Michael Scott Matheny

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: September 22, 1970 in Columbus, OH
High School: Reynoldsburg HS (Reynoldsburg, OH)
School: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 8th round of the 1991 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 1991. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1994 (Age 23)   vs. OAK 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Brewers/Giants/BlueJays 1994-2006
Agents: John Boggs [*]
Final Game: May 31, 2006 (Age 35)   vs. FLA 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
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• 5/23 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Comparing Matt Carpenter to Ben Zobrist: St. Louis Cardinals fans new coming into the 2013 season that utility infielder Matt Carpenter could swing the bat. What...
• 5/23 MLB Injury News: Cardinals placed Fernando Salas on DL: The St. Louis Cardinals have placed right-handed reliever Fernando Salas on the 15-day disabled list due to right shoulder inflammation,...
• 5/23 El Maquino: TYLER LYONS: SO FAR, SO GOOD: > Tyler Lyons made his debut start for the Cardinals, filling in for Jaime Garcia, who we learned today will undergo season-ending...
• 5/22 El Maquino: DESCALSO AND WAINWRIGHT CHOP UP THE PADS: > Adam Wainwright is inevitably going to go somewhat overlooked in a 10-2 game, but he still ended up serving a vital role...
• 5/21 MLB Injury News: Cardinals scratch David Freese as precaution: The St. Louis Cardinals scratched David Freese from last night’s lineup as a precaution, as the third baseman was dealing...
• 5/21 El Maquino: CARDS BULLPEN SUFFERS FROM TAXATION AND MISUSE: > Not once in the Milwaukee series did a Cardinal starter finish the sixth inning.  In the previous series against the Mets,...
• 5/19 El Maquino: MANESS PERFORMS MIRACLE: > For the third time already this year, former Cardinals ace Kyle Lohse lost to a rookie on his former team.  This time it...
• 5/17 Mets Chronicle: Happy Recap: Game 38 - Mets (5) at Cardinals (2) - Murphy wakes up sleepy Mets: Final123456789RHE N.Y. Mets (15-23) «0020020105110 St. Louis (26-14)010000010282 W: J. Niese (3-4) L: A. Wainwright...
• 5/16 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Mike Matheny is handling Shelby Miller's workload perfectly: St. Louis Cardinals rookie pitcher Shelby Miller was unable to pick up the win in the team's 4-2 win over the New York Mets...
• 5/16 El Maquino: ALLEN CRAIG IS GOOD, BUT HE’S ALSO PRETTY LUCKY: > Left-hander Jonathon Niese came into today’s start against the Cardinals with a 5.93 ERA; and Mike Matheny reasonably...
• 5/16 The Cardinal Nation Blog: St. Louis Cardinals records through May 15Checking the relative early season performance of recent St. Louis Cardinals clubs....
• 5/16 El Maquino: MATH’S LUCK CEASES TO AMAZE: > Tony Cruz started at catcher tonight, and one could reasonably assume he and starter Shelby Miller weren’t quite on...
• 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 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...
• 5/13 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Why Trevor Rosenthal is the most important piece in the Cardinals bullpen: St. Louis Cardinals reliever Trevor Rosenthal recorded two outs in the eighth inning of team's 6-3 win over the New York...
• 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...
• 5/11 El Maquino: WAINWRIGHT FOLLOWS UP MILLER WITH A COMPLETE GAME OF HIS OWN: > Just hours after Shelby Miller got done pitching one of the best games in Cardinal history, it was the ace Adam Wainwright‘s...
• 5/8 El Maquino: DESCALSO A PRODUCT OF THE ASDRUBAL CABRERA EFFECT: > The Cubs put up a fight for the second day in a row at Wrigley, but the Cards’ offense was able to put up just enough...
• 5/5 El Maquino: GARCIA AND HIS LINEUP RUN OVER MILWAUKEE FOR THE SWEEP: > It’s hard to be very poetic about a 10-1 game. Marco Estrada started for Milwaukee and got absolutely destroyed; giving...
• 5/5 MLB Injury News: Cardinals' Chris Carpenter may not be done, starting throwing program: Put the gold watch back in the box and cancel the balloon and cake orders.  Chris Carpenter may not be thrown a retirement...
• 5/5 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 30: Thriller At Miller: In a see-saw battle between division rivals, the Cardinals pounded two more homers and ripped through six pitchers to overcome...
• 5/4 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals reinvent bullpen sooner than normal in 2013: The St. Louis Cardinals began their yearly bullpen revolution early this year as three of the team’s projected relievers are...
• 5/4 El Maquino: STAYING WARY OF CARLOS MARTINEZ: > For the second time this season, Shelby Miller out-dueled the ace he replaced in the rotation; giving up only one run in...
• 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 Redbird Dugout: Fernando Salas: The Unsung Hero: I heard it again today after the Cardinals optioned Mitchell Boggs to Memphis. “Alright Boggs down, now can we get rid of...
• 5/3 Redbird Rants: John Mozeliak Has Finally Seen Enough: Boggs Demoted, Martinez Called Up: John Mozeliak has seen enough, and today he finally decided something about it. Mitchell Boggs has been sent down to AAA Memphis...
• 5/3 MLB Injury News: Cardinals RP Mitchell Boggs demoted to AAA: With Jason Motte still battling to avoid Tommy John surgery, the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen has been in flux all season, with...
• 5/3 i70baseball.com: Welcome To St. Louis Carlos MartinezThe St. Louis Cardinals have promoted Carlos Martinez and optioned Mitchell Boggs to Memphis....
• 5/3 Redbird Dugout: Boggs optioned, Martinez gets the call: Thursday night’s struggles were apparently the final straw for the Cardinals’ organization. Getting the call in the...
• 5/3 El Maquino: ON CALLING FOR THE HEADS OF BOGGS AND DESCALSO: > The Cardinals won 6-5 tonight and are in sole possession of first.  And yet they’ve still managed inspired calls...
• 5/3 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals Rosenthal being ridden hard in early action: Trevor Rosenthal is on pace for 92 mound appearances for the St. Louis Cardinals in his first full season in the major leagues....

• 4/30 www.drstrangeglove.com: Pirates Win Weekend Series Over Cards: The Pirates completed their third consecutive magical weekend, recovering from an ugly start to win their series against the Cardinals...
• 4/30 El Maquino: HIGH EXPECTATIONS A FACTOR IN CARDS’ DISAPPOINTING OFFENSE: > I’ve been writing these postgamers from the perspective of the pitching this season since I think that’s where...
• 4/30 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Bats waste Adam Wainwright's solid effort in 2-1 loss to Reds: After getting shut out in a 9-0 loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium, many expected the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 4/29 Redbird Dugout: 3 Up, 3 Down: Week 4: One up: Jon Jay A week ago Jon Jay was hitting .197 and Mike Matheny started giving him some time off to work on his swing timing....
• 4/29 Redbird Dugout: Mozeliak makes bullpen move: Yesterday was the UCB trip to the ballpark where select members received the opportunity to have a brief Q&A session with...
• 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 Raise the Jolly Roger: Pirates 5, Cardinals 3: The Pirates worked their late inning magic yet again and delivered another comeback win on Saturday night in St. Louis. A.J. Burnett...
• 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....
• 4/27 El Maquino: WORST BULLPEN BEATS BEST ROTATION YET AGAIN: > Jake Westbrook was so close.  The light at the end of the tunnel was visible. The Pirates had always beaten him up, especially...
• 4/27 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals need more Joe Kelly, less Mitchell Boggs: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1 Friday, but they had to survive another bad performance from reliever...
• 4/27 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Position of Interest: Organizational Catcher: As our look around the Cardinals’ system, from the roof to the basement continues, we’ll move onto catcher, where the club...
• 4/27 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: What is wrong with Allen Craig?: Some sports writers and a good number of St. Louis Cardinals’ fans have started to wonder what’s wrong with Allen Craig? The...
• 4/24 El Maquino: GARCIA GETS IT DONE IN ROAD START VERSUS STRASBURG: > There’s no such thing as a sure thing in this great game, but when Daniel Descalso is starting at second and Jaime...
• 4/24 STLCardinalBaseball: The Importance of the Farm System and the Future of the Cardinals: Watching the FS Midwest pregame show this afternoon really got me thinking about how incredible this farm system really is. ......
• 4/24 The Cardinal Nation Blog: St. Louis Cardinals players best at buntingLists of St. Louis Cardinals players with the most bunt hits and sacrifices in recent years....
• 4/23 El Maquino: SO FAR, WAINWRIGHT IS BASEBALL’S BEST: > Adam Wainwright ran the show tonight in DC against the Nats. The offense did almost nothing to help, hitting into three...
• 4/22 El Maquino: KOZMA’S RETURN TO DC HIGHLIGHTS CARDS’ WIN: > My night was highlighted by Nationals fans’ Twitter hate of Pete Kozma, who was booed every time he came to the plate...
• 4/22 STLCardinalBaseball: Crisis MismanagementThe first three weeks of the season have been a bit of a puzzle. The offense scores runs in titanic bunches, ......
• 4/22 El Maquino: CARDS HAVE NOWHERE TO TURN WITH THEIR BULLPEN: > The Cardinals got absolutely bushwhacked tonight on national television.  The game ended in a 7-3 defeat by the Phillies....
• 4/22 Redbird Rants: Mitchell Boggs still has nothing: Without a doubt Mitchell Boggs has been the biggest disappointment so far this month. He stinks like hockey pads that get used...
• 4/22 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 18: The Definition Of InsanityLike an insane person, Mike Matheny continues to do the same thing over and over while expecting a different result ......
• 4/21 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: What is wrong with David Freese?: St. Louis Cardinals' third baseman David Freese will always be a hero in the city of St. Louis thanks to his Game 6 heroics...
• 4/20 TheFantasyFix.com: 2013 Fantasy Baseball: The Week 4 Closer Report: Things are settling in nicely here at the Closer Report. We’re starting to get some clarity on jobs as manager’s back new...
• 4/19 El Maquino: RAIN ARRIVES TOO LATE TO SAVE CARDS THIS TIME: > I’ll admit right now I did not watch or listen to one second of this game as I was watching the coverage of the Boston...
• 4/18 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Edward Mujica picks up save in Cardinals 4-3 win over Phillies: The St. Louis Cardinals bullpen has been terrible all season long. Mitchell Boggs has been ineffective in his stint as closer...
• 4/18 Redbird Rants: Eddie “Money” Mujica saves the night!: It was not simple, and it was far too interesting in the ninth, but Edward Mujica got the save tonight. This was the first save...
• 4/18 El Maquino: WAINWRIGHT STARTS IT, JUMBLED BULLPEN ACTUALLY FINISHES IT: > It’s the ninth inning, and Edward Mujica heads back to the mound after getting the last out in the eighth; evidently...
• 4/17 El Maquino: CARDS’ DEFENSE FALLS APART AS BURNETT DOMINATES: > Ty Wigginton swings and misses three straight times, and the game ends in a 5-0 Cardinal loss. This was a pinch-hit appearance,...
• 4/16 El Maquino: WESTBROOK’S ROUGH OUTING ERASED BY RAIN: > The following is an account of a game that technically never happened. Jonathan Sanchez got rocked by the Cardinals right...
• 4/16 TheFantasyFix.com: Rookie Report, Week 3: Matt Adams, Archie Bradley, Wil Myers, Tony Cingrani: Matt Adams is a big man. Matt Adams is a strong man. Matt Adams hits baseballs very, very far. His three homers in only five games...
• 4/16 On The Way Home: Will Jurickson Profar Get Traded By Texas Rangers?: Jurickson Profar has been chosen by many baseball analysts to be the breakout rookie in the American League this season. ... keep...
• 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 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Brian Wilson would not solve Cardinals' bullpen woes: With Jason Motte's elbow injury shelving him likely for the season, St. Louis Cardinals' manager Mike Matheny has been left...
• 4/15 TheFantasyFix.com: Fantasy Baseball Week 3 Waiver Wire: 3 to Cut, 3 to Catch, 3 to Keep: Welcome back to 3×3, where this week, I tell you why you should trade Josh Hamilton and Fernando Rodney, pick up Brandon...
• 4/15 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 12: Blowpen: In an ugly repeat of his start against Cincinnati on April 8th, Jaime Garcia twirled a masterful seven-inning start completely...
• 4/14 El Maquino: BASEBALL’S WORST BULLPEN FOILS ITS BEST ROTATION YET AGAIN: Sorry for the late dispatch.  Hopefully I’ll be able to lineup a couple guys who can fill in from now on. > Jaime Garcia...
• 4/13 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Daniel Descalso gets start at shortstop: So far, so good for the St. Louis Cardinals at the shortstop position this season. Through the team's first 10 games, the...
• 4/13 StlSportsMinute.com: Analyzing the St. Louis Cardinals start of the season - Cruddy Show Episode #66 : The St. Louis Cardinals have started the season with a 6-4 record following a 2-0 win on Friday night against the Milwaukee...
• 4/12 El Maquino: MILLER SHOWS WHY THE CARDS DECIDED TO PASS ON LOHSE: > Throughout the offseason, media members and fans watched as Kyle Lohse went unsigned for a shockingly long time.  Many–I...
• 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...
• 4/10 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Matt Adams should start everyday until he cools off: One day after blasting a pinch-hit home run 453 feet, St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Matt Adams was at it again on Wednesday...
• 4/10 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 9: Bestbrook: For the second consecutive day the Cardinals ripped into the Cincinnati Reds, probable retribution for the ninth-inning humiliation...
• 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...
• 4/10 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Trevor Rosenthal is being used too much: The St. Louis Cardinals are just eight games into the season and manager Mike Matheny has already turned to his 100 mph,...
• 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....
• 4/8 El Maquino: THE BULLPEN IS BURNING: > The Cardinals were able to fend off the Reds for eight whole innings until the ninth, when the bullpen was absolutely decimated...
• 4/8 mlbreports.com : St. Louis Cardinals – Week 1 Review: Like us on Facebook here Monday, April 8th, 2013 By Landen Crouch ( Cardinals Correspondent) Week in Review: The opening week...
• 4/7 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Mitchell Boggs is the right man to close in interim for Cardinals: The city of St. Louis was up in arms earlier this week after interim closer Mitchell Boggs blew a save in extra innings in...
• 4/5 Chicken Friars: Scouting The Opponent: Colorado Rockies: Every series, we at Chicken Friars will ask the editor of  the FanSided team the Padres are playing some questions. We call this...
• 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...
• 4/4 Baseballhotcorner.com: Arizona Diamondbacks Make Personal History: After 16 innings and a new record length game for the Arizona Diamondbacks (5 hours and 32 minutes), the series between the Snakes...
• 4/3 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 2: Bombs In The DesertAn offense that often relied too heavily on homers in 2012 leaned on that old crutch again tonight, pounding three ......
• 4/3 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Trevor Rosenthal hits 100 mph twice in season debut: During spring training, Trevor Rosenthal was given a shot to make the St. Louis Cardinals roster as a starting pitcher. The...
• 4/2 El Maquino: CARDS A FUNDAMENTAL MESS IN 2013 DEBUT: > One run on a night when Ian Kennedy pitches is forgivable, and while the Cardinals appeared over-eager at the plate similar...
• 4/2 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 1: Not So FundamentalThe Cardinals took the field tonight in Arizona after spending a very long month in Florida praising a team emphasis ......
• 4/1 Redbird Rants: Birdinals Bytes: Guys who used to wear red shoes:     While Fred Bird was stretching, the Clydesdales were being primped, and hundreds of Busch kegs were chilling, the...

