We can find plenty of things wrong with the 2023 Cardinals. When your record is 27-42, the positives are minimal. This is a broken team with the worst record in the National League. Some failures were predictable. Except for president of baseball operations John...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals have broken down offensively, and we don’t have Jeff Albert to kick around anymore. On a not-so-manic Monday at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals were flattened again, this time by the visiting Giants. After giving up another late lead, and...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW There’s an old but true statement that applies to all teams in all sports: Your best players have to be your best players. And this adage certainly applies to the 2023 Cardinals. If their best players fail to come through, then how can the Redbirds...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals are coming home … to do what, I don’t know. But after playing 13 of their last 15 games on the road, the Cardinals probably view Busch Stadium as an oasis. Or perhaps a (red) bird sanctuary. After winning only five of 15 games and...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW After raising our hopes with a brief non-losing spell spell, the Cardinals are raising our blood pressure again. After prompting “They’re Back!” reactions, the fellers have crashed again and are 7 ½ games in back of the first-place Brewers in the NL...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW I’m looking forward to a weekend of hardball at the beautiful PNC Park in Pittsburgh, watching the Cardinals and the Pirates try to rearrange the standings in the loopy, goofy NL Central. It’s only June 2 – way too early to sweat over a division...
BIRD BYTES Good afternoon! * Earlier today I looked at the injury accounting that Spotrac does so well so I could provide an update on outfielder Tyler O’Neill’s injury history: 2018: missed 22 days (groin.) 2019: missed 41 days (wrist, elbow.) 2021: missed 24 days...
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...
We are told that the Cardinals are tired, very tired. When the broken-wing Redbirds try to deny Kansas City a victory tonight at Busch Stadium, it will be the 19th game in 19 days for the weary and possibly disoriented St. Louis baseball club. You know we’ve reached...
