynn and Kyle Lohse would be 4-0, Jaime Garcia 2-0, Westbrook 3-1, and Wainwright 0-3 I...
• 4/27 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cardinals, Seager, Harper: Hank Aaron joined Babe Ruth and Willie Mays in the 600 home run club with a round tripper against the Giants on this date in...
• 4/27 Call to the Pen: Roy Oswalt Rumors: Cardinals Comfortable with Lance Lynn: On a Saturday morning in late January it was reported that the St. Louis Cardinals had reached an agreement with veteran free...
• 4/26 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Cardinals get back on track thanks to Lynn & Freese: Heading into today’s game, the St. Louis Cardinals had a modest two game losing streak, their longest of the season. It...
• 4/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn using fastball often: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn, who is the first pitcher to four wins in the National League, is throwing his fastball 63.4...[+] percent of the time this year. He's throwing his curveball 32 percent of the time and is getting hitters to swing at it, and when they do, they are missing 33 percent of the time. Lynn is inducing grounders 51 percent of the time thanks to his two-seam sinking fastball, and he's in the strike zone with the fastball 56 percent of the time. He is getting swings and misses on 26.4 percent of his fastballs, an impressive rate.
• 4/26 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Trout, Avila, Cardinals: On this date two years ago the Phillies signed Ryan Howard to a five-year, $125MM extension. Right away, critics of the deal...
• 4/26 Full Spectrum Baseball: Line of the Day: Lance Lynn: April 25, 2012: Lance Lynn pitched eight strong innings, allowing six hits, two walks and an earned run while striking out seven...
• 4/26 C70 At The Bat: No Sweep Yet Again, Thankfully: The Cards are having a good start to the season, I don't think anyone would deny that.  However, the fastest...
• 4/25 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 19: Broken Broomsticks: After several days of almost non-existent offense, the Cardinals finally erupted for both timely hitting and extra base power...
• 4/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn strong: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn gave up six hits in eight innings to beat the Chicago Cubs Wednesday, April 25, to become the...[+] league's first four-game winner. His eight innings was the longest outing by a starter on the team this season, and he threw 110 pitches and lowered his ERA to 1.33. Lynn allowed one run while walking two and striking out seven.
• 4/25 Baseball Musings: Deep Freese: David Freese doubles and homers, driving in three runs as the Cardinals defeated the Cubs 5-1. Freese doesn’t have that...
• 4/25 Through The Fence Baseball: Jarrod Parker, Chase Headley, Jake Peavy top waiver-wire pickups: This week marks the first major call-up of the season. No, it’s not Mike Trout or Bryce Harper. It’s not even Trevor...
• 4/23 Justin Jabs: Emma Award 3: Carlos Beltran: The St. Louis Cardinals keep rolling as Carlos Beltran earns this week’s Emma Award, following suit with David Freese in...
• 4/23 Through The Fence Baseball: Despite injuries, Cards still look like defending champs: We are now nearly three weeks into the 2012 season and, so far, things are looking pretty good for the defending world champs....
• 4/23 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Where would the Cardinals be without Lohse and Westbrook?Two starters some fans wanted the St. Louis Cardinals to get rid of are leading the staff in the early going in 2012....
• 4/23 The Baseball Page: Cardinals Defy Conventional Wisdom:   The 2012 season is barely two weeks old, and the Cardinals continue to find themselves perched atop the NL Central with...
• 4/23 C70 At The Bat: A Swashbuckling Weekend: Over the last couple of years, Pittsburgh has been like a home away from home for the Cardinals.  Even without Albert...
• 4/22 STLCardinalBaseball: 8 and 9: A bullpen love story: Last season the Cardinals began the year with Ryan Franklin as their closer and some guy named Miguel Batista as their setup man....
• 4/22 FanSided: The Cardinals are making history again: Our very own St. Louis Cardinals are making history once again, folks.  Never in the modern era has a major league club defended...
• 4/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn remains undefeated: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn (3-0) allowed one run on four hits over seven innings in a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates...[+] Friday, April 20, with one walk and four strikeouts. Lynn said after the game that his pitching mentality changed last season after he was moved from the starting rotation to the bullpen. 'What I did when they moved me to the bullpen last year was challenge hitters, get ahead in the count and make them hit my pitch,' he said. 'When I was starting, I tried to nitpick. I'd get behind in the count and have to give the hitters good pitches to hit. I learned a lot from pitching out of the bullpen. I'm more aggressive and more confident now as a starter.'
• 4/21 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Oswalt, Cardinals, White Sox, Rays: Highlights from the latest edition of Full Count from Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.. Teams are again reaching out to Roy ...
• 4/21 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Lynn’s effort lifts Cardinals over Pirates 4-1: Lance Lynn moved record to 3-0 with a seven-inning one-run performance as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates...
• 4/20 STLCardinalBaseball: Player Spotlight: Lance Lynn: Last year when Lance Lynn was called up from Memphis, I publicly declared that I was a fan and excited to see him pitch. My comrade,...
