Hancel Rincon spent the winter months tinkering with his changeup. Signed by the Cardinals as a teenager from the Dominican Republic in 2019, Rincon, 23, led all qualified Minor League pitchers with a 0.97 WHIP in 2023 and went 9-7 with a 3.80 ERA and 105 strikeouts...
JJ Wetherholt was named to the 2025 National League Futures Game roster on Monday and the scene at Truist Park in Atlanta on July 12 fits nicely into a season that’s gone according to script for the Cards’ top prospect. But if the Future’s Game foreshadows...
Springfield manager Patrick Anderson rarely uses his iPad to watch replays in the dugout during the game. Last week at Riders Field in Frisco, Texas he made an exception. Joshua Baez had absolutely crushed a letter-high fastball from RoughRiders’ lefty Kohl Drake –...
“Themes like payroll is going down, we hope we win a few games – that wasn’t the narrative downstairs”: John Mozeliak enjoys final Blogger’s Day interview as ‘youngry’ Cardinals rise One hour before the Cardinals scratched out a 2-1 series-clinching victory over the...
Ixan Henderson was locked in a pitchers’ duel with Amarillo starter Spencer Giesting on Tuesday night at Hammons Field. With a runner on and one out in the fourth inning, Sod Poodles’ outfielder Jack Hurley worked a full count, then spoiled the sixth pitch of the...
Javier Vaz slapped a line drive down the left field line that appeared destined to put the go-ahead run in scoring position for Northwest Arkansas in the ninth inning at Hammons Field on Thursday. But Chase Davis would have none of that. The Cardinals’ 2023 first...
Tekoah Roby toes the rubber in Springfield tonight, 627 days after he was traded by the Texas Rangers at the MLB trade deadline in 2023. The 21-year-old Roby had caught the eye of a Cardinals’ organization desperate for dynamic arms by recording 50 strikeouts over ten...
Max Rajcic reported early to Cardinals’ spring training in late January, but first the mafia movie buff took a pilgrimage to Italy. The food and countryside left an impression and Rajcic returned wearing a mustache in the style of Robert De Niro’s young Vito Corleone...
Springfield Cardinals new skipper Patrick Anderson observed batting practice on Field 6 at the Cardinals’ spring training complex in Jupiter when he noticed something odd. It was time to gather the balls scattered around the outfield – a chore that normally falls to...
