Video: Matt Wieters Faces Alex Reyes 2-17-2020

Alex Reyes pitching against Matt Wieters with several watchful eyes on hand: Michael Girsch, Moises Rodriguez, Matt Slater, Adam Olsen are all here. pic.twitter.com/8NmoW2UjsA

— Jeff Jones (@jmjones) February 17, 2020

Matt Wieters looks at an Alex Reyes breaking pitch.

A couple laughs and you can hear someone say "it's too early for that." pic.twitter.com/JAKbq4upfv

— Brenden Schaeffer (@bschaeffer12) February 17, 2020

Kwang-Hyun Kim's Flexibilty Key To Signing With Cardinals: Michael Girsch

When the St. Louis Cardinals were keying in on South Korean left-hander Kim Kwang-hyun last winter, they saw a career starter who could also fit in as an effective bullpen piece.

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Cardinals Celebrate Latin America Class Of 2019

Prospects at the Cardinals’ Latin America facility in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, go through hours of practice on the field and in the weight room in hopes they’ll one day reach the Major Leagues.

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Cardinals Sign Kwang-Hyun Kim To Two-Year Deal

Looking for depth, flexibility and innings, the Cardinals found their pitcher in Korean left-hander Kwang Hyun Kim.
St. Louis Official Site

The Cardinals, who had only two games started by a lefthanded pitcher this past season, announced the signing of 31-year-old Korean southpaw Kwang Hyun Kim at a Busch Stadium press conference Tuesday afternoon.
Post-Dispatch

Changing Landscape, Competition Forcing Cardinals International Scouts To Evaluate Players As Young As 13 Years Old

Matt Slater remembers his first international scouting trip, going to the Dominican Republic in the fall of 1999 when he was working for the Dodgers.

STL Sports Page

Cardinals' Draft Preparations Have Included Multiple Trips To A Rainforest By Randy Flores

As he has crisscrossed the country this spring preparing for next month’s amateur draft, Randy Flores has found himself with a lot of time to kill at the Atlanta airport.

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Dan Kantrovitz & Matt Slater Possible Candidates For Orioles Vice President Of Baseball Operations

While managerial candidates come in many different packages, from experienced and hardened to the major league coaching life to green and pliable to a front office's desires, such a hire for the Orioles appears to have taken a backseat as they also have to replace executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette.

Baltimore Sun

Miles Mikolas Headlines Reliving History Event At Cardinals Hall Of Fame & Museum

The St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum will host an exclusive Reliving History event with All-Star pitcher, Miles Mikolas on Sunday, September 23, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm at the museum in Ballpark Village. As part of the event, Miles will discuss his baseball career, and his connection to our award-winning exhibit Goodwill Through Baseball: Cardinals Across the Pacific during a 45-minute Q&A session with KMOX Sports Director, Tom Ackerman. Matt Slater, Special Assistant to the GM, Player Procurement will also join the discussion to provide insight into how the Cardinals scouted Mikolas and brought him to St. Louis.

St. Louis Official Site

Can The Cardinals Find Another All-Star Like Miles Mikolas In Japan?

Long before he was named an All-Star, the Cardinals were already on the ground in Japan, looking for the next Miles Mikolas.

STL Sports Page

Miles Mikolas, All-Star, & The Scouting Process That Landed Him

Almost all of what the Cardinals saw of Miles Mikolas’ reinvention as a pitcher in Japan was the byte-sized view offered by video clips they played and replayed again on a laptop or tablet. What they knew of how tall he was, how he looked, how his hair flowed all came from numbers on a sheet or images bound by the four edges of a screen.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Announce Staff Changes & Promotions Within Baseball Operations

St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak today announced numerous staff changes and promotions within the team's Baseball Operations group, including the Front Office, Amateur Scouting and International Operations.
St. Louis Official Site

When players acquired by the Cardinals' international scouts arrive in Jupiter, Fla., to take the next step in their professional career, one of the people they get to know best is Luis Morales.
Bird Land

Changes in the front office, amateur scouting and international operations marked some shuffling in the St. Louis Cardinals’ baseball operations department, the team announced Thursday.
Fox Sports Midwest

Cardinals Sign Miles Mikolas Who Found Success In Japan

The route to a game at Roger Dean Stadium was a lot shorter when Miles Mikolas was a kid growing up in nearby Tequesta, Fla., but after a detour through Japan, he has found his way back to that ballpark.

Post-Dispatch

Seven Reasons Cardinals Should Sign Luis Robert

Over the past several months, two of the Cardinals’ top scouts, Matt Slater and Moises Rodriguez, have become well acquainted with Cuban outfield prospect Luis Robert.

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Kids In Dominican Welcome Candy Gift From Cardinals' Scouts

Because of his job as the Cardinals’ director of player personnel, Matt Slater makes frequent trips each year to the Dominican Republic. It was because of the timing of one of those planned trips a few years ago that an idea was born.

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Path To Becoming An All-Star: Aledmys Diaz's Winding Road From Cubs To Stardom In St. Louis

Aledmys Diaz's arrival in American professional baseball became a lesson in capitalism.
ESPN

It was a year ago last week that Aledmys Diaz was pulled into his Double-A manager's office and told he was being taken off the field. Diaz spent the next few days bunkered in a Tulsa, Okla., hotel room, waiting to find out his future and bracing for news that the organization that signed him in March 2014 would no longer be the one he played for.
St. Louis Official Site

Seung-Hwan Oh Is Logical Choice In Relief Of Trevor Rosenthal

There wasn’t enough data for Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak to truly know what to expect from reliever Seung Hwan Oh when he signed the Korean righthander in January. He concedes as much.

Post-Dispatch

A Look At The Cardinals' Courtship Of Aledmys Diaz

In early 2012, no more than a few months before Aledmys Diaz packed a small backpack and walked away from the Cuban national team during a tournament in the Netherlands, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak delivered a power point presentation to his staff.

Post-Dispatch

As Aledmys Diaz Makes Debut, Read His Chapter In "Taking Flight"

Aledmys Diaz is making his major-league debut Tuesday night for the Cardinals in Pittsburgh. He is one of the players featured in the new book "Taking Flight, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Building of Baseball's Best Franchise" written by Rob Rains and published this month by Triumph Books.

STL Sports Page

Busting Cap For International Free Agents Makes Sense For Cardinals

With three of the top 34 picks in the amateur draft in June, and four of the top 70, the Cardinals already are assured of receiving an influx of talent into the organization this year.

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Cardinals In Asia: Seung-Hwan Oh Just First Step

Almost seven years before they would make him the organization's first Asian-born signee since So Taguchi in 2002, the Cardinals laid eyes on a then-26-year-old South Korean reliever pitching inside San Diego's Petco Park in March 2009.

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