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...
A big part of the Cardinals’ late-season turnaround is the calming of the starting rotation. Which, of course, coincided with the arrivals of Jon Lester and J.A. Happ at the July 30 trade deadline. Wade LeBlanc was first on board, debuting in the rotation in late...
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...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals are streaking and peaking. Eleven consecutive wins. Twelve victories in the last 13 games. They’ve opened a four-game lead over Cincinnati in the bidding for the second NL wild-card ticket. FanGraphs assesses STL’s...
Welcome to The Redbird Review Lo and behold, everything has fallen into place for the 2021 St. Louis and Cardinals. This agonizing and frustrating process required four-plus months, countless bottles of headache medicine, and more cursing than you’d hear in a barroom...
During their three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field, the Cardinals fully demonstrated their strengths in playing defense and running the bases. They had a clear edge over the Mets in both areas, and the advantages were a factor in the three victories. This, of...
The Padres are an example of how quickly things can turn for a team during the footslog of a 162-game season. You can get plenty of rest and eat healthy and take your vitamins, but the danger is constant. Arms will tire. The bat speed will go slow. Bodies will ache....
