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TOWER GROVE — While a lot of attention was paid to the pitchers a few of the National League Cy Young Award voters did and didn’t vote for, lost in that hubbub was how much money one pitcher made because of one single vote.
By receiving a solitary second-place vote, Atlanta Braves ...
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Cy Young
St. Louis Cardinals
Adam Wainwright
Chris Carpenter
TOWER GROVE — There are many things that St. Louis Cardinals recent third baseman Mark DeRosa brings to the table, not the least of which is his classification as a free agent.
He’s a Type B and loving it.
Each fall, on the eve of free agency, the Elias Sports Bureau releases a ...
MLB
Mark DeRosa
Philadelphia Phillies
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
New York Yankees
TOWER GROVE — With the teeth-gnashing about the Cy Young Award still in full grind around these parts, baseball’s free agency opened at 11 p.m. St. Louis time Thursday, and Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday could officially entertain offers from all 30 teams.
No more footsie. ...
MLB
Matt Holliday
St. Louis Cardinals
Jason Bay
Los Angeles Angels
Scott Boras
San Francisco Giants
TOWER GROVE — The numerical bounty (especially when it comes to types of pitches) available at Fan Graphs has made that Web site increasingly valuable when it comes to using and exploring some of the — what’s the phrase we learned yesterday? — nouveau riche ’s ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Jaime Garcia
P.J. Walters
stltoday.com - 2 days ago
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TOWER GROVE — Come Friday morning, Bryan Burwell
& Company will have to find something different to
ask me about and a new way to introduce me on radio shows, if they have me on at all. As of this afternoon, I no longer hold a secret ballot ...
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How I Voted for the 2009 Cy Young Award
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TOWER GROVE — It seems that St. Louis Cardinals’ first-round pick and shortstop prospect Pete Kozma is often judged for the player he isn’t and never will be as opposed to the player he is or could be.
Kozma is not Rick Porcello . No news there.
Yet, that fact seems to ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
P.J. Walters
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Asked within the past couple days if he expected the St. Louis Cardinals to make a move on his client, outfielder Matt Holliday , before the window for exclusive negotiations slides shut this week, agent Scott Boras stated the obvious: “Uh, no.”
The ...
MLB
Matt Holliday
St. Louis Cardinals
Scott Boras
Los Angeles Angels
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — The St. Louis Cardinals’ free agent most often linked to the New York Mets this offseason as a buoy for that franchise’s floundering has been the Cardinals’ free agent most often linked to any team with pinstripes and/or a pocketbook: Matt ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Mets
Joel Pineiro
Matt Holliday
stltoday.com - 5 days ago
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Back in 2005 and 2006,
Matt Holliday , then an outfielder for the Colorado
Rockies, began experimenting with a leg kick — a high, pronounced, flamingo-like kick of his leg that he could use as a timing mechanism for ...
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Kick Back: McGwire-Holliday Hitting Tale Warped for Spin
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Not even the prom was enough to keep Robert Stock out of college.
Three years before his preference to play catcher helped make him a draft pick for the St. Louis Cardinals, Stock’s preference to get his baseball career started led to a pretty good line for a ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
stltoday.com - 8 days ago
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TOWER GROVE — Earlier this week, MLBTradeRumors.com —
a site that has become an essential clearinghouse and
one-stop shop of reports and rumors and, yes, even tweets this time of year — handicapped the 2010 Free Agents by ranking ...
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DG’s 10@10: Alternate Options for Cardinals’ Big Vacancy
TOWER GROVE — The St. Louis Cardinals admittedly don’t have the level of prospects out in the Arizona Fall League that they’ve had in the past. There is no Brett Wallace out there this season, for example. There are a few players auditioning for a spot on the 40-man roster ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Diamondbacks
Luis Castillo
Mike Parisi
TOWER GROVE — The Topps 2009 Update packs are now out in stores*, and card No. UH263 features Matt Holliday reaching up to catch a fly ball, all decked out in his St. Louis Cardinals home whites. With this being the first week of baseball’s blockbuster equivalent of a big card swap ...
MLB
Matt Holliday
Carlos Beltran
Scott Boras
St. Louis Cardinals
Mark Teixeira
TOWER GROVE — After a brief hiatus to artificially inflate the click totals on the previous poll — or so that I could play father for a few days, whichever — the Bird Land Community Top 21 returns today and will continue each weekday until it’s finished. There are seven ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
CREVE COEUR — They are at very different stages in their careers, at very different positions and they were talking about two very different subjects, but St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter and minor-league outfielder Tyler Henley hit on the same theme during interviews I had with ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Chris Carpenter
TOWER GROVE — Of all the statistical bubblegum that is packed into Bill James’ annual Handbooks, among the best to chew over and stretch to the point of popping is the predictions for the coming season.
ACTA Sports recently emailed me the 2010 predictions for several members of ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Matt Holliday
Bill James
Albert Pujols
Ryan Ludwick
Colby Rasmus
TOWER GROVE — As many as seven of the St. Louis Cardinals better prospects must be added to the 40-man roster in the near future or the team will risk losing them through the Rule 5 draft in December. The process of clearing space on the 40-man roster has already begun.
Jarrett ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Diamondbacks
TOWER GROVE — Some members of the St. Louis Cardinals brass, including VP/farm director Jeff Luhnow and assistant general manager John Abbamondi , traveled west this week to see the Arizona Fall League and the prospects there in person. They were greeted with a marquee start — ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Diamondbacks
DOWNTOWN — One of the best bats in the St. Louis Cardinals system and one of the most reliable arms at their minor-league affiliates won the team’s organization awards for 2009. Outfielder/third baseman Allen Craig , who led Class AAA Memphis to a Pacific Coast League championship ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
TOWER GROVE — The St. Louis Cardinals pickoff combination of catcher Yadier Molina and first baseman Albert Pujols continued its monopoly of one of baseball’s fast-rising awards for defensive play. The Fielding Bible is in its fourth year of handing out awards for the best defensive ...
