Current Cardinals
Ah, it feels good to write a “day-after-game” post again. Who enjoys having baseball back? Cardinals 11, Reds 6 What injuries? Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina both homered, Pujols twice and Molina’s a grand slam, in yesterday’s game. Seems they’re feeling alright, eh? Skip struggles. Skip Schumaker booted a short-hop ground ball that he probably […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals,Events
Tagged with: Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter, David Freese, Derrick Goold, iPhone, Jason Motte, Kyle McClellan, Mark McGwire, Mitchell Boggs, MLB AtBat, MLB.tv, Opening Day, Roku, Ryan Franklin, Scott Rolen, Skip Schumaker, Tiger Woods, Yadier Molina
While not something I originally planned on including today, it is important for all of us here at PH8 to express our condolences to the Walters family. We were fortunate to get to know P.J. while interviewing him on UCB Radio, and I look forward to watching him overcome this tragedy and again honor his […]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Player Grades,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Minor League Cardinals,Offseason
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Chris Carpenter, Chris Perez, Dennys Reyes, Jason Motte, Joel Pineiro, Kyle Lohse, Kyle McClellan, Mitchell Boggs, Ryan Franklin, Todd Wellemeyer, Trever Miller
Aside from Albert and Yadier, the one standard on recent St. Louis teams has been pop from the left side via the outfield. 2009 was shaping up to be no different, at least before the injury bug turned the Cardinals’ OF into a MASH unit. August brought a completely revamped look to the outfield, as […]
During the 2008-2009 off-season, Ryan Ludwick spent the majority of his time conditioning to put on more muscle and bulking up, but he hindered his swing by doing so. Though he was also plagued by an injury, a majority of his problems arose from struggling to drive balls to the opposite field because his added […]
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Now that the current St. Louis shortstop appears off the Troy Glaus recovery program, I felt it was a good time to close out the infield on our, ahem, rather late look at the 2009 Cardinals. Brendan Ryan has every opportunity to lock down a key defensive position for as long as he wants it, […]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Player Grades,Current Cardinals,Minor League Cardinals,Offseason
Tagged with: Brendan Ryan, Brian Barden, Julio Lugo, Khalil Greene, Luke Gregerson, Mark Worrell, Tony La Russa, Tyler Greene
[by PH8 reader Ryan Dell – @KingRD3] [Ed. note – I want to take a second to make clear that Ryan submitted this story over the weekend, prior to yesterday’s news, I just haven’t had a chance to get around to posting it. Thanks Ryan.] It has been highly publicized on this site and by […]
[Ed. note: Once or twice throughout the season, the United Cardinal Bloggers undertake a roundtable discussion via e-mail that involves and answers various questions from the bloggers taking part over the course of a few weeks. We’ve spent most of our writing time answering those questions and taking part in those discussions (gladly, I might […]
[Ed. note: Once or twice throughout the season, the United Cardinal Bloggers undertake a roundtable discussion via e-mail that involves and answers various questions from the bloggers taking part over the course of a few weeks. We’ve spent most of our writing time answering those questions and taking part in those discussions (gladly, I might […]
[Ed. note: Once or twice throughout the season, the United Cardinal Bloggers undertake a roundtable discussion via e-mail that involves and answers various questions from the bloggers taking part over the course of a few weeks. We’ve spent most of our writing time answering those questions and taking part in those discussions (gladly, I might […]
Posted in: Blogs,Current Cardinals,United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Arbitration, Chris Young, Colby Rasmus, Evan Longoria, Joe Mauer, Justin Upton, Steve Sommer, Vernon Wells, Yadier Molina