A sharp fastball and 12-6 curveball that he’s commanded since he was 12 years old helped Cade Winquest pile up strikeouts at University of Texas-Arlington and persuaded the Cardinals to draft the righthander in the 8th round of the 2022 MLB Draft. But Winquest knew he...
As the air turns to Autumn my mind turns to nostalgia. The teams of years gone by. The players, the fans in the stands, the sound of the roar from Clark echoing through the canyons of downtown. There were times of joy, despair, jubilation, and confetti below...
Let’s do this. I’m in. I love October, I love it more with local baseball on the telly. Can our Birds do it? Why the heck not? As you read this the St.Louis Cardinals are 61-61 having played 122 of their scheduled 162 games. 40 contests left. 40 opportunities to...
His numbers are good, not great. The respect from fans and media can be best described as “tepid.” But, I argue he has been what he was signed to be, an Ace. Now that I’ve lost 73% of readers who will now leave scathing comments after reading a sentence, how about us...
The dog days of August arrived with mild weather forecast, and after a scorching July for lefty Pete Hansen and Springfield’s pitching staff, cooler temperatures are the best hope Texas League opponents have for some relief. Hansen went 3-0 and struck out 29 batters...
They’ve broken me, my Cardinals. This team seems so distant, non-understandable, endlessly frustrating and filled with unmet potential. I wrote multiple times about how good this team could be. Multiple former and future All-Stars, former top 5 Cy Young finishers, MVP...
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...
