Goold: Goldschmidt deal reflects Cardinals' hunger to win now
If he timed this right, Paul Goldschmidt had a chance — just enough of a window — to get some Christmas shopping done after a workout. He had 20 days to go but felt a self-imposed urgency “to get ahead…
Media Views: Some Cards home games will start earlier to help fans who bring children
The Cardinals are going to be early birds this season.
Closer by calculation: Cardinals will use the sum of their relievers (until Hicks takes over)
Club feels well-positioned to deal with the evolution of bullpens.
Cardinals reside in division that has been consistently strong
This year, the case can be made that no team in the Central will lose more than 90 games and, by the same token, perhaps only one team will have 90 wins or more in the division.
Cards let Shreve go, keep Wieters
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. • Lefthanded reliever Chasen Shreve was apt to surrender home runs last year, both with the New York Yankees and the Cardinals, who acquired him in the Luke Voit deal. In 52 2/3 innings, Shreve offered…
BenFred: By securing bench role, Cardinals' O'Neill has chance for left-field audition
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. • Mr. Canada, 1975, was the first to know.
Hochman: Goldschmidt will make the difference in Cardinals making the playoffs
They’ve known each other for a decade now, since the year they were drafted, back when Paul was a Missoula Osprey and Nolan was a Casper Ghost.
Goldschmidt felt at home in a hurry with Cardinals
First baseman doubles, homers, triples vs. Mets on eve of record extension with Redbirds.
Amazin Avenue 6 hours ago
Mets lose 15-5 to the Cardinals at home, and 7-3 to the Astros on the road
The Mets lost both split-squad games they played today. The New York Mets lost a pair of games today in Grapefruit League action. The team lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 15-5 at home at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie, and to the Houston Astros 7-3 on the road at FITTEAM Ballpark of The Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach. Mets vs. Cardinals The Mets lost the first game today, losing to the Cardinals 15-5 at home at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie. While the Met offense came out swinging early and often, beginning with Jeff McNeil hitting a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first...
BenFred: Wainwright and fellow Cardinals pitchers tip caps to retiring Ichiro
There is one Cardinals pitcher in the current clubhouse who surrendered a homer to the retiring future Hall of Famer. Adam Wainwright remembers it vividly.
Redbird Rants 16 hours ago
St. Louis Cardinals: How contract trends could shape Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals’ extending of Paul Goldschmidt’s contract is part of a baseball trend, but how that trend will affect the Cardinals in the long run is anyone’s guess. When Paul Goldschmidt put the ink to the paper and signed the dotted line in order to stay with the St. Louis Cardinals for the […] St. Louis Cardinals: How contract trends could shape Cardinals - Redbird Rants - Redbird Rants - A St. Louis Cardinals Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
Redbird Rants 17 hours ago
St. Louis Cardinals: Will Adam Wainwright get a retirement tour?
With Ichiro’s recent retirement tour in Japan, St. Louis Cardinals fans may be thinking about our own aging star. Will he get a retirement tour? Adam Wainwright embodies everything any great leader on the St. Louis Cardinals should embody. To this day, Waino has been a humble, helpful, kind, respectful, a fiercely competitive leader for […] St. Louis Cardinals: Will Adam Wainwright get a retirement tour? - Redbird Rants - Redbird Rants - A St. Louis Cardinals Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
Cardinals put Shreve on waivers, boil bullpen race down to two-man sprint to Milwaukee
JUPITER, Fla. • The Cardinals decision to remove Chasen Shreve from the 40-man roster pulled back the curtain on the internal discussions about more than just who would be in the opening day bullpen.
Brew Crew Ball 18 hours ago
2019 NL Central Preview: St. Louis Cardinals
Cardinals extending Goldschmidt; hoping to establish dominance in NL Central The St. Louis Cardinals have been in perennial contention to win the National League Central in virtually every year since 2000. In that time span, they have had just one losing season, been to the playoffs twelve times, gone to the World Series four times, and won two World Series Championships. Throughout that same period, the Milwaukee Brewers were the whipping boys for Cardinals’ teams beating them 184 times and losing just 137. That narrative changed with the hiring of David Stearns, Matt Arnold, Craig...
BenFred: Spread the word — Fowler and Cards are confident this season will be different
JUPITER, Fla. • When Dexter Fowler feels good, every sense experiences evidence.