• 3/29 Baseballhotcorner.com: St.Louis Cardinals Fly Under The Radar: Much of this off-season has been focused on the big pay roll teams like the Dodgers, Angels and the defending world champion Giants....
• 3/27 i70baseball.com: Kozmamania T-Shirts AvailableKozmamania has hit St. Louis. Get your shirt today. ...
• 3/27 i70baseball.com: Jason Motte injury might have helped St. Louis Cardinals’ Shelby Miller decision: The St. Louis Cardinals finally made their most-anti**** decision of their 2013 spring training camp Monday when they announced...
• 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 El Maquino: FREESE TO MISS FIRST WEEK: > The team said yesterday that David Freese‘s MRI was encouraging, but today announced that he has been put on the disabled...
• 3/26 The DoubleDay: My Left Knee | Travis d'Arnaud & The Homeplate Collision: Kyle DrenonThe Mets recently banned their young catching prospect from the often glorified, sometimes criticized home plate collision....
• 3/25 STLCardinalBaseball: The Rise Of Shelby Miller And The 2013 Cardinals: After weeks of ridiculous ”contests” between Shelby Miller and Joe Kelly, the team finally – FINALLY! –...
• 3/25 Redbird Rants: Jason Motte Injury Fallout: Trevor Rosenthal Should Be the Interim Cardinals Closer: News broke on Saturday that last seasons 42 save man, Jason Motte, will likely be headed to the disabled list for the beginning...
• 3/25 i70baseball.com: Mitchell Boggs and finding a new answer for the ninth: With the unknown status of the full extent of Jason Motte’s injury, the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen will be the next unit that...
• 3/24 El Maquino: FREESE AND BELTRAN QUESTIONABLE FOR OPENING DAY: > 18 days ago, John Mozeliak defended the Cardinals’ medical consultants in the wake of the news that Rafael Furcal...
• 3/23 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Who should close with Jason Motte on the DL?: The St. Louis Cardinals received some terrible news on Saturday morning. Closer Jason Motte is likely headed to the disabled...
• 3/23 El Maquino: IF THERE EVER WAS A ROTATION BATTLE, MOTTE’S INJURY SETTLES IT: > Jason Motte is expected to start the season on the DL with a “mild elbow strain.”  That’s three casualties...
• 3/23 Redbird Rants: Birdinals Bytes: No Motte, No problem?: Jason Motte will be out indefinitely to start the 2013 season with a strained elbow. Despite his joking in the bullpen today,...
• 3/19 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Position of Interest: Organizational Second Base: The only position the St. Louis Cardinals and general manager John Mozeliak knew would be unsettled for certain entering spring...
• 3/19 STLCardinalBaseball: Some Expectations of the 2013 CardinalsWith the regular season just around the corner it is time for my favorite time of the year: predictions. Last ......
• 3/17 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, St. Louis Cardinals: Allen Craig would make a great clean-up hitter for the Cardinals. Photo: Scott Rovak-USA TODAY Sports The series on team offense...
• 3/17 Redbird Rants: Lineup and Roster becomes clearer for Cards: A couple weeks ago, my blog listed some questions I felt the St. Louis Cardinals needed to answer before the season began. The...
• 3/16 STLCardinalBaseball: What To Do With Matt Adams: The Cardinals made of the worst moves in their recent history when they signed veteran corner infielder Ty Wigginton to a two-year...
• 3/16 El Maquino: THERE NEVER WAS A MILLER-KELLY RACE: > To the bitter end, the Cardinals are trying to convince us that there is an actual race between Shelby Miller and Joe Kelly...
• 3/16 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Who should be the Cardinals' fifth starter?: The fight for the fifth spot in the St. Louis Cardinals' starting rotation has been one of the most followed stories throughout...
• 3/15 i70baseball.com: Pitching ShowcaseSpring Training 2013 was not supposed to be an exciting one for the St. Louis Cardinals. ...
• 3/11 El Maquino: WHICH STATS YOU LOOK AT DON’T CHANGE THE GAME YOU SEE: > When Ben Zobrist had lucked out of potential out murder for the first time in the second inning of Team USA’s WBC...
• 3/10 Baseball Musings: Mike’s Back: Cardinal manager Mike Matheny needs back surgery: Matheny expects to be back at spring training for Thursday’s game against...
• 3/9 El Maquino: MATHENY SAYS CARPENTER IS READY FOR SECOND BASE: > Mike Matheny said today that he thinks Matt Carpenter has really taken to his new position at second base.  Of course the...
• 3/8 Baseball News Source: Cardinals Reach Agreement with Allen Craig on Contract Extension: The St. Louis Cardinals have reached an agreement with 1b/OF Allen Craig  on a five-year contract extension that includes a team...
• 3/7 Baseball Musings: Furcal Gone: Rafael Furcal‘s rehabilitation did not work: The team did not say in its statement Thursday how long the three-time All-Star...
• 3/7 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cards’ spotlight is directly on Joe Kelly and Shelby MillerJust 10 games into spring training, St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is almost ready to declare his fifth starter....
• 3/6 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Who should start at shortstop?: With Rafael Furcal's status for the 2013 season in doubt due to a lingering elbow injury, the St. Louis Cardinals find themselves...
• 3/6 Call to the Pen: Can the St. Louis Cardinals Swing Into A Third Straight Postseason: The St. Louis Cardinals followed their 2011 World Series victory with another postseason run in 2012. The Redbirds came up a bit...
• 3/1 StlSportsMinute.com: Why the St. Louis Cardinals should encourage Yadier Molina to play first base in World Baseball Classic: If you were lucky enough to be in attendance for the St. Louis Cardinals' 8-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Miami Marlins...

• 2/28 Redbird Rants: Should Home Plate Collisions Be Outlawed?: The issue of home plate collisions has arisen in the news again with the recent comments by Cardinals skipper  Mike Matheny that...
• 2/28 El Maquino: OSCAR TAVERAS IS WORTH WAITING FOR: THE BIG PIECE > Sorry that I have to be the buzzkill two days in a row, but nobody else is writing these columns. By now I...
• 2/28 Rising Apple: To Block, or Not to Block? That is…The Catcher: Yesterday, it was reported that Terry Collins instructed catcher Travis d’Arnaud to not block home during plays at the plate. ...
• 2/28 Mets Merized: Sandy Alderson Weighs In On Blocking Home Plate and Travis D’Arnaud: Updated by Joe D. on 2/28 Interestingly enough, the topic of Travis D’Arnaud blocking the plate came up last night during...
• 2/28 i70baseball.com: Is Hands Off Best For Jaime?: Jaime Garcia has, at times, been one of the best pitchers the St. Louis Cardinals have on staff. At other times, he has been...
• 2/25 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Adams’ MLB chances take a knee (or two): First baseman Matt Adams’ chance of making the St. Louis Cardinals out of spring camp took a couple of blows over the weekend....
• 2/25 Call to the Pen: St. Louis Cardinals Won’t Play Carlos Beltran in Center Field: For the first thirteen years of his MLB career Carlos Beltran was part of any discussion about the game’s top center fielders....
• 2/24 STLCardinalBaseball: SPRING TRAINING GAME 2: All Hands On DeckWith the bats still in warm-up mode, Mike Matheny decided to throw everybody out against Jon Lester and the Boston ......
• 2/23 StlSportsMinute.com: Grading the St. Louis Cardinals' offseason moves: Coming off a season where the St. Louis Cardinals were just one game away from returning to the World Series for the second...
• 2/21 i70baseball.com: Not So Quick – Cards Miller Cleared To Throw: St. Louis Cardinal fans and beat writers jumped quickly to the conclusion that Shelby Miller was "out of the competition" for...
• 2/19 Red Sox Maineiacs: Sox Fire Valentine Day After Worst Season Since 1965: Well, Deacon Art got his wish just hours after this horror show of a season ended.  The Red Sox, in a typical move of hilarity,...
• 2/18 i70baseball.com: Remember when St. Louis Cardinals spring training was more about baseball than contracts?: St. Louis Cardinals players reported to Jupiter, Fla., last week to kick off spring training 2013, but that first week was full...
• 2/17 El Maquino: ST LINKS: INJURIES, BUNTING, SCUTARO & FORMER CHAMPS: Just some links to get you caught up on the last couple days of Cards camp.  Check back later tonight for any updates. >...
• 2/16 MLB Injury News: Cardinals' Rafael Furcal won't be limited by elbow injury: The St. Louis Cardinals have shortstop Rafael Furcal on a program as he continues to recover from the elbow injury he suffered...
• 2/16 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan – 2013: Cardinal GM and Manager extended – The St. Louis Cardinals made a great move by extending the contracts of Joe Mozeliak and...
• 2/15 El Maquino: FANS START PAYING FOR TEAMS’ NEW TV DEALS: With Spring Training games starting up in just over a week, EM will start transitioning content from Twitter back to here.  @elmaquino...
• 2/14 Redbird Rants: Mike Matheny option picked up, John Mozeliak extends contract: The St. Louis Cardinals held a press conference this morning to announce that the club has extended the contract of general manager...
• 2/13 PaulLebowitz.com: Passionless Managing, Numbers Crunching and Outsiders: The new managerial template of eschewing experienced minor league managers or veteran big league managers and bringing in the...
• 2/12 Call to the Pen: The Colorado Rockies Offseason: A Tale of Two GM’s: The Colorado Rockies offseason was quiet leading into the 2013 season. For a team that went 64-98, it was odd that GM Dan O’Dowd...
• 2/9 Redbird Dugout: Carpenter likely out for season: The Cardinals’ General Manager John Mozeliak announced this afternoon that he didn’t expect Chris Carpenter to pitch...
• 2/8 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Buster Posey Fantasy Baseball: How Good is the Giants’ Backstop?After a gruesome injury ended his 2011 season a little less than two months in, Buster Posey showed what an More......
• 2/7 mlbreports.com : MLB.com Top 100 Prospects Features Six Cardinals: Like us on Facebook here Thursday, Februrary.07/2013 By Landen Crouch ( Cardinals Correspondent) The Future for the St. Louis...
• 2/7 Southside Showdown: Bryan Anderson–backup catcher candidate: Pretend–if you can–for a moment that Hector Giminez’s 20 career major league plate appearances have not revealed...
• 2/6 Billy-Ball.com: Carpenter is Probably Done: The biggest story of the day, for those interested in brains over brawn, is that Chris Carpenter‘s 2013 is finished and...
• 2/5 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Chris Carpenter to miss all of 2013: With spring training just a week away, many St. Louis Cardinals fans were getting excited about the possibility of having...

• 1/30 Call to the Pen: The National League Central Dream Lineup 2013: The National League Central Dream Lineup 2013 may be the best divisional lineup from top to bottom. There is a great mix of young...
• 1/28 Redbird Dugout: Is Ronny Cedeno an upgrade?: Over the weekend there have been a couple reports out of Venezuela saying that shortstop Ronny Cedeno has signed with the St....
• 1/28 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals: Is Ronny Cedeno the right insurance for Rafael Furcal at SS?: The St. Louis Cardinals are heading into the 2013 season relying on Rafael Furcal to remain healthy all season. General manager...
• 1/27 StlSportsMinute.com: Ranking the St. Louis Cardinals prospects of 2013: No. 8 Carson Kelly: As spring training continues to inch closer and closer, the excitement of St. Louis Cardinals fans will continue to build...
• 1/24 i70baseball.com: Matheny, Freese and Molina: Cardinals Winter Warm-Up wrapThe final day of the Cardinals Winter Warm-Up brought on a few heavy hitters, with some highlight topic as well. ...
• 1/21 PaulLebowitz.com: Matheny’s Financial Woes Could Cause Problems for the Cardinals: Mike Matheny and his current financial troubles are an example in wondering what athletes are thinking when they choose to invest...
• 1/20 StlSportsMinute.com: St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny loses court case, owes millions: St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny had quite a debut as Major League Baseball manager in 2012. Matheny led the Cardinals...
• 1/12 Redbird Dugout: Why not Punto?: Exactly one month ago today the St. Louis Cardinals traded Skip Schumaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for minor league...
• 1/11 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Reviewing predictions: TCN Blog’s top five Cardinals stories of 2012A look back at the top projected stories across the Cardinal Nation in 2012 from one year ago....
• 1/9 mlbreports.com : St. Louis Cardinals Roster For 2013: State Of The Union: Like us on Facebook here Wednesday, January.09/2013 By Landen Crouch ( Cardinals Correspondent) The current St. Louis Cardinals...
• 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...

