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Okay, let's live outside the box and in the realm of great possibility. Josh Johnson is an emerging ace.

Dewayne Wise currently stands as a man without a team, electing to become a free agent as opposed to accepting an outright assignment to Triple-A Charlotte.

Will it be landslide for Pujols as MVP? Cards slugger is expected to run away in voting, win award today for 3rd time.

The National League Cy Young winner will be announced later today. Cardinals aces Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainright are in the running to win the National League Cy Young, which will be announced later today.

Tim Lincecum has joined an elite group of hurlers by capturing his second consecutive Cy Young award on Thursday.

Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum improved in almost every statistical category from his Cy Young Award-winning season in 2008, but he is not the favorite to repeat when the National League winner is announced Thursday.

For Cardinals fans, Wednesday's award announcements should provide one last appetizer before the main course arrives on Thursday.

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Cards mull life without Holliday GM Mozeliak says team has options if efforts to keep the free-agent left fielder on payroll fall through.

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.

For the most part, the 2009A MLBA Awards Season will be aA snoozefest. Sure, there will be some debate over secondary awards like Rookie of the Year, but for the most part, the major hardware is spoken for.

Hall of Famer Bob Feller, who turned 91 on Tuesday, assumed the podium for Major League Baseball's Player Alumni Association Legends for Youth Dinner to rousing applause inside the ballroom at the New York City Hilton.

Chris Carpenter looks like a favorite to lock down his third NL CY young. Looking ahead to next season, one wonders where he will rank amongst starting pitchers in 2010.A Is he still an injury risk? The St.

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals have announced the organization's minor league coaching and training staffs for the upcoming 2010 season.

The timing could not have been more perfect. A day before the Rocky Mount Senior High School class of 1979 gathered to celebrate its 30th reunion, a time capsule the former classmates had buried as ninth-graders finally was unearthed.

They never talked about it. Neither saw a reason to. Four years after Jayson Werth's wrist was shattered and his career thrown into limbo by a pitch from A.J. Burnett in an exhibition game, he will step into the batter's box in Game 2 of the World Series to face the hard-throwing right-hander with plenty at stake.

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

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.

Carpenter, shortly after being shot by an opposing player. He went on to throw 6 2/3 shutout innings later that day.

In so many towns across the Major League Baseball landscape, the idea of the annual postseason ritual of fretting over the local manager's immediate future is standard autumn dreaming.