Adam Wainwright News

Let's get to a discussion of the NL Gold Glove voting from a St. Louis perspective: * Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina deserved to win the NL Gold Glove for the second consecutive season.A A And this should be Molina's 4th in a row, but at least the NL managers and coaches who do the GG voting have finally caught on to Yadi's brilliance.

As few mistakes as Adam Wainwright made on the mound in 2009, he made even fewer in the field.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak conceded Tuesday that the club continues to ponder how and when to re-introduce Mark McGwire, hitting coach, to the team's fan base and expectant local and national media.

The 2009 Major League Baseball awards, in a perfect world: AL and NL MVP and Best Player: The real award and the mythical one should both go, in unanimous fashion, to Albert Pujols and Joe Mauer.

Major League Baseball doesn't need a mythical national champion. It can generate enough arguments on its own.

Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

When it came to the pitchers who had been among the most consistent, most steady and, at times, most dominant in the National League for the past two season, St.

This ballot is for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance , a group of baseball bloggers who are pooling votes together to give out our own post-season award.

Chris Carpenter, left, and Adam Wainwright combined for 36 wins, 425 innings and a 2.46 ERA this season, helping the Cardinals to the NL Central title.

Albert Pujols , Joe Mauer and Zack Greinke should be shoo-ins for the NL MVP, AL MVP and AL Cy Young awards, respectively.

So are Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright , two of the league's top three starting pitchers.

Baseball players, by necessity, must have short memories. There are simply too many games to dwell on one game, no matter how it ends.

Dodgers vs. Phillies Starting pitching Many observers considered it an upset when the Dodgers had the pitching to hold off a Cardinals staff led by Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright.

No series surprised me more in the first round than the Los Angeles Dodgers' dismantling of the St.

The best-of-five division series format favors teams with dominant starting pitching.

Rockies helped Dodgers regain momentum LA was playing as poorly as the Cardinals as regular season wound down, but meaningful games in final weekend helped snap funk.

THE WATERCOOLER: Tony La Russa said he has a "formula" and will take time measuring his desire to manage along with his effectiveness with the Cardinals.

I'm a shade unclear as to the specific voting rules for Major League Baseball's regular season awards.

The Cardinals and Dodgers have combined for 35 National League pennants and 16 World Series championships.

Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday, October 11, 2009 - Added 6h ago S T. LOUIS - OK, what was that? Where did the Cardinals go? I don't think I've ever seen a quality team fade and disappear as quickly and quietly as the 2009 Cardinals, who utterly reeked in getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS.