THE REDBIRD REVIEW Baseball’s annual Memorial Day milepost has come and gone. It is a time when the 30 MLB front offices reassess their rosters, evaluating the strengths, weaknesses and areas of need. Welcome to June. Two months down, three months to go. The...
We are told that the Cardinals are tired, very tired. When the broken-wing Redbirds try to deny Kansas City a victory tonight at Busch Stadium, it will be the 19th game in 19 days for the weary and possibly disoriented St. Louis baseball club. You know we’ve reached...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Can we trust the Cardinals? Honestly, I’m not sure. Their season has been a sequence of ups and downs. They lost 24 of their first 34 games, only to win 11 of the next 14, and then stalling through a 3-7 road trip to Cincinnati and Cleveland. This...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After an exhilarating and successful 5-2 homestand, the Cardinals hit the road to begin another adventure. First stop: Cincinnati and a frustrating 6-5 loss to the Reds in 10 innings. Monday’s defeat was a disappointing way to launch a challenging...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW It was another good and entertaining evening of baseball for your St. Louis Cardinals. Thursday at Busch Stadium, the home team turned the Dodgers blue – and purple because of all of the bruises – by going NASA with seven home runs discharged into...
The Backlash seems to be working. At least for now, anyway. When the Cardinals abruptly demoted catcher Willson Contreras after only 23 starts and reassigned him to DH duty, the incoming jolts of criticism rocked president of baseball operations John Mozeliak and...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals’ starting pitching is a problem area that’s been in decline for several years. The situation reached a new low for absurdity and failure in Thursday’s 11-7 loss to the Angels. Jack Flaherty was mauled for nine hits and 10 earned runs...
What a week. The offense slowed, the starting pitching was gross, and manager Oli Marmol ignited a public controversy with outfielder Tyler O’Neill. After Marmol’s tough-guy show, the fired-up Cardinals stumbled to lose three of their next four games. I may have just...
I wish I had a clever, stylish way of saying the Cardinals are being let down by their starting pitching … but I don’t. So I’ll go with this: it reeks. The maddening cycle continues. Media and fans express serious offseason concerns about the starting pitching and...
