Adam Wainwright's Contract: $5M Guaranteed, Potential $5M More In Bonuses

Adam Wainwright is guaranteed $5 million in his one-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals and can earn up to $5 million in performance bonuses, which allows the pitcher to match his 2019 earnings.

Fox Sports Midwest

Cardinals & Adam Wainwright Agree To 2020 Contract

The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have agreed to terms with free-agent pitcher Adam Wainwright on a one-year contract for the 2020 season. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
St. Louis Official Site

What Adam Wainwright felt pitching in October this year was a feeling that he wasn’t ready to walk away from.
St. Louis Official Site

The preference, even as he hit free agency for the first time in his career and could field offers from other interested teams, was always to return for one more year, that last encore before the curtain, with the Cardinals.
Birdland

One of the things Adam Wainwright promised to give the young starters and wanted from them in return was honesty, and so here was Jack Flaherty, all of two years in the rotation, approaching Wainwright in the dugout this past August about to test that boundary.
Post-Dispatch

Adam Wainwright & Yadier Molina Make Their 252nd Start Together Passing Pete Alexander & Bill Killefer For Eighth All-Time In MLB History

Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina are making their 252nd career start together, passing Pete Alexander & Bill Killefer for 8th place all-time in @MLB history. pic.twitter.com/JYB4vt02Xk

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) May 22, 2019

Gut Feelings Still Part Of Managing For Mike Shildt

With so much data available to baseball managers — analytical acronyms to dissect and project seemingly every situation — are gut feelings obsolete?

Hochman

The Timing Has Never Been Better For The Cardinals To Get Aggressive & Make Their Power Move

It​ has​ been a long time​ since the​ Cardinals​ added​ a star.​ Not just​ any​ star,​ but​ a young,​ gifted player​ with​​ immense talent, a prosperous future and a charismatic profile to excite the fan base. A star who can raise the team in the standings. A star to carry the weight of an esteemed franchise.

The Athletic

On This Day: Grover Cleveland Alexander Elected To Hall Of Fame In 1938

Few Phillies have made the Hall of Fame, but Grover Cleveland Alexander is among the greatest to enter Cooperstown

That Ball's Outta Here

The Roaring Cardinals Of The 1920's

No matter how great you think Stanton is, he is an absolute nothing compared to 5’11" 175 pound Rogers Hornsby.

KSDK

Phillies History: Remembering Pete Alexander

Pete Alexander was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game, and one of the first stars of the Philadelphia Phillies. The fact that he lasted as long as he did was just as impressive as his career marks.

Call To The Pen

How Cardinals Get Grover Cleveland Alexander

Ninety years ago, the Cubs unwittingly did the Cardinals a favor and helped them achieve their first championship season.

RetroSimba

The Best-Pitched Game Against The Cardinals Of All-Time

Eight pitchers have no-hit the St. Louis Cardinals. But no pitcher has ever dominated them like Corey Kluber did Wednesday night in Cleveland.

Fungoes

Matt Carpenter Adjusts Pregame Hitting Ritual; Adam Wainwright, Bob Gibson, & Grover Pete Alexander; Crowd Question; Extra Bases

When Matt Carpenter got to Busch Stadium last Saturday he felt ill, but it wasn’t until he tried to get up from a workout in the weight room that he felt woozy and knew how ill he really was.

Post-Dispatch

What's In Sight For Adam Wainwright

There is, Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright confided Sunday afternoon at Great American Ball Park, one goal that he has made public.

Bird Land

Eddie Gaedel's '1/8' Jersey Is Coming Home

Not only was the famous '1/8' St. Louis Browns jersey housed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame a hit jersey, it was his jersey.

Bird Land

At Least Kolten Wong Didn't Pull A Babe Ruth

In the Cardinals' vast collection of memorabilia that will be housed at the new Ballpark Village, there is a baseball signed by members of the 1926 club, the team that won the franchise's first World Series.

Bird Land

The Cardinals' Storied World Series History

You can compare players and teams from different eras; you can do it for fun, that is. But finding common thread in baseball teams separated by decades of social, economic, technological and environmental change is scientifically erroneous.

Post-Dispatch

It's Time For Cardinals To Fight Back

The Cardinals have been here before in 2013, absorbing the Pirates’ best shots and taken down hard in the tough Steel City. This wasn’t the first time they’ve been stunned at PNC Park. This wasn’t the first night they’d gotten swallowed by the black-and-gold maw in a buzzing ballpark that’s baseball’s new field of screams.

Post-Dispatch

Carlos Beltran Is No Babe Ruth

As a Cardinal fan — and a Carlos Beltran fan, moreover — we’re of course cheering for the Cardinal right fielder to do his best in the current series and hopefully a couple more this season. But we have to raise a skeptical eyebrow when we read comparisons of Beltran with Babe Ruth.

Fungoes

The Most Overrated Players Of All-Time

few weeks ago Adam Darowski wrote a wonderfully entertaining article for High Heat Stats celebrating the very underrated career of right-handed pitcher Rick Reuschel. In his piece,Adam suggests that Reuschel's legacy has been unfairly marginalized for several reasons-- but mainly pitching in front of terrible defenses and insignificant ballclubs. I followed up on that theme a few days later by attempting to show what Reuschel's ERA+ would have looked like had he played in front of average defenders for the entire length of his career, and along the way I found myself increasingly interested in the dilemma Reuschel presents.

Beyond The Boxscore

Brian Broderick Could Stick With Nationals

Plucked out of the Cardinals' system during December's Rule 5 draft, Brian Broderick has thrown his way into Washington's open call for a long reliever and may not be returned to the Cardinals.

STL Today

The Hall Of wWAR: Pitchers

It's here! The last installment of Hall of wWAR series. The conversion from the Hall of Fame to the Hall of wWAR involved kicking 66 of the 206 members of the Hall of Fame out and replacing them with new, more deserving players. That means 32.0% of this new Hall is not in the old one. 19 of the 66 newcomers (28.8%) are pitchers.

Beyond The Boxscore