Jake Odorizzi Confident But Cautious With 2020 Rotation

When Jake Odorizzi sees the injury attrition already seizing the Yankees at this point in the spring, he's reminded of the most important goal for the Twins' starters ahead of the regular season: Just stay healthy.

Minnesota Official Site

The Cardinals Are Window Shoppers In Baseball's Free Agent Marketplace

Evidently, baseball’s winter spender freeze is thawing. Actually a few wildly aggressive teams, and especially agent Scott Boras, are taking a blow torch to the ice cap … which isn’t to be confused with MLB’s de facto salary cap.

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Competitve Balance Rounds Set For 2020 Draft

In late September, the Detroit Tigers clinched the worst record in baseball, so they have the first pick in the upcoming Draft for the second time in three seasons. The rest of the 2020 Draft order took shape, decided by reverse order of standings.

St. Louis Official Site

Josh Donaldson & Dallas Keuchel Would Look Good In A Cardinals Uniform

The St. Louis Cardinals have been playing hard to get with the free agent market so far this offseason.

Cheap Seats

Marcell Ozuna Declines Cardinals' Qualifying Offer

Free agent Marcell Ozuna has rejected the qualifying offer that the Cardinals extended him a little over a week ago.
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When it comes to the Cardinals’ description of an early-offseason approach that is not as singularly focused as previous winters — straight talk, no chaser — the annual General Manager Meetings offered a chance to do some comparative shopping because of the one thing agents and teams all shared for a few days.
Post-Dispatch

Jake Odorizzi, Jose Abreu Accepted Qualifying Offers

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Without A Tell-Tale Target, Cardinals Open GM Meetings Open 'Options,' Still Talking Marcell Ozuna, Adam Wainwright

In several recent offseasons the Cardinals have started with a clear, obvious opening as their north star and wandered through conversations with other teams and agents to find their man. They sought a shortstop one year, a right fielder another year, a center fielder later, a middle-order hitter one winter, and a middle-order hitter the next, too. This year is less linear, more side roads than thoroughfares, with no glaring opening they see to guide them.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Not Likely To Wade Into Slow-Moving Free Agent Market

Unlike pro hockey, pro football and pro basketball, when the clock starts for free agency and you can see a rash of deals completed on the first eligible day as early as 12:01 p.m. or 4:01 p.m. or 6:01 p.m., depending on the sport, baseball assumes more of a sundial approach.

Post-Dispatch

Ten Players Received Qualifying Offers

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Offseason Checklist: Cardinals' Needs & Moves

The Cardinals won the National League Central in 2019 and made it back to the postseason after a three-year hiatus. But they suffered a swift exit in the NL Championship Series when their offense disappeared against the Nationals in a four-game sweep.

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Could Ryan Helsley Be In The 2020 Rotation?

The St. Louis Cardinals face an interesting dilemma with the back end of the rotation for 2020. Could flame-throwing pitcher Ryan Helsley start for the Redbirds?

Redbird Rants

Jake Odorizzi's Gem Puts Twins' Magic Number At Two

Jake Odorizzi pitched the Twins to the doorstep of their first American League Central title since 2010. In doing so, he showed off his dominant recent form that could go a long way to anchor an inconsistent starting rotation in the postseason.

Minnesota Official Site

Adam Wainwright To Host Seventh Annual Fantasy Football Fundraiser At Busch

For the seventh consecutive year, Adam Wainwright is bringing his annual Big League Impact Fantasy Football Live Draft and its winning fundraising formula of MLB players and fans to Busch Stadium on Friday, August 30.

St. Louis Official Site

Free Agent Stock Watch: Rick Porcello

Relative to expectations, the 2019 season has been a major disappointment for the Red Sox. Many teams would be satisfied with Boston’s 64-59 record, but after winning 108 regular-season games and a World Series in 2018, what the club has done in the first four-plus months of this year looks rather underwhelming. The unspectacular performance of right-hander Rick Porcello is among the many reasons the Red Sox have fallen short of expectations this season.

MLB Trade Rumors

Paul Goldschmidt Earns Player Of The Week Honors

After putting on remarkable displays of power over the past seven days, the Twins' Nelson Cruz and the Cardinals' Paul Goldschmidt were named the American League and National League Players of the Week presented by W.B. Mason on Monday.

St. Louis Official Site

Twins Interested In Noah Syndergaard, But Mets' Asking Price High

The Mets have decided to listen to offers for righthander Noah Syndergaard, and the Twins are willing to put their hat in the ring.

Star Tribune

Heat, Humidity Get To Jake Odorizzi Early In Loss

Being in Minnesota, it wasn’t really possible for the Twins to fully anticipate the conditions that both teams saw at Target Field on Friday.

Minnesota Official Site

Free Agent Stock Watch: Jake Odorizzi

The Twins have enjoyed quite a few nice surprises in the course of their strong start to the year. The output of righty Jake Odorizzi is certainly among them. Don’t look now, but he’s actually now topping the ERA leaderboard among qualified starters. So … is Odorizzi headed for a free agent bonanza after the season?

MLB Trade Rumors

Ranking Best Fits For Dallas Keuchel

Maybe, for a little bit, there was a time when the discussion about Dallas Keuchel was actually about Dallas Keuchel. If there was, however, it’s long since passed. For months now, the discussion has instead been larger commentary on the state of baseball’s free agency, on aging curves, on the semantics of rumor reporting, on the value of a compensatory draft pick.

Sports Illustrated

Jake Odorizzi Channels Excitement Into Dominance

Jake Odorizzi found himself in an unfamiliar position in a familiar place on Sunday.

Minnesota Official Site