• 12/31 StanGraphs: The Top Five Stories of the Year: And just like that, 2012 is behind us. From a Cardinal standpoint, it didn’t go quite as well as it could have — I’d...
• 12/30 Baseball Jerks: St. Louis Cardinals 2013 Preview: The Cardinals had a rough offseason last year, losing arguably the best player in the league in Albert Pujols, arguably the best...
• 12/30 Redbird Rants: Issues to Address in 2013: As we approach the New Year, in my opinion, there are many issues that should be looked at and “fixed” with Major League Baseball...
• 12/28 Redbird Rants: 2012 Was An Exciting Year…2013 Will Be As Well: The year 2012 was a bittersweet year for Cardinal Nation. After losing one of their star players and their manager retiring, many...
• 12/28 Baseball Jerks: St. Louis Cardinals 2013 Preview: The Cardinals had a rough offseason last year, losing arguably the best player in the league in Albert Pujols, arguably the best...
• 12/25 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #14: Kozma’s surprising September: The 2012 St. Louis Cardinals had a surprise standout at shortstop during the final weeks of the season – former first-rounder...
• 12/22 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #15: Rosenthal’s rise: The hard-throwing right-hander made the unusual move from Double-A to the majors before settling into the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals...
• 12/16 Through The Fence Baseball: Cardinals make big mistake in trading Skip Schumaker: Let me start by saying, as a Chicago Cubs fan, I’m happy to have Skip Schumaker out of the division. However, I feel the St....
• 12/15 The Cardinal Nation Blog: TCN Blog 2012 top story #18: McGwire leaves St. Louis for LAThe St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach and former star left one home for another with the Los Angeles Dodgers....
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: First Basemen: by Nick Cesare Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 12/8 STLCardinalBaseball: The Screwing Of Schumaker: Skip Schumaker is not a great baseball player, but he was a great Cardinal. He definitely deserves better than the treatment he's...
• 12/6 El Maquino: YES, CHOATE WAS A GOOD PICK-UP: This is an analysis of the Cards’ new addition.  If they make another one, you’ll hear about it first from the Winter...
• 12/5 STLCardinalBaseball: Sucking On Choate: Winter Meetings Day 3: The Cardinals finally made a move, signing 37 year-old lefty reliever Randy Choate to a three year contract. In other words, another...
• 12/5 StanGraphs: Free Agent Signing: Cardinals Sign Randy Choate for Too Long, Didn’t Need To: The Cardinals managed to refrain from giving a ludicrous deal to Sean Burnett, but that didn’t stop them from grabbing fellow...
• 12/4 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy: Cardinals should let Jaime Garcia pitch in World Baseball Classic: St. Louis Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia last was seen on the mound in Game 2 of the NLDS against the Washington Nationals. Garcia...
• 12/2 El Maquino: THE MIDDLE INFIELD IS NOT IN GOOD SHAPE: As I write this at about seven o’clock on Sunday evening, we are enjoying our last few hours of relative offseason peace...

• 11/25 PaulLebowitz.com: Kyle Lohse—Free Agency Profile: Name: Kyle Lohse Position: Right-handed starting pitcher Vital Statistics: Age—34; Height—6’2”; Weight—210 lbs; Bats—Right;...
• 11/23 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy: A St. Louis Cardinals Christmas wishlist: St. Louis Cardinals fans have been spoiled several times over during the last two decades. The team is always competitive,...
• 11/17 WahoosOnFirst: Recapping the 2012 FanSided MLB Awards: Well, baseball awards season is now behind us, and two great electorates have spoken—the BBWAA and the FanSided MLB network....
• 11/12 El Maquino: CHASTISEMENTS FOR THE MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARDS AND ESPN: > The writers got the Rookie of the Year Awards right today.  Savor the feeling, because it’s the last day that the...
• 11/12 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: First Basemen: by Nick Cesare Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 11/12 MLB Dirt: Baseball Notes for November 12, 2012: *** To say I loved the Red Sox signing catcher David Ross to a two year, $6.2 million free agent would be an understatement. He...
• 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...
• 11/8 PaulLebowitz.com: Walt Weiss—Another Manager With No Experience: The Colorado Rockies have followed the recent trend of hiring managers with no managerial experience whatsoever as they have tapped...
• 11/8 El Maquino: FREESE’S MIZZOU APPEARANCE CANCELLED: Early edition.  Check back later tonight for updates. > Greetings from Mizzou!  I was going to see David Freese here at...
• 11/8 WahoosOnFirst: FanSided MLB 2012 Awards: NL Manager of the Year: Davey Johnson: For many fans, the end-of-season player awards are one of the biggest highlights of the long MLB offseason. There’s just one...
• 11/8 RoxPile: Walt!!: If you have read much at all of my baseball writing, then you know I have a deep, unassailable affection for the Rockies of old,...
• 11/8 RoxPile: Walt Weiss Named Colorado Rockies Manager: As the dust of election day officially settled and Rockies fans across the country tucked themselves in for a good night’s...
• 11/7 Redbird Rants: An Interview with Tony La Russa: I recently read One Last Strike by former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and was given the opportunity to interview...
• 11/3 i70baseball.com: Big Mac Leaves St. Louis: One year ago, Cardinal Nation tasted the very definition of bittersweet as the team reveled in its 11th—and inarguably most...
• 11/1 mlbreports.com : What 2012 Really Meant to the St. Louis Cardinals: Thursday November 1st, 2012 Alex Mednick (Baseball Analyst and Writer) The St. Louis Cardinals came into 2012 as the defending...

• 10/31 StanGraphs: NL Central Review: 2012 NL Central Predicted Standings St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pirates Chicago Cubs Houston...
• 10/28 i70baseball.com: Regardless of expectations, St. Louis Cardinals were beaten by a better team: Although the St. Louis Cardinals looked poised for another exhilarating run to a championship while up three games to one on the...
• 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 Redbird Dugout: Giants knock Cardinals out: It’s been less than a week since the St. Louis Cardinals were removed from the playoffs by the San Francisco Giants winning...
• 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 Call to the Pen: 2012 Season Review Series: St. Louis Cardinals: Perhaps no team in all of baseball had to endure more off-season turnover than the St. Louis Cardinals, one of baseball’s...
• 10/24 StlSportsMinute.com: Will Jose Oquendo get a shot at the Miami Marlins job?: St. Louis Cardinals fans adore the "Secret Weapon."  After a solid playing career in a Cardinals uniform, Jose Oquendo...
• 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...
• 10/24 mlbreports.com : 2012 World Series Preview: Game One Tonight as the Tigers Face the Giants in San Francisco: Wednesday October 24th, 2012 Dedrick Hendrix:  If it’s something you’ve never seen before on baseball’s October...
• 10/24 Redbird Rants: Wednesday Morning Musings: I spent yesterday doing anything but thinking, reading, or hearing about baseball.  I needed to do that. After Monday night’s...
• 10/24 Call to the Pen: Marco Scutaro is Mark Lemke 2.0: I don’t normally like to pat myself on the back, but there are just some times when one has to take the time out of the...
• 10/24 22gigantes.com: Tigers at Giants: World Series Game 1 preview: It’s **** that Giants catcher Buster Posey won the NL Comeback Player of the Year award on Tuesday. His team has been the...
• 10/23 Call to the Pen: Giants Play Like Giants To Move On: It rained on the San Francisco Giants’ parade, but nobody in the city by the Bay cared because it rained on the St. Louis...
• 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 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: San Francisco Giants 9 St. Louis Cardinals 0: Monday night's Game Seven match-up in the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco...
• 10/23 Baseball Jerks: St. Louis Cardinals & Joe Buck: Jerks of the Day: Way to ruin the whole **** thing for us, Joe, Cardinals. We thought you were worth having around this time but it appears that...
• 10/23 MetsToday.com: NLCS Game 7: Random Thoughts: How important is defense? How difficult is it to truly measure defensive proficiency? A great example was the contrast in how...
• 10/22 Redbird Rants: Preparing for a critical Game 7: I parti**** on a conference call this afternoon with some of the gang from Baseball Tonight. On the call were Karl Ravech, Orel...
• 10/22 Call to the Pen: Matt Holliday Unlikely to Play in NLCS Game Seven: St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday was a late scratch from the Game Six lineup on Sunday night. Back tightness took...
• 10/22 MLB Injury News: Carlos Beltran's Knee is Fine Says Mike Matheny: While the St. Louis Cardinals find themselves in their first elimination game of the National League Championship Series,...
• 10/22 STLCardinalBaseball: NLCS GAME 6: Rising Anxiety: All season long the 2012 Cardinals have resisted the urge to become the dominant team their statistics describe. On paper, this...
• 10/21 Baseball Jerks: Chris Carpenter & St. Louis Cardinals: Jerks of the Day: It didn’t take long for doubters of Chris Carpenter to pat themselves on the back. In tonight’s start at San Francisco,...
• 10/21 El Maquino: DOWN TO THE WIRE… AGAIN!: THE POSTGAME That hurt. I said before the game that I didn’t think post-surgery Chris Carpenter would be able to stack up...
• 10/21 StlSportsMinute.com: Video: Mike Matheny feels Yadier Molina should be NL MVP: The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants are both blessed to possess two high quality, dual threat catchers behind...
• 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 El Maquino: THEY DID WHAT?!: THE BIG PIECE None of the usual stuff tonight.  I’ll do all of that tomorrow. Tonight, I’d like to congratulate the...
• 10/20 El Maquino: MATHENY PICKS THE WRONG MAN FOR THE JOB, NATS FORCE GAME FIVE: THE RACES TODAY San Francisco (3) eliminates Cincinnati (2) Washington (2) beats St. Louis (2) Baltimore (1) tied with New York...
• 10/20 El Maquino: CARDS DECIMATE THE NATS AGAIN: THE RACES TODAY St. Louis (2) beats Washington (1) San Francisco (2) leads Cincinnati (1), 4th Baltimore (1) @ New York (1), 6.5p...
• 10/20 MLB Injury News: Carlos Beltran Returns to Cardinals' Lineup: Carlos Beltran's return to the St. Louis Cardinals lineup was not a triumphant one.  The Cardinals, who won both games...
• 10/19 Rum Bunter: So Long Man Behind the Cage, An Ode to Pittsburgh Pirates Hitting Coach Gregg Ritchie: Gregg Ritchie said he hasn’t spent a summer at home since he was fifteen years old.  Baseball consumed Ritchie and now...
• 10/19 Call to the Pen: Cardinals One Win Away From Second Straight World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals eked their way into the playoffs with a mere 88 wins and and proceeded to march their way through the...
• 10/17 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 3 San Francisco Giants 1: Everyone knew that the rain was bound to come and interrupt Game Three of the National League Championship Series...
• 10/17 22gigantes.com: Giants at Cardinals: NLCS Game 3 Preview: Woo-hoo! Postseason baseball is back! Man, that was a long wait. What’s it been? 36 hours? The Giants are in St. Louie for...
• 10/17 StlSportsMinute.com: Yadier Molina has struggled at plate so far in playoffs: St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina easily had the best offensive season of his career in 2012.  The four-time...
• 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 Swingin' A's: The Content of Their Character: Throughout this season we have seen the A’s fall in heartbreaking fashion, and we’ve seen them rise from the ashes...
• 10/13 STLCardinalBaseball: The Day After: A Few Scrambled Afterthoughts: A day has yet to pass since the Cardinals stunned baseball yet again by defeating the favored Washington Nationals and advancing...
• 10/13 Call to the Pen: Cardinals Keep Escaping: I wonder if Albert Pujols is watching on TV. And I wonder if he’s squirming. Championship Series play is beginning in the...
• 10/13 i70baseball.com: “How did this happen?”: FOX Sports broadcaster Tim McCarver uttered those words after David Freese won Game 6 of the 2011 World Series with a walk-off...
• 10/12 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals use familiar lineup in Game Five against Nationals: One day after being held to just three hits and one run, St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is sending the same lineup...
• 10/12 RoxPile: The Case For Jason Giambi As The Next Rockies Manager: With Jim Tracy’s resignation last week, the Colorado Rockies have started the search for just the 6th manager in their 20...
• 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 North Side Notch: 2012 NL Connie Mack Award Ballot: As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I get to submit a ballot for all the season awards we give out. The first accomplishment...
• 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 StanGraphs: NLDS Game Four: St. Louis Cardinals (88-74) at Washington Nationals (98-64): 6:05 PM That didn’t take long. A fantastic at-bat by Jayson Werth sends us to game five with the series knotted at two games...
• 10/11 MLB Dirt: My Manager of the Year Award Ballot: As a proud member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance I get the privilege of voting on all of the regular season awards in addition...
• 10/11 Fire Brand of the American League: Is John Farrell the right man?Why am I so skeptical of Farrell? Why am I hoping the team goes in a different direction?...
• 10/9 Call to the Pen: Yanks-Orioles, Cards-Nationals Real Playoff Wars: After watching several more hours of playoff baseball a couple of thoughts occurred to me: 1) The Yankees and the Orioles may...
• 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 StlSportsMinute.com: Video: Jon Jay robs Danny Espinosa with incredible catch: St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay has been playing an incredible defensive center field all season for the Cardinals....
• 10/9 StlSportsMinute.com: Jaime Garcia to be removed from roster, team not happy: The St. Louis Cardinals sent Jaime Garcia to the mound on Monday afternoon thinking they had a healthy, capable left-handed...
• 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...
• 10/8 StanGraphs: NLDS Game Two: Washington Nationals (98-64) at St. Louis Cardinals (88-74): 3:30 PM The Nationals enter game two of this NLDS series with a 1-0 lead following a narrow win over the Cardinals in the first...
• 10/8 STLCardinalBaseball: NLDS GAME 1: Not Like Champions: After the Cardinals stunned the Braves in the Wild Card game on Friday, Yadier Molina boasted to reporters that the Braves “played...
• 10/8 Mets360.com: Mets quotient on postseason teams: We know about the infamous Cubs Quotient that seemingly accurately predicts that the postseason parti**** with the most ex-Chicago...
• 10/7 El Maquino: CARDS GIVE GAME ONE AWAY TO THE NATS: THE RACES TODAY Detroit (2) beats Oakland (0) Washington (1) beats St. Louis (0) New York (0) @ Baltimore (0), rain Cincinnati...
• 10/7 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy: Mike Matheny was schooled by Davey Johnson in the eighth inning: One of the intriguing match-ups within the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals five game series is the match-up...
• 10/7 Redbird Dugout: Cardinals lose a tight Game 1: It’s been a theme for the Cardinals all season. Missed opportunities. The most glaring from this afternoon being a bases loaded...
• 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...
• 10/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Washington Nationals vs St. Louis Cardinals—NLDS Preview and Predictions: Washington Nationals (98-64; 1st place, NL East) vs St. Louis Cardinals (88-74; 2nd place, NL Central; Won Wild Card Game over...
• 10/7 StlSportsMinute.com: Adron Chambers lands on Cardinals NLDS roster: For the second regular season in a row, Adron Chambers spent most of his year at Triple AAA Memphis. But for the second...
• 10/6 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals On The Move Towards 12 in ’12: The St. Louis Cardinals parlayed their one game do-or-die situation into a meeting with the Washington Nationals.  The Redbirds...
• 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 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 6 Atlanta Braves 3: The St. Louis Cardinals were fortunate enough to qualify for the playoffs this season thanks to Bud Selig's new "Wild Card" format....
• 10/5 StanGraphs: Wild Card Play-In Game: St. Louis Cardinals (88-74) at Atlanta Braves (94-68): 5:45 PM: The tomahawk chop was just used by Matt Holliday to deposit a ball into the left field seats of Turner Field in less...
• 10/5 WahoosOnFirst: Who Should the Indians’ Next Manager Be?: It’s been a week since the Indians dismissed manager Manny Acta, and it looks like either bench coach and interim manager...
• 10/5 Tomahawk Take: Braves And Medlen Prepare For Cardinals And Lohse: If the Braves had to play in a one-game elimination I suspect they’d really want to play the Cardinals the team who took...
• 10/4 STLCardinalBaseball: One Game, One Team: The Cardinals Announce Their Wild Card Roster!: The Cardinals, faced with a sudden-death chance to sneak into the National League Division Series, made an expected move by trimming...
• 10/4 El Maquino: THE MORNING AFTER: REGULAR SEASON ENDS WITH A WIN, BERKMAN SAYS GOODBYE, AND THE CASE OF THE DELETED STRAUSS TWEETS: THE BIG PIECE The Cardinals dealt a catastrophic blow to Post-Dispatch writer Joe Strauss‘ ego when they shut the media...
• 10/4 Red Sox Maineiacs: Sox Fire Valentine Day After Worst Season Since 1965: Well, Deacon Art got his wish just hours after this horror show of a season ended.  The Red Sox, in a typical move of hilarity,...
• 10/4 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: National League Wild-Card Preview: The 2012 MLB regular season is no more, and tomorrow night, the postseason dawns, as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Atlanta...
• 10/4 MLB Injury News: Cardinals Injury News: Lance Berkman Pinch-Hits for St. Louis: When St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Lance Berkman underwent surgery on his knee in early September, it appeared that...
• 10/4 The Baseball Page: St. Louis Cardinals clinch playoff spot: will attempt to defend World Series title: There have been some big changes in St. Louis since the Cardinals won...
• 10/4 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 162: Honor The Past, Cheer The Present, Anti**** The Future: The Cardinals finished out their regular season schedule with a symphonic final game that pitted a cast of Cardinal bench players...
• 10/4 PaulLebowitz.com: National League Wild Card Play-In Game Preview—St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta Braves: The starting pitchers are relatively meaningless in a one-game playoff. What’s most important is how the managers handle said...
• 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 Tomahawk Take: Braves End Regular Season With Win: After losing the chance to win the division title, the Braves had a little air come out of the balloon, losing the first two games...
• 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,...
• 10/3 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Why Cardinals game 162 may still matterThe St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds have already clinched, but NLDS matchups are not yet set....
• 10/2 mlbreports.com : Clevland Indians: Terry Francona or Sandy Alomar Jr. for Manager?: Tuesday October 2nd, 2012 Jake Dal Porto:  The Cleveland Indians began their expected renovations early on Thursday, firing manager...
• 10/2 StanGraphs: Academy Award Favorites Hit Theaters Soon: With just two regular season games to go, we’re all left sitting uncomfortably (but excitably!) on pins and needles as we...
• 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 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Pete Kozma Helping The Playoff Push: With their eyes on the prize in an effort to get their 12th World Series Championship, the St. Louis Cardinals have demonstrated...
• 10/1 Redlegs Review: 10 facts about the Cardinals series: After taking two out of three in Pittsburgh, the Redlegs (96-63) wrap up the 2012 regular season with a 3-game clash...
• 10/1 StanGraphs: Who Starts the One-Game Playoff?: Happy October, everyone. Today officially marks the first day of the month where baseball gets really intense. With another lopsided...
• 10/1 i70baseball.com: What if?: The St. Louis Cardinals entered the final two series of the 2012 regular season with something to play for: the Second Wild Card,...

