Derrick Goold's Bird Land began in 2005 and continues as of the first newspaper-affiliated baseball blogs, offering exclusive reports from spring training through the regular season and into the winter. It's a place for riffs on news, notes, anecdotes, stats, stories and anything else about the St. Louis Cardinals and Major League Baseball. Pitchers and catchers report one day in February. Bird Land reports the rest.

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