In his latest grim beatdown by an opponent, Adam Wainwright was flattened by the Royals on Friday night. This was the saddest start of them all for Waino to this point of 2023, but don’t expect anything to change. Manager Oli Marmol is hopelessly devoted to the...
No fibbing here; I was stunned by what Matthew Liberatore did to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night. I did not expect to see the tall lefty deliver eight shutout innings while throwing high-velocity darts. I did not expect to see Libby scratched for only two singles...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW For the 2023 Cardinals, the goal of making the playoffs is a lost cause. But the final seven weeks of the regular season will provide some entertainment value. Or, at the very least, we can monitor intriguing situations that could impact the...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Four-plus months into their disastrous 2023 season, the Cardinals are still playing the WBC card in a pathetic attempt to justify the second-worst winning percentage (.434) among National League teams. Prompted by WBC-related questions from...
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...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW As expected, the Cardinals moved impending free-agent pitchers Jordan Montgomery, Jordan Hicks, Jack Flaherty, and Chris Stratton plus shortstop Paul DeJong in an offload operation that added prospect bulk to a thinning farm system. Now that the...
The Cardinals on Sunday began the first phase of their two-part plan to revitalize their starting pitching. The second phase will take place next offseason in the build-up for 2024. That’s when the St. Louis front office – if properly motivated, which certainly is...
Nada on Nado. As of 3 p.m. Friday, the Cardinals still haven’t transferred their third baseman to the Dodgers, and this is flagrantly disrespectful to LA’s director of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. When he calls about a player, you have to give him the player,...
The REDBIRD REVIEW Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas may have been trying to do the right thing, at least in his mind, by sticking up for teammate Willson Contreras after the catcher was skulled on a backswing by Cubs hitter Ian Happ. We can call Happ careless for...
