Rick Hummel & Marlon Anderson On The Morning After 8-22-16

Rick Hummel: Inside STL

Marlon Anderson: Inside STL

Jaime Garcia Riding Hot Streak Into Opener With Rockies

Jaime Garcia, who hasn't allowed an earned run in his past two outings, will start for the Cardinals on Tuesday as they open a three-game series with the Rockies at Busch Stadium.

St. Louis Official Site

Jeremy Hazelbaker Shows Dodgers What They Missed

There may have been no collective gain from Jeremy Hazelbaker's pinch-hit homer Saturday other than to halve the margin by which the Cardinals lost to the Dodgers, but the seemingly inconsequential two-run blast in a 5-3 loss did hold added significance for the rookie outfielder.

St. Louis Official Site

Marlon Anderson & Tom Lawless On The Pat Imig & T.J. Moe Show 6-19-15

Inside STL

Barry Bonds Could Have Helped Your Team In 2008

Barry Bonds was 43 years old at the beginning of the 2008 season. He was a free agent, available to any team after his contract with the Giants had run out. The all-time home run leader, scandalized though he may have been, would have been a drawing card for any team, but beyond that, he still was a productive player, having hit .276 with 28 home runs, a 1.045 OPS and a major league-leading .480 on-base percentage in 2007.

Sporting News

Best & Worst Cardinals Offseason Moves

Baseball’s winter meetings will take place Dec. 8-11 in San Diego. Under normal circumstances there would be a lot of anticipation going in, and that’s not to say there won’t be stirrings.

Post-Dispatch

Jim Edmonds Was Dandy For Cardinals In 2004 NLCS

Teetering on the brink of another letdown in their bid to end a pennant drought, the Cardinals got the matchup they sought against the Astros in Game 6 of the 2004 National League Championship Series. Jim Edmonds provided the desired result.

RetroSimba

Was Clayton Kershaw Tipping His Pitches Against The Cardinals?

First, let me answer the question posed in the headline above: I have no idea whether Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was tipping his pitches in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Cardinals (STL 10, LAD 9). However, at least one former ballplayer -- 12-year vet Marlon Anderson -- thinks there's a very simple explanation for Kershaw's uncharacteristic struggles against the Cardinals, both on Friday night and in the 2013 NLCS. Take it away, Marlon ...

CBS Sports

Spring Fling: How Tony Womack Sparked 2004 Cardinals

A minor move for a one-time heartbreaker paid off in a major way for the 2004 Cardinals.

RetroSimba

Matt Adams' Bat Helps Cardinals Fit In At Fenway

Matt Adams doesn't have trophies on his walls, at least not like the ones that David Ortiz has collected. But it shouldn't shock anyone if the St. Louis Cardinals rookie first baseman runs into a game-winning home run to right field or a double off the Green Monster at some point in the World Series, set for a Game 1 air time of 7:30 p.m. ET and first pitch of 8:07 p.m. on Wednesday on FOX.

St. Louis Official Site

Cardinals, Red Sox Look To Rekindle World Series Magic

It’s been nine years since the Cardinals last met the Red Sox in the World Series and Wednesday marks the fourth time the two storied franchises will meet in the Fall Classic.

KMOV

Tony Cruz Is Doing The Job

Notes on my Cardinals scorecard:

Bird Bytes

Cardinals Interleague Slate Features KC, AL East

The Cardinals won't want to hear it, but the schedule-makers appear to have done them a bit of a favor this year. Interleague Play will certainly bring St. Louis its fair share of challenges, but the Cards' slate of American League foes could be a lot worse.

Cardinals Official Site

Brian Daubach Manager & Marlon Anderson Hitting Coach At Class A Hagerstown, Luis Ordaz Hitting Coach At Short Season Class A Auburn

The Nationals named their Minor League managers, coaches and coordinators for the 2011 season on Friday.

Nationals Official Site

Marlon Anderson Named Nationals Class A Hitting Coach

Adam Rubin Twitter

Ahead of The Count: The Cost Of OPP

After remember the 1981 hit Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash with last week’s title on the same topic, we move forward a decade to a 1991 Naughty by Nature hit—and we introduce the money to the equation this time (if you’re down with that). In this article, I will show that players who re-sign with their clubs on multi-year deals provide far more bang for their buck than players who sign contracts with new teams.

Baseball Prospectus

Nick Stavinoha's Hot Pinch-Hit Home Run Pace

Nick Stavinoha is only one short of tying for the most pinch-hit home runs in a season by a Cardinal since Tony La Russa became manager in 1996.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Cardinals Bench Leans Right

The five potential closers for the Cardinals' opposition this year in the National League Central — where the Cardinals play about half their games — are all righthanded and have all performed better against righthanded hitters than lefthanded hitters in their careers.

STL Today

Inbox: Were Offseason Moves Enough?

Welcome to the last Cardinals Inbox before Spring Training officially opens. As always, if you have a question, use the link below to submit it -- and please be sure to include your first name, last initial and hometown. If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the word "mailbag" in the subject header -- otherwise your mail may be directed to the spam folder or possibly be ignored in an unbecoming manner.

Cardinals Official Site

Three Series

is a relief to know that no team will ever be my new favorites again. Some time in August, probably, it clicked, and I knew that when checked off all the stereotypical old-fan tropes it would be in this team's emply—Jim Edmonds had the Most Beautiful Home Run Swing Ever, Scott Rolen had impossibly perfect reflexes and an arm that made any ball he got to an out, Albert Pujols had an unfulfilled, unfathomable career ahead of him. One of the Edmonds plays in the NLCS, the home run or the catch, is the absolute peak of my Cardinals fandom; if I didn't know it at the time it wouldn't have been a month or two until I did, once the World Series wore off.

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