THE REDBIRD REVIEW The audacious Cardinals are threatening to have a good season. Look at them now, boldly trying to overcome their ignominious start to 2024. Beating good teams. Beating bad teams. Winning one-run games. Winning at home. Winning with offense, winning...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals don’t seem to grasp the predicament they’re in. With a chance to sweep the three-game against Boston, the game wasn’t exactly high-priority stuff for the home team at Busch Stadium. Matthew Liberatore was the choice at starting...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW At 18-25, the St. Louis Cardinals are seven games below .500. Their pauperized winning percentage (.419) ties them for the third-worst record by a Cardinals team through the first 43 games since the Bill DeWitt Jr. regime opened in 1996. St. Louis...
Five major-league teams won more than 90 games during the regular season. All five were escorted off the premises – rudely, I should add – and are gone from the postseason. The Braves, Orioles, Dodgers, Rays and Brewers averaged 99 wins this season, sauntered onto the...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Is there anything that we can learn about the Cardinals while watching the early competition in MLB’s 2023 postseason? Maybe so. But there’s also a danger in reading too much into the 14 playoff games played through Sunday. You may rush to judgment...
THE MLB DIVISION ROUND After going 1-3 with my series picks for the Wild Card round, I’d like to remind you of this important fact that should not be overlooked: hired as manager of the Cardinals before the 1996 season, Tony La Russa didn’t win his first NL pennant...
The MLB postseason tournament begins today with four games in the wild-card round. These are best-of-three affairs, and the pressure is on. Lose the first game and you’re dangling on the edge of elimination, staring at the offseason. With baseball switching to a new...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Nobody asked for my approval, but the legend that is Adam Wainwright made the right call in his decision to retire his right arm without throwing another pitch during the waning days of the 2023 season. Given the agonizing pain that No. 50 has...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW In the process of engraving his 199th career victory, Adam Wainwright brought forth a pitching performance that made his first 198 wins possible. Did he throw hard? Not particularly. Did he create breezes in the batter’s box with a bunch of swings...
