It’s Friday afternoon … which means it is time for BERNIE BITS Hitting some fungoes … — Sure, the Blues should deal Pavel Buchnevich at the NHL trade deadline if (a) they receive an attractive offer, and (b) they aren’t fully confident about signing...
Spring training is a time of expectation and reflection. You look back to last season and think about how much the Cardinals can improve in 2024. Most of the focus will be on pitching performance, and that’s the team’s most important variable. And with that, a more...
Greetings. For the opening of St. Louis Cardinals spring training, I’ve put together a Watch List. These are the most compelling players on the fields of Jupiter. This is a subjective exercise. My The Watch List doesn’t necessarily include big-name Cardinals. This...
How will the addition of clubhouse nuncio Matt Carpenter impact the development of Alec Burleson? Let’s explore the issues, the potential problems, the concerns: 1. There are only so many at-bats to go around, and both players are limited defensively. There’s not much...
Hello, friends. Here’s my 6th piece in a series of cautious-optimism columns as I look ahead to 2024. The Cardinals will be better. I am convinced of that. But how much better? That’s the important question. If I didn’t think there were legitimate reasons for...
BERNIE BITS Predictions for 2024 I will turn 65 on Feb. 15. I will write many words and stress my voice by hollering for hours and hours on the radio. I will subscribe to too many sports-data sites. I will not watch the NBA until the postseason gets underway. I will...
Will the St. Louis Cardinals make a comeback from a hideous 2023 and return to the postseason in 2024? The question is at the top of my list as I start thinking about baseball’s new year. I don’t know if it will be a Happy New Year for the Redbirds, but I’m...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Let’s take a break from agonizing over St. Louis pitching and shift our attention to the shape of the Cardinals’ offense for 2024. Unless I’ve missed something the Cardinals appear to be virtually set with their personnel. President of baseball...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Depending on what you read on the interwebs – and be careful out there – the St. Louis Cardinals are up to something big … or maybe up to nothing much at all. The Cardinals are: 1) Secretly pursuing the elite free-agent Japanese starting pitcher...
