STL Baseball Today

The Oakland Athletics announced on Monday that they have hired Cardinals Director of Scouting Dan Kantrovitz to serve as the team’s Assistant General Manager behind GM Billy Beane.

The question arose just as soon as the Cardinals made the blockbuster trade with the Atlanta Braves, acquiring star outfielder Jason Heyward: Would manager Mike Matheny give up number 22 so that Heyward could continue to use it? Or would Heyward have to switch numbers?

On Friday, which would have been the great Stan Musial’s 94th birthday, the Cardinals honored “The Man” which a new exhibit at the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum at Ballpark Village.

The family of late Cardinal outfielder Oscar Taveras has taken over his Twitter account to thank Cardinals fans and post personal thanks to fans for every token of appreciation left outside Busch Stadium following Taveras’ death.

On Thursday night the St. Louis Cardinals announced on Twitter that they have traded right-handed pitcher Sam Gaviglio to the Mariners for infielder/outfielder Ty Kelly.

Left-handed pitcher Ray Sadecki, who won 20 games for the Cardinals during their 1964 championship season, passed away on Monday from complications of blood cancer at the age of 73.

Here’s a look at some interesting articles on some popular topics regarding the Cardinals: Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discusses how the Cardinals chose to keep Carlos Martinez over Shelby Miller during the recent trade with the Braves. Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch has an outstanding article inRead More

Here’s a look at two different reactions from Cardinals players on the recent trade between the Cardinals and Braves that brought outfielder Jason Heyward to St. Louis: