From the category archives:
Free Agents
The St. Louis Cardinals agreed to terms with free agent utility player Felipe Lopez on a one-year, $2 million deal, as first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This will be Lopez’s second stint with the Cardinals, after being acquired from the Washington Nationals in 2008 via trade. Since Lopez left Washington he has posted a [...]
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
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
Entertain this post in the hypothetical, if you will. Its July 12th, 2010, the All-Star Break, and all is terribly wrong in the world of Cardinal Nation. Forget the relatively frigid weather of the winter and indulge yourself in a warm summer day. Don’t get too comfortable though. After all, it’s not the Winter-Warmup that [...]
Posted in: Ballparks, Busch Stadium, Cardinals Coaches, Cardinals Front Office, Current Cardinals, Former Cardinals, Free Agents, NL Central Division, Offseason
Tagged with: Ben Sheets, Blake Hawksworth, Bullpen, Dave Duncan, Felipe Lopez, Jaime Garcia, Joe Crede, Joel Pineiro, John Mozeliak, John Smoltz, Jon Garland, Kevin Kouzmanoff, Kyle McClellan, St Louis Cardinals, Starting Rotation
Picked up this tidbit from the blog Taiwan Baseball:
The St. Louis Cardinals are sending a scout (Matt Slater?) to Taiwan, marking the team’s initial presence on the island. Supposedly the scout is interested in CCU RHP Hao-Chun Chiu, Kao-Yuan HS left handed hitter Chi-Hung Hsu, and two kids from Nan-Ying HS.
There are currently six players [...]
Posted in: Blogs, Cardinals Front Office, Free Agents, Minor League Cardinals
Tagged with: Chein-Ming Wang, Chi-Hung Hsu, Chung Cheng University, Hao-Chun Chiu, Hong-Chih Kuo, Kao-Yuan, Matt Slater, Nan-Ying, Taiwan Baseball, Yu-Shan Cup
Many Cardinal fans have experienced increased teeth-gnashing since yesterday’s news that Mark DeRosa is signing with the San Francisco Giants on a seemingly reasonable contract, at two years, $12 million.
Is all of this consternation really necessary?
I dug into the Bag of Internet Baseball Tricks™ today and put to bed what little concern still existed personally.
Sean [...]
While it may not look like it at first, according to Scott Boras, the competition for landing Matt Holliday in free agency appears to be a very tight race between two teams…
In case you can’t read the ridiculously small legend at right, I’ll give you the goods here:
I’ve got the Cards in red.
The Yankees are [...]
Cardinal fans, pray for good results from the MRI done on Kyle Lohse’s right knee yesterday. What looked like an innocent tweak of the ankle and a stubborn starter trying to finish five and get the win quickly turned into another waiting and wishing game for Cardinal fans.
Where do they go if Lohse winds up [...]
Posted in: Blogs, Cardinals Coaches, Current Cardinals, Free Agents, General PH8 Stuff, Media, Non-Cardinals
Tagged with: Albert Pujols, Bird Land, Chris Carpenter, Cliff Lee, Derrick Goold, Kyle Lohse, Mitchell Boggs, On the Run, Paul Byrd, Pedro Martinez, Pitchers Hit Eighth, PJ Walters, Rick Ankiel, Tony LaRussa
Once again the United Cardinal Bloggers undertake a Roundtable project, a way to pass the time during Spring Training while waiting for Opening Day.
We had the honor of leading off this time around, so here goes:
In light of the way the free agent market has progressed, do you think the Cards jumped the gun [...]
Posted in: Agents, Blogs, Cardinals Coaches, Cardinals Front Office, Current Cardinals, Former Cardinals, Free Agents, Non-Cardinals, United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, AJ Burnett, Ben Sheets, Brad Penny, C70 at the Bat, Cards Diaspora, CC Sabathia, Chris Carpenter, Dave Duncan, Derek Lowe, Five O'Clock Blogger, Joel Pineiro, John Mozeliak, John Smoltz, Kyle Lohse, la Beisbolista, Mark Mulder, Oliver Perez, Randy Johnson, Redbirds Fun, Scott Boras, Spring Training, The Cardinal Virtue, Todd Wellemeyer, Tom Glavine, UCB, UCB Roundtable, United Cardinal Bloggers