JUPITER, Fla. — They’re calling it a campaign that focuses on a few “rising stars”, and representatives from Rawlings have made several surgical strikes into the Grapefruit League to film the four players selected to appear in docu-commercials. This morning, they visited Camp Cardinals.

Catcher Yadier Molina is one of the four. Have Gold Glove, will shine.

“His reaction upon receiving his first Gold Glove was really something that stood out,” said Lindsey Naber, a brand manager with…

TOWER GROVE — While watching the Yankees gain on the Red Sox and restore karmic balance to the AL East, I was struck by New York’s trio of rookie pitchers. Not that they sprang from the minors to stabilize a rickety rotation. No. The thought I couldn’t shake about the young guns was this:

They could have been Cardinals.

This is not some what-if, some speculative reporting tethered to rumors and guesses. This isn’t revisionist writing  or…

JUPITER, Fla. — The jousting for position in the starting rotation may get all the ink and dominate all the chatter coming out of spring training, but it’s far from the most competitive position at camp. In the starting rotation, jobs are open.

In the outfield, jobs are at stake.

Consider the situation John  Rodriguez and Skip Schumaker, among others, are in: Not only are they competing with each other for a spot on the big-league 25-man…