Relive Cardinals' 2004 NLCS Clincher Today At 6PM CT

The game that delivered the Cardinals’ first pennant in 17 years can be watched Sunday as part of MLB’s push to stream classic games on its various platforms during baseball’s shutdown.

St. Louis Official Site

Roger Cedeno Works With Kids In Colombia

El Meridiano

Roger Cedeno's Commitment To His Academy

The former player takes three years with his academy training new talents  (Translated)

Lider

Fernando Tatis & Octavio Dotel To Visit Nicaragua

Dodger Stadium was packed, was the night of 1999 and the St. Louis Cardinals visited the Dodgers. It was the third episode. Korean Chan Ho Park throwing on the mound. Fernando Tatis was positioned in the batter's box. Park concedes a plate, a fastball and devastating swing Tatis took it out of the stadium. Home run with the bases loaded, one of the runners was pushed Mark McGwire, who waited to greet Tatis by the overwhelming homer.  (Translated)

La Prensa

Roger Cedeno Set To Speak In Nicaragua

865 batsman hits in 11 years in the majors, with an average of .273, more than 213 stolen bases, including two season top 50 scams each, are the main figures of former Venezuelan bigleaguer Roger Cedeno, who tomorrow will be providing a clinical children in Yamil Rivers Stadium Ugarte, Rivas.  (Translated)

La Prensa

How Cardinals Mounted Their Biggest 9th-Inning Rally

Starting with a walk to Yadier Molina and culminating with a home run by John Mabry, the Cardinals completed the biggest ninth-inning comeback in franchise history.

RetroSimba

Best & Worst Cardinals Offseason Moves

Baseball’s winter meetings will take place Dec. 8-11 in San Diego. Under normal circumstances there would be a lot of anticipation going in, and that’s not to say there won’t be stirrings.

Post-Dispatch

Brendan Ryan OK After Taking Liner To Left Hand

The Yankees had a batting-practice scare on Tuesday afternoon when shortstop Brendan Ryan was clipped in the left hand by a line drive during an infield workout.

New York-A Official Site

Trade Talks Between Cardinals & Indians May Happen This Offseason

Hey, Hoynsie: Given the Cardinals' enviable surplus of starters and relievers, do you think the Indians would be able to trade for some of their excess talent? Also, with Cards first baseman Allen Craig coming back next season from being injured this year, what do you think the Indians chances would be of trading for him or his replacement, Matt Adams? –- David Buck, St. Louis, Mo.

Hey, David: If you see the match, and I see the match, you can bet the Cardinals and Indians saw it developing a long time ago. The Indians, however, aren’t the only ones sizing up the Cardinals roster.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cardinals Interleague Slate Features KC, AL East

The Cardinals won't want to hear it, but the schedule-makers appear to have done them a bit of a favor this year. Interleague Play will certainly bring St. Louis its fair share of challenges, but the Cards' slate of American League foes could be a lot worse.

Cardinals Official Site

Cardinals Approach Team Record For Runs In An Inning

When the St. Louis Cardinals scored nine runs in the sixth inning Thursday night at Houston, it was the club’s single largest one-inning offensive explosion in almost four years. It was their biggest inning on the road in over six seasons.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Eduardo Sanchez: 260th Venezuelan In MLB

In a match with huge score (15-5) in favor of the St. Louis Cardinals, was the ideal time to test those sent for pitchers in the minor leagues. There was Eduardo Sanchez. A 22 year old pitcher, who just comes in his second season in Venezuela, Aragua Tigers would make his debut in the majors in an organization that has displayed few Creoles.

Comandante del Beisbol

Probablistic Model Of Steals, Base Runners

Monday I introduced the idea of a Probabilistic Model of Steals. In that post, I looked at how the stage of the game, represented by the inning, changed the probability of attempting a steal, and the success rate on those attempts. Subsequent posts examined outs, the score difference and the combination of all three. This posts looks at base runners actual stolen base attempts compared to their expected stolen base attempts based on the model.

Baseball Musings

The 2009 Cardinals Anti-Awards

On the brink of Albert Pujols winning his third National League Most Valuable Player award, Cardinal Nation is fixated on trophies recognizing their players’ accomplishments. The 2009 roster is littered with eligible candidates in multiple categories, but along with all the accolades and impressive performances of the cream of the Cardinal crop, there is the sooty, briney residue that resides at the bottom of the barrel. Not all of this year’s Redbirds had seasons to write home about, so InsideSTL has created a series of awards showcasing the worst Cardinal performers of the 2009 season. Feel free to revel in their awfulness.

Inside STL

Fixing The USA Today Salary Database

For years, many, many baseball watchers have relied on the USAToday MLB Salary Database to make comparisons across organizations and in year-to-year analysis, possible due to contract details posted all the way back to 1988.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Stealing A Run

Arguably the most exciting play in baseball, the straight steal of home is rarely seen these days. It happens so infrequently that Jacoby Ellsbury successful attempt against Andy Pettitte became major news— although the Yankees / Red Sox rivalry probably has a little something to do with that. Not to be outdone, Jayson Werth accomplished the feat a little more than two weeks later, to somewhat less fanfare.

The Hardball Times

Mets' Corner Men

The Mets corner outfield positions were two of their biggest question marks coming into spring training but if the numbers put up so far by the players expected to fill those spots are any indication, perhaps those questions will be answered in a positive way. Coming into action Thursday, here are some of the stats put up by the Mets rightfield and leftfield candidates:

WFAN-The Fan

Second Guessing The Second Base Situation

In the recent four-game series, Cardinal castoff Edgar Gonzalez blasted his former organization with 15 total bases (8-for-18), an OBP of .474, SLG of .833 and a GPA of .422. Sunday, the Brewers dealt for the Giants’ Ray Durham, owner of a career .352 OBP. And Sunday afternoon, with the game tied and the bases loaded in the ninth inning, Aaron Miles hit a walkoff grand slam. What better entree into a discussion about the Cardinals’ second-base situation?

Fungoes