We can find plenty of things wrong with the 2023 Cardinals. When your record is 27-42, the positives are minimal. This is a broken team with the worst record in the National League. Some failures were predictable. Except for president of baseball operations John...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals are coming home … to do what, I don’t know. But after playing 13 of their last 15 games on the road, the Cardinals probably view Busch Stadium as an oasis. Or perhaps a (red) bird sanctuary. After winning only five of 15 games and...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals have lost an integral part of their identity, a reality that was on full display in Monday’s exasperating 4-3 loss at Texas. And while there are other problems that explain STL’s abominable 25-36 record, the area that bothers me most...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After raising our hopes with a brief non-losing spell spell, the Cardinals are raising our blood pressure again. After prompting “They’re Back!” reactions, the fellers have crashed again and are 7 ½ games in back of the first-place Brewers in the NL...
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 Note from Bernie: When the Cardinals play a day game on a weekday, I almost always file the Review before the first pitch. I wasn’t able to do that today, Thursday, because of family-related obligations. So I’m writing a shorter version of the...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Rookie Jordan Walker’s last game before being optioned to Triple A Memphis was April 23 in Seattle. He was sent down, in part, because the Cardinals wanted to extend regular playing time to Tyler O’Neill, Lars Nootbaar, Dylan Carlson and Alec...