• 4/20 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 14: Lancing Pirates: Disaster struck the Crippled Cardinals in the opening seconds of the game, but the Redbirds hung tough against a very good Charlie...
• 4/20 Raise the Jolly Roger: Fizzled after the first: Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the Pirates looked good offensively in the first inning, then went silent for the rest...
• 4/20 Baseball Musings: Lynn-Sanity: Lance Lynn continues to impress as he allows four hit and one in seven innings against the Pirates as the Cardinals win 4-1. Lynn’s...
• 4/20 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Back in the ‘Burgh: Pirates vs. Cardinals: Cardinals (9-4) at Pirates (5-7) 7:05 PM EST–PNC Park, Pittsburgh Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: none in Pittsburgh //...
• 4/20 Bronx Baseball Daily: What will happen when Pettitte and Pineda return?: You would be hard pressed to find a person more excited than me when I found out that Andy Pettitte had signed a one year,...
• 4/19 This is Getting Old: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals – Game 13: Sure the road trip was a bit disappointing, but the Pirates got through a very tough part of the schedule, probably the toughest,...
• 4/17 James Smyth Broadcast: All-Time Bluefield Team - David Dellucci: Up next on the All-Time Bluefield-to-the-Bigs Team is outfielder David Dellucci. With 2.8 bWAR*, he makes the squad as a fourth-outfielder/lefty-bat-off-the-bench,...
• 4/16 C70 At The Bat: Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad: At this rate, the highlight reel for the 2012 Cardinals is going to be set to Meat Loaf.For the third consecutive series,...
• 4/15 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 10: A Carpenter’s Hammer: Rookie Matt Carpenter opened up his tool box and found the right power equipment to dismantle the reeling Chicago Cubs, giving...
• 4/15 El Maquino: > WESTBROOK’S A NEW MAN: Jake Westbrook gave up only one earned run in seven innings against the Cubs on Sunday, a day after five relievers were used....
• 4/15 Justin Jabs: Emma Award 2: Lance Lynn: The St. Louis Cardinals stand atop the NL Central following the second full week. They have the only winning record at 6-3, followed...
• 4/15 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: The Cards Rebound Against the Cubs on the Strength of Yadi’s Bat:   The St. Louis Cardinals shook off any signs of shellshock from the home opener to defeat the Chicago Cubs on another rainy...
• 4/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn making most of opportunity: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn is making the most of his chance in the rotation. He pitched effectively into the sixth inning...[+] Saturday, April 14, allowing one run and four hits with five strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings. He lowered his ERA to 1.50 while improving to 2-0.
• 4/14 Baseball Musings: Lance Lynn, Secret Starter: Lance Lynn pitches a short but strong start as the Cardinals defeat the Cubs 5-1. Lynn pitched into the sixth, allowing one run...
• 4/14 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 9: Ring A-Ding Ding: A two hour rain delay couldn’t dim the luster of a classy afternoon World Series ring ceremony. The clouds parted, the sun...
• 4/10 i70baseball.com: StatementSt Louis' hot start puts a shudder through the rest of the NL Central....
• 4/9 STLCardinalBaseball: Week in Review: Games 1-4: Though the Cardinals played in just four games in the first week of the season, it has been a pretty good showcase of what we...
• 4/9 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Cardinals take series from Brewers behind Lynn: Lance Lynn has never viewed himself as a replacement player. He feels he has the ability to be a major contributor to this team...
• 4/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn dominates: St. Louis Cardinals SP Lance Lynn allowed a run on two hits and a walk while fanning eight in 6 2/3 innings to beat the Milwaukee...[+] Brewers Sunday, April 8.
• 4/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: [Redbird Reveille] Lance Lynn, converted reliever: Another series win (one game against the Marlins counts, right?) for the home team, and in-division against another predicted...
• 4/8 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 4: Lynnsanity: Armed with a modified lineup, the Cardinals attempted to overcome their historical struggles against soft-throwing lefties. After...
• 4/4 i70baseball.com: Three points to ponderAs spring training ends, some questions remain for the St Louis Cardinals....
• 4/4 Call to the Pen: 2012 MLB Division Preview: NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals The Cardinals did lose their franchise guy in Albert Pujols, and ace starter Chris Carpenter is out indefinitely....
• 4/4 Redbird Rants: St Louis Cardinals Opening Day Preview:   It’s finally here! Opening Day has finally arrived! For many, including myself, this is a holiday on par with Christmas....

• 3/31 STLCardinalBaseball: A look at the Opening Day Roster: The Cardinals look different on Opening Day every year than they do by the end of the season. For instance the opening day closer...
• 3/30 i70baseball.com: Chris Carpenter’s injury is more of the same for St. Louis Cardinals: After nearly a full month of handwringing about starting pitcher Chris Carpenter’s health, the St. Louis Cardinals received...
