Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | yesterday
You shoulda come to the first party—we didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days... View full size photo » There's no new news, which means it's time we go over some old news: the decision to sign Ryan Franklin to a multi-year extension stipulating that he was not allowed to record another out in 2009. That particular clause was the main problem with the...
Seamheads (Free subscription) | yesterday
The general managers get together starting today in Chicago. While this is a preview of the big “winter meetings” that will be held next month in Indianapolis, there’s not expected to be much of a ripple made in the offseason pond from this gathering. Joe Strauss sets the scene not only for these meetings, but for the whole offseason in his article today . The Cardinals are going...
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing marijuana charges after being pulled over for speeding in his home state of Washington last week. The 2008 National League Cy Young award winner is scheduled to appear in court in December. Lincecum is in contention to repeat as the N.L.'s Cy Young award winner after going 15-7 with a 2.48 ERA. He recently won Sporting News honours as the top pitcher...
McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've worked with some real freaks. I've trained a woman who, when the mouse reached the bottom of the mousepad, could not continue working until someone helped her figure out what to do. I worked with a person who ate peanuts constantly, chewed with her mouth open, and did it while asking you a question from six inches away. Just yesterday, my boss microwaved a hodgepodge of Halloween candy until it...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Just in time for the World Series, 12 members of the Major League Baseball Players Association ( MLBPA ) have added their names to the broad coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act . The players have signed a statement and are appearing in print ads in Washington, D.C., papers today. World Series contenders Shane Victorino and Jimmy Rollins of the Philadelphia Phillies and Mark Teixeira...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.
Seamheads (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The ripples from Monday’s press conference are still rolling around Cardinal Nation. Without Mark McGwire there to answer questions, the reverberations may continue for quite some time. The latest two questions in the UCB Roundtable dealt with McGwire. Bernie Mikalsz and Brian Burwell both write about the subject, with similar viewpoints. Everywhere you look, people are weighing in on the McGwire...
SportsProf (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It seems like many of the pundits are favoring the Yankees. There appear to be three main reasons for this: 1) the Yankees pitching is better than the Phillies from top to bottom; 2) the Yankees' hitting is formidable; and 3) the Yankees are very hot at home and have the home field advantage. All are good reasons. That said, the Phillies played well on the road this year and in Yankee Stadium. Their...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Above all else, this will be remembered as the week that Dayton Moore v. Insanity Wolf came into our lives, probably the single funniest blog post I've read all year. Meanwhile, earlier this week, there was an out-of-nowhere Greinke to the Brewers rumor, which I first heard about via Schaum on Twitter . For the Brewer response, click here . Enjoy the rest of the links, which are sundry and numerous....
FishStripes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The players get together and vote on the MLBPA Player Choice Awards and some of the Marlins are up for the various awards . National League: Outstanding Player: Prince Fielder (Milwaukee), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida) Outstanding Pitcher: Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Tim Lincecum (San Francisco), Adam Wainwright (St. Louis) Outstanding Rookie: Chris Coghlan (Florida), Tommy Hanson...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I think we, as a community of worriers, are relatively pat about the offense—if anything bad were to happen, be it Pujols missing a chunk of time; Rasmus continuing to be Ramos; or the Cardinals seriously going into the 2010 season with Skip Schumaker and Allen Craig dueling for the chance to be the team's fourth best hitter, it would come as a terrible shock. But the pitchers... well, they were...
The Cardinal Virtue (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
It's the end of the year roundtable for the UCB and Trey and I are both participating. You can check out the other questions here . Here's my quesiton and the replies it got: Most of the questions so far, due to the time of the year, have been front-office-esque--as they should be. Yet let's switch gears for a second and prognosticate. Do you believe next year's team will be better than this year's...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Continuing the trend of Purple Row staff handing imaginary hardware to those we feel are most deserving of it, today we reveal the winner of the Purple Row NL Cy Young Award. The main-stream media had a dilemma between Tim Lincecum of the Giants and the pair of Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals. Proponents of Wainwright (most wins with 19 and innings pitched with 233), Carpenter...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
by Gregory Smith - AP Will Ricky Nolasco be undervalued in 2010? View full size photo uploaded October 21, 2009 I know what you are asking-what the heck is FIP? According to The Hardball Times site, FIP is Fielding Independent Pitching, a measure of all those things for which a pitcher is specifically responsible. The formula is (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)*3-K*2)/IP, plus a league-specific factor (usually...
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