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Every season brings unexpected breakouts. We don’t mean rookies such as Paul Skenes or Colton Cowser -- can’t-miss prospects who, when they made it to the Majors, did not, in fact, miss. We’re talking about players who were either flying under the radar before reaching the big leagues or who

DALLAS -- An organization that has famously banked on the notion that Major League Baseball is not the proper level for the development of raw, unproven players -- sometimes to their own detriment -- the Cardinals know that there will likely need to be some massaging of expectations for a

DALLAS – Arms were on the menu during Wednesday afternoon’s Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings. A total of 15 players were taken in the Major League phase of this year’s Rule 5 and 11 of them were pitchers. It started when the White Sox took right-hander Shane Smith

DALLAS -- The Cardinals’ “reset” for the 2025 season, which is expected to center around a young core and Minor League player development, got a much-needed boost Tuesday with an odds-defying pick coming out of the MLB Draft Lottery. Saddled with the 13th-best odds for the top spot in the

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

This page will be updated throughout the offseason, with all the latest Cardinals signings, news and transactions.

The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

DALLAS -- Successful rebuilds, ones that positively alter the direction of a franchise and offer hope of better tomorrows, often can’t involve half-measures -- and will likely come with requisite growing pains along the way. Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak stressed that from his Dallas hotel suite on

There is nothing else in baseball quite like the Rule 5 Draft, traditionally the final number of the annual Winter Meetings. Every year, Rule 5 sounds the closing bell on the Winter Meetings by providing big league opportunities for a few players who may not have gotten them so immediately

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DALLAS -- The Rule 5 Draft has been the unofficial final act of the annual Winter Meetings. This year’s edition will take place on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET to close things out, and as always, there will be players who will get the chance to make Opening Day rosters

Major League Baseball’s Draft Lottery will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET. It’s time to get to know who the 16 teams eligible for the lottery are hoping to get a chance to select. MLB Pipeline’s new 2025 Top 100 Draft Prospects

DALLAS -- Willie Mays’ legacy was celebrated heavily in 2024, and in 2025, Major League Baseball will continue to honor his life by focusing on the very field where he started his baseball journey. Since 2012, MLB has held a charity auction at the Winter Meetings that raises funds for

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Continuing to bolster a player development system that will be the organization’s focus in 2025 and what they hope will be their lifeblood for years to come, the Cardinals announced the hirings of several key figures to their Minor League staff on Wednesday. Larry Day, who worked previously for the

A year ago, we provided one Rookie of the Year candidate for every team. How’d we do? We nailed the NL top rookie (Paul Skenes) and also picked out two others who received votes (Jackson Chourio and Mason Miller). That’s a good enough success rate to try the whole exercise

While a solid percentage of picks in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft get at least some big league time the season following their selection, it’s not so easy to stick around for an entire year.

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Now that the Arizona Fall League has crowned a new champion and MLB's awards season is winding down, the baseball world in the United States is preparing to turn its attention to the Hot Stove. But that doesn't mean baseball isn't being played. There are plenty of exciting and talented

As expected, the Cardinals tendered contracts to reliever Ryan Helsley, Gold Glove defensive ace Brendan Donovan, outfielder Lars Nootbaar and pitchers JoJo Romero, Andre Pallante and John King on Friday, meaning they will be eligible for salary arbitration in the coming months. The Cardinals non-tendered right-hander pitcher Adam Kloffenstein, reducing

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