• 3/30 Up Along First: Post-Game: Cardinals 6 Mets 6: The Mets and Cardinals tied today in ten innings down in Florida. THE GOOD: Lucas Duda hit an absolute bomb in the bottom of the...
• 3/30 Redbird Dugout: 2012 Previews: Starting Pitching: With just six posting days left before the beginning of the 2012 season, I don’t have much time to get things going in the whole...
• 3/30 C70 At The Bat: "He's Just Not Right": Well, isn't that just what you want to hear about a guy your team gave a two-year contract to in the offseason.Mike Matheny...
• 3/30 C70 At The Bat: A Step Back: While the Cardinals did win yesterday, 9-5 in comeback fashion over the Tigers, it was mainly a day of not-great news, starting...
• 3/30 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Take the Lynn, Leave the Oswalt: It’s not personal.  It’s business.  The St. Louis Cardinals do not need Roy Oswalt right now.  They may need him...
• 3/23 Baseball Musings: The Nerve of Him: Doctors sideline Chris Carpenter indefinitely. Chris Carpenter has nerve irritation that has caused weakness in his pitching shoulder...
• 3/23 C70 At The Bat: Starting Pitching Continues To Roll: You can't get too tied up into spring training results.  I remember a year not so long ago (though, of course, the actual...
• 3/22 El Maquino: > CARP’S INJURY COMPLICATES THINGS: The newness of the baseball season shattered by a bulging cervical disc in Chris Carpenter’s neck. The Cards’ Opening Day...
• 3/22 MLB Dirt: 2012 MLB Rookie Watch: NL Central: The other day I kicked off the first of a series of posts in which I will take a look at rookies who should or could have an impact...
• 3/22 FanSided: Chris Carpenter's Neck: What Happens Now?: [caption id="attachment_7142" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Feb 28, 2012; Jupiter, FL. USA; St. Louis Cardinals starting...
• 3/22 C70 At The Bat: Winning is Good, But Carpenter's Neck Is Not: The Cards won a ballgame again yesterday.  They lost a lot more.Chris Carpenter, who had been seemingly on the path...
• 3/22 Redbird Dugout: Carpenter shut down: Just as St. Louis Cardinals fans thought we were going to get our twin aces back, they’re gone just like that. Last year...
• 3/21 STLCardinalBaseball: Carpenter shutdown, won’t be ready for opening day: The Cardinals just can’t catch a break. Last season they lost Ace Adam Wainwright for the entire season, as well as numerous...
• 3/21 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Roy Oswalt: The Cardinals and Rangers -- Roy Oswalt’s preferred teams earlier this year -- both have questions in their rotations, but...
• 3/21 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Spend Baby Spend: In player payroll alone, the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals cost somewhere around $126.3M, and you may be hard-pressed to find anybody...
• 3/21 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Notes: Carpenter, Oswalt, Luhnow: The Cardinals may open the season without their ace starting pitcher. Here are the details along with reactions from around the...
• 3/20 FanSided: Editor's Letter: Are the St. Louis Cardinals built for an encore?: Dear Readers, We all love an encore performance and the St. Louis Cardinals are hoping to put one on for us this season. The...
• 3/20 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Beltran homers to aid Lynn and Cardinals past Braves: Carlos Beltran smacked his first home run of the spring to help Lance Lynn post the win for the St. Louis Cardinals over the Atlanta...
• 3/20 The Baseball Page: MLB Spring Training Roundup: Cardinals win against Braves 4-3MLB Spring Training Roundup...
• 3/20 i70baseball.com: Understanding McClellan, reliever onlyNot choosing Kyle McClellan to spot start may be due to more than just his appearance on the trade block this winter....
• 3/20 C70 At The Bat: Getting The Work In: It's getting to the part of spring training where the newness of seeing baseball scores and highlights is starting to wear...
• 3/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn has another successful outing: St. Louis Cardinals P Lance Lynn allowed just one run and two hits in five spring innings against the Atlanta Braves Monday, March...[+] 19, in his second spring start.
• 3/18 STLCardinalBaseball: Survivor: Jupiter – Who Will Win The Roster Battles: As we move into the final stretch of spring training, the team continues to be pruned into fighting shape. Here are the players...
• 3/15 Redbird Rants: Mental Lynnastics:   The St. Louis Cardinals are once again forced into a situation of preparing a traditional non-starter for a starting role...
• 3/15 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Lynn excels in first start: Lance Lynn probably doesn’t want to be referred to as ‘Plan B’. If he pitches like he did yesterday on a regular...
• 3/15 C70 At The Bat: A Loss And Some Cuts: It's nice in the spring to be able to just look at the game and take the positives out of it without worrying much about the...
• 3/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn impresses: St. Louis Cardinals P Lance Lynn gave up two singles and no runs in three innings while striking out three and walking none in...[+] his first Grapefruit League start against the Houston Astros Wednesday, March 14. He threw 29 of his 40 pitches for strikes.