• 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...
• 9/29 mlbreports.com : Chris Carpenter: St. Louis Cardinals Ace is Playoffs Insurance: Saturday September 29th, 2012 Dedrick Hendrix:  Every baseball fan thought that St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter wouldn’t...
• 9/28 El Maquino: CARDS WRECK THEIR FORMER ALLY JACKSON: THE POSTGAME The Cardinals absolutely kicked the crap out of their World Series compatriot Edwin Jackson, tacking nine runs on...
• 9/28 Blog Red Machine: Reds Potential Playoff Match-Up Part 4: St. Louis Cardinals: Before Todd Frazier took a first pitch fastball from John Axford over the center field wall, Part 4 was going to feature the red...
• 9/28 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Writing On The Wall For Red Sox, Valentine, And Varitek: November 29, 2011. Yup, that was the date. I can tie it all back to that day, knowing that the dark cloud officially...
• 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...
• 9/27 Reviewing the Brew: Former Brewers Abound In Playoff Races: Major League Baseball is coming down the home stretch in this year’s playoff race. And it’s every bit as exciting...
• 9/27 El Maquino: NORRIS OWNS THE NIGHT IN CARDS’ LAST HOUSTON STINT: THE POSTGAME > Chris Carpenter didn’t do too bad, only giving up two over six innings.  But it wasn’t enough...
• 9/25 El Maquino: THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKIN’ ABOUT! CONSISTENT CARDS WIN AGAIN: THE POSTGAME > It might be too early to declare Jaime Garcia rid of his road woes (there’s a writer-only word), especially...
• 9/25 High Heat Stats: Cannon Fodder: The Casualties of WAR (Volume 1): In another thread, longtime reader Topper wondered aloud: “Who is the all-time SABR whipping boy?” In our first installment...
• 9/25 StanGraphs: Mike Matheny’s New Bullpen: After a season loaded with games in which it never happened, or never seemed to happen, the Cardinals have been winning close...
• 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...
• 9/23 MLB Injury News: St. Louis Cardinals Injury News: Yadier Molina, Carlos Beltran: The St. Louis Cardinals, currently battling for the second Wild Card spot in the National League, will be without two of their...
• 9/23 El Maquino: CARDS PILLAGE CHICAGO, TRAIN HEADS TO HOUSTON ONE LAST TIME: THE POSTGAME Kyle Lohse and the Cards were neck-and-neck with the Cubs for most of today’s game until a two-run eighth made...
• 9/23 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: Cardinals, Davey Johnson, Giants: Jimmy Dugan, Tom Hanks' character in A League of Their Own, memorably blurted, "There's no crying in baseball!" Now comes a mysterious...
• 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...
• 9/22 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird fan: 10-2012: Disappointing loss – Chris Carpenter made his season debut for the St. Louis Cardinals earlier Friday. He pitched very well...
• 9/21 El Maquino: CUBS WALK OFF CARPENTER’S OPENING DAY: THE POSTGAME David DeJesus was a Cardinal killer before Friday’s game.  In 44 career games against them, he had an average...
• 9/20 El Maquino: SALAS SAVES THE DAY: THE POSTGAME Rarely is a middle reliever the MVP of any given game, but Fernando Salas was all over it in today’s sweep...
• 9/20 MLB Injury News: Chris Carpenter's Return Could Mean Another Magical Run for the Cardinals: Last year, the St. Louis Cardinals overcame extreme odds to even get into the postseason.  They knocked the Atlanta...
• 9/20 STLCardinalBaseball: The MVP case for Yadier Molina: Earlier this season, we in the STL Sports Network had a round table discussion on this site on Yadier Molina (Which you can...
• 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: Daily Rant: Looking Ahead To Astros Series: The St. Louis Cardinals look to put a little more space between themselves and the teams chasing them as they take on the 99-loss...
• 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...
• 9/16 El Maquino: CARDS TAKE DODGERS IN TWELVE; CARP RETURNS FRIDAY: THE POSTGAME Given how badly the Cardinals and Dodgers have been in spite of their lineups lately, it’s no surprise that...
• 9/16 StlSportsMinute.com: Shelby Miller picks up first MLB victory: Love talking Cardinals baseball?  Check out  RealSportsLounge.com! After losing Saturday night in heart-breaking...
• 9/16 PaulLebowitz.com: American League Central—2012 Present and 2013 Future: I recently looked at the AL East, how they’re faring now and their prospects for the future. Now let’s look at the AL Central....
• 9/15 Redbird Rants: My (tentative) List of Award Winners on the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals: I thought I would take a break from writing about the St. Louis Cardinals’ woes and their attempt to return to the postseason....
• 9/15 El Maquino: DODGERS PUNCH BACK, ONE BACK: THE POSTGAME The Cards dominated the first half of their game against the Dodgers and it looked like a win to put them three back...
• 9/15 StlSportsMinute.com: Is Carlos Beltran starting to break out of his slump?: Much has been made about how bad Carlos Beltran has been the second half of the year for the St. Louis Cardinals. Since...
• 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...
• 9/13 StlSportsMinute.com: Fernando Salas has struggled in September: After a slow start to the season, St. Louis Cardinals reliever Fernando Salas had seemed to turn things...
• 9/13 Lasorda's Lair: Conversation With The Enemy-Daniel Shoptaw: In our latest installment of our Conversation with the Enemy articles, I sat down to discuss Baseball with Daniel Shoptaw of Cardinal70.com....
• 9/13 StanGraphs: What to Watch Down the Stretch (Other Than the Awful Cardinals): That Padres series was especially hard to watch, and even harder to swallow. I don’t ever want anything like that in my...
• 9/12 El Maquino: CARDS FAIL TO EXECUTE… AGAIN: THE POSTGAME Tonight’s Cardinals-Padres game was, as you’d expect, a low-scoring affair given that the star-laden...
• 9/12 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: San Diego Padres 3 St. Louis Cardinals 2: Want to talk more Cardinals baseball?  Check out RealSportsLounge.com! The St. Louis Cardinals...
• 9/12 Baseball Musings: Molina Bunt: Trailing the Padres 3-2 in the top of the ninth, Allen Craig of the Cardinals led off with a double. With a man in scoring position...
• 9/12 STLCardinalBaseball: What’s Really Wrong With The 2012 Cardinals?: Most reasonable and realistic Cardinal fans have watched the team’s performance over the last three months in open-mouthed...
• 9/11 MLB Injury News: Lance Berkman Set for Season-Ending Surgery: Lance Berkman’s season, and perhaps career, is over, as the St. Louis Cardinals have announced their first baseman will...
• 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 i70baseball.com: Age, injuries catching up to St. Louis Cardinals in September: The St. Louis Cardinals knew they had an old team heading into the 2012 season, and injuries or players wearing down in the course...
• 9/10 i70baseball.com: Shutdown TheoryWhen the Nationals put Stephen Strasburg on the shelf, it brought to mind the Cardinals Adam Wainwright....
• 9/10 Roto Think Tank: N.L. FAAB Log: September 10, 2012: 0 0 1 401 2286 Roto Think Tank 19 5 2682 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US ...
• 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...
• 9/9 The Cardinal Nation Blog: On McGwire and Berkman – at second base?Why couldn’t the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals re-use a lineup trick first deployed by Tony La Russa in September 2000?...
• 9/8 El Maquino: CARDS OFFENSE CAN’T TURN THE KEY: Today’s edition is unusually light, but EM should be running at 100% on Monday. THE POSTGAME It was fun while it lasted,...
• 9/8 PaulLebowitz.com: Don’t Push The Beast—Lessons From The Nats-Cubs Scrap: I don’t believe in many unimpeachable rules about baseball. I do have certain preferences such as not hiring as a manager someone...
• 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 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....
• 9/7 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...
• 9/7 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan: 8-2012: The next 25 games – So, here we are Cardinal Nation; another 25 games and the St. Louis Cardinals are in the playoffs again....
• 9/7 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: A Preview Of The Weekend Ahead: Though the St. Louis Cardinals are losers of 6 of their last 9, they did recently take 2 of 3 from the New York Mets.  With any...
• 9/7 Pitchers Hit Eighth: What is the opposite of TOOTBLAN? ARTALAN.: Ok, to be fair, what I’m about to lay on you folks isn’t a perfect equal and opposite of the TOOTBLAN, because the...
• 9/6 El Maquino: OFFDAY STUFF: THE NEWS > Additional cartilage damage is expected in Lance Berkman‘s knee.  ”It’s not an old man’s...
• 9/6 The Cardinal Nation Blog: 2012 St. Louis Cardinals reach historic heights at second base: The identity of the tallest men to ever play second base for the St. Louis Cardinals may be very surprising. We’ve seen three...
• 9/5 El Maquino: MILLER’S DEBUT GIVES MEANING TO OTHERWISE-FORGETTABLE GAME: THE POSTGAME/BIG PIECE Shelby Miller‘s first Big League game, besides the fact that it was Shelby Miller’s first Big...
• 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 i70baseball.com: If it wasn’t for bad luck…The St. Louis Cardinals may be in some real trouble now....
• 9/3 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Missed Call Spoils Mets’ Comeback in 5-4 Loss: The Mets were battling from behind most of the day during their series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals. Down one run in...
• 9/3 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cubs, Miller, Felix, Joseph: In the same game that Jamey Carroll hit his first home run since August 2009, Adam Dunn struck out tonight to become the sixth...
• 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 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 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week In Review: Cardinals experience more downs than ups in poor week: The Cardinals took a huge step backwards in a week filled with down notes. They lost Rafael Furcal potentially for the season,...
• 9/3 Rising Apple: Series Preview: New York Mets @ St. Louis Cardinals: The Mets head to St. Louis for their last stop in what is a three-city road trip before they head back to New York. This is the...
• 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 Redbird Rants: A Wake Up Call for the St. Louis Cardinals: I hope Saturday’s performance by the St. Louis Cardinals serves as a wake-up call because it provided the offensive show...
• 9/2 PaulLebowitz.com: “Because They Did It” Is Not A Viable Argument: Baseball analysis has become a newest latest endeavor. Whatever is “working” is seen as the new strategy and this should be...
• 9/1 El Maquino: THE GIANT WAKES UP: THE POSTGAME By any other measure, today’s Cardinals-Nationals game was an ugly one.  But when you’ve been blown...
• 9/1 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 133: They Just Won’t Go Away: This **** team continues to baffle and confuse its loyal but dispirited fans. Just when they look like they’re ready to...
• 9/1 El Maquino: CARDS’ SLUMP REACHES CRITICAL MASS: THE POSTGAME The Cards got blown out for the fourth-straight day, again going out without some semblance of a fight. In the last...
• 9/1 Call to the Pen: A Nightmare Stretch for the St. Louis Cardinals: Four games ago, the St. Louis Cardinals were probably feeling pretty good about themselves. After winning six of their last seven...

