St Louis Cardinals baseball team

01/29/10 7:45 PM EST ST. LOUIS — From late November 2008 to late July 2009, Matt Holliday changed addresses twice. He found himself a member of three teams in less than a year. So given the chance this winter, Holliday took steps to ensure he wouldn't be moving anywhere for a very long time. Holliday [...]

01/28/10 6:07 PM EST Welcome to the latest Cardinals Inbox. As always, if you have a question, use the link below to submit it — and please be sure to include your first name, last initial and hometown. If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the word [...]

01/27/10 6:40 PM EST ST. LOUIS — A strategy that has worked well for the Cardinals in recent years may be in play for them once again in 2010. In each of the past two seasons, St. Louis has made an acquisition after the start of Spring Training. Denny Reyes joined the Redbirds in 2009, [...]

01/26/10 6:30 PM EST ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals made an intriguing but also telling move on Tuesday when they announced the signing of left-hander Rich Hill to a Minor League contract with a non-roster invitation to Spring Training. Hill will compete for the vacant fifth spot in the St. Louis starting rotation, along with [...]

01/25/10 6:00 PM EST ST. LOUIS — In a three-game sweep of the Cardinals last October, the Dodgers all but shut down Matt Holliday. They kept Albert Pujols from having any significant impact on the National League Division Series. But they didn't keep Colby Rasmus quiet. Rasmus was the Cardinals' best player in the disappointingly [...]

01/24/10 12:00 AM EST HOUSTON — The relationship between a hitting coach and a player is one of the most important and complicated in baseball. Trust and respect are as vital as they are in a marriage, and without them, the partnership is likely destined for failure. Hours are spent together inside batting cages hidden [...]

01/22/10 6:46 PM EST Welcome to the latest Cardinals Inbox. As always, if you have a question, use the link below to submit it — and please be sure to include your first name, last initial and hometown. If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the word [...]

01/21/10 5:42 PM EST ST. LOUIS — It seems that it was only a matter of time before Brad Penny became a Cardinal. An Oklahoma native, Penny had long had one eye on the possibility of pitching in St. Louis. And it's fair to say that plenty of eyes within the Cardinals organization had been [...]

01/20/10 6:45 PM EST ST. LOUIS — Kyle McClellan chooses not to lobby for himself as a candidate for the Cardinals' open fifth-starter position. But he's doing everything else to try to put himself in position to win the job. McClellan, whose four-pitch arsenal has long led to speculation he might return to starting one [...]

01/18/10 7:03 PM EST ST. LOUIS — When Albert Pujols talks about his contract status, it's a bit like a Rorschach test. You can hear what you want to hear. Speaking at the annual Cardinals Care Winter Warm-Up, Pujols answered a number of questions about when, whether and how his next deal with the Cardinals [...]