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Sports Central September 3, 2009 Paul Foeller |
King of St. Louis: Man vs. Machine As long as he continues on the same pace he has for nine years, and avoids major injuries, it seems foolish to think that Albert Pujols won't one day supplant Stan Musial as "The Man." |
Sports Central October 16, 2009 Seth Doria |
Cards Have to Keep Holliday It's an image that won't soon leave the minds of St. Louis Cardinals fans. |
Sports Central February 22, 2011 Clinton Riddle |
We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert Albert Pujols is now in full shutdown mode when it comes to the deadline (now long gone) he imposed on Cards management to discuss a contract extension with him |
Sports Central June 6, 2011 Paul Foeller |
Eyes on the Prize Roughly a third of the way through the MLB season, there are five teams that stand out from the rest. |
Sports Central October 24, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Redbird Luck Runs Out The St. Louis Cardinals' two-year run of punching above their playoff weight ended on Tuesday night in anticlimactic, but pleasing fashion with a 9-0 loss to the Giants. |
Sports Central May 18, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Rise of a New Big Red Machine? Not So Fast After years of futility, not having won the Central since 1995, it's finally the Cincinnati Reds looking down on the rest of the pack. |
Sports Central September 7, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Sports Central March 7, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
The St. Louis Cards Are Not All Right The Cards have a great one-two with Pujols and Matt Holliday, and Carpenter is a true gamer, but only a fool would put money on St. Louis as the favorites for the NL Central, let alone with World Series. |
Sports Central September 6, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Cardinals, Reds Now Left to Look to 2012 We end this season right where we began -- what's Albert Pujols going to do? If he goes, the modern era of Cardinals relevance might just well go with him. |
Sports Central August 10, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
Why Cards Are More Deserving Than Cubs "Congratulations to the 2004 National League Central champions, the St. Louis Cardinals." This with almost two months remaining in the season ... and from a Cubs fan, no less? |
Sports Central March 6, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central May 23, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Age, Albert Pujols, and One Hell of a Gamble There's another topic that's gotten some debate of late: the deterioration of athletes that comes with age. No matter how great an athlete is, the end comes calling eventually. Always. To everybody. |
Sports Central April 18, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Revisiting Baseball's Offseason Moves Let's revisit some of the major moves from the offseason and see how they're working out. |
Sports Central September 20, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Goes the Lion, Comes the Lamb Back in December, David Eckstein signed a deal with the St. Louis Cardinals that closed the final loop in Major League Baseball's first three-way shortstop swap orchestrated entirely by the players. So how did this deal play out? |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Sports Central September 12, 2005 Eric Poole |
MLB's MVP Races Wide-Open In the National league, the MVP race is razor thin with just three players still in the running. But In the American League, there are more candidates. |
AskMen.com Troy St. Louis |
The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they? |
Sports Central July 4, 2012 Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |
Sports Central February 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Wait For a Pujols Deal ... But Make a Deal Albert Pujols ought to be giving Stan Musial batting tips. |
Sports Central February 16, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central July 14, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Diamonds in the Rough Who are the no-names shaping first-half pennant races? |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Central October 13, 2009 Paul Foeller |
MLB Division Series Report Cards The 2009 playoffs have been awful so far. But the stark differences in talent make grading the performances of each team that much easier. |
Sports Central March 16, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
Musical Chairs Here are some of the biggest offseason developments in MLB. |
Sports Central December 9, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mariners Show Cano What Yanks Wouldn't Robinson Cano is going to Seattle. If nothing else, Washington state's lack of an income tax makes his 10 years and $240 million an even nicer payday. |
Sports Central March 30, 2005 Adam Russell |
Top 10 Questions For Opening Day Despite the flurry of activity surrounding Major League Baseball's drug policy, the offseason had a number of events that raised an even larger number of questions heading into the first games. |
AskMen.com April 9, 2002 Matthew Ross |
A Preview Of The 2002 MLB Season Now that the baseball season is upon us, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at which teams are the ones to watch for this season... |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central October 24, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central November 1, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending. |
Sports Central January 26, 2011 Jess Coleman |
Vernon Wells? Really, Angels? The Angels should focus on winning back their seat atop the American League West. Vernon Wells was is not the answer. |
AskMen.com Chris Aung-Thwin |
Pujol's Contract When Albert Pujols turns 52 on January 16, 2032, the (by then probably massively overweight) slugger will have been earned up to $268,750,000. |
Sports Illustrated October 4, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
On second thought Rethinking early baseball picks with the benefit of hindsight... |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deep Blue: MLB at Midseason More than halfway into the baseball season, we've finally gotten to that phase where flashes in the pan have had time to fade, the true horses in baseball have had time to right themselves after stumbling out of the gate. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Kudos for Pujols Do you want to play an important role for a team locked in a tight playoff race? Then this a great time to be a rookie in the National League, where several first-year players have become central figures in their teams' postseason hopes... |
Sports Central May 16, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
Prince Albert: Best Hitter You'll Ever See? Now MLB has its own LeBron James in Albert Pujols, but they're not telling anyone. |
Sports Illustrated May 23, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Damaging workload Big increases in innings pitched wear out hurlers... |
Sports Central October 6, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Setting the Stage For October Rays and Brewers and Cubs will battle in October. Even the Twins have a shot to crash the party. But the Yankees, Tigers, Mets, and their nine-figure payrolls failed to make the guest list. |
Sports Central June 21, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central June 22, 2007 Matt Thomas |
Five Truths About the '07 MLB Season Things aren't what they seem in baseball -- until at least June 1. |
Sports Central August 23, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
NL MVP? It's No Contest If numbers alone dictated the National League's Most Valuable Player, there would be plenty of debate. But they don't, so there isn't. |
Sports Central March 10, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
Sports Central September 7, 2006 Alvin Chang |
Re-Draft, Playball in Five Years (Pt. 6) Here are the first 25 picks: 1. Yankees -- Albert Pujols... 2. Red Sox -- Felix Hernandez... etc. |
Sports Central June 23, 2011 Matt Thomas |
MLB Trade Deadline: The Buyers Like no other sport, baseball's annual midseason trade deadline is typically a frenzied, interest-worthy phenomenon. |
Sports Central September 27, 2005 Kevin Connelly |
And the Award Goes to... Here are the winners of the 2005 NL awards for MVP and Cy Young with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. |
Sports Central August 9, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central June 11, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Pujols Contract Could Cost Angels Trout The Angels, while enjoying the fruits of a Trout/Trumbo/Pujols dominated lineup now, have created a looming payroll quandary that could threaten the long-term competitiveness of the club. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Central April 24, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Prince Albert Smokes 500 Home Runs This week's set between the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Nationals was supposed to be about Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper. |
Sports Central October 4, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |