The Cubs are getting ready to play ball and take on St. Louis and Milwaukee for first place in the NL Central. The three teams have more time to enhance their rosters before the start of the 2023 season, but as it stands now the Cardinals are less likely to have an...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The rival Brewers are in town for a two-game, quick-stop series against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Much has changed, including the NL Central standings, since Milwaukee’s last visit to St. Louis. When the teams played a three-game series at...
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...
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...
WELCOME TO THE REDBIRD REVIEW Good afternoon, friends. The Cardinals were off Monday, which gave the fellers a little time to recover from the dizziness of losing three in a row at San Diego over the weekend. But even after stalling out the Cards lead the NL Central...
BERNIE BITS From the time that Vladimir Tarasenko returned to the lineup on March 6, and up until Monday night’s 4-1 win over Colorado, the Blues were begging for goals from some of their biggest guns, only to watch them shoot blanks. In just over 1,300 minutes of...
Happy Opening Day, boys and girls! In a few hours the Cardinals and Reds will inaugurate a new season of ball, and I’m a little fidgety in anticipation of the first pitch. I think the only remedy is to take another spin around the National League Central. First, a...
BERNIE BITS: It’s been, oh, about 90 seconds since I last wrote something about the Cardinals’ outfield, so I must tend to my springtime obsession here, OK? Here’s a progress report, going into Friday’s baseball activities: Three Good Things 1–Tyler O’Neill...
Among NL Central rivals the Cardinals obviously made the biggest splash move of the entire offseason by pilfering third baseman Nolan Arenado in a cockeyed trade with Colorado. The national reaction to the Arenado maneuver was pretty much unanimous: The Cardinals won...
