New Rules, Rich Returns: Hindsight From 2012's 'Michael Wacha Draft' Shows Cardinals Can Maximize Many Picks In 2020's Reduced Rounds

Even under the cloak of dark, cloudy skies and chilly conditions, the Cardinals’ brand new director of amateur scouting couldn’t hide his crew’s presence that February night eight years ago that would add to the club’s history within 20 months.

Post-Dispatch

With MLB-High Seven Picks, Can Cardinals Unearth Sure Things In An Unsure, Abbreviated Draft?

There is a certain rhythm to how Major League Baseball’s annual amateur draft usually unwinds through the course of three days, 40 rounds, and more than 1,000 names — revving from the pulse-quickening first picks to the roster-filling lightning rounds on Day 3. Cardinals assistant general manager Randy Flores likes to say the draft has “three different personalities.”

Birdland

Three Cardinals Questions That Won't Be Answered If MLB Cancels Baseball Season

I’ve prepared myself for the likely development that there will no no major league baseball season in 2020 — and the even more likely development that if there is a season that I won’t be able to watch the St. Louis Cardinals play any games at Busch Stadium

Cheap Seats

Cornerstone: Cardinals Ready To Launch Nolan Gorman As Far & Fast As His Power Can Carry Him

With sensors strapped to his torso, hands, arms, and hips, Nolan Gorman had a feel this winter for what the gizmos were going to tell him about his swing. He had heard the tell-tale percentages and statistics from last season, too. But once he watched all that data uncoil from a knot of metrics into a digital model of his swing and what it could be, Gorman sensed what he had to do.

Birdland

Despite 'Daunting Obstacles' & 'Disappointing' Proposal From MLB, Andrew Miller Sees Route To Baseball In 2020

Despite a financial proposal from Major League Baseball’s owners that landed with a thud Tuesday and drew sentiments of disappointment and frustrations from players, a veteran union rep still sees a way past “daunting obstacles” to save a 2020 regular season.

Birdland

Third In Line? Despite 'Lost Year,' Elehuris Montero Can Establish Bat First, Position Later

The only member of the hitting group not expected to contribute in the majors this season, Elehuris Montero stepped into the batting shell on the field farthest from the Cardinals’ spring clubhouse and had one swing to do what the others could not.

Birdland

Catching Up Fast: About To Turn 20, Ivan Herrera's Potent Bat, Improving Defense Mask His Youth

It was only a sneak peek, a brief four-at-bat glimpse of Class AA’s rigors that the Cardinals offered catching prospect Ivan Herrera at the end of his first full summer playing in the United States. At 18, he was nearly six years younger than the average age in the Texas League, and the Cardinals didn’t hastily quantum-leap him four levels because of their need. They wanted to see what he learned.

Birdland

Cardinals Pledge To Pay Employees Through June, Begin Controlled Reopening Of Jupiter, Busch Facilities To Players

Within a week at Busch Stadium, downtown’s empty reminder of a major-league absence, there will be baseball activities in limited, controlled migrations of players as the Cardinals move to ease open facilities and ready for the potential of a regular season.

Birdland

Universal DH? Try 'Utility DH.' Brad Miller Leads Cardinals' Versatile Fielders Who Fit Hitter Role

With so many uncertainties and unknowns facing Major League Baseball as owners and players rummage through proposals to conjure a 2020 regular season, one inevitable has emerged for when or whenever the game resumes.

Post-Dispatch

How About MLB Players Take The Season Off & We Let Baseball's Scrubs Play Instead?

Word is that some Major League Baseball stars aren’t sold on the idea of playing games in an uncertain environment for something less than half of their contracted salary amount.

Cheap Seats

No Easy Answers As MLB Negotiates A Start

Well, that didn’t take long.

BenFred

Cardinals' DH Candidates Ranked

Nolan Arenado would not make a good DH, no. He's way too valuable as a third baseman.

KMOX

As We Accept The 'New Normal' Of 2020 & Beyond, It Means Welcoming The DH In The NL

To many in St. Louis, the despised two letters of “D” and “H” are seen as obscene as certain words with four letters. You know, like “Cubs.” But in America of 2020, we’re all learning about accepting and adapting to a new normal.

Hochman

Dylan Carlson Debuts, Homers Off Jacob DeGrom In A (Simulated) Doozy Of A Win For Cardinals

By the time he came to the plate for his second at-bat after the fanfare of his arrival, the buzz created by Dylan Carlson’s presence in the Cardinals’ lineup for the first time on May 8, 2020, had likely subsided, rocked to sleep like the lineup itself by Jacob deGrom.

Birdland

Five NL Central Sluggers With A Wallop

The Major League power surge over the past five years has provided the game with a new generation of sluggers who can captivate sellout crowds with one swing. The National League Central is no exception, and the division's hitter-friendly ballparks provide the perfect environment for the big bats.

St. Louis Official Site

Why An Albert Pujols Swan Song In St. Louis Would Be Fitting

Albert Pujols left St. Louis on less than ideal terms back in 2011. Right after helping the Cardinals win their 11th World Series trophy, Pujols bolted west, exchanging his Redbird red for Los Angeles Angel red. Sadness ensued.

KSDK

What Did These Cardinals Learn The Hard Way? 'Everything'

In a sport where failure is expected for more than two-thirds of every plate appearance, there are a lot of tough lessons learned.

KMOX

Lost Revenue Creates Huge Challenge For MLB Owners, Players

Professional baseball is back in Taiwan and South Korea, albeit in empty stadiums. It should return in some form later this year in North America.

Gordo

Nothing Wrong With Imagining Albert Pujols-Cardinals Reunion, But Reality Would Disappoint

One Yadier Molina ESPN interview plus one Albert Pujols ESPN interview equals a juicy what-if about the two friends joining forces again.

BenFred

How Worried Should The Cardinals Be About Paul Goldschmidt?

The Cardinals reached the 2019 NLCS on the strength of their pitching and defense, as the team’s offensive efforts could best be described as middle of the pack. After letting Marcell Ozuna leave in free agency and trading Jose Martinez to the Rays, St. Louis did more to subtract than add from the lineup during the offseason, as Brad Miller and the re-signed Matt Wieters were the only position players inked to Major League contracts.

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