• 3/14 Redbird Rants: The Numbers Game: What if Lance Lynn starts more than he relieves?: The St. Louis Cardinals are beginning their plan B scenario today with Lance Lynn taking the mound in a Spring Training game against...
• 3/14 C70 At The Bat: Bats Come Alive As Wainwright Cruises: There's no doubt that MLB.tv is already paying off.  With games going on in Jupiter, being able to occasionally see the...
• 3/13 i70baseball.com: Honor Bob ForschIf the Cardinals are not planning to honor Bob Forsch they should be....
• 3/13 C70 At The Bat: Two Games, Two Results: When you split your forces, I guess you should be happy with splitting the games.  Of course, you always want to...
• 3/13 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals sixth starter, what took you so long?On Monday, the St. Louis Cardinals moved Lance Lynn from relieving to starting. Why did they wait for an injury to another?...
• 3/12 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Rivera, Lynn, Guillen, Simmons: On this date in 1955, the New York Giants signed 17-year-old prospect Willie McCovey as an amateur free agent. Four years later...
• 3/12 C70 At The Bat: The Pain In The Cardinals' Neck: While "it could have been worse" is accurate and in some form relieving, it's not necessarily the phrase you want to hear...
• 3/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn to be stretched outSt. Louis Cardinals RP Lance Lynn will be stretched out as a starter as insurance for SP Chris Carpenter (neck)....[+] St. Louis Cardinals RP Lance Lynn will be stretched out as a starter as insurance for SP Chris Carpenter (neck).
• 3/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn to start Wednesday: St. Louis Cardinals RP Lance Lynn will make his first Grapefruit League start Wednesday, March 14, as he stretches out for a possible...[+] rotation spot. He has given up one run and four hits while striking out three in three innings this spring.
• 3/11 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Links: Concepcion, Cardinals, Soler: A few notes to pass along out of the NL Central, as the Cardinals gear up to defend their World Series title from a year ago...
• 3/9 C70 At The Bat: That's Our First Winner!: I don't think there were any champagne celebrations or any Gatorade showers, but Mike Matheny is now the proud owner of a...
• 3/8 C70 At The Bat: Making Progress Toward A Win: Well, it wasn't a loss.I don't want to say it's troubling to see two games in a row given up by the bullpen, because it...

• 2/23 Redbird Rants: Is Matheny Already Hurting the Team?: Mike Matheny is certainly imprinting his style on the Cardinals, and no games have been played yet. Matheny has said that Lance...
• 2/22 C70 At The Bat: Reversal About Fortune: The World Series MVP walked into camp yesterday.  But that wasn't the top story.The new third-place hitter walked into camp...
• 2/21 C70 At The Bat: Cardinals Continue To Flock Together: Every day, more and more Cardinals are on their way down to Jupiter.  Even though position players don't have to report...
• 2/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cardinals | Lance Lynn scratched: St. Louis Cardinals RP Lance Lynn (hamstring) won't throw a side session Tuesday, Feb. 21, due to left hamstring tightness. He...[+] said it's minor, and he should resume throwing the following day.
• 2/20 C70 At The Bat: Spring Is Springing: This weekend, those wonderful words came to fruition.  Pitchers and catchers reported and suddenly the world was a much better...
• 2/20 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals pitchers helping pitchersPitching veterans on the St. Louis Cardinals are working alongside prospects in spring training....
• 2/19 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Sorting out Cardinals spring uniform numbersWho is wearing what uniform number in 2012 St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp?...
• 2/15 The Daily Catch: Rebuilding and the Draft, 2012 Edition: This article is courtesy of our friends at U.S.S Mariner Written by: Jay Yencich You may remember that last year, as the season...
• 2/4 i70baseball.com: (Draft) Picky, PickyEvery MLB team shows time and again that the ultimate weapon to wield is depth....

• 1/30 Redbird Dugout: On Oswalt and McClellan: Unless you’re a Cardinals fan that lives under a rock, you’ve heard the recent rumors relating to Roy Oswalt and Kyle...
• 1/29 i70baseball.com: Stacking The Deck: With Oswalt, Cardinals Would Hold All The AcesAddition of Former Ace Roy Oswalt Would Bolster St. Louis As Clear Favorite in National League...
• 1/28 El Maquino: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO OSWALT: POTENTIAL CARDINAL: EM has been covering every new development of the potential Roy Oswalt-to-the-Cardinals deal today, and as reports and hints come...
• 1/25 STLCardinalBaseball: What to expect from spring training: Last spring training the Cardinals were given their worst news of the entire season, Adam Wainwright was going to be out for the...
• 1/24 Redbird Dugout: McClellan avoids Arbitration: The Cardinals announced today that they have agreed to a 1 year deal worth $2.5 million with pitcher Kyle McClellan. The Cardinals...
• 1/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: WWU: Cardinals youngsters ready to be versatile: Those media training programs sure do pay off. Now, obviously this falls squarely in the “well, what are they supposed to...