• 8/31 i70baseball.com: Furcal to the DL, Kozma to the lineup, Puma returnsTeam announces Berkman to be activated tomorrow....
• 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...
• 8/30 El Maquino: DING DONG, THE STREAK IS DEAD!: THE BIG PIECE It’s gotten so bad for the Colorado Rockies (53-76, team ERA of 5.22) that they’ve already begun to...
• 8/30 Rum Bunter: The Man Behind The Cage: This Pittsburgh Pirates Coach Deserves Some Love: Pittsburgh Pirates Hitting Coach Gregg Ritchie had to be feeling pretty **** good last night heading into the final game of the...
• 8/28 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 129: Shown Up: The most devastating loss of the season. Not only did the Cardinals lose their All Star catcher and hero Yadier Molina in a bone-crunching...
• 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 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals manager Mike Matheny warms up reliever before ninth inning: St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny served as "bullpen catcher" during the middle of the ninth inning on Sunday. - (Photo...
• 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...
• 8/26 StlSportsMinute.com: David Freese could return to lineup on Monday: St. Louis Cardinals third baseman David Freese could return to the starting lineup as early as Monday night. - (Photo credit:...
• 8/26 StlSportsMinute.com: Cruddy Show recap: Allen Craig gives Mike Matheny lineup flexibility: The Cruddy Show was back at it on Friday night as the St. Louis Cardinals started their all important weekend series with 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...
• 8/24 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 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan: 6-2012:   Cards need to keep Lohse – The St. Louis Cardinals’ front office recently gave starter Jake Westbrook a contract extension....
• 8/24 Blog Red Machine: Reds ‘Welcome’ Cardinals for Three Game Weekend Series: The “Rivalry” is on. Some time back, I had a poll asking if the Reds-Cards rivalry was still around due to the players...
• 8/22 El Maquino: TIED!: THE POSTGAME The Cards beat the team everyone needs to beat and are now tied with the Pirates for second second place: a playoff...
• 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...
• 8/20 Tyler's Think Tank: 19 Inning Marathon Notes: Yesterday the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals, battling for second place in the NL Central with just one game separating...
• 8/20 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Cardinals drop game in extra innings: The Cardinals put in two games worth of work on Sunday as they took the Pirates to the nineteenth inning but couldn’t get...
• 8/20 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Riddle Me This: Riddle me that.  Who was sitting in the dugout with Descalso at-bat? Allen Craig. Granted, Mike Matheny chose Daniel Descalso...
• 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 mlbreports.com : ATR: Ask the Reports Answers Your Baseball Questions: Special Edition – Fixing the Boston Red Sox: Sunday August 19th, 2012 Jonathan Hacohen:  Posted every Weekend: Your top baseball questions from the past week are answered....
• 8/19 Raise the Jolly Roger: Missed chances cost Bucs: The Pirates missed several opportunities on Saturday and ultimately came up one run short, falling to the Cardinals 5-4. Erik...
• 8/18 El Maquino: CARDS SNEAK IN A WIN TO MOVE WITHIN ONE: THE POSTGAME Sorry for the very belated wrap-up.  Jason Motte survived a tight ninth to get the Cardinals back within one game...
• 8/18 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Minor Connection gives Major results: It’s time to give some praise and credit to the minor league players who are now in the majors and have contributed to the St....
• 8/18 Redbird Dugout: Descalso or Schumaker, that is the question: Last night Mike Matheny was left with a choice. Do you leave in Daniel Descalso to face Pittsburgh Pirates’ closer Joel...
• 8/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Bobby Valentine—Sympathetic Figure?: The Red Sox have done the impossible. They’ve made Bobby Valentine, one of the most polarizing people in baseball this side...
• 8/17 El Maquino: BUCS KICK CARDS AS DESCALSO STARTS AGAIN: THE BIG PIECE: WHO TO START AT SECOND So Daniel Descalso got the start over Skip Schumaker again, and it’s a big debate...
• 8/17 Baseball News Source: Boston Red Sox Managerial Candidates – Speculation Swirling: Drama and dysfunction surrounding Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine seems to escalate as the weeks pass, and even though team president...
• 8/17 MLBTradeRumors: AL East Notes: Red Sox, Lester, Orioles, Reynolds: Yesterday, Red Sox President Larry Lucchino took some time to talk to the press in the midst of the team's recent turmoil.  Lucchino...
• 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: THE CARDS ZERO IN ON THEIR PLAYOFF SPOT AFTER OPPONENTS’ DISASTERS: THE BIG PIECE: HERE WE COME Today was a landmark day in the 2012 season. I said on Tuesday that three teams were ready to pass...
• 8/14 El Maquino: CARDS ADVANCE IN THE STANDINGS AMID JACKSON CONFUSION: THE POSTGAME Jake Westbrook killed it for over seven innings against a Phillies lineup deadened by their trade deadline sell-off...
• 8/14 El Maquino: WAINWRIGHT’S BACK: THE POSTGAME: CARDS 3, GIANTS 1 Looks like Adam Wainwright‘s back. Today’s game–seven innings, seven strikeouts,...
• 8/14 El Maquino: CHAOS AT BUSCH MEMORIAL: ALERT: Tyler Greene Traded To Houston For Undisclosed Player Or Cash… Developing… THE POSTGAME: GIANTS 15, CARDS 0...
• 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 El Maquino: THE CARDINALS HAVE A RACE PROBLEM: THE BIG PIECE: THE CARDS’ RACE RELATIONS > Big article today from the Post-Dispatch‘s Jesse Bogan addressing the...
• 8/13 i70baseball.com: The conundrum of the St. Louis offense: It seems to be one of the great mysteries in Major League Baseball this year: The St. Louis Cardinals have one of the top offenses...
• 8/10 Phillies Nation: Phillies Follow Formula for Success: Tonight we witnessed Phillies baseball in it’s purest form. The Fightins won 3-1 as Roy Halladay pitched a gem, Ryan Howard...
• 8/10 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Vizquel, Chavez, Hafner: There are currently 52 starting pitchers on the disabled list, and it’s costing teams money as well as production, Yahoo's Jeff...
• 8/9 The Golden Sombrero: My Dream Fantasy Connie Mack World Series Lineup: I play in a couple of fantasy baseball leagues, and with just a third of the season left, my team in the Denslow Cup, a league...
• 8/9 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Freeing Tyler Greene: It takes a lot for baseball fans in St. Louis to boo one of its own.  Maybe the final straw came when Tyler Greene watched a...
• 8/7 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Matt Carpenter producing as a pinch-hitterSt. Louis Cardinals rookie Matt Carpenter is delivering like a veteran pinch-hitter off an inexperienced bench....
• 8/7 High Heat Stats: Monday game notes – expanded: Added games are above the solid line. @Orioles 3, Mariners 1: Chris Tillman won his 4th straight start, beating the team that...
• 8/7 AroundTheFoghorn: Cardinal Fan Arrested For Aiming Laser Pointer at Giants’ Shane Loux: Watching the Giants game last night, you probably noticed a weird sequence in the bottom of the 7th inning that involved Shane...
• 8/6 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals need more Daniel Descalso: The St. Louis Cardinals have used a trio of second basemen this year as they’ve muddled to a 58-49 record heading into play...
• 8/5 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Examination: The Impact of Acta: By Bob Toth When a team struggles as badly as the Cleveland Indians have over the last several seasons, someone generally takes...
• 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...

• 7/31 SocraticGadfly: 2nd-half preview, #MLB — #Stlcards on outside looking in: Now that the trade deadline dust has settled, we can look at winners and losers and how this will all play out. 1. Definite...
• 7/31 Baseball Press: Trading Places: Tuesday's Minor Moves: Broxton will act as a right-handed setup man for the Reds. (US Presswire)Teams became very active today in the final 90 minutes...
• 7/29 Redbird Rants: Hot Holliday = Cardinal success: Matt Holliday is the St. Louis Cardinal’s All Star Left Fielder and he’s having a career year. With a career batting average...
• 7/27 Redbird Rants: Optimistic Musings of a Redbird Fan: Issue: 2-2012:   Well, after losing five of six after the All Star break, lately, the St. Louis Cardinals have been dominant while winning...
• 7/22 StanGraphs: Chicago Cubs (38-53) at St. Louis Cardinals (47-45): 10:20 PM StanGraphs has won another game in live blogging, but we’re not going to get too **** here. Yes, we’re pretty...
• 7/22 Call to the Pen: Cardinals Will Be Buyers at the Deadline: The St. Louis Cardinals are 49-45, in third place five games back in the National League Central.  At this time last year, St....
• 7/21 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 12 Chicago Cubs 0: Skip Schumaker tripled and doubled in the St. Louis Cardinals huge seventh inning on Saturday night. -  (Photo credit:...
• 7/21 StlSportsMinute.com: Why does Daniel Descalso get a free pass?: St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Daniel Descalso has had a rough year in 2012. - (Photo credit: Wikipedia) St. Louis...
• 7/21 StlSportsMinute.com: Matheny says Cardinals need to put "money where our mouth is": (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The St. Louis Cardinals have started the second half of 2012 just 2-5,...
• 7/21 StlSportsMinute.com: Jaime Garcia's shoulder continues to improve: St. Louis Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia is throwing off the mound again as his rehab from a shoulder injury continues. -...
• 7/21 Redbird Rants: Optimistic Musings of A Redbird Fan: Issue 1-2012: The St. Louis Cardinals, after losing a series to Milwaukee, opened with a win at home against the Chicago Cubs. Kyle Lohse was...
• 7/20 i70baseball.com: Will Matheny find mojo?Kharma is a funny thing....
• 7/16 StlSportsMinute.com: Matt Holliday extends hitting streak to 14 games: St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a pair of hits on Sunday night....
• 7/16 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: Cincinnati Reds 4 St. Louis Cardinal 2: St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jake Westbrook pitched well in the Cardinals 4-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. -(Photo...
• 7/16 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals need Octavio Dotel-type reliever for pennant race: The St. Louis Cardinals entered play Sunday with a 46-41 record, just one game behind their record at this point last season....
• 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...
• 7/13 StlSportsMinute.com: Poll: Should the Cardinals look to trade Shelby Miller?: In search for pitching help, should St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak look to deal Shelby Miller? Vote...
• 7/12 Redbird Rants: Why Skip Schumaker should be St. Louis Cardinals everyday Second Baseman: There are some things I read in sports that are maddening to me. Big Mac and steroids, St. Louis Cardinals will not win without...
• 7/12 Redbird Rants: Daily Rant: Stories for the second half: The Cardinals start the second half of the season tomorrow, opening up play against the Reds. The Cardinals go into the second...
• 7/12 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Don’t miss Thursday Darryl Kile specialThe late St. Louis Cardinals pitcher is being remembered a decade after his passing in a Thursday night television special....
• 7/11 i70baseball.com: 2nd Half Key: Keep the “Fragile” Players Rested: No matter what you thought of Tony La Russa, one had to respect his ability to keep an entire roster sharp and ready to compete....
• 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....
• 7/7 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals can not afford to lose Rafael Furcal: The St. Louis Cardinals can not afford to lose Rafael Furcal at any point this season. -(Photo credit: Wikipedia) St....
• 7/7 STLCardinalBaseball: Growing Pains: A Look At A Rookie Manager Making Rookie Mistakes: When the Cardinals elected to hire Mike Matheny as the man to replace Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa™ last winter, we knew...
• 7/6 StlSportsMinute.com: Cardinals recap: St. Louis Cardinals 6 Colorado Rockies 2: Behind a strong outing from All-star Lance Lynn, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Colorado Rockies 6-2 on Thursday night....
• 7/6 StlSportsMinute.com: Jason Motte has worked overtime as closer on occasion in 2012: Jason Motte has converted three saves of four outs or more in 2012, which is the most in the National League. - (Photo credit:...
• 7/6 StanGraphs: Start Carpenter at Second: Remember two days ago when I said that Skip Schumaker was the best candidate to start at second base? Well, not anymore; that...
• 7/4 StanGraphs: Start Schumaker at Second: Happy America, everyone. Here at StanGraphs, we respect the fact that not every reader hails from the country that first created...
• 7/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Pujols May Save the Cardinals Again: Albert Pujols did the Cardinals a huge favor by departing for Anaheim and the Angels. Not only did he save them from paying a...
• 7/2 Redbird Rants: Redbirds Week in Review—6/25/12 to 7/1/12:   The Redbirds were back to NL contests this week, taking on the Miami Marlins in Miami and then coming home to Busch to...
• 7/2 i70baseball.com: A Season of Allen CraigThis week, the St. Louis Cardinals found out exactly what a full Major League season of Allen Craig looks like....

• 6/29 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 77: Scorched: The Pirate bats were hotter than the heat wave roasting the Midwest. They bludgeoned a shaky Adam Wainwright and (of course) our...
• 6/29 i70baseball.com: No longer sitting on the sidelines, this is Yadi’s team: Amid the confusion emanating from a lineup card snafu, catcher Yadier Molina's dramatic, game-tying two-run homer in the ninth...
• 6/28 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Two homers in one inning against Cards pitching not that rare: Wednesday night marked the 17th time since 2000 that two different St. Louis Cardinals pitchers allowed home runs in the same...
• 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...
• 6/22 Redbird Rants: Manager Mike Matheny – Report Card…..so far:   When the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series last year, many in Cardinal Nation wondered if Tony LaRussa would return...
• 6/22 STLCardinalBaseball: Remembering Darryl Kile: It was ten years ago today that Cardinal Nation lost one of their top pitchers, Darryl Kile which happened to be the second blow...
• 6/22 Redbird Rants: Tyler Greene – Should He Stay or Should He Go?:   For the past several years, 2B has been a revolving door for the St. Louis Cardinals. Ron Belliard, Hector Luna, Felipe...
• 6/18 STLCardinalBaseball: A Few Thoughts About The Recent Slide: Thank goodness for a day off! After the Father’s Day Massacre yesterday, I was so disgusted and disillusioned that I needed...
• 6/18 Pitchers Hit Eighth: STARS 4 Baby Reesa: Skip Schumaker – Champion in more than 1 sense… You probably do not know Sean, Jamie, and Reesa Stutzman.  I believe...
• 6/18 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Royals 5, Cardinals 3: What I would’ve tweeted: Happy Father’s Day to all of you dads. I spent the mid-afternoon of my Father’s Day at the local swimming hole with...
• 6/16 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 66: Waking A Sleeping Beast: The best team in the National League has been slumbering for the majority of almost two months. Many observers wondered about...
• 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...
• 6/12 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)...
• 6/8 North and South of Royal Brougham: Mike Zunino Doesn’t Deserve Jeff Clement Comparisons: When the Mariners drafted Mike Zunino, a guy I assumed was at least third on their list, I was pretty uninspired. I think that...
• 6/7 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Separated at birth: Billy Bob and Dave Duncan?: The film adaptation of the best-seller “Three Nights in August” is slated to have Billy Bob Thornton playing Tony La Russa’s...
• 6/6 i70baseball.com: Getting used to a bigger window: Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, you are aware the St. Louis Cardinals are in the middle of a...
• 6/6 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Who is your Cardinals’ sixth starter?Jaime Garcia’s health remains a concern for the St. Louis Cardinals. Vote on how to replace him if needed....
• 6/4 STLCardinalBaseball: MLB Draft 2012 – DAY 1: Faced with a weak draft class and five of the first 59 picks, the Cardinals were projected to snag several of the few studs available....
• 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...

