11.05.2009 6:03 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Outfielders Matt Holliday and Rick Ankiel and five other St. Louis Cardinals were among the 79 players who filed for baseball’s free agency on Thursday, the first day of the 15-day window for players to declare their…

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11.04.2009 11:08 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — With the 2009 World Series over, let the opening salvos of 2010 begin.
The day after the final game of the World Series is the annual opening of free agency for Major League Baseball and its eligible players.…

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10.10.2009 3:28 pm
Here’s what Dodgers’ manager Joe Torre had to say pregame about today’s Cardinals starter:
“Well, he’s been around awhile and he’s still a young man, but evidently Dunc’ got ahold of him and certainly gave him something right now to hold…

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08.20.2009 7:34 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SAN DIEGO — The Cardinals and San Diego Padres introduce the same pitching matchup tonight as in the Cardinals’ Aug. 15 7-4 win at Busch Stadium with Joel Pineiro (11-9, 3.45) facing off against Tim Stauffer (1-5, 3.50) in a…

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08.15.2009 2:50 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Julio Lugo slides into the shortstop position and the No. 8 spot in the order, but otherwise, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has done what he has rarely done — copied the previous days lineup…

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07.08.2009 6:23 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
MILWAUKEE - In a show of unity, the Cardinals rotation is brandishing moustaches. Save for some domestic objections, the idea seems to be translating well.
Wearing a moustache for the first time, Adam Wainwright came within two outs of his first…

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06.04.2009 6:59 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As the club readies to place Kyle Lohse on the disabled list with a right flexor tendon strain, Joel Pineiro completed a bullpen throw Thursday without incident and is projected for a Sunday start against the Colorado Rockies. Pineiro missed his regular…

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06.04.2009 12:10 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A frantic day of pitching-related moves has begun with the purchase of reliever Jess Todd’s contract from Triple-A Memphis. Todd, the organization’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year as a starter in 2008, will be in the Cardinals bullpen tonight in…

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05.31.2009 4:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SAN FRANCISCO - Kyle Lohse successfully completed a bullpen throw before Sunday afternoon’s game and, according to pitching coach Dave Duncan, now projects to start series finale against the Cincinnati Reds should he get medical clearance Monday.
Lohse has not pitched since being…

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05.27.2009 12:13 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
MILWAUKEE - If he didn’t have bad luck, Kyle Lohse would have no luck at all.
The Cardinals will likely announce today that they are scratching Lohse from Friday’s start against the San Francisco Giants due to forearm weakness stemming from a…

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