The Cardinals made another late season run, but came up a game short in the NL Championship Series. They had a quiet off-season, so did they do enough to return to the playoffs?
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Season Preview: St. Louis Cardinals
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Spring Training: Up and Running St. Louis Cardinals
Oh my, how time does fly. It is that time of year again! Pitchers and catchers have reported, and now teams have started playing spring training games. If one is particularly caught in the moment, one might be worried that the Cardinals are 0-2 so far in spring training play.
But since that’s only two games, and spring training results have little to no correlation to regular season results, I’m not too worried as a fan. Things to be worried about have been shown in early projections: a possibly scary combination of aging veterans and high-BABIP younger stars can make some within the baseball community shudder. But still, I’m not especially worried.
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2012 Walter Johnson Award Nominees
The second to last Baseball Bloggers Alliance award is the Walter Johnson Award for the best pitcher in each league. Each website will nominate 5 players and the one with the most nominations will win. Russ and I have put our top 10 for each league here.
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2012 Willie Mays Award Nominees
Next up in the BBA Awards is the Willie Mays Award for the top rookie in each league.
We can nominate 5 players in each league and they will be thrown in with the rest of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance votes.
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The MLB All-Surprise Team
We’re almost 2 months into the season and here is my All-Surprise team. Some guys are back from injury; some guys are young and finally getting a shot.
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Jeff Luhnow and the First Overall Pick
When the draft comes in June, I think Astro fans will be surprised with the first overall pick. While Byron Buxton is the best player, I don’t think he’s going to be an Astro.
Why would a team pass on a talent like Buxton? Because Jeff Luhnow knows how to build a minor league system.
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MLB Preview – St. Louis Cardinals
2011 Review:
2011 was a strange year for the Cardinals. They went from out of the playoffs in August to winning the wild card on the last day of the season. They capped that by winning the World Series.
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Riding the Pine: Can It Get Any Better?
Can this time of year get any better for baseball fans? The season culminates with the World Series; teams are about to get major or minor face lifts. Mangers will come and go, as do GMs (which we’ve been seeing moreso this year).
The only thing that can make it better is a historic October game.
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Adam Wainwright Injured
John Mozeliak, GM of the St. Louis Cardinals, held a small press conference this morning stating team ace Adam Wainwright is headed back to St. Louis to be evaluated by team doctors. The early speculation is that he has ligament damage in his elbow.
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The Top 7 Cardinal Prospects for the UCB
There was a short period where I ran a Cardinal blog. It lasted for a month or so, but it got me hooked up with the United Cardinal Bloggers. Each year in September, they run a Top 7 Cardinals Prospects across the various blogs; I’m doing it with them this year.
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