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Brewers manager Ned Yost wasn't ready to announce
today that he would be removing Eric Gagne from
the role of closer. "I don't sit here and make decisions five minutes after a tough loss," Yost said after watching Gagne saddle the Brewers ...
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After blowing his major league leading fifth save
on Friday night in a 4-3 loss to the
Milwaukee Brewers, the Cardinals' embattled reliever Jason Isringhausen will no longer close games, manager Tony La Russa said Saturday.
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Jason Isringhausen Gets What He Asked for
Posted 13 hours ago at FanHouse
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First and foremost, welcome to the new site.
This is the first post for the new dig,
and although the layout has changed, you’ll still find a very opinionated writer in control of the keyboard, after all, I’m Mike, and this is Mike on the ...
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Clo
posted 5 days ago from
blog.baseballdigestdaily.com
It seems to come down to respect, but
do you think they have a place in modern
baseball?
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DENVER -- While the Cardinals were staging a
dramatic victory over the Rockies on Monday night, Mark
Mulder toiled against the Rockies' Triple-A team, pitching for the Memphis Redbirds in a loss that may have set his rehabilitation back a bit. In his ...
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DENVER — Cardinals lefty Mark Mulder is on
his way to St. Louis — not to throw
a bullpen or workout at the facilities at Busch Stadium, but to meet with the team’s doctor about his twice surgically repaired left shoulder. Manager ...
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TheGrandHatching
posted 10 days ago from
www.firejoemorgan.com
"Maybe you've heard -- Buzz Bissinger is in
the bloggy sports news ether today. Several people sent
us Buzz's piece on Kerry Wood in the New York Times magazine Play from about a year ago. I read the article from start to finish. It's artfully written, evocative, unPlaschkely poetic -- and deliberately, wrongheadedly misleading. Buzz Bissinger, such a gifted wordsmith and storyteller, weaves a..."
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ST. LOUIS (AP)— Anthony Reyes was demoted to
the minor leagues by the St. Louis Cardinals on
Sunday after sputtering in a relief role with a 5.27 ERA. The 26-year-old Reyes, once considered the team’s top pitching prospect, will be a starter for ...
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SOUTH GRAND — It was way late at
night or way too early in the morning —
depending on your disposition — and this was supposed to be a mixer, a posh see-me-see-you party in Miami. But that didn’t stop Rick Ankiel from talking ...
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TOWER GROVE — What with two dugout-clearing donnybrooks
this weekend and the ever-agitating Chicago Cubs coming to
town this weekend with first place possibly up for grabs, this little island of three games against Cincinnati seemed so quaint, ...
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Friar John's blog points to a USA Today
story about La Russa's strategy to bat the pitcher
8th instead of 9th . It's open for debate. I get the feeling that most people will call La Russa a crazy old man, but is there something to the strategy? ...
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DOWNTOWN — Taped on the door into manager
Tony La Russa’s office is an advertisement ripped from
a magazine and featuring Chris Carpenter delivering a pitch. La Russa had the same 8 1/2-by-11-inch picture stuck on his door down in spring ...
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Rover
found this 23 days ago on
www.baseballthinkfactory.org
Imagine the confusion of San Francisco Giants manager
Bruce Bochy, awakened in his hotel room by a
Midwestern earthquake early Friday. “I had to think whether I was in San Francisco or on the road,” Bochy said before the Giants opened a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. “I don’t know if you ever would have thought we’d leave San Francisco and have an earthquake.” A 5.2 ...
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TOWER GROVE — While we check around the
house to see if anything has been shaken loose,
shaken up or shaken down, here are some riffs from the ballpark: *** When David Eckstein became a Cardinal, the team discussed with him a way to ...
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While Cardinals starter Braden Looper was wobbling here
Sunday, prospective Cardinals starter Mark Mulder seemed to be
thriving in Springfield. Mulder, making his second start on a medical rehabilitation program as he continues his recovery from ...
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MILWAUKEE -- The Cardinals originally thought lefthanded starter
Mark Mulder would return to the active roster after
three rehab starts. That timetable apparently is no longer in force. General manager John Mozeliak said it is possible Mulder will ...
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SOUTH GRAND – Starting with a possible trade
partner that probably doesn’t have what the Cardinals are
looking for and ending with a question about the chances of a fan-favorite outfielder trying on an infielder’s glove, this ...
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DOWNTOWN — Turns out, there may be more
than meets the eye about new Cardinals third baseman
Troy Glaus’ apparent trouble hitting at Busch Stadium. Glaus left Friday night’s game after his second strikeout of the evening, a ...
Gagne admits he doesn't deserve closer's role