Location: St. Louis, Mo. | Ballpark: Busch Stadium (46,861) | Spring Training: Jupiter, Fla.
Owner: William DeWitt, Jr. | GM: John Mozeliak | Manager: Tony La Russa | World Championships: 10
As Tony La Russa said, Chris Carpenter has barely pitched the last two years, and the Cardinals didn’t make the playoffs either year. Now Carpenter is back -- he looked as good as ever this spring -- so does that mean the Cardinals will be back playing October baseball? Perhaps, although you wonder how much the lack of a veteran closer and a defensive downgrade in the middle of the infield will hurt. We should know not to count out a team with La Russa and Albert Pujols, but even with Carpenter’s return this group still goes into the year with questions.
Well as the free agent filing period begins, the Cardinals have also begun cleaning house, clearing 4 from the 40 man roster, including Brad Thompson, who was released, Joe Thurston, who was outrighted to
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you know your team is slow when Albert Pujols leads your team with 16 steals. Now that the PED era is moving behind us, teams are starting to steal bases again. The Cardinals need to upgrade their team speed to compete in my opinion. What ar
The normal Round Two question for the pundits this week was: who is in left field if Holliday leaves?
I found this question intriguing because it has such an impact on the Cards next year. I just feel that Holliday might just be pushing himself out of budget range of the Cardinals, which will lead to other options.
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What kind of contract do you think it will take to resign Matt Holliday? How many years do you think he is looking for and how much per year? Is 5 year 100 million going to do it and will the Cardinals pay it? I could be wrong but I think this will be the neighborhood Holl
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Albert Pujols has made it very clear he wants to play for a winner. Well no one is more key to this than him. The Cardinals have a good balance of young talent and very good vetran players right now, they just need a few minor pieces to pull things together
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I'm going to come right out with it, who do we resign at season's end, Mark DeRosa or Matt Holliday? In 44 games with the Cardinals, Holliday has 33 runs, 62 hits, 13 2B, 2 3B, 12 HR, 42 RBIs, 17 BB (4 intentional), stolen 2 bases out of 3 tries, has an
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Mark McGwire Should not be allowed to have any position with any team in MLB or a minor league affiliation until he testifies about his steroid use! Shame on the Cardinals for even considering this cheat to be a hitting instructor and be allowed to tarnish any further their proud history of being one of MLB's best run organiz
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I realize the content of the following excerpts aren't related to the Cardinals, but with all the talk of Mark McGwire, steroids, performance enhancers, etc, I think this might help to create a different perspective on things. This story is a few days old, but I've been away so hopefully it's still news to some people. T
Looking at their stats thru 9 full seasons. (Albert still has the rest of this year to go to finish his 9 seasons)
Albert has scored 1,059 runs to Arod's 1,102. Albert has 1,689 hits to A rod's 1,663 Albert has 363 homers to A rod's 376 Albert has 1,097 rbi's to Arod's 1,075 Albert has 562 strike outs, Arod has 1,064 Albert has an OBP of .427 t
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Fired St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach Hal McRae is ready to move on.
Here is the complete column by Joe Strauss:
Describing himself as "not a rehash guy," Hal McRae on Tuesday admitted disappointment but offered no regrets over his firing as Cardinals hitting coach, a move largely inspi
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ESPN is announcing that Tony La Russa will return for a 15th season as Cardinals manager. And that's not all. Hitting coach Hal McRae is out. Replacing McRae is long time La Russa friend and former player Mark McGwire. Yes, the Big Mac has decided to end his boycott and will be our new hitting coach. The rest of the coaching staff will a
Peeyew! Peeeeeeeyew! Man, you guys stink! Kind of a waste of time, watching the Cardinals all year. Okay, they won the NL Central. We all know it's full of top contenders: Pittsburgh, Cinicinatti, Houston, Milwaukee.
Enjoy the frusteration and pain guys; It will last until next October.
It has now been 11 days since our Cardinals were ousted from post season play and 18 days since Tony and his wonderful family celebrated his 65th birthday (October 4th). And he has now told Joe Strauss that he is in the final chapter of revealing his decision on whether he will return for a 15th year or not.
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