Current Cardinals
As a failed former third baseman, I know just how crucial and difficult this position can be to a successful club. This becomes even more apparent when multiple players are used to try and lock down the hot corner. Some teams can hide an offensive liability around the diamond but rarely, if ever, does the […]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Player Grades,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Minor League Cardinals,Offseason
Tagged with: Brett Wallace, Brian Barden, Joe Mather, Joe Thurston, Khalil Greene, Mark DeRosa, Tyler Greene
Thanks to the fine folks at Cot’s Baseball Contracts, we continually have more insight than ever into the contracts and payroll of Major League Baseball. As such, we can put together a list of the potential bonuses the Cardinals could stand to pay out at the end of the 2010 season to certain players if […]
The news is a bit old now, but the Cardinals have given former Chicago Cub and Baltimore Oriole Rich Hill a minor-league contract that carries a non-roster invitation to their big-league training camp. The general consensus is that Hill will compete with other internal options (Kyle McClellan, Jaime Garcia, Mitchell Boggs, P.J. Walters, maybe others) […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Minor League Cardinals
Tagged with: Braden Looper, Jaime Garcia, Jeff Suppan, Joel Pineiro, John Mozeliak, Kyle McClellan, Mark Mulder, Matt Clement, Mitchell Boggs, Rich Hill
Let’s once again take a look at everyone who spent time with the Redbirds at second base this season. G GS 2B ▾ Skip Schumaker 153 128 133 Joe Thurston 124 64 47 Julio Lugo 51 35 30 Brendan Ryan 129 105 19 Tyler Greene 48 29 7 Jarrett Hoffpauir 8 2 5 Mark DeRosa […]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Player Grades,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals
Tagged with: Adam Kennedy, Brendan Ryan, Brian Barden, Chris Duncan, Derrick Goold, Joe Pettini, Jose Oquendo, Julio Lugo, Khalil Greene, Skip Schumaker
Our initial goal was to have this series done by say…Turkey Day or so but in my mind President’s Day makes a lot more sense. And here’s why — the Cardinals had no clue how the last three months were going to play out and the results to me were still going to be skewed […]
Posted in: 2009 Cardinals Player Grades,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Free Agents,Stat Tools
Tagged with: Adam Kennedy, C70 at the Bat, Derrick Goold, Felipe Lopez, Julio Lugo, Matt Holliday, Skip Schumaker, Stan Musial's Stance
Join us tomorrow, along with Daniel from C70 at the Bat, as we talk ball (among other things) with Kyle McClellan on the UCB Radio Hour podcast. The Cardinal pitcher will be joining us from Jupiter, FL where he is already gearing up for Spring Training. We’ll be sticking to a finite set of questions […]
The United Cardinal Bloggers‘ January project tasked us bloggers with putting together a Cardinals team made up of the best at each position, in our opinion, during the recently completed decade. Not really any other restrictions placed on this one, other than it was due on Friday. Oops. Better late than never. Not surprisingly, there […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, Cardinals All-Decade Team, Chris Carpenter, Chris Duncan, Darryl Kile, David Eckstein, Edgar Renteria, Fernando Vina, J.D. Drew, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Edmonds, Matt Morris, Mike Matheny, Ray Lankford, Reggie Sanders, Ryan Ludwick, Scott Rolen, So Taguchi, Steve Kline, Woody Williams, Yadier Molina
Hey, remember this series? Let’s see if we can knock out a few more positions before pitchers and catchers report, eh? By games played at the position of first base: G GS 1B ▾ Albert Pujols 160 158 159 Yadier Molina 140 136 6 Chris Duncan 87 71 6 David Freese 17 5 3 Mark […]
ESPN’s Keith Law from Scouts Inc. ranked the St. Louis Cardinal minor league system 29th out of 30 in his yearly organizational rankings list. St. Louis’ system was depleted by the mid-season trade acquisitions of Mark DeRosa and Matt Holliday. While having a poor minor league system is never a good thing, on the optimistic […]
Posted in: Cardinals Front Office,Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Media,Minor League Cardinals
Tagged with: Colby Rasmus, Daryl Jones, Jeff Luhnow, Keith Law, Mark DeRosa, Matt Holliday, Scouts Inc., Shelby Miller
Disappointment comes in many forms, especially when you are a true fan. A little bit of me dies inside every time St. Louis signs a former Cub, but that is just silly, right? The bigger trouble is knowing that former Cards will play in other uniforms, but does it have to be the Royals and […]
Posted in: Current Cardinals,Former Cardinals,Free Agents,General PH8 Stuff,Minor League Cardinals,NL Central Division,Offseason,UCB Radio
Tagged with: Bernie Miklasz, David Freese, Felipe Lopez, Kiko Calero, Kyle McClellan, Mark McGwire, Matt Holliday, Matthew Leach, Rich Hill