• 1/14 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals Winter Warm-Up photos: Saturday, 1/14: Selected St. Louis Cardinals player photos from Saturday’s first day of the 2011 Winter Warm-Up at St. Louis’ Hyatt Regency...
• 1/14 i70baseball.com: Preview: St. Louis Cardinals 2012 Winter Warm Up: The Winter Warm Up kicks off in fine fashion today as marquee members of the St. Louis Cardinals take their turn providing autographs...
• 1/10 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Off-the-wall Cardinals story ideas for 2012Seven lower-odds storylines possibly ahead for the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals. Or not....
• 1/10 El Maquino: CARDS PAVING THE WAY FOR MADSON?: The Cardinals might be looking for a right-handed reliever, and they may trade Kyle McClellan to make room for one. That immediately...
• 1/10 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Shopping For Right-Handed Reliever: The Cardinals are shopping for a right-handed reliever, hears Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  Adding a righty reliever...
• 1/5 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Projected top five St. Louis Cardinals stories of 2012A look ahead to the top projected stories across the Cardinal Nation in 2012....
• 1/4 C70 At The Bat: New Year, New Rumors: I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year and now you are getting fairly comfortable with the year 2012.  We've past...
• 1/4 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #1: 11th World ChampionshipIn 2011, the underdog St. Louis Cardinals won their 11th championship of Major League Baseball....
• 1/3 STLCardinalBaseball: Is it possible that the Cardinals will sign Roy Oswalt?:   With rumors swirling that Roy Oswalt has interest in the Cardinals, and they have mutual interest this made me wonder,...
• 1/2 i70baseball.com: Why Yadier Molina Is The Cornerstone Of The CardinalsWhat about the man behind the mask?...

• 12/30 High Heat Stats: Comparing the 2011 Freshman Class by League: Here's a quick numerical look at the 2011 freshman class.Number of players who debuted in 2011 -- NL 125, AL 123.-- Hitters: NL...
• 12/30 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #6: NLCS win over BrewersThe St. Louis Cardinals defeated NL Central rival and 2011 Division champion Milwaukee Brewers in the Championship Series....
• 12/24 Redbird Rants: Lance Lynn: Where Does He Fit in 2012?: It seems like every contending team in baseball, has a flame-throwing starting pitching prospect that they put into their bullpen...
• 12/24 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #12: Young relievers emergeThree rookie pitchers not on the roster to open the season contributed to the St. Louis Cardinals World Championship push....
• 12/19 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #16: Out went the old in the pen: Four veteran relievers began the 2011 season with the St. Louis Cardinals but they did not perform and were soon gone, replaced...
• 12/18 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #17: Closer changes: Eight different relievers collected saves and four of them lost the closers job, but the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals secured the...
• 12/8 Fungoes.net: 25 in 25, #7: Cardinal bullpen redeems itself in playoffs: The Cardinals bullpen usually made headlines during the regular season for its failures. But when the playoffs began, it was a...

• 11/22 El Maquino: SMEAR PACKAGE SENT DIRT ON PUJOLS’ AGENT: > Back in September, Albert Pujols’ agent, Dan Lozano, told Bob Nightengale, “I know there’s a target on...
• 11/21 Fungoes.net: 2011 United Cardinal Bloggers awards: Award 1: Cardinal Player of the Year Lance Berkman Matt Holliday Albert Pujols Comment: Berkman was the most-valuable Cardinal...
• 11/16 Tyler's Think Tank: Offenses Explode, Cards win Slugfest: After a pair of pitching duels in St. Louis, several baseball pundits (myself included) believed there was a good chance...
• 11/16 Pitchers Hit Eighth: 2011 Cardinal Blogger Awards Ballot – PH8′s Picks: If you haven’t already seen Dennis and Josh’s ballots for the Cardinal Blogger Awards, please take a minute to read...
• 11/14 C70 At The Bat: 2011 Cardinal Blogger Awards Ballot: As you know, the Cardinals have now named Mike Matheny as the next manager of the team.  I'll have much more on that in...
• 11/1 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: St. Louis Cardinals: Congratulations to the Cardinals for winning a thrilling World Series after an unexpected surge to the playoffs. Their offseason...

• 10/30 B-R Blog: Pitching In 5+ Games Within Single World Series: We had five guys join the club in this past World Series - Rk Player Year #Matching   W L W-L% ERA GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB...
• 10/28 Philly Phanatics: Fall Classic: The 2011 World Series lived up to its moniker as the Fall Classic. Unfortunately around Philadelphia, a lot fewer people tuned...
• 10/28 Baseball Musings: Lancing the Rangers: Lance Lynn pitches an easy 1-2-3 eighth, striking out Adrian Beltre to end the inning. The Cardinals are three outs away from...
• 10/28 STLCardinalBaseball: WORLD SERIES GAME 6: Do You Believe In Miracles?: In what might very well go down in history as one of the greatest games ever played in the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 10/28 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Preparing for a World Series Game 7 no one saw coming: “What are you doing here?” Tony La Russa to Lance Lynn, Game 5 It’s been a punch line since Monday night, but viewed...
