Bernie’s Redbird Review: What Must Happen For The Cardinals’ Offense To Improve In 2025?
For the Cardinals to improve offensively in 2025, a lot of positive things must kick in to get the lineup rolling. By now you’re familiar with the basic list of what we'd like to see in 2025: – Jordan Walker and Nolan Gorman get substantially better and live up to the...
Bernie: Jim Edmonds Brought Some Noise To A Quiet Cardinals’ Offseason. Let’s Talk About It. Let’s Review.
One of the greatest Cardinals of them all, Jim Edmonds, unburdened himself Monday morning in a fascinating but meandering interview that left the town buzzing. In a slow and boring and numbing St. Louis offseason, Jimmy Edmonds made some noise, and woke us up from the...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Conjuring The Best-Case Scenario If Nolan Arenado Remains With The Cardinals.
Trade or no trade, I’m done making predictions about the fate of Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado. And even if there is a deal in place to relocate Arenado to a new home, I’m not sure when this transaction would materialize. Before, during or after spring...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Hot Prospects! Reset! Roster Puzzles! Logjams! John Mozeliak’s Runway!
REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals are getting some love from the prospect evaluators. Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America have spoken, and Cardinals prospects have shown up on the Top 100 list for 2025. Baseball Prospectus goes with a Top 101 list instead of 100 … so...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: History Shows Us Why It’s So Important For The Cardinals To Draft-Develop More Elite Talent.
THE REDBIRD REVIEW If you’re still wondering why the Cardinals have prioritized the modernization and restoration of the team’s ailing minor-league and player-development system and all of the infrastructure contained it it ... Well, I’m happy to provide some insight....
Bernie’s Redbird Review: A Dose Of Perspective On The Cardinals’ Current Downturn.
The Cardinals, straying from their successful pedigree, have come up short over the past two seasons, ranking 22nd among the 30 major–league teams in winning percentage and failing to reach the playoffs for the last two years. I don’t know. Perhaps missing the...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Choosing The Walt Jocketty St. Louis Cardinals’ All-Star Team.
Last year around this time, I wrote a column about former Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty, making the case for why he obviously belongs in the team’s esteemed Hall of Fame. Jocketty's invitation is long overdue. You can read that by clicking here. That column...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: DeWitt Is Looking To The Future To Take The Cardinals Back To Their Distinguished Past.
BERNIE’S REDBIRD REVIEW I want to write about the Cardinals' future and frame it in a way that gives us a better understanding of why their new approach makes sense. This grew into a much longer column … sorry ! ... but I will try to make it easier to read by parsing...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: Why Is The Nolan Arenado Trade Market So Cold? Is It Now Boston Or Bust?
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Well, it’s looking more and more like Boston or bust for Nolan Arenado and the Cardinals. A robust trade market never really developed for the St. Louis third baseman, and the publicly known list of interested trade partners has dwindled. – Arenado...
Bernie’s Year-End Redbird Review: A Look Back At The 2024 Cardinals.
Greetings! I offer my early wishes for a Happy New Year. As we close the book on 2024, I’ll also close the book on the 2024 Cardinals with my year-end season in review. Some matters remain unresolved – I’m referring to potential trades – but we have plenty of material...