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...
The Cardinals were not a good team. They were a mediocre team, a team playing like it was stuck in the ooze of the Mississippi River. It was a team that entered 100 scheduled days of baseball with a record under .500, precisely at .500, or no better than three games...
Welcome To The Redbird Review The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. The Cardinals have won 16 consecutive games. 16 … consecutive … games. Lawdy, I need to head to the fainting couch. Then again, what’s the big deal? After all, the Cardinals won 16 games during...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals won their 11th straight game on Wednesday night, thumping the Milwaukee Brewers 12-2. That made it 13 wins in their last 14 games. To state the obvious, this team is in peak form. It hits. It hits for power. It excels at...
The Cardinals have invested years of time and patience in outfielder Tyler O’Neill after acquiring him from Seattle in July of 2017 for the young lefthanded starting pitcher Marco Gonzales. O’Neill’s search for consistency has been disrupted by mighty winds generated...
The Cardinals came into Cincinnati at a good time, with their pitchers having a chance to tranquilize a listless Reds offense. But would this be easy? Probably not. After a lackadaisical 2-4 road trip to Milwaukee and Miami, the Reds were returning to the Great...
This is the way it used to be. This is how it should be done. This is an old-time baseball career. An illustrious old-time baseball career in the sport’s present-day platform. A forever partnership and relationship. You play 19 seasons for the same team. You...
With the first-place Milwaukee Brewers in town, second baseman Kolten Wong is receiving a lot of attention. In the Crew’s 2-0 win Tuesday, Wong peppered his former team with three hits and an RBI. Two of the hits were doubles, including the third-inning bloop that...
Welcome to the Redbird Review After two consecutive losses to the Atlanta Braves, the Cardinals have gone groundhog again, digging themselves another hole. They’ve scratched and clawed their way back to the underground, below .500. What’s a manager to do? I’ve been...
