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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10.11.2009 2:03 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — A veteran of October games and October dismissals, pitcher John Smoltz said it takes seven to 10 days for the “body and mind … to realize you’re not getting up to play baseball that day.”
It will take a…

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10.04.2009 12:02 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Starting pitchers Kyle Lohse and John Smoltz — the St. Louis Cardinals’ two candidates to be the No. 4 starter for the team in the postseason — will be available out of the bullpen in Games 1…

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09.23.2009 3:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
HOUSTON — First baseman Albert Pujols, who left Monday’s game one plate appearance after jamming his left wrist while applying a tag near first base, is in the lineup today. Manager Tony La Russa called him “good to go” after…

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09.22.2009 6:09 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
HOUSTON — St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa announced the rotation for this weekend’s three-game series in Colorado, and encouraged by what he saw Monday here at Minute Maid Park he’s keeping righthander Kyle Lohse on regular rest.
La Russa…

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09.19.2009 1:51 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — The righthander’s impromptu bullpen Friday afternoon was enough of a tell that manager Tony La Russa dispensed with any clandestine chatter Saturday and announced Kyle Lohse as Monday’s starter in Houston. Lohse had been set to throw…

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09.18.2009 6:22 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Veteran John Smoltz enters tonight’s start against the Chicago Cubs without any lingering uncertainties about the present condition of his shoulder but with plenty of future considerations resting on it.
Smoltz will make his first start since skipping one…

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09.14.2009 4:46 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Kyle Lohse left his start Saturday frustrated by its brevity and feeling a lingering soreness that has brought some uncertainty to his next start. Lohse had been set to make a start this coming weekend against the Chicago…

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09.13.2009 1:56 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — John Smoltz believes the inflammation in his right shoulder has “calmed down” and the St. Louis Cardinals starter is planning to throw a side session Tuesday or Wednesday to prepare for his next start. He said Sunday…

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