How Mike Elias Has Transformed Orioles In His First Year

When Mike Elias was pegged to lead the front office a year ago, it marked a new era of Orioles baseball. Elias soon unveiled his three-pronged approach to rebuilding the Orioles into a sustained winner, with plans to build an “elite talent pipeline” through scouting, analytics and player development. Coming off a franchise-worst 115-loss season, Elias did not run from how massive a task that seemed at the time, and has not since.

Baltimore Official Site

Family Of Legendary Scout Lou Maguolo Honored After Donating His Scouting Reports To Baseball Hall Of Fame

The family of legendary scout Lou Maguolo will be honored at a reception on Sunday at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in recognition of their donating 250 of his scouting reports from his nearly forty years as a scout to the Hall.

STL Sports Page

Cardinals Winter Warm-Up: In Thier Words 1/20/19

Sunday’s Day 2 of the 2019 St. Louis Cardinals Winter Warm-Up charity event at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch arrived with continued cold temperatures, high winds and a couple of inches of snow that fell late Saturday – but nothing that would keep the throngs of Cardinals fans away.

The Cardinal Nation

Joining Cardinals Was Dream ComeTrue For Darold Knowles

Darold Knowles was the first free-agent player signed by the Cardinals, the club he dreamed of playing for as a youth in Missouri.

RetroSimba

Phillies' 1989 Trade For Sal Agostinelli Still Reaping Rewards

It was a transaction not worth mentioning in the newspapers at the time, a minor-league deal between the Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals that did not even create a blip on baseball’s radar screen. The Phillies got a 27-year-old catcher who barely had a triple-A resume. The Cardinals received a 24-year-old infielder who had been a fifth-round pick, but would never get higher than the triple-A level.

Philly News

Dan Driessen Was Insurance Policy For 1987 Cardinals

Dan Driessen began the 1987 baseball season as a player without a team. By the end of that season, Driessen was playing for the Cardinals in the World Series.

RetroSimba

Lee Tunnell Found Path To World Series With Cardinals

With his big-league career in rapid freefall, Lee Tunnell got an unexpected boost from a veteran scout and grabbed hold of an opportunity presented by the Cardinals. Six months later, Tunnell was pitching in the World Series.

RetroSimba

Rick Hummel & Lee Thomas On The Press Box 12-14-16

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Frank Cusumano: Ten Thoughts From The MLB Winter Meetings

Frank Cusumano is at the MLB Winter Meetings in Oxon Hills, Maryland, keeping an eye on the St. Louis Cardinals.

KSDK

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

Hope About Phenoms Is A Baseball Rite of Spring

Phenoms are to spring training what cliff swallows are to San Juan Capistrano.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Winter Warm-Up Offers Much To Do On A Limited Budget

Attending the Cardinals Care Winter Warm-Up with very deep pockets must be a blast. Then there's no need to fret over the price of autograph tickets, silent-auction items, memorabilia, souvenirs and concessions.

Fox Sports Midwest

Red Sox May Try To Sign Justin Masterson; Nexen Heroes Expected To Post Jung-Ho Kang, Cardinals May Be Interested

Jung-ho Kang, SS, Nexen Heroes (Korean) — Kang is going to get posted for a major league job. The righthanded power hitter, who has 38 home runs and 107 RBIs in 107 games this season, is 27 years old and will stay at shortstop or convert to second or third base. He’s listed at 6 feet, 180 pounds, but he looks bigger. The Cardinals were interested early, but a few teams have been added to the mix. Kang has major power and with the absence of it in the majors, he should get some serious money.

Boston Globe

This Series Is For The 'Birds

This weekend the Cardinals make a rare appearance at Camden Yards to face the host Baltimore Orioles. The Cardinals have never played a World Series here. Neither of these modern clubs has any postseason clashes with each other to highlight. The Cardinals cannot count a remarkable moment in their history against the Orioles, outside of maybe a scorcher at Busch II when Sidney Ponson started against them in a throwback uni.

Bird Land

Spin By Cardinals On Oscar Taveras Hard To Buy

Take 5 on the Cardinals:

Bernie Bytes

Stars Come Out To Pay Tribute To Late Jim Fregosi

They gathered to remember a baseball man, a guy who had spent 53 years in the game. And for so much more. They dropped what they were doing and traveled to Bright House Field from far and wide to remember Jim Fregosi as a friend and a colleague and a mentor. He built the relationships. And they came.

Atlanta Official Site

Cardinals Hope Peter Bourjos Controls Aggression On Field; Jose Oquendo Recalls Jim Fregosi; Allen Craig Accepts Switching

Peter Bourjos, the challenger to Jon Jay as the Cardinals’ center fielder, brings a wall-banging reputation with him from the Los Angeles Angels, who traded him to the Cardinals in the off-season. But manager Mike Matheny says he doesn’t want to dissuade that.

Post-Dispatch

Highlights From Day One Of Cardinals Winter Warm-Up

The on-field face of the Cardinals, catcher Yadier Molina, has been reluctant to wade into the masses at Winter Warm-up in years past -- sometimes attending and then quickly leaving, sometimes not attending at all because of a family matter.

Cardinal Beat

Cardinals Scout Mike Roberts Is Mentor, Fighter

The only championship ring Mike Roberts ever wore was the first he received, a gleaming 1982 World Series ring from his employer, the Cardinals. After scouting several games one day in 2010, he realized the familiar weight on his finger was gone and he wasn’t sure where he misplaced it.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Farm Director John Vuch Makes Expectations Clear

Thirty-two years ago this summer, John Vuch held the title of "runner" for the St. Louis Cardinals' front office. That apparently was a nicer way of not calling him by the more appropriate title of "gopher."

Springfield News-Leader