JUPITER, Fla. — The St. Louis Cardinals optioned reliever Chris Perez on Monday to Class AAA Memphis, where he will be the closer. The move leaves the Cardinals with seven relievers on the active roster — the seven relievers that…

JUPITER, Fla. — It has been nearly two weeks since Chris Carpenter set the high-water mark for St. Louis Cardinals’ starting pitchers by throwing six innings in an expedient victory against the Baltimore Orioles on March 18. He was the…

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Fueled in part by a double from Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals pieced together a rally in the ninth inning to tie and then surpass Boston only to fail to add on and falter with…

JUPITER, Fla. — Chris Perez threw about 25 pitches in a bullpen session this morning and said his shoulder is pain-free and game-ready. Now if only the St. Louis Cardinals’ reliever could get in a game.

“It was 100 percent,” Perez…

JUPITER, Fla. — St. Louis Cardinals reliever — and candidate for closer — Chris Perez played a light game of catch this morning at the Roger Dean Stadium’s complex. He felt some twinges in his ailing shoulder but nothing alarming,…

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — For those pitchers not sporting an overpowering fastball, one of the fundamental tenets of Pitching According to Dave Duncan is having a pitch that can be thrown for a strike low in the zone and has…

JUPITER, Fla. – The Cardinals eight-week race for the ninth inning will be run without Chris Perez for the next several days after Perez required an arthrogram earlier this week to determine the source of persistent shoulder discomfort.

The club held…

LAKELAND, Fla. — As ballclubs like the Los Angeles Dodgers and the two Ohio clubs flee Florida for the arid desert and shorter drives of the Cactus League, the St. Louis Cardinals will probably find themselves making more and more…

JUPITER, Fla. — The ripple effects of the St. Louis Cardinals’ decision to go off campus to find a second lefty reliever for the roster started to become clearer Friday as officials discussed the changing dynamics of the bullpen.

The Cardinals…

JUPITER, Fla. — The St. Louis Cardinals are closer to their first off day of spring than they are their first game of spring, and yet three pitchers — including two hybrid relievers/starters types — will make their Grapefruit League…