Cardinals Minor Leagues

In Jupiter for spring training, Springfield Cardinals’ manager Jose Leger observed camp and he started counting. “I was doing the numbers – fourteen players that played (in Springfield) from 2021 when I started here – have gotten to the big leagues with us,” he said....

Victor Scott II made history with his legs in 2023. Scott II topped all Minor League Baseball with 95 steals – only two players since 2005 – Billy Hamilton and Delino DeShields – have bagged more loot in a single season. The son of two collegiate track stars, Scott II...

Perhaps nobody in Springfield is happier to see the calendar flip to September than St. Louis’ top pitching prospect. Tink Hence surrendered six runs in the first two innings at Arvest Ballpark in Northwest Arkansas on Thursday night and took the loss as Springfield...

On the eve of his Cardinals’ debut Tekoah Roby pondered the changes since he last took the mound on June 3 – a sore shoulder sidelined the 21-year-old righthander for 12 weeks and while rehabbing Roby was traded to St. Louis by the Texas Rangers. Then he remembered...

José Leger steps into his office inside Hammons Field – a cramped room with cinder block walls more suitable for high school coaches than the 41-year-old Springfield Cardinals’ skipper named Best Manager Prospect by Baseball America last year. But Leger – a former...

The Cardinals got their first glance at one of the prospects hauled in by the trade deadline selloff on Tuesday night. Thomas Saggese (pronounced “soo-JAY-see”) – an infielder acquired in the trade that sent Jordan Montgomery and Chris Stratton to the Texas Rangers on...

An hour before the first pitch of Springfield’s 9-7 victory over the Arkansas Travelers on Thursday, Chandler Redmond stood outside the Cardinals’ clubhouse and said all the right things. He flashed a smile and spoke calmly but with hulking arms folded across his...

Mike Antico led off Game 1 of a Saturday evening doubleheader against Amarillo with a towering home run and before the ball landed on the Cardinals’ clubhouse beyond the right field fence, Antico was aware of its significance. St. Louis’ 8th-round pick in the 2021 MLB...

As fans filed into Hammons Field for the series-finale against Wichita, Springfield Cardinals’ infielder Noah Mendlinger paused his pregame routine. “I go out and do my stretch, one of the first things I do is look at the stadium, look at the crowd – I never thought...

With one out in the fifth inning at Hammons Field on Friday night, Wichita Wind Surge leftfielder Alerick Soularie was on the ropes. Springfield Cardinals’ righthander Wilfredo Pereira had struck out nine of the first 15 Wichita batters – including Soularie on four...