The St. Louis Cardinals, based in St. Louis, Mo., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the National League Central Division. The Cardinals were founded in 1892.
02/27/10 5:54 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — How's this for a successful offseason: the Cardinals accomplished both Plan A and part of Plan B. St. Louis signed free-agent infielder Felipe Lopez to a one-year deal on Saturday. He worked out with his new team, even taking live batting practice on his first day in uniform. [...]
02/26/10 10:33 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — The Cardinals are close to a deal with free-agent infielder Felipe Lopez, two sources confirmed on Friday night. St. Louis has maintained interest in the versatile, switch-hitting Lopez for much of the winter, but waited him out as the offseason ground on. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, [...]
02/25/10 8:17 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — If the Catch-A-Dream Foundation didn't already exist, Adam Wainwright likely would have created it. It's impossible to imagine a charitable organization that would be a better fit for the Cardinals' star right-hander. Wainwright loves hunting and fishing — needs to have them in his life, as a matter [...]
02/24/10 4:32 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Ryan Franklin has stared down some of the most dangerous hitters, pitched in the tightest of situations, appeared in crucial games and faced all of that at once several times over. But none of that can make his lower lip quiver like what happened Tuesday, when Franklin's 5-year-old [...]
02/24/10 12:00 AM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Cardinals players arriving at Spring Training this year found one big surprise amid all the familiar sights in the home clubhouse at their Roger Dean Stadium complex: the cereal was gone. So were the doughnuts and the sugary soft drinks. Instead, the breakfast spread now features ham and [...]
02/22/10 7:28 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Cardinals right-hander P.J. Walters kept baseball in the back of his mind while he sat with his wife and baby daughter at a hospital in Mobile, Ala., for the past two weeks. Now that he's reported to Spring Training in Florida, he'll be keeping his family very much [...]
02/21/10 5:46 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Albert Pujols arrived at Cardinals camp on Sunday excited about his elbow and irritated by contract talk. Speaking to reporters after his first workout this spring, Pujols said that there is now a very good chance he will never have to undergo Tommy John surgery on his persistently [...]
02/20/10 6:50 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Sitting at a picnic bench outside the Cardinals' clubhouse at Roger Dean Stadium on Saturday morning, Adam Wainwright recalled a story that friend, former teammate and mentor John Smoltz told him about Smoltz's days with the Braves. Smoltz had said that when he was part of Atlanta's famed [...]
02/19/10 6:33 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — Generously listed as a five-man race, the Cardinals' fifth-starter derby is more accurately viewed as consisting of three pitchers. And a particularly critical reading of comments from the various decision-makers reveals that it's probably down to two serious candidates — all nearly two weeks before St. Louis even [...]
02/18/10 8:12 PM EST JUPITER, Fla. — If Wednesday's news conference didn't put the issue of Mark McGwire and steroids to bed entirely, the Cardinals surely hope that Thursday's round of media inquiries did the trick. Manager Tony La Russa spoke to reporters for 45 minutes on Thursday morning, twice as long as his typical [...]