• 5/31 i70baseball.com: Greene DaySomeone "up there", aka in the big leagues, did find him and give him a chance going into the 2012 season....
• 5/27 FanSided: Redbird Rehab and Happy Memorial Day: After a dismal series battling the Philadelphia Phillies the only good news for the St. Louis Cardinals seems to be coming from...
• 5/26 STLCardinalBaseball: Chuckie Fick And Other Bullpen Questions: I just wanted to take a moment to go over some of the recent developments with the bullpen. WHY CHUCKIE FICK?  News broke late...
• 5/26 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Why Does It Feel So Good To Be So Wrong?:   The seemingly rhetorical question may actually deserve an answer this time.  Why must reality dictate that what our brains...
• 5/25 Redbird Rants: Who am I? Name that Cardinal: The 2012 St. Louis Cardinals are not the Running Redbirds of the 1980’s.  But they are definitely swiping bases on a more regular...
• 5/23 Bus League Baseball: Gateway To The World Series: In late August, the Cardinals were at various points 10.5 games behind both Milwaukee in the NL Central and Atlanta for the Wild...
• 5/23 i70baseball.com: Coach Berkman: He is one of the guys that reminds me that baseball is ultimately a game people play because they love it, or at least at one...
• 5/21 El Maquino: UPDATE: Lance’s ACL Is NOT Torn: That was close.  It turns out that Lance Berkman‘s MRI did not turn up with an ACL tear like the Post-Dispatch reported...
• 5/19 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Walk-off walks: a Cardinals historySince 1952, the St. Louis Cardinals have been involved in 43 games that ended with a base on balls....
• 5/18 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Hudson, Orioles, Draft: On this date in 2004, 40-year-old Randy Johnson threw a perfect game against the Braves. He joined Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo...
• 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...
• 5/17 El Maquino: Pujols’ Swing Is Back, Cards In San Francisco, Umpires And The Second Base Poll: Albert Pujols hit a homerun last night with the same swing he had in Game Three, Jaime and the Cards dropped San Fran last night,...
• 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 El Maquino: Yadi Walks Off, Jay Goes Down And Right-Handed Lefty Specialists: Mike Matheny's approach to a one-lefty bullpen could be revolutionary or could be jumping off a skyscraper without a trampoline....
• 5/15 i70baseball.com: Time To Second Guess?Decisions based on small sample sizes can kill you....
• 5/14 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Hamilton, Pettitte, Cardinals, Romero: Bad news for the Royals tonight as they learned that left-hander Danny Duffy is likely out for the year with a torn ulnar collateral...
• 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 i70baseball.com: Preseason concerns about St. Louis Cardinals offense prove to be unfoundedHeading into the 2012 season, the St. Louis Cardinals had lost the best hitter in the game during the past decade....
• 5/11 Redbird Dugout: Who stays, who goes?: Who will stay and who will go is probably the question on a few players’ minds right now. The St. Louis Cardinals are due...
• 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’...
• 5/11 Baseball Musings: Shot at Sabean: In regards to Carlos Beltran leaving San Francisco, Only Baseball Matters points out: Maybe he won’t be worth the money in a...
• 5/10 i70baseball.com: A positive sign for May: After a rough start down in Houston the St. Louis Cardinals picked up right where they left off in April. With Tyler Greene leading...
• 5/8 Redbird Rants: The Elephant in the Room:   It’s something that has been on everyone’s minds ever since Allen Craig returned from the DL. From about the...
• 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....
• 5/7 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Greene launches two homers to back Wainwright in Cardinals 8-1 win over Astros: Tyler Greene was unable to secure the second base job coming out of Spring Training, but a couple more performances like yesterday’s...
• 5/6 STLCardinalBaseball: The Looming Lineup Problem: Lance Berkman and The Case Of The Mysterious, Never-Healing Leg Cramp could be cleared for baseball action as soon as tomorrow...
• 5/4 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Rivera, Youkilis, Street: Five years ago today, 49-year-old Julio Franco and 43-year-old Randy Johnson faced off in the oldest hitter-pitcher matchup...
• 5/3 i70baseball.com: Cardinals Report, taking stock of April: "We could have had an epic month, but it turned out to just be a decent month," said first baseman Lance Berkman, still disabled...

• 4/30 C70 At The Bat: Live By The Legs, Die By The Legs: Glad to be back with you.  Friday was an exhausting day and it took me most of the weekend to recover...
• 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 i70baseball.com: How will Cards respond to adversity?: As I wrote last week in this space, everything was rainbow and lollipops in Cardinal Nation after such a fast start out of the...
• 4/25 C70 At The Bat: Cardinals 2, Cubs 1, Umpires 2: I don't like to complain about the umpires.  They have a tough job and often complaints about them are...
• 4/24 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 18: The Umpire Strikes Out: Adam Wainwright and Matt Holliday flashed their vintage form, but the Cardinals couldn’t pull themselves together in the...
• 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 Through The Fence Baseball: Latin Link: Bartolo Colon, Gio Gonzalez earning high praise:   When Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane went out on a financial limb this past winter by winning a bidding war...
• 4/22 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 16: Yardarm: In one of his finest outings yet, Kyle Lohse swashbuckled the Pittsburgh Pirates into the eighth inning, limiting them to just...
• 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....
• 4/19 i70baseball.com: Are the Cardinals headed for 2000 again?: What if this team under new leadership, starts another great era of Cardinal baseball without a reloading period following the...
• 4/19 C70 At The Bat: Loose Hips Sink Reds' Ship: I still have no idea what that was about, but it said a lot about this clubhouse.In the third inning, Fox...
• 4/18 STLCardinalBaseball: Player Spotlight: Matt Carpenter: The new unsung hero in St. Louis is the new corner infielder, Matt Carpenter. Throughout the first eleven games of the season...
• 4/18 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Mitchell Boggs and the Consistent Delivery: I love it when post titles double as a band name.  And vice versa. As long ago as Spring Training 2010, Mitchell Boggs was searching...
• 4/17 Redbird Rants: Editor’s Letter: Cardinals bench is going to be crowded and hungry: Dear Readers, The St. Louis Cardinals are built for the long term. General manager John Mozeliak and manager Mike Matheny have...
• 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 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 i70baseball.com: Berkman and Freese injured early, don’t panic Cards fansLess than two weeks into its championship-defending season and key St. Louis Cardinals are already suffering injuries....
• 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...
• 4/12 FanSided: Some Thoughts on Opening Week: It’s been an interesting week. Hasn’t it? During the offseason, baseball analysts said that the St. Louis Cardinals would...
• 4/12 C70 At The Bat: Jaime Being Jaime: I've often said the biggest problem with Jaime Garcia is just getting consistent work from him.  There are times...
• 4/11 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 7: GotAway Game: With a day off tomorrow, manager Mike Matheny gave several key veterans the day off with a much-criticized “getaway”...
• 4/10 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 6: Powered Up: After an impressive first-pass, Kyle Lohse started the second turn of the rotation with another impressive outing very much like...
• 4/10 C70 At The Bat: Westbrooking No Argument: One of the biggest stories in spring was Jake Westbrook, first his significant weight loss, then his stellar pitching.  While...
• 4/9 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 5: A Team Win: A slimmed-down Jake Westbrook made his 2012 debut with a curious performance, throwing a five-walk no-hitter through four innings...
• 4/9 The Baseball Page: St. Louis Cardinals – The Road to 12 in ’12The Road to 12 in '12...
• 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 El Maquino: > AUDITING THE NEW-LOOK CARDS: The St. Louis Cardinals (3-1) are in first place after four games, dropping the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday 9-3.  Taking stock...
• 4/8 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 4: Lynnsanity: Armed with a modified lineup, the Cardinals attempted to overcome their historical struggles against soft-throwing lefties. After...
• 4/8 STLCardinalBaseball: Trolling For Pujols: The St. Louis Cardinals have started their 2012 season in electric style, becoming the first team in franchise history to have...
• 4/7 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 3: All Too Human: Who knows what we really expected from Adam Wainwright on his first official start since returning from Tommy John surgery. A...
• 4/6 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 2: All Cylinders: After a joke of an opening day against the hired guns of Miami, the Cardinals went into Milwaukee for some serious competition...
• 4/6 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Furcal, the other Greene and why March doesn’t matterAn Opening Day reminder that spring training results aren’t worth much of anything....
• 4/5 Pitchers Hit Eighth: [Redbird Reveille] Mike Matheny is 1-0 as an Opening Day Manager: The Cardinals won on Opening Day, hooray! Quite the showcase last night for the Marlins, the City of Miami, and your World Champion...
• 4/5 C70 At The Bat: Starting Off On The Right Foot: Sometimes it is tough to get people to agree on anything.  However, I'm pretty sure that every Cardinal fan would agree...
• 4/5 STLCardinalBaseball: Game 1: First Steps: The first major league game in the new Miami Marlins Stadium, featuring the first hit, first strikeout, and first run scored....
• 4/5 El Maquino: > MATHENY RE-DEFINSE CARDINAL BASEBALL IN FIRST WIN: When the Cardinals won the World Series last year, they did so with power.  The League’s best offense, powered by Albert...
• 4/4 i70baseball.com: Three points to ponderAs spring training ends, some questions remain for the St Louis Cardinals....
• 4/4 El Maquino: > TENSION BUILDS FOR OPENING NIGHT: The tension is palatable as the anti**** builds and the Cards make their final preparations before taking baseball’s biggest...
• 4/3 i70baseball.com: Saying final goodbyesThis weekend marks the last weekend for seven more months that we won’t have at least some Major League Baseball to enjoy....
• 4/3 C70 At The Bat: That's (Almost) A Wrap: The Cardinals are done with Florida, even as they look toward a return.St. Louis finished the Grapefruit League portion of...

• 3/30 i70baseball.com: 2012 key player: Carlos Beltran Former Cardinal killer, Carlos Beltran, now sets his sights on helping the Cardinals return to the playoffs in 2012....
• 3/30 i70baseball.com: 2012 Key Players: It’s Wainwright, or it’s way wrongIs there a single player, let alone pitcher, whose 2012 season will be more important to the Cardinals’ success this year?...
• 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: Cutting Down To Size: The Cards made another move yesterday after their 6-3 loss to the Mets, sending Adron Chambers down to minor league camp....
• 3/30 El Maquino: > NEW TV DEALS ARE GAME-CHANGERS: Major League teams and the stations that broadcast their games have an interesting relationship.  On the one hand, the team needs...
• 3/30 El Maquino: > DID MAGIC & CO. JUST MAKE A HUGE MISTAKE?: Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead has been heard high above Los Angeles today since the early morning hours as one of the city’s...
• 3/30 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Examining the Shift in Cardinals Roster Construction: The Cardinals’ release of veteran non-roster invitees Alex Cora and Koyie Hill on Sunday wasn’t the type of transaction that...
• 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 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: St. Louis Cardinals: The defending World Champions lost a pair of franchise icons this offseason, but they appear poised to contend for another title...
• 3/22 i70baseball.com: Next Cardinals’ crop could be quite the harvest: For many years the Cardinals built their major league club through trades or free agency rather than with players the team drafted...
• 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: 2012 Preview: Right Fielder: Right field. It’s a position that many expected to be handed to Allen Craig after his outstanding 2011 season coming off...
• 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 STLCardinalBaseball: Spring Training And The Principle Of Carpe Diem: In the film Dead Poet’s Society, the teacher played by Robin Williams inspired his students to achieve their dreams with...
• 3/21 i70baseball.com: Replacing a Cardinal legendReplacing a Cardinal legend...those words could mean a lot of different things coming into the 2012 season. ...
• 3/21 C70 At The Bat: Winning Is Good: You know, it took a little while for Mike Matheny to get his first spring training win as a Cardinal manager, but now it...
• 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 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...
• 3/18 Full Spectrum Baseball: Welcome to the Era of the Moneyball ManagerIn this post-Moneyball era, baseball franchises have begun to redefine the “Baseball Man.”...
• 3/18 i70baseball.com: Tyler Greene: Now or never.: If there was ever a time for Tyler Greene to take advantage of a situation in order to make the Cards’ Opening Day roster as...
• 3/16 STLCardinalBaseball: Ducks In A Row: A Look At The Developing Lineup For 2012: After much spring tinkering, Mike Matheny on Friday unveiled a lineup that tells us much about his evolving perceptions about...
• 3/16 C70 At The Bat: The Late Game Magic Still Lingers: Of course, coming from behind in a spring training game doesn't have the magical allure that similar rallies last September...
• 3/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Radio Appearance with Breakin’ the Norm: Here’s my appearance from Tuesday with Les Norman on Breakin’ the Norm on 810 WHB in Kansas City talking about the...
• 3/15 Redbird Dugout: 2012 Preview: Left Field: One of three 2011 Opening Day starters expected to take the field in the same position in this year’s Opening Day game,...
• 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 STLCardinalBaseball: Return Of The Running Game: The first two weeks of spring training haven’t illuminated much about Mike Matheny‘s managerial strategies or game...
• 3/13 Fragile Freddy's: Freddy 30 to 1: Number 9 - St. Louis Cardinals: For this year’s forecast I will look at each team on a daily basis.  I think you will find the format pretty self-explanatory.Note...
• 3/13 PaulLebowitz.com: 2012 Baseball Guide Radio Appearance: I’ll be a guest tonight at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time on Breakin’ the Norm with former big leaguer Les Norman on 810 WHB talking...
• 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...
• 3/12 Redbird Rants: What to expect from Mike Matheny: Spring training always answer questions and gives birth to questions that we could not have dreamed of.  One of the big questions...
• 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...
• 3/11 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Lohse sharp & Matheny ticked: The St. Louis Cardinals lost to the Miami Marlins yesterday in a game interrupted by a one-hour forty-nine minute rain delay....
• 3/9 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Jaime Garcia looks sharp for Cardinals: The St. Louis Cardinals are going to need Jaime Garcia to step it up this season. He has had two successive productive seasons,...
• 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...
• 3/7 Redbird Rants: The Numbers Game: The St. Louis Cardinals need a full-time second baseman: Over the last five seasons the St. Louis Cardinals have had 12 different players spend time at second base. Skip Schumaker, who...
• 3/7 i70baseball.com: Early feedback on MathenyCrying... Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball....
• 3/7 C70 At The Bat: The Legend of Matt Adams: Our good friends at Pitchers Hit Eighth have been on this bandwagon for quite some time, but yesterday, Matt Adams no doubt added...
• 3/6 Redbird Rants: Editor’s Letter: Versatility will be key to Cardinals’ season: Dear Readers, We’ve heard St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny preach versatility this spring and for good reason. While...
• 3/6 i70baseball.com: Who’s the next guy?Yadier Molina is staying a Cardinal. So who's the next player approaching free agency the Cardinals need to keep long-term?...
• 3/6 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Cardinals’ bats silent in Matheny’s debut: The St. Louis Cardinals opened their spring training schedule yesterday with a loss to the Miami Marlins at Roger Dean Stadium....
• 3/6 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Game 1 of Spring Training: The St. Louis Cardinals open their spring training schedule today at 12:00 PM CST, “hosting” the new look Miami Marlins...
• 3/6 Redbird Dugout: Spring Training – What To Be Looking For In 2012?: Your 2011 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals are about to start their 2012 Spring Training games.  I’m not sure about you...
• 3/6 C70 At The Bat: A Day With Baseball: Cardinals vs. Marlins.  12:05 PM.  Radio: KMOX.  TV: None.  It's time.For the first time since October...
• 3/6 C70 At The Bat: From Rumor To Reality: (Edit: The title should be From Report To Reality, per Derrick Goold.  I won't argue the point, because I'd absolutely lose,...
• 3/6 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodger Camp Beginning to Get Interesting With Three Injuries: We’ve been bemoaning the lack of news from camp thus far, so I suppose this falls under the category of “be careful...
• 3/1 STLCardinalBaseball: United Cardinal Bloggers Roundtable Question – March 2, 2012: As some of you know, STLCardinalBaseball is affiliated with a group of baseball geniuses known as the United Cardinal Bloggers...

