SECAUCUS, N.J. — The first pitch of the 2024 Cardinals season was a strike from Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow to St. Louis leadoff man Brendan Donovan, delivered at 1:10 pm local time on Opening Day in Los Angeles. For the first time in nearly two decades of Cardinals...
The coming offseason will be all about starting pitching and inspecting president of baseball ops John Mozeliak and chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. to see if (a) they’ve learned any hard lessons from the collapse of 2023, and (b) they are dedicated to having a winning team...
Statement: Nolan Gorman is having one of the most prominent seasons by a 23-year-old power hitter in St. Louis Cardinals history. No hyperbole. He really is doing that. After blasting two long-distance solo home runs that traveled a combined 869 feet in Wednesday’s...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals won 6-2 in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, but the final score doesn’t reflect the difficulty of their challenge. Jack Flaherty had another shaky start, needing 71 pitches to get 18 outs in three innings of laborious mound work. After the...
The Cardinals will jump into the postseason next week. The crazy, wild card of a team will get a shot at upsetting the Dodgers or Giants in the NL wild-card game. But before we look ahead, let’s look back. To the winter of 1995, when Bill DeWitt Jr. and partners...
Tough loss against a proverbial “old guy” last night in Atlanta. Charlie Myron took a no-hitter into the 7th. Ben Fred doesn’t know what the Braves aren’t playing better. Starting pitcher was the key to the loss. Who can the Cardinals get to help? But the offense...
A look at this weekend as the Cardinals visit Wrigleyville. They stopped the bleeding with a win against Cleveland but will that lend itself to momentum? With three-fifths of the starting rotation injured, and a good Cubs team, St. Louis is in an iffy spot. We talk...
Could it be a three team scuffle to win the Central Division? The Cubs, who were supposed to bomb based on the off-season sell-off, are right there at the top unexpectedly. Now the Brewers are showing signs of life while the Cardinals are on life support. Ben...
Let’s talk about the hat. This morning we visit with Ben Frederickson about the issue with Gallegos in Chicago. Mike Shildt put himself out there and Ben says baseball has to figure this out to equally police it across the league. What do they enforce and what do they...