FOX Sports NEXT Field Reporter Inna Lazarev queries TheCardinalNation.com Publisher Brian Walton about needs the St. Louis Cardinals may address during this off-season and how their 2013 roster may change as a result.
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November 07, 2012
The St. Louis Cardinals need to improve their middle infield for 2013. Few, if anyone, would dispute that. The challenge is how to best go about it.
As I have commented here, I believe the preferred path should be to acquire a long-term answer at shortstop. There does not appear to be such a player near the majors currently within the organization.
Columnist Joe Strauss of the Post...
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November 08, 2012
ST. LOUIS - When Mark McGwire returned to the game of baseball in 2010 as the Cardinals hitting coach, he did so with a promise to his wife: After every season, the two would talk and reevaluate whether or not he should continue to coach the following year.
The two also had a dream: that he could someday coach for a team closer to their home in Orange County, Ca. He got about as...
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November 06, 2012
ST. LOUIS - The famous Rally Squirrel that darted across the field while Skip Schumaker was batting last October surfaced again Monday when his trading card sold for 157.50 on EBay.
The card - a 2012 Topps Baseball Variation Proof Card - made headlines in January when it was announced that a limited number of Schumakers cards would prominently feature the squirrel and not the Cardinals...
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November 06, 2012
Adam Wainwright is fixing to get paid. He’s under contract for $12 million in 2013, but he likes St. Louis enough that he’ll give them a chance to sign him this offseason, according to Derrick Goold’s Monday piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Finding a comp for his contract talks depends heavily on how you weight his different defining characteristics. Is he just a great...
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November 06, 2012
The 2012 St. Louis Cardinals weren’t exactly the Running Redbirds of old, but showed a slightly greater propensity to steal bases than in recent seasons.
They improved in this area despite the loss of Albert Pujols, the somewhat surprising club leader in base stealing in two of the previous three years. 2011 team steals leader Tyler Greene was dealt away during 2012.
Centerfielder...
Hot News for C Yadier Molina
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November 06, 2012
It’s a rare occasion when the BFIB are outgunned in a demonstration of fanaticism that revolves around someone wearing the Birds on the Bat. We are after all, the Best Fans in Baseball. If you don’t believe it, just ask one of us. But there comes a time when another obsession takes center stage – [...]
Hot News for C Yadier Molina
John Mabry moves up to replace Mark McGwire as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach for 2013. Blaise Ilsley has been promoted from Memphis to be the new bullpen coach.
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November 05, 2012
ST. LOUIS - The Cardinals have tabbed assistant hitting coach John Mabry as the replacement for hitting coach Mark McGwire, who left to take the same position with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The club has also promoted Triple-A Memphis pitching coach Blaise Ilsley to the bullpen coach position with the big league team. Ilsley, 48, spent five seasons with Memphis and replaces former...
A look back of the performances of the position players selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
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November 07, 2012
Twice a year the group known as the United Cardinal Bloggers gather virtually to discuss the topics that are on everyone’s minds.
The torch gets passed daily to the next person to ask a question while the group of bloggers all sound off with their opinions The November roundtables have come around and I-70′s turn has come to pass. This year, we wanted to play to the optimists...
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