ST. LOUIS – The Cardinals activated outfielder Lars Nootbaar from the injured list on Friday, a move that should provide a jolt to a lineup that has proven to be top heavy in the last month. Nootbaar will make his season debut in the opener against the Reds, hitting leadoff

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ST. LOUIS -- They say never meet your heroes, but after sharing an elevator ride with a baseball legend on Tuesday night at Busch Stadium, I can’t say I agree. If you happened to see a portly kid with a head the size of a hot air balloon waddling around

Scoring against starters in the Cardinals system proved to be quite the challenge on Thursday night. From the 2024 Minor League Pitcher of the Year to a trio of 22-year-olds -- all of whom are ranked on the club's Top 30 Prospects list, the young pitchers struck out 31 while

Teams will have a little less time than expected to scout several of the top college players in the 2026 Draft. A rash of upsets in NCAA regional play last weekend eliminated seven of the 16 top national seeds, including No. 1 UCLA and No. 2 Georgia Tech. No Bruins

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Jimmy Crooks’ promotion to St. Louis was not just about finding more offense behind the plate. It was a window into how the Cardinals plan to handle their wave of young talent in 2026 – have them help the big league club when the timing is right, but not at

ST. LOUIS -- A popular sentiment in the early portion of the Cardinals’ season was to treat Jordan Walker’s fledgling star turn like a house of cards, due to tumble at any given moment. Sometimes, it felt as though even whispering about the brilliant things Walker was doing on a

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ST. LOUIS -- The 20th and final day of Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar’s rehab assignment came Wednesday, with the 28-year-old starting in left field for Triple-A Memphis in their day game against Louisville. The game marked the latter half of Nootbaar’s prescribed back-to-back games in which he was due to

Another month of the 2026 season is in the books, and as the weather has warmed up, so have the bats in the Minor Leagues. The 30 hitters below, our selection for hottest hitter in May for each organization, have been swinging the bat better than most. There are a

ST. LOUIS -- Sometimes, baseball players are so focused on the job that details pertaining to daily life can slip through the cracks. Former Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt once told reporters that he genuinely didn’t realize the previous month was ending when he was asked a question about the

ST. LOUIS -- Sequels are hardly ever as good as the original. For three innings, Michael McGreevy tried to buck that trend as he made his second career start against the Rangers, against whom he made a sensational debut in 2024. Unfortunately for McGreevy and the Cardinals, the sequel fell

ST. LOUIS -- Like many other managers, Oliver Marmol’s pregame fashion choices are rarely worth noticing. A rotation of team-issued athletic gear is typically the order of the day, which would’ve made Monday’s deviation easy to notice even if it hadn’t been plastered in photos of the smiling face that

It’s hard to exceed expectations as one of the top prospects in the sport, but JJ Wetherholt is doing more than living up to the hype. Through the first two months of his rookie campaign, he’s putting together one of the most complete rookie seasons by a second baseman in

ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals right-hander Hunter Dobbins found himself in some admittedly unfamiliar territory on Sunday night. For one, the rubber game of the weekend series against the Cubs marked his Busch Stadium debut. But beyond the newness of that experience, Dobbins took the mound in a role that he

With 11 players making each edition of the Prospect Team of the Week, it's no surprise to get multiple players from the same organization in a given week. But two pitchers from the same organization? On the same team? Pitching on back-to-back days? Now that's a rarity. Mariners top pitching

Ambidextrous prospect Jurrangelo Cijntje has spent most of this season pitching right-handed for Double-A Springfield. But batters still need to be prepared to see the lefty version, too. Wichita’s Garrett Spain was reminded of that on Saturday. Cijntje (St. Louis’ No. 4 prospect / MLB's No. 86 overall) faced Spain

We're two months into the season, giving us a large enough sample to gauge where teams and individual players are at. While many players are off to hot starts in 2026, some teams are still looking for specific players to get going and help push their respective clubs to the

ST. LOUIS -- The most shocking celebration performed by Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong against the Cardinals this weekend at Busch Stadium wasn’t one that happened on second base following either of his doubles to this point in the series.

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ST. LOUIS -- When asked what Nelson Velázquez would bring to the Cardinals’ roster following his promotion to the big leagues on Friday afternoon, manager Oliver Marmol offered a straightforward, one-word answer. “Thump,” Marmol said with a grin.