The United Cardinal Bloggers are back, and this time, we’re looking at the system’s top prospects.  Each of the participating blogs are weighing in on what they believe to be the seven highest ranking youngsters.  Here’s my take:
1.  Colby Rasmus
I’d be surprised to see Rasmus anywhere but the top spot on these lists.  Despite having a rough season for AAA Memphis, he was still ranked among the top prospects in baseball at midseason by Baseball America.  He’s considered a five-tool player at a premium position, and we Cardinal fans haven’t anticipated a rookie’s arrival like this in a while.
Rasmus has [...]

As most of you regular readers know, I live in Miami, Florida, and since moving here from St. Louis, I’ve been reduced to watching Cardinal baseball via the Extra Innings package from Comcast, my local shitbox cable provider.  At any rate, the games I get to watch in high definition are very few and far between.  Other than the rare Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, my only hope is when the Cards face the Marlins.  I didn’t have to worry about the broadcast last month when the Birds were down here in Florida because I was at all the games, [...]

The Cardinals have exceeded our expectations all summer.  They gave us hopes of October baseball again, and as we all know from 2006, anything can happen in the playoffs.  Lately, however, the Cards stink, and it’s been no fun watching them fall out of the race.  Wait.  Are they out of the race?
Coming off an abysmal 1-5 road trip, and winning only 3 of their last 10 games, it seems obvious that the Cardinals are not a playoff caliber baseball team.  On the other hand, the teams ahead of St. Louis are also playing poorly as of late.  The division [...]

Last night, the St. Louis Cardinals finally figured out that earning a win takes all aspects of the game.  They finally were firing on all cylinders. They had outstanding starting pitching from Adam Wainwright, the offense surged with three home runs to give the Redbirds another early lead, and the bullpen allowed only one run in 3.2 innings to preserve the win.  The Cards won big, 8-2.
Today’s game got off to a similar start.  The offense got it started, courtesy of Troy Glaus’ 300th career home run, giving the Cards the lead in the third.  Kyle Lohse threw a superb [...]

After getting swept by the Astros in Houston, the Cardinals headed into Arizona hoping to get back on track. Instead, they squandered another early lead, and are pushing themselves out of the playoff hunt altogether.
Unlike the final game in Houston, the Cards brought their bats today, putting up five runs in the first two innings courtesy of home runs from Yadier Molina, Joe Mather, Albert Pujols, and Felipe Lopez.  They’d manage to put up only one more through the remaining seven innings, which wasn’t enough.
Anytime you score six runs and lose, you can’t fault the offense.  Cardinal starter Joel Pineiro gave [...]