Perhaps the MLB owners and players association will engage in sincere and fruitful discussions this week and work out a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. Or perhaps the Owners vs. Players divide will expand instead of narrow. We’ll find out soon enough....
BIRD BYTES! ESPN’s Buster Olney is out with his annual offseason Top 10 rankings of players at each position. His breakdowns are behind the ESPN+ paywall, but as a longtime subscriber I give myself permission to share Cardinal-related information. And if you aren’t...
Good afternoon. Here’s Part Two of my look at the 2021 Cardinals, player by player. In the first installment I assessed each position player. In this chapter, we’ll review the relevant starting pitchers. In the next inspection, we’ll analyze members of the bullpen. So...
The MLB All-Star break is here. This is positive news. From Monday through Thursday there will be no losses by the Cardinals, no stricken bodies headed to the Injured List, no distress in the dugout, no noise from the maddened crowds. After playing 90 games,...
While Matt Carpenter’s two-run triple received most of the postgame attention, it wasn’t the most important facet of Monday’s 5-3 win by the Cardinals at San Francisco. What mattered more than anything was the excellent start by Kwang Hyun Kim. Outperforming Giants...
Welcome To The Redbird Review: At the midway point of their 2021 schedule, the Cardinals are short on starting pitching, short on runs scored, short on the number of relievers that can be counted on to protect late-inning leads. The Cards are short on solutions,...
Welcome To The Redbird Review I don’t know how the Cardinals can do this, make up so much ground and do it rather quickly as Milwaukee’s lead continues to grow in the NL Central. We’ll talk about the Brewers and Cubs later in The Review, but...
Welcome To The Redbird Review. Let’s go straight to the toteboard! The Cardinals are: ⇒ 36-39 this season with a minus 48 run differential. ⇒ Six games behind the first-place Cubs and Brewers and two games behind the third-place Reds in the NL Central. ⇒ 66-67...
Welcome To The Redbird Review Cardinals President of Baseball Operations, John Mozeliak, declared “maybe we can shake things up a little bit,” during his weekly Sunday visit on KMOX. Brace yourselves, people. But what can Mozeliak do, exactly? 1) Trade for a starting...
