A Binge-Watching Option From Every MLB Team

With some unexpected free time on their hands, players, coaches and broadcasters across Major League Baseball are passing the time the same way as many of us -- by binge-watching their favorite shows.

St. Louis Official Site

Closer Or Not, Tony Watson Ready To Lead Giants' Bullpen

The Giants have a vacancy at closer after losing All-Star left-hander Will Smith to the Braves, but manager Gabe Kapler isn’t committed to opening the season with a fixed replacement.

San Francisco Official Site

Get Ready To Welcome Back Marcell Ozuna

Reports from the free-agent Hot Stove, plus recent outfield moves by the St. Louis Cardinals, make it more likely than ever that Marcell Ozuna will return for at least one more year.

Redbird Rants

The Cardinals Are Window Shoppers In Baseball's Free Agent Marketplace

Evidently, baseball’s winter spender freeze is thawing. Actually a few wildly aggressive teams, and especially agent Scott Boras, are taking a blow torch to the ice cap … which isn’t to be confused with MLB’s de facto salary cap.

101 ESPN

Josh Donaldson & Dallas Keuchel Would Look Good In A Cardinals Uniform

The St. Louis Cardinals have been playing hard to get with the free agent market so far this offseason.

Cheap Seats

Braves Signed Will Smith For Three-Years/$40M

Ken Rosenthal Twitter

Ten Players Received Qualifying Offers

Bob Nightengale Twitter

A.J. Pollock Hits Three Home Runs, But Starting Struggles Persist

A.J. Pollock slugged three home runs on Friday night at Dodger Stadium, but a 5-4 loss to the Giants only underscored how the starting rotation is just as instrumental in the Dodgers’ success as all of those big flies.

Los Angeles Official Site

Madison Bumgarner's Gem Pulls Giants Back To .500

There are more than regional bragging rights at stake in this year's Bay Bridge Series between the Giants and A's. Both clubs are in the Wild Card mix in their respective leagues, adding an extra degree of importance to these Interleague games.

San Francisco Official Site

Red Sox Interested In Will Smith, But Giants Asking Too Much In Return

Sean McAdam Twitter

Cardinals' Approach To Deadline: 'We Are In This'

It’s Trade Deadline week, and the Cardinals expect to be busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

St. Louis Official Site

The Cardinals Must Make A Trade, & Noah Syndergaard Should Be The Target

With the trade deadline gaining some teeth this season, the hot stove league is in full swing and the St. Louis Cardinals are going to have to be bold if they’re going to get something done.

Cheap Seats

Pablo Sandoval's 11th-Inning Homer Keeps Giants Rolling

During the Giants’ implausible rise in less than a month from last-place outsiders to Wild Card contenders, there has been a constant: Turn the ball over to the bullpen, and something good is likely to happen.

San Francisco Official Site

Michael Girsch Says Winning Streak Makes Them Shoppers At Deadline; Matt Carpenter Springfield-Bound; Unwritten, Unbroken Rules; Jedd Gyorko, Yadier Molina, Marcell Ozuna, & More

As the trade deadline appeared on the horizon this month, the Cardinals’ front office candidly said it was straddling the market, teeter-tottering between buy, sell, or standstill. The officials waited on a sign from the team that it was something other than a .500 club.

Post-Dispatch

Giants Unlikely To Trade Madison Bumgarner

The Giants have been the most intriguing team in the Majors for the past few weeks, and if their incredible run continues this weekend in San Diego, things could get even more interesting.

MLB Official Site

Is Tony Watson An Option For Relief Help?

The St. Louis Cardinals have been linked over and over to different lefty relief options to fortify that side of the pen. Is a reliever out West and option?

Redbird Rants

Andrew Miller Is Scuffling, & Also Great

Here’s a sentence that I didn’t think I’d be writing in 2019: Andrew Miller has accumulated -0.2 WAR this season. By FanGraphs’ version of WAR, he’s been less valuable than a replacement-level reliever. Here’s another sentence that makes a little more sense, but is at odds with the one I just wrote: Andrew Miller might be the Cardinals’ best reliever. Now, reliever performance is volatile and all, but we’re going to need an explanation. How can those two things be true at once?

Fangraphs

Junior Fernandez Keeps Throwing Up Zeroes Wherever He Goes

As the MLB season careens toward the trade deadline, the Cardinals sit in contention for a wild card and within striking distance of the division-leading Cubs. With July 31 fast approaching, the organization will be tasked with personnel decisions that could shape the nature of their postseason aspirations over the season’s final two months.

KMOV

Padres Seeking Trevor Bauer? Twins, Dodgers Eyeing Shane Greene?

The Indians have won five straight games. If the postseason began today, they would host the American League Wild Card Game at Progressive Field. On Thursday night, Trevor Bauer struck out 10 batters as Cleveland completed a four-game sweep of Detroit.

MLB Official Site

Who Should The Cardinals Target At The Deadline?

With the addition of the second wild card, the MLB trade deadline isn't quite what it used to be.

KSDK