Cardinals Minor League Report: 03/16/2017
Like every season, the Cardinals are supplying minor league stats to website. Here are today’s inter-squad games. Memphis defeats Springfield, 3-2
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Assessing the Options for a Reyes Replacement
With the announcement that Cardinals’ top prospect Alex Reyes will miss the season due to a torn UCL ligament, the Cardinals are down a guy in the rotation. What are their options? There are some internal options. Michael Wacha is…
Projecting Mike Leake, Lance Lynn, and Carlos Martinez
Mike Leake and Carlos Martinez were polar opposites in the rotation in 2016. Leake was expected to do great things because he was the big free agent signing of the team; unfortunately, he didn’t have a defense behind him and…
The Total Cost of the Correa Hack
Yesterday, Major League Baseball announced that the Cardinals would have to forfeit their first 2 draft picks (56 and 75 overall) and $2M to the Astros for Chris Correa hacking their system. The penalty comes after months of investigation and…
Yadier Molina’s Hall of Fame Case
With Ivan Rodriguez making it into the Hall of Fame this week, it got me wondering about Yadier Molina. While Molina doesn’t have the offensive resume that Pudge had, he did take over the mantle of the best defensive catcher…
Projecting Randal Grichuk and Kolten Wong
After working out the numbers for Dexter Fowler earlier in the week, I’ve moved on to 2 youngers players for the Cardinals – outfielder Randal Grichuk and second baseman Kolten Wong. Both players are seen as keys to the future…
Projecting Dexter Fowler
There were 2 distinct groups of Cardinal fans early in the off-season: those that wanted Dexter Fowler and those that didn’t. After the trade market blew up and Fowler signed, most of both groups were happy; he was the catalyst…
Catching Up on the Cardinals Off-Season
The Cardinals have been pretty big players in the market this winter – both in setting the market and in responding to it. The key moves have been signing free agents Brett Cecil and Dexter Fowler along with trading away…
Questions and Answered from John Mozeliak
Every off-season, Cardinal GM takes a little time out of his busy schedule to answer questions from Cardinal Bloggers. We were able to get a few questions to him for it. Now that we are 2 seasons past the death…
The Nyrdcast Interviews Episode 12: Robby Rowland
This week, Jay talks with Cardinal minor league pitcher Robby Rowland about pitching over seas, pretty much losing a season to injury, his career path, and having a Major League father. You can follow Robby on Twitter and Instagram. Unofficial…