• 10/28 Fragile Freddy's: Thoughts on Game Seven: With Game Seven ticking towards us a few thoughts of scattered logic;BullpensTexas – Alexi Ogando (12 pitches), Derek Holland...
• 10/28 El Maquino: ICEMAN SAVES THE CARDS!: The tough part of writing about baseball sometimes is that not all games–in fact, very few whole games–are literary....
• 10/27 Baseball Musings: Lynn In: Lance Lynn comes on to pitch the top of the sixth for the Cardinals. Jon Jay stays in the game as Tony La Russa makes a double...
• 10/25 El Maquino: EM V. POSTSEASON MEDIA, TAKE TWO: Time to be the one-man army against the media’s anti-Cardinal bias again. . . . > The national media is attacking Chris...
• 10/25 STLCardinalBaseball: The (Mis)Management Of The World Series: As my consuming, blood-spitting disgust over last night’s loss spilled into the morning, a friend tried to comfort me. “Even...
• 10/25 STLCardinalBaseball: WORLD SERIES GAME 5: A Quintessential Loss: This game recap would be better titled “**** You Tony LaRussa and Matt Holliday,” but, due to legal constraints involving...
• 10/25 C70 At The Bat: Winter Is Coming: I started Monday off with a dead battery in my car.  I ended Monday with a dead battery in my team.After Game 3, Cardinal...
• 10/25 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Two of a record 65 Cardinals relief changes that did not work: The St. Louis Cardinals set a post-season record for the most pitching changes, but two of them made on Monday night did not work...
• 10/25 B-R Blog: Lance Lynn and intentionally walking the only batter you face: Last night, Lance Lynn intentionally walked the only batter he faced in the game. It seems that the wrong reliever was warming...
• 10/24 Baseball Musings: Don’t Ask Dotel: Octavio Dotel comes in to relieve Chris Carpenter in the bottom of the eighth, and immediately gives up a double to Michael Young....
• 10/23 Fragile Freddy's: World Series - Game Four Recap: STL – 000 000 000 – 0 – 2 – 0TEX – 100 003 00x – 4 – 6 – 0 Some days you watch a baseball game and you get what...
• 10/23 Tyler's Think Tank: Offenses Explode, Cards win Slugfest: After a pair of pitching duels in St. Louis, several baseball pundits (myself included) believed there was a good chance...
• 10/23 Fragile Freddy's: World Series Game Three Recap: STL – 100 434 211 – 16 – 15 – 0TEX – 000 330 100 – 7 -13 – 3 Only time can provide proper perspective but sometimes...
• 10/23 El Maquino: MR. OCTOBER: PUJOLS WITH BEST SERIES GAME EVER: > We just witnessed the greatest World Series performance of all time by a hitter, and it came from the greatest hitter of...
• 10/22 Baseball Musings: Texas Singles: Elvis Andrus and Josh Hamilton single to start the bottom of the fifth for the Rangers as the hits keep on coming since the top...
• 10/22 Pitchers Hit Eighth: World Series – The Blame Game Is Not Worth Playing: There is nothing quite like a close World Series game….followed by one complaint after another.  In no particular order,...
• 10/21 STLCardinalBaseball: WORLD SERIES GAME 2: Deja Voodoo: A tense, scoreless affair turned into a desperate, late-inning bullpen rush, with the Texas Rangers scraping just enough runs...
• 10/21 Fragile Freddy's: World Series Game Two Recap: TEX – 000 000 002 – 2 – 5 – 1 STL – 000 000 100 – 1 – 6 – 1 For the first time since 2001 a 9th inning lead...
• 10/21 Baseball Musings: Turning On La Russa: It’s amazing how fast a manager goes from genius to idiot: Game 2 put La Russa in the cross hairs that had been trained...
• 10/20 Baseball Musings: Top of the Ninth: The Rangers are scheduled to send up the top of the order, Ian Kinsler, Elvis Andrus, and Josh Hamilton against the St. Louis...
• 10/19 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals familiar with Rangers at the Triple-A levelMany St. Louis and Texas players have faced off before – in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League....
• 10/17 Fungoes.net: Freese deserving NLCS Most Valuable Player pick: David Freese won the NLCS Most Valuable Player award, and for good reason. He led the victorious Cardinals with a cumulative...
• 10/15 mlbreports.com : Tony La Russa Manages the Cards to One Win Away From the World Series: Saturday October 15, 2011   MLB reports – Jonathan Hacohen:  Only one game on the schedule last night- but it was a big...
• 10/13 C70 At The Bat: Halfway Home: If you are Chris Carpenter, at least you know just exactly what the offense is going to give you before you get too far...
• 10/12 Fungoes.net: NLCS: To relieve in the fifth inning, or not to relieve?: In Game 1 of the 2011 NLCS, the Milwaukee Brewers burned Tony La Russa for sticking with his starter, Jaime Garcia. Thus chagrined,...
