The Cardinals Should Consider Alex Avila

Someday, the Cardinals will (probably, eventually) sign a backup catcher capable of starting semi-regularly. Alex Avila is a promising candidate.

Viva El Birdos

The Cardinals Need A Backup Catcher For 2017, Is Carson Kelly Ready?

A few days ago the Cardinals officially moved on from Brayan Pena as their backup catcher. Not that Pena was ever in a St. Louis uniform long enough to make sure we’d remember he signed a two-year, $5 million free-agent contract with the Cards last winter. Pena was a jolly good soul who actually tried to catch with a Santa Claus body.

101 ESPN

Who Will Back Up Yadier Molina In 2017?

While the Cardinals have a difficult choice to make before making any major personnel moves this offseason, there’s one choice they can make without rocking the boat too much

Today's Knuckleball

Tom Hughes: First Panama Native To Play For Cardinals

On his 25th birthday, Tom Hughes made his major-league debut as the starting pitcher for the Cardinals. His catcher that day was a 17-year-old, Tim McCarver, who was appearing in his fourth big-league game.

RetroSimba

Einar Diaz Field Coach At Double-A For Orioles

Gary Kendall, who spent the last three years managing short-season Aberdeen, will make the jump to Bowie to replace Komminsk. Joining Kendall in Bowie will be pitching coach Kennie Steenstra, who enters his second year at Double-A and his seventh season as a pitching coach in the organization, and field coaches Denny Hocking and Einar Diaz.

Orioles Official Site

Your 2011 Backup Catcher: Bryan Anderson

Bryan Anderson was drafted in 2005. He was a much hyped offensive potential for a backstop who others thought would develop power down the road. When that power projection didn’t come to fruition, Anderson took a big hit in the eyes of analysts. Each year, it seems like I make an obligatory “Bryan Anderson is still good/useful/prospecty” post regarding his value.

Future Redbirds

Cardinals Contact Melvin Mora's Agent

Mora, meanwhile, said several clubs have contacted his agent, including the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Angels. Last month, Mora said, he spoke to Rockies manager Jim Tracy at length on the phone, and he said he talks regularly with Mets ace Johan Santana, who wants him to play for New York.

Baltimore Sun

Einar Diaz To Manage Bluefield (Orioles Rookie-Level)

Former big leaguer Einar Diaz will manage Rookie Level Bluefield for the second straight season, and he'll be flanked by McCall and coach Leo Gomez. Ramon Sambo will round out the manager roster for the Gulf Coast League Orioles. Former Oriole Calvin Maduro is his pitching coach, and Milt May will join the organization after a long coaching and scouting career elsewhere.

Orioles Official Site

Cardinals Post-Season Roster History

Looking at pitcher-hitter split, between-round changes and those forgotten players who did not see playoff game action for the St. Louis Cardinals since 1996.

The Cardinal Nation

Ned Colletti (Dodgers): GM Trade History

MLB Trade Rumors

Cardinals Catchers Versus The Stolen Base

Today is part two of our look at the Cardinals’ focus on defending the running game. We’ll take a look at how the catchers play a role in slowing down the running game of opposing teams.

Pitchers Bat Eighth

600 Words About Jason LaRue

Jason LaRue, one year, $950,000. Backup catcher occupational hazard: sometimes the article about you being resigned will have someone else's picture on the top. Mostly I've had the usual well-okay backup catcher response, but there is a fussy part of me—the part that, in its even-more-pedantic moments, wants to mutter "but that's completely implausible" during romantic comedies—that gets really angry at backup catcher signings like this. If I were to let it out this is what it would say:

Viva El Birdos

Put That Thing Back Where It Came From (Part 1)

Way back in 2004—THT’s inaugural year—I wrote a pair of articles in which I put everybody in the major leagues back on the team that originally signed them. In other words, Clemens and Bagwell were back in Boston, Piazza and Pedro in Los Angeles. Randy Johnson was an Expo again, Barry Bonds a Pirate—you get the idea. If I did this every year, it’d get a little redundant, but it’s been four years, and four years in baseball time is an eternity, so I figure we’re due for an update.

The Hardball Times

George Kissell Seriously Injured In Car Crash

The Cardinals confirmed on Tuesday that longtime instructor George Kissell, who has taught in the organization for nearly 70 years, was in a serious car wreck in the Tampa area on Monday.
Cardinals Official Site

Longtime St. Louis Cardinals official George Kissell was in critical condition Tuesday after being injured in a traffic accident.
STL Today

Back in 2005, Cardinals instructor George Kissell, widely regarded as one of the authors of what manager Tony La Russa refers to as the “Cardinal Way,” returned after a year’s absence to Jupiter for his 65th spring training. No Cardinal has been a Cardinal longer nor guided and nurtured as many Cardinals as Kissell, and upon his return the Cardinals wanted to honor him for his service.
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