Cardinals Winter League Notebook 11-24-15: Jonathan Escudero Logs Four Scoreless Innings In Two Relief Appearances; Heath Wyatt Pitched One Scoreless Inning; Jose Martinez Triples & Walks

Cardinals Winter League

How Rick Ankiel Helped Cardinals Generate Battery Power

The Cardinals twice have experienced back-to-back battery power.

RetroSimba

Mark Whiten & Mike Easler On The Jim Edmonds & Tim McKernan Show 6-10-14

Inside STL

Final At-Bats Of The Greatest Sluggers

When I recently put together a list marking some similarities between Ken Griffey Jr. and Willie Mays, the most striking oddity was that both made their final appearance as pinch-hitters late in games that their teams lost by one run: Mays grounded out, shortstop to second for the force at second; Griffey grounded out, second to shortstop for the force at second. I'd earlier seen that the Bash Brothers, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, produced another oddity as they played their final games on October 6 and 7, 2001, with both flying out to deep center field in their last at-bats.

The Hardball Times

Cardinals Hitters, Mark McGwire Share The Bottom

At times it seems that the Cardinals are playing the same game over and over again. Is the Fox Sports Midwest production crew playing tricks? Is that Mike Shannon live on the radio or just an audio file? It must be our imagination.

STL Today

Brad Penny Credits Dave Duncan For Change

Brad Penny, RHP, Cardinals — We’ve always thought of Penny as a fly-ball pitcher, but in two starts with the Cardinals, he has gotten 42 outs and 25 of them have been on grounders. Penny, to no surprise, credits legendary pitching coach Dave Duncan for emphasizing the sinker. “He shows you numbers I’ve never seen before,’’ said Penny, “like ground-ball outs to hits, fly-ball outs to hits. No one has ever showed me stuff like that before. He puts it in front of you. Hell, why haven’t I been trying to get ground balls all the time?’’ He couldn’t figure this out on his own in Boston?

Boston Globe

Red Sox Could Look At Matt Holliday

While money for free agents should continue to shrink, two who could get their share are Jason Bay and Matt Holliday. They are similar in a lot of ways, which raises the question: Which would you rather have playing for the Red Sox?

Boston Globe

Right Situation, Jim Edmonds Could Return

Jim Edmonds. After the Padres released him, Edmonds rebounded with an excellent run as a Cub. Nevertheless, no team has made a serious run at Edmonds, who turns 39 in June.

"In the right situation," Edmonds would play again, his agent Paul Cohen said. "I don't' know that that is coming."

Cohen also represents former Met Damion Easley, who also would still like to play. Easley lives in Arizona, while Edmonds shuttles between St. Louis and California, Cohen said.

Newsday

Tony LaRussa's Coaching Legacy Part Two

In part one of this article, I introduced the question of whether a factor in assessing a manager’s lifetime impact should include the number of future managers he developed. It is an not an area in which St. Louis’ Tony La Russa has excelled compared to some of his most prominent peers.

The Cardinal Nation