• 10/12 MLBTradeRumors: Rockies Claim Andrew Brown : The Rockies announced that they claimed Andrew Brown off of waivers from the Cardinals (Twitter link). St. Louis had designated...
• 10/11 C70 At The Bat: Cardinals: Momentum Killers: I wrote back in August, after an Edwin Jackson start in Milwaukee even, that the Cardinals had no concept of momentum.  Thankfully,...
• 10/11 El Maquino: HOW ‘BOUT DEM APPLES, BREWERS?: > After getting pelted yesterday, the Cards brought their big guns for Game Two of the NLCS and absolutely annihilated the...
• 10/10 C70 At The Bat: Well, It's Worked Before: The Cardinals opened the series by getting a three-run lead but blowing it, scoring six runs but losing the ballgame, and leave...
• 10/9 El Maquino: BREWERS DROP THE HAMMER IN NLCS GAME ONE: > The Cards dropped Game One on their toes, getting tossed around by Milwaukee for most of the game with the exception of...
• 10/9 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Designate Andrew Brown For Assignment: The Cardinals have designated Andrew Brown for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for Lance Lynn, according to Matthew...

• 9/15 C70 At The Bat: Farming It Out: UCB Top 7 Prospects: Every September, the United Cardinal Bloggers split off into their respective corners of the internet and come up with their list...

• 8/29 Pitchers Hit Eighth: That’s Plausidiculous: Admit it.  Y’all have already huddled around water coolers, in break rooms, or gathered for drinks after work to discuss...
• 8/22 Redbird Dugout: Craig is back, Lynn to the DL: It’s a good news, bad news kind of day for the St. Louis Cardinals. Allen Craig was activated off the disabled list while...
• 8/18 i70baseball.com: Is Fernando Salas A Closer ?: Fernando Salas has just blown his fourth save for the Cardinals. How does that compare among the other closers in St. Louis ?...
• 8/12 i70baseball.com: Four Steps To OctoberFour things that must happen for the Cardinals to celebrate in late September....
• 8/12 i70baseball.com: Arthur RhodesThe Cardinals have signed 41-year old Arthur Rhodes....
• 8/11 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Have To Beat The Crew: The St. Louis Cardinals and the National League Central division crown seemed to be synomonous with each other. Year in and year...
• 8/11 C70 At The Bat: Watching It Slip Away: The Cardinals came into this series needing to at least win two of three.  They go into today just hoping to avoid a...
• 8/10 C70 At The Bat: Cardinals Continue To Frustrate: What do you say about last night's game?  It was a game that the Cards looked to take, but couldn't capitalize.  The...
• 8/8 C70 At The Bat: Broom Me!: Wow, how nice is it to be able to talk about a Cardinal sweep?  You've got to go all the way back to the end of June...
• 8/6 El Maquino: THE CLUELESSNESS OF PEDS IN THE NFL: > Anyone who knows me knows I hate football and couldn’t care less about anything that happens in the NFL, which will...
• 8/5 C70 At The Bat: Taking Shots: If nothing else, no one could say that the Florida trip has been boring.There was plenty of excitement on the field last night,...
• 8/3 C70 At The Bat: Instant Classic:  When Fox Sports Midwest decides to poll Cardinal Nation about which games should get the abbreviated "Cardinal Classic"...
• 8/3 El Maquino: HIGHEST HIGH AND LOWEST LOW: > The Cardinals lost today’s day game 10-5 to the Milwaukee Brewers, who are now savoring a three and a half game lead...

• 7/31 C70 At The Bat: Crazy Day In Cardinal Nation: Lots of stuff floating around today, as the Cards made some moves on the field and off of them.  Let's hit the game first,...
• 7/24 El Maquino: MOTTE GETS D’ARNAUD-ED: THE WRAP-UP, GAME 101 4:19p Some guy named Chase d’Arnaud skies one to shallow center with a man on third in the bottom...
• 7/21 Redbird Dugout: The lefty-lefty matchup: (Photo: Scott Ableman/Flickr)I don't like playing armchair manager the next morning after a game and saying how I would have done...
• 7/21 C70 At The Bat: Time For A Shakeup?: I was admittedly not terribly concerned after the Cardinals dropped two of three in Cincinnati to start off the All-Star Break....
• 7/21 El Maquino: SALAS FINISHES OFF MCCLELLAN’S DECLINE: THE WRAP-UP, GAME 97 1:01a The very first three batters made a one run lead for the Cards in the first inning, and manufactured...
• 7/19 Fungoes.net: Around the horn: Trading time: Kerry Wood in Busch? In his Best fits by ballpark post, Ben Jedlovec suggests that Cub reliever Kerry Wood might work in Busch...
• 7/17 El Maquino: A BOMB, AN EJECTION, AND A MELTDOWN: THE WRAP-UP, GAME 95 3:30 p A bomb, an ejection, and a meltdown. The bomb: Lance Berkman went yard for the 25th time in 2011,...
