Welcome To The Redbird Review. THE LOOK OF THINGS: After losing 5-2 at San Francisco on Wednesday night, the fourth-place Cardinals walk into this off day with a 43-45 record, 9.0 games behind the division-leading Brewers in the NL Central. Keep an eye on Cincinnati;...
Welcome To The Redbird Review I’m your host, B.J. Miklasz Jr. THE STIRRING: Lo and behold, the Cardinals have roused themselves from their slumberous existence to go into San Francisco and wrest victories of 5-3 and 6-5 from the Giants. This isn’t like...
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,...
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...
Welcome To The Redbird Review: The 37-41 Cardinals are 14-26 since May 14 and have lost 19 of 26 since May 30. In only 40 calendar days the Redbirds went from having a season-best lead of 3 and ½ games in the NL Central on May 19 to a season-worst deficit of 8.0...
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...
The Cardinals seem to have a problem with accountability. In recent interviews, most notably with Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak expressed support for the coaching staff and repeated something that he has said all...
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 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...
