The Cardinals and the Brewers have a colorful and underrated rivalry. Unlike the Cardinals-Cubs festivals, St. Louis vs. Milwaukee is more about the baseball than the social calendar. Then again, fans of the Cards and the Crew have everything you’d want for a great...
BIRD BYTES 1) I’m looking forward to watching Albert Pujols dig in against Kansas City’s lefthanded starter Daniel Lynch tonight at Busch Stadium. This is the first opportunity for The Machine to plug in and do the thing he was signed to do wallop LH...
It’s interesting to monitor the overreaction to the cost of starting pitching during the grand-opening phase of the offseason free-agent market. The deals for Eduardo Rodriguez, Noah Syndergaard, Justin Verlander set off alarms … as did the Blues Jays’ seven-year,...
The Cardinals already are having a good offseason. Why? Because the NL Central is weakening. — The Cincinnati Reds are in another salary-dump mode. They’ve traded veteran catcher Tucker Barnhart, a two-time Gold Glove winner, to the Tigers. They declined to...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals (61-58) have lost the first two games of their series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Sad, but expected. The division rivals shall altercate again on Thursday night, with the Cards trying to dodge a sweep, and perhaps draw a...
Before making the stunning trade for third baseman Nolan Arenado, Cardinals management seemed to be taking the easy-rider approach to 2021. In my words — not theirs — I’d sum it up this way: The NL Central is mediocre, and could be really bad, so we...
The Cardinals are about to wander into the wildlife park at Wrigley Field for a three-game weekend set against the Cubs. In their first visit of the season to the famed zoological garden on Chicago’s North Side, the Cardinals hope to avoid a mauling and maybe win a...
Welcome To The Redbird Review. This is not a pleasant task, having to review the horrors of recent events that have enfeebled the village baseball team. But someone must do it. This is no time for Happy Talk. There’s a Darkness on the Edge of Town, people. ...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW… The Cardinals were a headstrong troupe in Milwaukee, winning two of three games from the Brewers including the 2-0 tipping-point triumph on Thursday afternoon. The Cardinals were madly imperfect. They were also stubbornly and...