• 7/16 El Maquino: CARP AND PUJOLS PUSH INTO FIRST: THE WRAP-UP, GAME 94 10:00p Things went scoreless for the first two, until the tragic third. After Drew Stubbs singled, Edgar...
• 7/12 Redbird Dugout: Cardinals' Approval Ratings: June: We have a new highest rated Cardinal.(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr)After missing May due to life circumstances (it was mid-June...
• 7/12 El Maquino: THREE DAYS IN BASEBALL’S CAPITOL: For anyone that’s never made the journey, five hours of driving past nearly 300 miles of corn, **** and fireworks isn’t...
• 7/6 C70 At The Bat: Pujols Returns! (Kinda): The legend of Albert Pujols continues.Granted, it was a small fracture, so small that it took two or three passes to find...
• 7/6 El Maquino: BOMBERS CRUSH THE COMMIES: THE WRAP-UP, GAME 87 11:22p The game was over in the first. Edinson Volquez, whose awful first innings (22 ER in 15 IP) are his...
• 7/5 C70 At The Bat: Freedom, Fireworks, and Baseball: As the noise of the fireworks reverberates around my neighborhood, it seems only appropriate to spend the last part of the holiday...
• 7/1 SoDo Mojo: Catching Back-Up: Well, after about five days and 1500+ miles on the road across 4 states in 3 different stadiums I’m back. It would seem...

• 6/30 Redbird Dugout: **** gets the call: Brandon **** gets the call for his major league debut.(Photo: Dave Nelson/Flickr)After the news of Ryan Franklin's release settled...
• 6/29 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Relief for Cardinals reliefTwo St. Louis Cardinals relievers did their jobs Tuesday night, but one once again did not....
• 6/26 C70 At The Bat: Struggling For Silver Linings: It's Sunday afternoon and, as I write this, the Cardinals are still playing the Blue Jays, though it just...
• 6/22 Redbird Dugout: Batista released, Lynn back to St. Louis: Lance Lynn made two starts for the Cardinals, now he's back.The surprise news came down just over half an hour ago from the Cardinals...
• 6/22 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Release Miguel Batista: The Cardinals announced that they have released Miguel Batista (Twitter link). In a related move, St. Louis called up Lance...
• 6/20 C70 At The Bat: Bringing Winning Back: Apparently, I'm just not supposed to be on the wrong side of the Mississippi when it's baseball season.  The Cards went...
• 6/16 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast – Episode 3.0: “Theriot makes an error. Duh!”: Jack Moore of Disciples of Uecker (U before the E, fools), Fangraphs, and Roto Hardball joins us to talk Brewers baseball.  Luckily...
• 6/10 Redbird Dugout: Roster Talk: Boggs up, Lynn down: McClellan creates some interesting storylines as he comes off the DL.(Photo: Matthew Trommer/Flickr)The word today is that Mitc****...
• 6/9 Redbird Dugout: Notes: The ones where I got married: Albert Pujols is smoking hot right now.(Photo: gcny1956/Flickr)Some of my more recent notes since I took the hiatus in the time...
• 6/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: 10 Really Randomish Redbird Rantings: It’s Thursday, and it’s simply too hot outside for clever titles.  Before the freakin’ cicadas can take over...
• 6/9 C70 At The Bat: Shows What I Know: I've occasionally said that Albert Pujols reads this blog, because I'll write something and he'll either go out and justify or,...
• 6/9 StLCards.net: Bud Norris does it again, Cardinals only get 2 hits in loss: Cards LOSE Ok, that will be the last time I say anything about Bud Norris. The Cardinals simply were flat against him yesterday....
• 6/4 Roto Think Tank: Gearing Up: N.L. Week 9 June 6-June 12: Better late than never, right?  Here is this week’s Gearing Up:News and Notes:Shane Victorino.Victorino is back from the...
• 6/3 Redbird Dugout: 2011 MLB Draft Preview - Part 1: One of my favorite times of the year is happening as we speak. Leading up to the MLB Draft (June 6-8) gets a lot of buzz about...
• 6/3 Raising Matt Cain: A puff for Huff: How's about a couple of nice, fat puros for Aubrey "Don't call me Aaron" Huff, eh? Give that man a cheroot! Pass out the cigars!...
• 6/3 C70 At The Bat: Sink or Swim: Well, when half of last year's Memphis team is on the field, it's not quite surprising that the Cards lost their first series...
• 6/3 StLCards.net: Cardinals stumble and fall, lose 3 of 4 to Giants -1: Cards LOSE -1 (-3) last +/- game was April 29 Any game that ends 12-7 is bound to have some ugly moments, but last night’s...
• 6/3 Pitchers Hit Eighth: You Never Get a 2nd Chance: It’s possible that you’ll read a lot about how Lance Lynn pitched a lot better than the box score indicates, and he...