Coming Up Short: Abrreviated Seasons Haven't Been Kind To Cardinals

The delay of the 2020 baseball season and all the other professional and major college sports shutting down is unique. But it will not be the first time the baseball season will have started late.

Post-Dispatch

Cardinals Were Right Club At Right Time For Mark Petrovsek

Mark Petkovsek, barely clinging to the fringes of the major leagues, revived his pitching career with the Cardinals.

RetroSimba

A Scout, A Backup Catcher, Albert Pujols, & A Trade That Would Have Changed Cardinals History

In the years after his playing days, as he grabbed a radar gun and began a second career ballpark-hopping with other scouts and swimming in their tales, Ben Johnson started hearing the lore of his role in a trade that, as one Cardinals executive recently put it, “could have changed baseball history.”

Birdland

How Cardinals Plugged Ted Power Into Starting Rotation

After a rough beginning to his season with the Cardinals, Ted Power recovered and developed into a reliable starting pitcher for them.

RetroSimba

Ben Johnson Played A Sneaky, Important Role In Albert Pujols Legend

Within that 2000 season that hinted at the arrival of a generational talent in the Cardinals organization and ended with a dramatic flourish at Class AAA Memphis, there was a wrinkle in Albert Pujols’ advance through the minors.

Bird Land

How Wayne Krenchicki Found A Way To Beat Cardinals

For Wayne Krenchicki, who usually didn’t do well against Cardinals pitching, a game-winning hit, even a crummy one, was a special achievement.

RetroSimba

Mike Shildt's Change In Job Titles With Cardinals Didn't Change Who He Is As A Person

It is a very short trip to come out of the coaches room in the Cardinals clubhouse, go left, walk down seven steps and go left again, through a door that enters a party room where the team owners often entertain guests before and during games.

STL Sports Page

Cardinals 'Changing The Narrative' On Rocky Season

You start the conversation with John Mozeliak, the Cardinals' president of baseball ops, this way: "Two out in the Wild Card all of a sudden. Five behind the Cubs."

St. Louis Official Site

A Renewed Joe Girardi Could Be The Antidote For The Lethargic Cardinals

The travelling circus that accompanies Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has finally left our nation’s capital. A Twitter controversy ignited by Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader and Commissioner Manfred’s unintended slight towards Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout regarding his perceived lack of interest in marketing couldn’t dampen the merriment.

Forbes

Things To Consider As The Cardinals Begin The Second Half

What if, instead of this year’s pathetic offensive stats, some of the Cardinals hitters had simply repeated their worst season ever?

Hochman

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

Leon Durham & His Sad Second Act With Cardinals

Given a chance at redemption by the 1989 Cardinals after a bout with substance abuse, Leon Durham botched the opportunity and got suspended from the major leagues for failing a drug test. At 32, his big-league career had reached rock bottom.

RetroSimba

Cardinals Gave Alan Benes A Crash Course In Pitching

Working with Cardinals coaches Mark Riggins and Bob Gibson after his promotion from the minor leagues to St. Louis in September 1995, Alan Benes adjusted his approach, mixing off-speed pitches with his fastball, and delivered a double-digit strikeout performance in earning his first win.

RetroSimba

Cardinals Put Their Faith In The Future

When Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak stood up for his opening remarks two springs ago in a clubhouse filled with the roster he assembled, the future he’s now counting on sat just a few stools away.

Post-Dispatch

Why Cardinals Were Appealing To Todd Stottlemyre

Valuing a mentor who could help him develop into a consistently productive starting pitcher, Todd Stottlemyre sought a trade from the Athletics to either the Yankees or the Cardinals.

RetroSimba

Why Cardinals Hired Tony LaRussa As Manager

Among Walt Jocketty’s many successful acquisitions as Cardinals general manager, including players such as Jim Edmonds, Scott Rolen, Edgar Renteria and Chris Carpenter, the most significant was the manager he hired, Tony La Russa.

RetroSimba

Cesar Cedeno & His Amazing Month With Cardinals

Three years after his pitching helped the Cardinals to a National League pennant and World Series title, Jim Kaat used his skills as a talent evaluator to help St. Louis to another championship season.

RetroSimba

Losing Became A Habit For Danny Jackson With Cardinals

In a season fraught with futility, the pitcher who epitomized the plight of the 1995 Cardinals was Danny Jackson. Expected to provide wins and hope, Jackson instead represented losses and despair.

RetroSimba

The Day The Cardinals Fired Joe Torre, Traded Todd Zeile

Twenty years ago, in June 1995, the Cardinals were a franchise in disarray. The depth of their dysfunction was revealed on one dismal day, June 16, when they fired their manager, Joe Torre, and traded their cleanup hitter, Todd Zeile.

RetroSimba

Mike Jorgensen Still In The Game With Cardinals

Mike Jorgensen still recalls being "pretty devastated" when the Mets traded him to Montreal in the Rusty Staub deal back in 1972. Jorgensen, who grew up in Queens and went to Francis Lewis High, was a young guy playing in his hometown. He lived with his parents, an easy five-mile commute to Shea.

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