Plotting Or Plodding? Cardinals Were Spectators At Active Winter Meetings

During an active Winter Meetings which saw the three most prominent free agents sign contracts totaling in excess of $800 million, the Cardinals remained the calm center of the baseball storm.

Belleville News Democrat

Focus Shifts For Cardinals After Winter Meetings: Biggest Remaining Needs, Rule 5 Draft, Rob Kaminsky Returns, & GM's Bottom Line

Cardinals officials left the Winter Meetings on Thursday without any changes to their roster, but more information was gathered in their pursuit of offense and rotation help.
St. Louis Official Site

The iPhone video taken of the broadcast of a game came from a scout the Cardinals had in Panama, and the 20-year-old pitcher they saw on the recording of a TV was intriguing enough for the Cardinals to take a low-risk move Thursday at the conclusion of the Winter Meetings.
Birdland

Peoria Beat Beloit 2-0 In Game Two Of Doubleheader: Mike Brettell Strikes Out Three Over Three & A Third Scoreless Innings; Edgar Escobar Strikes Out Four & Holds One Inherited Runner On Base Over Two & A Third Scoreless Innings For The Win; Ivan Herrera & Leandro Cedeno Each Single & Drive In One Run

Chiefs win game 2 2-0 to get the DH split!

WP: Escobar (1-0)
SV: Tabata (2)

RBI for @learcedeo and @herrera_ivan01 #PTownProud pic.twitter.com/uJUF9nI7YR

— Peo Chiefs Game (@PeoChiefsGame) May 14, 2019

Individual Highlights:
Ivan Herrera started at catcher and batted second.  1-for-3 with one two-out RBI, one run, and one passed ball.
Nolan Gorman started as designated hitter and batted third.  0-for-1 with two walks and one strikeout.
Leandro Cedeno started in left field and batted fourth.  1-for-3 with one two-out RBI.
Brendan Donovan started at second base and batted fifth.  0-for-2 with one walk and one strikeout.
Josh Shaw started at first base and batted eighth.  1-for-2 with one caught stealing.
Wadye Ynfante started in centerfield and batted ninth.  0-for-2 with one run and one strikeout.
Mike Brettell started and pitched 3.1 innings.  He allowed three hits, no runs, two walks, hit one batter, and struck three out.  (p-s:60-31)(g/f:4-3)
Edgar Escobar entered in the fourth and pitched 2.1 innings.  He allowed no hits or runs, one walk, and struck four out ror the winning decision (1-0).  (p-s:45-28)(g/f:0-3)(ir-s:1-0)
Sebastian Tabata entered in the sixth and pitched 1.1 innings.  He allowed one hit, no runs, one walk, threw one wild pitch, and struck four out for the save (2).  (p-s:32-20)(g/f:1-0)

Rough Outing:
Rest Of The Team

Boxscore
Peoria Official Site Post Game
Peoria Journal Star Post Game

Challenge For Cardinals Is How, When To Use Jose Martinez

Keeping in mind that comparing baseball and gun play can be frowned upon in some circles, Cardinals manager Mike Shildt has a weapon he can fire once a game. Or four times a game. But, assuredly, he will fire it every game.

Post-Dispatch

What's New This Year At Busch Stadium?

On Tuesday, the Cardinals held their annual radio media day where they invite the media to sample the food and check out what’s new.

STL Sports Page

Tommy Pham Waited Forever To Make It. Now, He's Got Plenty To Say About His Journey

There are worse places to pass your 20s than baseball’s minor leagues. You work outdoors; you see America; you don’t have to wear a tie. But the pay is wretched and player autonomy near-nonexistent.

Sports Illustrated

No Rest For Tommy Pham

A day or so earlier, Tommy Pham dove back to first base to avoid a pickoff and his right shoulder split apart, the labrum ripped from the bone like the lid of a yogurt cup. He lie there, safe, but in “the most pain I’ve ever been.”

Post-Dispatch

Tommy Pham Does His Job By The Numbers

What became the achievements that defined Tommy Pham’s ascendant season began, modestly enough, as a series of goals, scrawled neatly in Pham’s tight, upright cursive on a white sheet of paper. He keeps a picture of it on his smartphone, and on Sunday dialed it up as proof that he once predicted he would be a 20-20 player in the majors and have a .900 OPS.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Take Advantage Of Rule 5 Draft Loophole; John Mozeliak Lauds Rotation; Fitness Club Anchors Expansion

The Rule 5 reversed for the Cardinals on Thursday.
Post-Dispatch

The Cardinals remain “bullish” internally about how their rotation will perform despite the departure of two innings monsters, Lance Lynn (free agency) and Mike Leake (last fall’s trade), and the possibility rookie Alex Reyes will open his season in the bullpen after missing April.
Post-Dispatch

Cardinals 'Need To Get Better' - A Process That Begins At GM Meetings

As the Cardinals’ front office and other baseball executives swarm this week to the Waldorf Astoria Orlando, they do so with openings on their rosters and wish lists in hand, fittingly camped on the edge of “The Happiest Place on Earth,” but not yet there, in person or transaction.

Post-Dispatch

Game Preview 5-21-17: Memphis @ Fresno; John Vuch Interview

Blogging In Memphis

Jordan Schafer Bids To Become Baseball's 'Slash'

Not too far from the entrance to one of the top golf resorts in the country, one now noted for two Greg Norman-designed courses that are distinctly different in their styles and skills needed to navigate, Jordan Schafer and his father invited his agent to dinner. At a Chili’s not too far from Orlando, right there along the line between Osceola and Polk counties, they met to decide what direction Jordan’s baseball career should go.

Bird Land

Michael Wacha Says He's Not Bitter After Losing In Arbitration; Zach Duke Is Willing But Not Able; Extra Bases

Taking a player to salary arbitration for the first time since 1999, the Cardinals defeated righthander Michael Wacha, with a three-arbiter panel opting for the Cardinals’ salary offer of $2.8 million on Tuesday, rather than Wacha’s $3.2 million request. But Wacha suggested there would be few hard feelings.

Post-Dispatch

A Look At John Mozeliak's Worst Draft Picks

Since the start of the 2008 season, John Mozeliak’s first as General Manager, the Cardinals have been pretty damn good. They’ve finished worse than 2nd in the division only once and have failed to make the playoffs only 3 times during his tenure. John Mozeliak’s record as a GM is 814-644.

Redbird Daily

Cardinals, State College Extend Player Development Contract

Another renewal to report: the State College Spikes (Short Season A; NY-Penn League) and the St. Louis Cardinals extended their player development contract (PDC) through the 2018 season.

Baseball Digest

John Vuch On The Future Development Of Players

101 ESPN

Jeremy Hazelbaker Is Making Most Of Long-Shot Opportunity With Cardinals

He was unemployed. He thought his career might be over. He figured it would take a couple of days for him to land another job, but it was taking longer.

Fox Sports

John Vuch Discusses The "Cardinal Way" & Who Some Of The Young, Rising Stars Are

101 ESPN

John Mozeliak Gets Down To Business

Even if outfielder Jason Heyward elects to sign elsewhere this winter, the Cardinals have the option of trumpeting a team that won 100 games this summer and, as general manager John Mozeliak said, returning next spring with a lineup that is “fairly well set.”

Post-Dispatch

After 30 Years With Club, John Vuch's Greatest Legacy Is Support Of Cardinal Way

It's on a summer evening at Busch -- or perhaps in the cool winds of October in St. Louis -- that Cardinals director of baseball administration John Vuch experiences his favorite part of his job: watching a baseball game.

Fox Sports Midwest