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A decade of Cardinals Gold Glove and Silver Slugger excellence
With 21 Gold Glove Awards over the last ten years, the St. Louis Cardinals almost doubled the next closest team and added another 13 Sliver Slugger Awards. On Wednesday, the St. Louis Cardinals...
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Cardinals offensive explosion continues
During Friday night’s St. Louis Cardinals game, another lop-sided victory over the Dodgers in Los Angeles, researcher Tom Orf was pounding out the factoids, or should I say the tweets. There was a lot...
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Pujols, Cardinals grounding into double plays at record pace
Could the influence of St. Louis Cardinals pitching guru Dave Duncan be getting out of control to the point the club’s offense has adopted his ground ball out strategy as well? One might suggest the...
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Molina’s fast start deserves attention
With all the success of Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman and the struggles of Albert Pujols getting most of the writers’ ink, one of the least-recognized contributors to the St. Louis Cardinals’...
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Cardinals-Reds match-up means Fourth of July fireworks ahead
I know there is still one game remaining for the St. Louis Cardinals in Tampa but as I looked at the pitching match-ups for the upcoming Cincinnati Reds series, I could not get past Monday’s...
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Torre calls Molina act disrespectful
In an interview in Sunday’s New York Times, Major League Baseball vice president Joe Torre came down hard on current on-field behavior across the game. In doing so, he sees players more at fault than...
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Molina joins top four doubles-hitting Cardinals catchers of all time
As I begin to think about our annual awards for the top players across the St. Louis Cardinals system this year, the question of the major league club’s MVP is front and center. Is it the perennial...
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The Cardinal Nation Blog 2011 top story #18: Molina’s best season?
Here’s one that may have crept up on you. With the departure of Albert Pujols, catcher Yadier Molina has become the longest-tenured position player on the St. Louis Cardinals roster. Having joined the...
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Projected top five St. Louis Cardinals stories of 2012
Note to readers: I wrote this post prior to year-end, obviously long before Thursday evening’s news that Dave Duncan is taking an indefinite leave of absence as Cardinals pitching coach. Rather than...
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Yadier Molina and Walker Cooper
With some St. Louis Cardinals fans still steaming over the circumstances surrounding the painful departure of Albert Pujols, the focus of their concern has moved to next year’s major impending free...
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How much should the Cardinals offer Yadier Molina?
In yesterday’s post, we looked at some of the factors surrounding the upcoming free agency of St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina. In a poll at the conclusion of the article, I gave readers...
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Where’s Molina? Playing softball with Pujols
As many St. Louis Cardinals fans know, Yadier Molina skipped the team’s Winter Warm-Up fan festival last weekend. After a discussion between club general manager John Mozeliak and the catcher’s agent,...
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Finalizing the fans’ contract offer to Yadier Molina
Last week, we ran a poll to consider the wide variety of salary options the St. Louis Cardinals might have in offering an extension to catcher Yadier Molina, who is on the path toward becoming a free...
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Defending Yadier Molina
As 2011 became 2012, I predicted that catcher Yadier Molina’s contract situation will be the second-biggest story of the New Year for the St. Louis Cardinals, behind Adam Wainwright’s comeback from...
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Time to stand down on Molina’s contract
Reporting and digesting the news is generally a good and necessary endeavor. Yet in some cases, blow-by-blow reports and reactions to it can become too much. Such is the case with catcher Yadier Molina...
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Molina’s contract extension – How do you feel?
According to a Wednesday morning report from CBS Sports Jon Heyman in Jupiter, Florida, catcher Yadier Molina and the St. Louis Cardinals have agreed to terms on a five-year, $75 million contract...
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The Molina contract: What the writers are saying
Perhaps because it was expected long before it was official, but in a web search conducted the morning after the announcement of the St. Louis Cardinals’ five-year, $75 million contract extension with...
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Molina chasing Simmons for best HR season by a Cardinals catcher
In what was arguably the play of the game in one of the wildest St. Louis Cardinals contests in recent years, catcher Yadier Molina launched a two-run home run in the ninth inning in Miami on Monday...
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St. Louis Cardinals “catcher’s ERAs”
Yesterday, we compared Jason Motte’s 2012 results as the closer of the St. Louis Cardinals to other ninth-inning men across Major League Baseball. Reader Nutlaw took my point about Motte’s...
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Cardinals may soon have first-ever five 20-home run hitters
With each home run, St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina extends his second consecutive career-best season. The 29-year-old cranked number 19 on Friday night in Los Angeles. In doing so, Molina...
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