• 2/29 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview – Day 3 – NL Central: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next few days you will get a team by team look at its key...
• 2/29 i70baseball.com: Who are the backups to the St. Louis Cardinals backstop?Molina's contract situation begs the question of just who would replace Molina should he leave after the 2012 season?...
• 2/29 C70 At The Bat: One Day Closer To Baseball Games: Happy Leap Day to you all!  The calendar teases us by adding this one day before March, of all months.  Couldn't...
• 2/29 Pitchers Hit Eighth: UCB Roundtable: Who is the keeper of “The Cardinal Way”?: Didn’t we just finish one of these epic United Cardinal Bloggers roundtable projects?  That pesky World Series has just...
• 2/28 STLCardinalBaseball: The Top Ten Biggest Questions Facing The 2012 Cardinals: It’s never easy following up a World Championship. Expectations are higher, scrutiny is even more intense, and mistakes...
• 2/28 C70 At The Bat: Mo Money For Yadi Mo?: After much of the fan base had started to write off the possibility that Yadier Molina was going to spend more than one more...
• 2/28 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview – Day 3 – NL Central: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next few days you will get a team by team look at its key...
• 2/27 C70 At The Bat: Playing Pepper 2012: Chicago White Sox: In 2009, I decided to get a feel for other teams around baseball by asking bloggers for those teams some questions about their...
• 2/27 C70 At The Bat: One More Week: This is the final week without baseball games until late October.  The season is really upon us, assuming we can wait...
• 2/26 Baseball Musings: Changes, St. Louis Cardinals: Carlos Beltran returns to Missouri to fill the shoes of Albert Pujols. Photo: Tony Medina/Icon SMI The St. Louis Cardinals finished...
• 2/26 i70baseball.com: No news is good news to start St. Louis Cardinals Spring TrainingSo far there hasn’t been much of note to come from any Spring Training activities, and that’s a good thing....
• 2/25 Redbird Rants: Is a New Era of Whiteyball Brewing?: With a new manager debuting for the Cardinals this season, the question of whether the team’s identity would get a makeover...
• 2/25 Fungoes.net: Cards need to run less, not more: So Mike Matheny wants the team to run more in 2012. Unless he plans to drastically reshape the roster between now and Opening...
• 2/24 Fungoes.net: Projecting the bullpen: With catchers and pitchers and other players eager to revisit the promise of a new baseball season reporting to spring training,...
• 2/24 C70 At The Bat: Cardinals At Full Strength: Today is the official reporting day for everyone that's not a pitcher or a catcher.  Not that it's much of a big deal,...
• 2/24 Baseball Musings: Morneau on the Brain: Justin Morneau hopes his concussion problems are behind him, but may leave baseball if they continue: “I don’t think there...
• 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...
• 2/23 Redbird Rants: Rants Daily: Jason Motte anointed Cardinals’ closer: The St. Louis Cardinals are four days into spring training day and the first settled position has been announced by manager Mike...
• 2/23 C70 At The Bat: New Bird In Camp: While he didn't make it to the actual workout yesterday, Carlos Beltran is now in Cardinals camp.  I'm not...
• 2/23 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Oquendo is right where he belongsLong-time St. Louis Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo explains why be once asked out as the club’s bench coach....
• 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...
• 2/22 The Cardinal Nation Blog: 2012 Cardinals finding unexpected motivation: The many questions about recovering from significant off-season losses seem to be strengthening the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals’...
• 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...
• 2/20 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....
• 2/20 El Maquino: > MOZELIAK’S RUNNING THE SHOW NOW: John Mozeliak is now king of the St. Louis castle.  All competitors for the throne have been cast out.  Tony LaRussa has retired,...
• 2/19 El Maquino: IS YADI AS GOOD AS GONE?: It started as just mere speculation: a subtle ripple bumping the boat here and there during the offseason.  Mike Matheny said...
• 2/19 Redbird Rants: Dear Mike Matheny: Pitchers and Catchers report this weekend.  Divine music to the ears of all Cardinals fans.  Now that the Rites of Spring have...
• 2/18 STLCardinalBaseball: Can Chris Carpenter be Chris Carpenter this season?: Without Chris Carpenter last season the Cardinals would not have made it to the playoffs let alone winning it all. Carpenter became...
• 2/17 Redbird Rants: Matheny not suger coating the obvious: One of the unknowns surrounding St. Louis Cardinals’ spring camp is how new manager Mike Matheny is going to handle the...
• 2/17 C70 At The Bat: The Buzz Is Building: For Cardinal fans starving for any morsels of news, the buffet that was Thursday's activity was a delight. Jason Motte probably...
• 2/15 STLCardinalBaseball: Healing The Wounds Of The La Russa Era: Few Cardinal fans will ever forget 1996. Its significance has less to do with the start of Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa’s™...
• 2/13 El Maquino: MATHENY ON FAITH: Mike Matheny on his Christian faith, ”the greatest gift”: “Part of that comes from my faith, part of that comes...
• 2/12 STLCardinalBaseball: Predicting the 2012 Cardinals: position by position: Photo courtesy of Getty images After a wild and unexpected year from the Cardinals, it is time to forget about last year and begin...
• 2/12 FanSided: Spring Training is Imminent: Pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report to spring training this week. The key question on everybody's mind is what sort...
• 2/12 i70baseball.com: Here We Go Again…Maybe: Molina’s current deal is set to expire after the 2012 season, which would make the backstop a free agent for the first time...
• 2/11 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Yadier Molina: For the second straight winter, the Cardinals could face the prospect of losing a long-time star to free agency.  Yadier Molina...
• 2/11 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Links: Molina, Cards, Dempster, Reds: Congratulations to Brewers GM Doug Melvin for his induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.  Joining Melvin in the 2012...
• 2/11 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Plea Deal: Each year usually just prior to the beginning of baseball season, I make a short wishlist of all the things I wish the Cardinals...
• 2/10 STLCardinalBaseball: How Much Is Yadier Molina Worth?: Much like Albert Pujols last spring, Yadier Molina has been on the minds of many fans as training camp opens in earnest. Molina...
• 2/9 El Maquino: YADI: MY RETURN IS “OUT OF MY HANDS”: There’s been some doubt this offseason as to whether or not Cardinal staple Yadier Molina will be sticking with the team...
• 2/9 i70baseball.com: The Revolving Door At Second: No aspect of the 2012 Cardinals comes with more questions than the middle infield, where one position has no clear starter and...
• 2/9 Baseball Press: Three Up, Three Down - 2012 Outfielders: Don't be fooled by Michael Morse's big 2011 season. (Icon SMI)Baseball Press presents a returning miniseries entitled "Three...
• 2/4 El Maquino: CARDINALS OFFSEASON SUMMARY: ADDITIONS Carlos Beltran J.C. Romero Koyie Hill Alex Cora Erik Komatsu Eugenio Velez R.J. Swindle Andres Serrano [Adam Wainwright,...
• 2/4 El Maquino: EXCLUSIVE: MATHENY GETS HIS DREAM HOME BACK: Mike Matheny is going back home. He had his dream home built in the early 2000s 30 miles west of St. Louis–a nice joint with...
• 2/3 STLCardinalBaseball: Is Jason Motte the next great Cardinal closer?: The Cardinals have had some of the greatest closers of all time walk through their door: Bruce Sutter, Lee Smith, Dennis Eckersley,...
• 2/3 The Cardinal Nation Blog: A rookie manager and the media: First-year St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny will be dealing with the media in a more intense manner than ever before....
• 2/1 Redbird Dugout: 2012 Preview: Catcher: From Opening Day 2011 to Opening Day 2012, there are only two positions that we know will be the same, Yadier Molina at catcher...

• 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 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Roy Oswalt and Cardinals number 44If pitcher Roy Oswalt signs with the St. Louis Cardinals, will his familiar number 44 be available?...
• 1/26 Fungoes.net: Fielder contract welcome news for Cardinals: Seldom does anything that the Detroit Tigers do impact the St. Louis Cardinals (unless it’s fielding in the World Series)....
• 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...
• 1/25 Redbird Rants: Mike’s Gotta Do It His Way: Mike Matheny’s first Spring Training as the skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals is just around the corner. My thoughts often...
• 1/21 i70baseball.com: The Winter Warm Up Files: Spring Has Almost Sprung: Spring Training is about a month or so away for the St. Louis Cardinals, and plenty of intrigue surrounds the team as they head...
• 1/20 i70baseball.com: White House Turns Red: This week members of the 2011 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals met with President and First Lady Obama at the White House. ...
• 1/20 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Letter gives some insight into Mike Matheny, coach and manager: The question has been asked since the day he was hired. “What kind of manager is Mike Matheny going to be?” It was...
• 1/20 Ramblings of Baseball: A Cardinals Decline Would Be Misleading: Dave Duncan’s time in St. Louis has been invaluable to the team. Dave Duncan’s time with every team that he’s spent time...
• 1/20 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Top Five Cardinals Stories of 2011: Yeah, I’m a little behind on this one – so what, wanna fight about it? 5. Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay go fishing...
• 1/18 STLCardinalBaseball: How Much Does Racism Affect Team Building Today?: Yesterday afternoon I had a chance to speak with a source (who, of course, wishes to remain anonymous) in Florida who knows Miami...
• 1/17 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals 2012 Winter Warm-Up leftoversSome final thoughts from this past weekend’s annual St. Louis Cardinals fan festival....
• 1/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Compromised Cardinals: By themselves, the departures of such important cogs in the Cardinals run of success would be manageable. But any team losing...
• 1/14 El Maquino: GREENE TO GET SHOT AT SECOND BASE JOB: With Rafael Furcal earning $14 million over the next two years at shortstop, guys like Tyler Greene have to adapt.  And that’s...
• 1/14 MLBTradeRumors: Mozeliak On Pujols, Molina, Oswalt, Fielder, Edmonds: Cardinals GM John Mozeliak spoke to fans and media at the team's 16th annual Winter Warm-Up today, touching on a wide range of...
• 1/13 Through The Fence Baseball: Breakout candidate 2012: St. Louis Cardinals’ David Freese: On a team that had the likes of Albert Pujols, Lance Berkman and Matt Holliday, it was David Freese who led the St. Louis Cardinals...
• 1/13 El Maquino: WILL YADI STAY AFTER 2012?: Manager Mike Matheny on Yadier Molina: “To me, I believe he is the best defender in all of baseball…  Now, with that being...
• 1/13 PaulLebowitz.com: Compromised Cardinals: By themselves, the departures of such important cogs in the Cardinals run of success would be manageable. But any team losing...
• 1/12 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Missin’ You: Albert, Tony or Dave?: I was minding my own business on Twitter this morning when the must-follow Sam Miller tweeted a link to this post from El Maquino,...
• 1/11 El Maquino: PETTINI GOING TO HOUSTON: After 10 seasons as the Cardinals’ bench coach, Joe Pettini is following manager Tony LaRussa, pitching coach Dave Duncan,...
• 1/9 Redbird Rants: Mike Matheny inherits stronger unit than Tony La Russa was given: Yes, the 2011 Cardinals won the World Series, so this an obvious title right? It is more than just the fact that the team won...
• 1/8 i70baseball.com: St. Louis Cardinals Might Not Be Favorite To Win 2012 NL Central: Optimism reigned the day following the St. Louis Cardinals’ 11th World Series championship, but three months later that optimism...
• 1/7 El Maquino: WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER PLAYER-MANAGER?: Teams used to do it all the time.  After all, why pay two people to do two different jobs when you can pay just one person to...
• 1/7 i70baseball.com: The Immediate Post-Duncan EraThe roller coaster 2011 season has carried over to the off season and into 2012....
• 1/6 Redbird Rants: St. Louis Cardinals name Derek Lilliquist to replace Dave Duncan: The St. Louis Cardinals wasted no time naming the successor for the vacant pitching coach position, naming Derek Lilliquist to...
• 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....
• 1/2 Redbird Rants: Can Jon Jay Remain the Cardinals Full-Time Starter in Center?: This may seem like an incredibly loaded question, because it is. There are so many factors to consider before we can make any...
• 1/2 Redbird Rants: The 2nd base revolving door: Over the past decade the 2nd baseman position for the Cardinals has evolved from a steady job for a legitimate 2 bagger to a revolving...

