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...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After starting pitcher Miles Mikolas brilliantly sheltered them from harm in a 2-1 victory over the Royals, the Cardinals have two days off and a lot to think about. Regrouping and mobilizing after an atrocious 10-24 start, the Cardinals won 15 of...
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 THINGS YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW: The Cardinals blasted the Brewers 18-1 Monday night in a fireworks show highlighted by four St. Louis homers, 16 hits and Jack Flaherty’s best start since late in the 2019 season. With their fourth straight triumph the...
Cardinals 18, Brewers 1. Here’s a reaction from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: You could almost hear the shouts coming from almost 400 miles away in Milwaukee over the reserved crowd at Busch Stadium. Don’t let the Cardinals get hot. Well, it might have happened....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals have won three in a row, which probably would draw a big SO WHAT? reaction from the elite baseball units in Tampa Bay, Atlanta, and the other 12 places in the majors where teams are playing better than .500 baseball. Even with their...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals’ starting pitching is a problem area that’s been in decline for several years. The situation reached a new low for absurdity and failure in Thursday’s 11-7 loss to the Angels. Jack Flaherty was mauled for nine hits and 10 earned runs...
“April is the cruelest month.” — T. S. Eliot The Cardinals spent the month of April in a free fall, unable to defeat gravity or most of the teams on their schedule. They reinvented the so-called “Cardinal Way” and reversed it by losing games in every...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Bad starting pitching, bad defense, bad bullpen, bad offense, bad baserunning, an overwhelmed manager and an underwhelming front office. They don’t get out to many leads, but they do let many leads slip away. And during Wednesday’s postgame show on...
