Welcome To The Redbird Review: At the midway point of their 2021 schedule, the Cardinals are short on starting pitching, short on runs scored, short on the number of relievers that can be counted on to protect late-inning leads. The Cards are short on solutions,...
Harrison Bader is looking better by the day. I’m not speaking of Harry’s recovery from his rib injury, though he’s clearly on the move in his minor-league rehab assignment, stroking four hits in 11 at-bats through Tuesday. Bader is on track to return to the St. Louis...
Welcome To The Redbird Review The Cardinals are on a roll! The Birds are ready to fly! Not really. But the fellers have to start somewhere in their renovation of a problem-plagued season. And if it means stepping on the pitiful Arizona Diamondbacks to lift themselves...
The short attention-span gnats out there want to revise history by insisting that Mike Shildt was never a good manager for the Cardinals. Yup, the geniuses completely choose to ignore the team’s improvement when he took over for Mike Matheny just before the All-Star...
Welcome To The Redbird Review. Let’s go straight to the toteboard! The Cardinals are: ⇒ 36-39 this season with a minus 48 run differential. ⇒ Six games behind the first-place Cubs and Brewers and two games behind the third-place Reds in the NL Central. ⇒ 66-67...
Welcome To The Redbird Review Warning: I’m gonna get a little silly today. Let’s go. IT IS A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE: Sigh. I come here to write about your St. Louis Cardinals each weekday, and by now I have to be bumming you out by pointing to all that is...
Welcome To The Redbird Review. It’s Monday June 21. The Cardinals just lost three out of four in Atlanta and have the day off before opening a two-game series at Detroit. But I’m writing. THE TROUBLING STATE OF THE OFFENSE: What’s the word … dormant? Unfruitful?...
Welcome To The Redbird Review The state of the Cardinals offense was summed up rather well, if not intentionally, by the exasperated manager Mike Shildt following Thursday’s humdrum 4-0 loss to Atlanta. “I’d rather not alibi the fact that we’ve haven’t been as...
Welcome To The Redbird Review Monday night at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals opened a critical 20-game stretch of soft-schedule baseball. This is their opportunity to recover from their recent pains and problems. A beaten-down St. Louis team can revitalize by beating...