• 12/30 Redbird Rants: Fishing With Chris, and Roy, and a Boat, and a Snake.:       We are at the end of the year 2011, the year of the Magical Mystery Tour a/k/a the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals...
• 12/30 Raising Matt Cain: Twelve for 2012: Sergio Romo: Sergio Romo was the only bright spot of the 2005 June draft. The Giants had forfeited the first three rounds in free agent compensation...
• 12/29 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The Evolution of Yadi: Adam Wainwright’s mesmerizing curveball that froze future teammate Carlos Beltran and ended Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS stands as...
• 12/29 i70baseball.com: A Royal Blue Island In A Sea of Cardinal RedRoyals fans can be anywhere, but when they are stuck in Cardinal country, it gets a bit tough....
• 12/29 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #7: Mo’s man MathenyThe St. Louis Cardinals have a new manager and several new coaches, ushering in a new era for the defending champions....
• 12/28 Redbird Rants: Can St. Louis Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny Juggle?: The signing of Carlos Beltran will provide the St. Louis Cardinals with a potent bat in the middle of the lineup. It has also...
• 12/26 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #10: Freese’s fantastic finish: St. Louis Cardinals’ third baseman David Freese won the Most Valuable Player Award in both the National League Championship...
• 12/24 Redbird Dugout: Cardinals add Carlos Beltran: Is it Christmas come early for Cardinals fans? John Mozeliak delivered a two-year, $26 million contract for outfielder Carlos...
• 12/24 C70 At The Bat: Belting It Out: As Nick said in the latest Pitchers Hit Eighth podcast, we've been talking about the Cardinals acquiring Carlos Beltran for...
• 12/24 El Maquino: MERRY CHRISTMAS! CARDS LOAD UP BELTRAN: > The Cards made an outstanding move last night, locking up that monster Carlos Beltran for two years and $26 million.  With...
• 12/24 Fungoes.net: Beltran best of Cardinals’ offseason news: In an offseason heretofore filled with news of the team’s best player departing and of the signings of supporting cast...
• 12/21 Redbird Rants: Why the St. Louis Cardinals Are Lance Berkman’s Team Now: There has been much discussion as of late about the St. Louis Cardinals being John Mozeliak’s team or Mike Matheny’s team...
• 12/20 i70baseball.com: Shelby Miller Scares MeShelby is a talented pitcher with a bright future. Due to recent history, however, that scares me....
• 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...
• 12/17 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #18: Molina’s best season?: The St. Louis Cardinals catcher had his top year as a hitter, though his defensive metrics were down. Oh yeah, his team won the...
• 12/16 Redbird Dugout: UCB Roundtable: I asked my question earlier this week and should have posted it Tuesday, but I was busy trying to wrap up the necessary work I...
• 12/15 C70 At The Bat: A Cardinal Christmas Carol, Revisited: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Mozeliak."John Mozeliak, the current general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, turned toward his door....
• 12/15 i70baseball.com: Cards Outfield Possibilities Contain Familiar NamesCan the Cardinals fill their bench with a trip down memory lane?...
• 12/13 STLCardinalBaseball: Arm Chair GM: Offseason edition pt. 2: After Albert Pujols signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last Thursday morning, the shift of the Cardinals off season...
• 12/11 Redbird Rants: Analysis Of Rafael Furcal’s Deal With The St. Louis Cardinals: The St Louis Cardinals addressed one of their roster issues on Saturday coming to an agreement with shortstop Rafael Furcal on...
• 12/10 Redbird Rants: No Question The Cardinals Are Mike Matheny’s Team Now: The St. Louis Cardinals’ organization had a week to forget. They entered the week on the outside looking in as the Miami...
• 12/10 MLBTradeRumors: How The Albert Pujols Deal Shapes The Offseason: Albert Pujols is heading to Anaheim. After flirtations with the hyper-aggressive Marlins and extended talks with his hometown...
• 12/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Pujols Departure Makes Like Easier for Matheny: No manager—especially one who’s brand new and has never done it before—wants to have to come to an agreement...
• 12/4 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Support cancer fight and win Cardinals spring training packageSt. Louis-based charitable organization is holding a raffle for a very appealing St. Louis Cardinals-themed prize....
• 12/3 i70baseball.com: What A Difference A Year MakesThis time last year, no one thought about what the rotation would look like without Adam Wainwright....
• 12/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Would Terry Francona Have Basis for a Lawsuit Against the Red Sox?: In an interview with WEEI radio, former Red Sox manager Terry Francona lashed out against the person or persons who leaked the...

• 11/28 i70baseball.com: Could Oquendo Find Solace Within The DivisionJose Oquendo deserves a managerial job in Major League Baseball. One might just come open soon....
• 11/23 C70 At The Bat: Various Cardinal Items: Of course, it's a slow news cycle, as people start to get ready for the holidays.  However, that doesn't mean that the papers/internet...
• 11/22 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Pitchers Hit Eighth Podcast – Episode 8.0: “Are you accusing the new Cardinals manager of waxing his face?”: Moved to record a new episode after far too much time taken off since the last one, Josh and I blazed our own path without a guest...
• 11/21 Fire Brand of the American League: Managing in Boston: The Boston media is restless.  With the Patriots having recently destroyed their chief rival in primetime; the Celtics on an...
• 11/21 Fire Brand of the American League: Managing in Boston: The Boston media is restless.  With the Patriots having recently destroyed their chief rival in primetime; the Celtics on an...
• 11/20 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 11/13/11 - 11/19/11: Here's a look back at what's been a busy week at MLBTR: Lots of news regarding the CBA and the future structure of baseball....
• 11/20 El Maquino: MARLINS DON’T THINK PUJOLS IS 31: > The Marlins think Albert Pujols is lying about his age, per Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald, “like a lot of teams,...
• 11/19 El Maquino: PROPOSAL: AN EASY NEW AWARDS SYSTEM: > The AmLeague MVP is announced on Monday.  Five players in that League hit over .320, three hit 39 or more homeruns, and...
• 11/17 Fungoes.net: Around the horn: Where have you gone, Bart Giamatti?: The ever-meddling activist commissioner Bud Selig is at it again. The Associated Press reports: Baseball will be making major...
• 11/17 C70 At The Bat: News Both Actual And Rumor: There were a couple of big pieces of Cardinal news yesterday.  One of them came with a press conference, one of them was...
• 11/17 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Oquendo’s return good for Cardinals, maybe not for his managerial aspirations: Third base coach Jose Oquendo will remain on the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals staff, but may be limiting his managerial chances by...
• 11/16 Fungoes.net: Defining success for Matheny in 2012: [Today's United Cardinal Bloggers roundtable question comes from Deckacards at Cards 'N Stuff.] And that brings us to our question: ...
• 11/16 Call to the Pen: Baseball History: The Short List of Managers Taking Over Pennant Winners: In taking over for retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, Mike Matheny becomes the second man in baseball history...
• 11/16 Marlin Maniac: Marlins really going all out for Free Agents?: Last Friday, Albert Pujols visited with the Florida Marlins before they became the Miami Marlins. It was rumored that the Marlins...
• 11/15 El Maquino: BREWERS HUNTING FURCAL?: > Sorry if your sick of my military campaign against Jeff Loria by now, but I’ll have you know I’m not alone....
• 11/15 i70baseball.com: Experience Can Be Overrated: Matheny Is The Right Choice For Cardinals’ ManagerFormer Catcher has Leadership Qualities Necessary to Lead World Champs into 2012 Season ...
• 11/15 C70 At The Bat: "A Small Bit of Churn": Mike Matheny was introduced as the new Cardinals manager yesterday to rave reviews.  We've talked a good bit about Matheny...
• 11/15 The Cardinal Nation Blog: St. Louis Cardinals tentative 2012 spring training scheduleAn initial, partial and non-official look at the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2012 spring training slate of games....
• 11/14 El Maquino: MANAGER MIKE MATHENY: > “Putting the birds on the bat on my chest is something that I know is not to be taken lightly and it’s something...
• 11/14 i70baseball.com: The Winner Is: Mike Matheny?The keys to the family sports car are about to be handed to the sixteen year old....
• 11/14 PaulLebowitz.com: Cardinals Hiring Of Matheny And The Plans Of Francona: Mike Matheny, with no managerial experience but widely respected as a cerebral, defensively-oriented catcher on the field and...
• 11/14 FanSided: Mike Matheny Named Cardinals Next Manager: The St. Louis Cardinals have named former catcher Mike Matheny as their new manager.  Matheny, 41, was selected to take over...
• 11/14 C70 At The Bat: In Mo We Trust: The person probably at the bottom of most lists when this managerial search started was at the top of the only list that mattered....
• 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...
• 11/13 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Matheny is youngest, but not really youngest: New Cardinals manager Mike Matheny becomes the youngest current manager in MLB, but only 14th-youngest St. Louis skipper in the...
• 11/13 SocraticGadfly: #Stlcards: Matheny is it to replace #TLR: Don't bother voting in that poll on the right-hand side: Mike Matheny, the former catcher, is reportedly the choice to replace...
• 11/13 STLCardinalBaseball: Mike Matheny named new Cardinals manager: Like we at STL Cardinal baseball predicted the Cardinals recently announced that Mike Matheny will be taking over as the St. Louis...
• 11/13 STLCardinalBaseball: Why a Descalso/Greene Middle Infield Makes Sense (In Other Words, Trust Mo On This One): In today’s Post Dispatch, Cardinals GM John Mozeliak rattled some cages with his suggestion that he is strongly considering...
• 11/12 El Maquino: NOT BUYING IT, LORIA: > I said yesterday that I’m not buying Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria’s overnight conversion from hated and oppressive owner...
• 11/11 El Maquino: WHY PUJOLS IS STAYING PUT: > Albert Pujols will be a Cardinal for the next ten years.  I don’t think he would leave St. Louis anyway, and even...
• 11/11 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Notes: Pujols, Matheny: Cardinals fans may be uncomfortable with the news that the Marlins will meet with Albert Pujols within the next few days. However,...
• 11/10 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Links: Wandy, Reds, Cards' Manager: Some NL Central linkage ... Astros GM Ed Wade said today on MLB Network Radio that he is open to all offers on left-hander...
• 11/10 C70 At The Bat: And Then There Were Six: The title is a bit misleading, of course.  There have always been six candidates for the Cardinals' open managerial slot....
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: Francona To Interview With Cardinals Today: The latest on the Cardinals... The Cardinals will interview former Red Sox manager Terry Francona today, reports WEEI's Rob...
• 11/7 C70 At The Bat: The Search For Kirk: The Cardinals are continuing to look for the replacement to Tony La Russa.  They've interviewed a few people, such as Joe...
• 11/4 i70baseball.com: TLReplacement David Freese recounted in a radio interview on Thursday, “I’m glad I was sitting down when he told us.”....
• 11/4 Baseball Musings: Matheny for Manager?: The Cardinals interviewed former team catcher Mike Matheny to replace Tony La Russa. Matheny’s career ended due to a concussion,...
• 11/3 STLCardinalBaseball: Lets meet the official managerial candidates: The Cardinals have narrowed down their search and are known to have found six candidates to interview for the position according...
• 11/3 STLCardinalBaseball: Potential candidates to take over as Cardinals manager: After today’s shocking announcement that Tony La Russa is retiring as Cardinals manager, speculation has began as to who...
• 11/3 El Maquino: CARDINALS INTERVIEWING A SHORTENED LIST: > The Cardinals’ manager search begins today, and as I write this, they are interviewing a list of candidates that was...

• 10/31 SOX & Dawgs: Four Red Sox Up For AL Gold Gloves: I'm pretty sure in the past, we've never known who the finalists are for the Gold Gloves at their respective positions. But this...
• 10/31 SOX & Dawgs: Four Red Sox Up For AL Gold Gloves: I'm pretty sure in the past, we've never known who the finalists are for the Gold Gloves at their respective positions. But this...
• 10/9 B-R Blog: All-time Cardinals/Brewers team: In honor of the rematch of the 1982 World Series that will occur in the 2011 NLCS, here is a stab at the all-time team of players...

• 9/16 i70baseball.com: Freak Cardinal InjuriesMatt Holliday's bruised tendon is only the latest bizarre injury to hit a Cardinal. Mike takes a look at some other ones....

• 7/30 B-R Blog: Worst Batting Seasons By Catchers Since 1973: It's a simple list. . Rk Player OPS+ G Year Age Tm Lg PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Pos...

• 6/3 22gigantes.com: Sabean rips into Cousins for vicious hit on Posey: San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean took to the airwaves Thursday and ripped into Florida Marlins reserve outfielder Scott Cousins for...

• 5/12 22gigantes.com: Posey to miss Thursday's game after taking a beating behind the plate: Matheny was forced to retire in 2007. San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey was taken out of his team's game against...

• 4/17 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Cardinals with no compensation picks in 2011 draftA lack of top free agents lost means the St. Louis Cardinals have no extra selections in the 2011 draft....
• 4/3 Redbird Dugout: Albert Pujols doesn't owe Bobby Bonilla?: Consider it news to the entire Cardinals' fan base or a non-issue to some. In B.J. Rains' article this morning about Albert Pujols'...
• 4/1 It's About the Money (Stupid): Justin Morneau takes the field as MLB leads the way with concussion protocols: On July 8, 2010 when Justin Morneau of the Minnesota Twins walked off the field after being hit in the head at second base, the...

• 3/19 B-R Blog: 8-Hitter Homers: Since 1919, who has hit the most homeruns in baseball while batting out of the 8th slot in the line-up? If I did this query correct,...
• 3/15 Giants Nirvana: Bengie Molina Retires: In 2006, Giants catcher Mike Matheny suffered a concussion, after suffering hits to the head from several foul balls. This landed...
• 3/12 PAAPFLY: Remembering Giants’ 2006 offseason, ‘7 Rule IV Draft: The 2003 season ended abruptly for the Giants with a baseball tightly clutched in the hand of Ivan Rodriguez, dusty after being...

• 2/23 The Captain's Blog: Head of the Class: Baseball Should Lead the Way in Combating Concussions: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) On Tuesday in Fort...
• 2/23 YankeeAnalysts.com: Head of the Class: Baseball Should Lead the Way in Combating Concussions: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). On Tuesday in Fort Myers, Justin Morneau took a round of batting...

• 10/18 B-R Blog: Jimmy Rollins and a playoff game with 4 RBI and no runs scored: Jimmy Rollins didn't something unusual yesterday, getting 4 RBI in a playoff game without ultimately scoring a run. Obviously...