THE REDBIRD REVIEW The St. Louis Cardinals don’t begin their Grapefruit League schedule until Feb. 22, but off the field they’re getting clobbered by critics who have strong opinions about the team’s slothful offseason. Before I get to what national media are saying,...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Thanks to excellent reporting from Katie Woo at The Athletic, we’re able to have a clearer vision of where the Cardinals are going when the offseason begins. Two-part answer: 1. The Cards are moving forward in the long overdue and desperately...
The Cardinals finally gave up on Tyler O’Neill, trading the muscular but fragile outfielder to the Red Sox for two indeterminate pitchers in a ho-hum deal that confirmed his minimal trade value. The move also reaffirmed O’Neill’s status as one of the most...
How about Ken Rosenthal, stirring the pot on The Hot Stove? In his Tuesday column at The Athletic, Rosenthal introduced the idea of Matt Carpenter returning to the Cardinals in 2023. After making a remarkable comeback as a hitter for the 2022 New York Yankees, could...
OK, so Jack’s back. Or is he? One down … and hopefully, many more to go. But only better. There are multiple ways of looking at Jack Flaherty’s first start of the 2022 season. 1. To some it was an alarming helter-skelter showing that included a 31-pitch first inning...
BERNIE BITS Five things I want to see from the Blues over their final 38 games of the regular season … 1) Improve on the road. This is important because the Blues will play 21 of their final 38 games away from Enterprise Center. At 9-8-3 they’re barely above average...
It’s exciting to see Missouri show up with some of the big boys in college football recruiting for 2022. When you’re looking for reasons to believe in coach Eli Drinkwitz and the future of the MU program, the recruiting inspires hope and raises the collective...
BERNIE BITS THE QUICKIE EDITION! * Man, it’s good to see Saint Louis U running around on the hardwood, starting to look like the lively and entertaining team we watched before COVID shut the Billikens down. Wednesday night’s 67-60 win against Rhode Island followed an...
BERNIE BITS We could be in for a messy, mucky scrum in the NL Central. Might get ugly. Despite the offseason addition of elite third baseman Nolan Arenado, the Cardinals’ win projection for 2021 is looking rather shaky. FanGraphs rolled out its Playoff Odds on...