The Cardinals' Most Disappointing Players Of The Bill DeWitt Jr. Era

Over the last two-plus weeks, I’ve been doing an “All-DeWitt” team as a way of looking back on the Cardinals’ first 24 seasons (1996-2019) under team chairman Bill DeWitt Jr.

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How Shawon Dunston Learned To Like The Cardinals

Shawon Dunston, who spent his prime as a shortstop with the Cubs, contributed to the Cardinals for two seasons as a utility player.

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Mike Maddux Teaching Cardinals As He Was Taught

The pitching coach’s pitching coach was like a sandlot Santa, arriving with a big bag stuffed with gifts wrapped in horsehide — and tied with red string.

Hochman

Bud Norris Could Be A Sleeper Addition

Adding Norris isn't going to save the Cardinals if the ship starts sinking in June; he is here to provide reliable support for the bullpen and the rotation.

KSDK

Nomadic All-Stars? Eight Players In Reach Of Record

The Detroit Tigers signed reliever Octavio Dotel to a one-year contract on Dec. 9, 2011, signifying a historic day in Major League Baseball history.

MLB Official Site

Bartolo Colon Heads To Free Agency As Historical Outlier

When teams evaluate players, they often do so with comparables. That is, what have other players with similar ages and skill sets done in the past? For example, if a team is looking to spend on Mark Trumbo this offseason, they'll certainly check out how previous right-handed hitters with big power and limited defensive value have done heading into their age-31 season, as Trumbo is.

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Ozzie Smith Had A Classy Cardinals Farewell

Of the many tributes expressed on Ozzie Smith Appreciation Day, the best came from a Cardinals opponent.

RetroSimba

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.

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Mike Morgan Reconnects In Diamondbacks Fantasy Camp

You could tell by the look on his face and the bounce in his step that Mike Morgan was right where he wanted to be Monday morning.

Arizona Official Site

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

It Took Joe Torre Being Fired To Get Him To Cooperstown

Joe Torre’s path to the Hall of Fame ironically began on a day he was fired. On June 16, 1995, the Cardinals dismissed Torre as their manager even though the club had won four of its past five games.

Post-Dispatch

Michael Wacha In Ace Company With Near-Miss No-Hitter

With his dazzling performance Tuesday night in which he commanded 26 outs before permitting a hit – the fourth ninth-inning no-hitter broken up this season – Michael Wacha turned in a mirror opposite of Shelby Miller‘s gem from May 10. Miller, as you may recall, gave up a hit in the first at-bat of the game, then registered 27 outs in shutting out the Rockies. (He even bookended the performance by ending the game by striking out Eric Young, the man who claimed the only hit leading off the game.)

Fungoes

Lucky 13: Journeyman Octavio Dotel Enjoying Latest Squad

Octavio Dotel projected a discernible hesitancy.

Detroit Official Site

Cardinals Bullpen Comes Through Vs. Cubs; Matt Carpenter Debuts; Etc...

Miguel Batista said he saw something Saturday he had never witnessed in 23 big-league seasons.

STL Today

Degrees Of Mike Morgan

Has there ever been a career quite like that of Mike Morgan? The short answer is no. Nobody has pitched for more different big league teams over a career than Morgan—12 in all. And his career spanned from the late 1970s with the Charlie Finley A’s all the way past the September 11th-healing World Series of 2001.

The Hardball Times

Chris Carpenter Takes 2010 Vicente Palacios Award

Intended only in fun, this award honors the highest level of hitting futility by a St. Louis Cardinals pitcher in a season.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Albert Pujols, Adrian Gonzalez Primed For Power Surge

Tick... tick... tick. The fuses are growing short on Albert Pujols and Adrian Gonzalez, and both could be ready to go off when the Cardinals and Padres open their series on Tuesday night.

MLB Game Day

Todd Wellemeyer Takes 2009 Vicente Palacios Award

Intended only as fun, this award has been created to honor the highest level of hitting futility by a St. Louis Cardinals pitcher in a season.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Kiss'em Goodbye: Houston Astros

Baseball Prospectus' Pre-season Projection: 70-92, fifth place
Current record: 70-80, fourth place

Is it too soon to start clamoring for Jeff Bagwell to come in as the manager here?

Baseball Prospectus

Chris Carpenter's Streaks End

When St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter was battered around by the visiting San Francisco Giants on Tuesday evening, allowing 11 hits and six runs in five innings, his ERA on the season jumped to 2.42.

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