Cardinals Have Found Gems Later In Draft

The major league baseball draft next month will consist of just five rounds and anybody signed after that will receive no more than $20,000. But rounds six through 50, or six through 40 in later years, have produced some gems and the Cardinals would have quite a representative team from such players culled in the second and third days of the amateur draft.

Post-Dispatch

Jordan Hicks Figured Out His Slider & Everyone Should Be Terrified

Improved command and added velocity to a slider have led to a good run of outings for the Cardinals reliever.

Beyond The Boxscore

Albert Pujols On Verge Of Hitting Milestone

Albert Pujols has been gone seven years now, but as he closes in on 3,000 hits, a plateau he should reach in the next week, it is proper to offer some perspective on the former Cardinals star’s career.

Post-Dispatch

Easy To Overlook The Giants, But Cardinals Certainly Aren't

With the baseball community consumed by all the clamor surrounding the Chicago Cubs and the potential of their first National League pennant since 1945, it seems prudent to note that the league representatives in five of the last six World Series will be opponents this weekend at Busch Stadium

Post-Dispatch

Chris Duncan: The Time I Made Three Errors In One Play

Three errors on one play…it’s a feat many thought couldn’t be done. But those people hadn’t met me.

101 ESPN

Cardinals & Giants Have History Together

Since 2010, the Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants have been the creme de la creme of the National League postseason. It hardly seems as if anybody else in the league really has been involved.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Add Reliever John Axford In Trade With Brewers

The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have acquired right-handed reliever John Axford from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for a player to be named later. Axford, 30, is expected to join the Cardinals tonight when they begin a seven-game road trip in Pittsburgh, and will wear uniform no. 34.
St. Louis Official Site

John Axford, who once converted 49 consecutive save chances and left a note in his locker apologizing to the media for leaving early when the streak finally came to an end -- his wife was in labor -- was traded from the Brewers to the Cardinals on Friday for a player to be named later.
St. Louis Official Site

Looks like former Milwaukee Brewers closer John Axford will be turning around and heading back to PNC Park.
Cardinal Beat

Looks like relief pitcher John Axford didn’t need to leave Pittsburgh with his Milwaukee Brewers teammates after Thursday night’s win.
KMOX

The St. Louis Cardinals announced this morning the acquisition of pitcher John Axford from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for a player to be named later.
101 ESPN

The Cardinals traded for a Brewers right-hander Friday morning, but he was not old friend Kyle Lohse.
Fox Sports Midwest

The Cardinals announced today they acquired reliever John Axford from the Brewers in exchange for a player to be named later.
KMOV

John Axford, whose record-setting run as the Brewers' closer coincided with the club's charge to the National League Championship Series in 2011, was traded Friday to the other team in that series, the Cardinals, who are hoping to continue a run of successful late-season relief acquisitions.
Milwaukee Official Site

Inside The Tony LaRussa-Dusty Baker Rivalry

The big numbers — and the little ones — speak to Cardinals manager Tony La Russa's success as a major-league manager.

STL Today

Politics Of Trading Within The NL Central

For perspective, consider that the last time the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros found an agreeable deal between two division rivals, the pitcher involved had a recognizable name and a place in history with one of the franchises. He was a fan favorite. He had been the ace of the staff. He was disappointed by losing.

Birdland

Former Cardinals Playing In The Italian Baseball League 2010

Mike Crudale - T&A San Marino
Ivanon Coffie - Telemarket Rimi

Italian Baseball League Official Site

1999 & 2009

Yesterday Shelby Miller struck Chris Duncan out, and while I didn't see it (or even hear about it live) I am taking as a matter of faith the fact that it was awesome. With Miller a few years from a long-term stay at Major League camp things have been a little dry, prospect-wise; there is the kind of enjoyment one gets from watching Stephen Strasburg pitch as a National for the first time, and there is the kind of enjoyment one gets from watching Allen Craig and Joe Mather compete for a job on the bench, and the Cardinals have begun 2010 with a lot of one and almost none of the other.

Viva El Birdos