Wearing a red superhero cape, Savannah Bananas’ right fielder Reese Alexiades turned a routine fly-ball into an acrobatic flip-catch on the first pitch of Banana Ball in St. Louis on Friday night, and with that, two hours of frantic baseball and sensory overload was...
Steve Zesch retired from Cardinals Publications this week after 29 years of creating and preserving St. Louis Cardinals history in the form of calendars, magazines, and scorecards sold at Busch Stadium. Nearly 200 of those scorecards are tucked in binders in my home...
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...
I can’t lie; it’s been a rough couple of weeks here in what was formerly known as baseball heaven. We followers of Fredbird have suffered through seven losses in eight games. Three of those coming at the hands of the insufferable makers of the worst beer in North...
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...
Wow, what a ride huh? Nine games in a row, seriously? I mean, who could have seen this coming? ME. That’s who. You laughed, you destroyed the comment section when I dared to say this team would be good, or that ownership actually knew more than us. Yet here we are,...
