Dennys Reyes News

The Cardinals' uncommon decision to bring back almost all of the bullpen next season for a return engagement starts at the end.

Wow, the Cardinals' Yadier Molina doubled with one out, but was promptly thrown out - by a good numbers of steps, as you might imagine - on a fielders' choice to shortstop.

BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH INNING Padilla works another 1-2-3 inning. Ludwick grounds to second, Pujols strikes out, Holliday pops to the catcher.

By Jordan Palmer The Cardinal Nation Show -- Telling the story of how the Cardinals reached the post season would mean hearing the names you would expect to hear, over and over.

You can't blame Tony La Russa for remaining coy about his future plans. He turns 65 this season.

His start abbreviated by a four-run fourth inning, righthander Todd Wellemeyer exposed the Cardinals' bullpen to a hazardous five innings of work in a game already filled with runs.

Adam Wainwright picked up his major league-leading 18th victory Wednesday while leading St.

Face of a future LOOGY: Trever Miller early in his career with the Tigers. a The Cardinals certainly are being proactive this season, aren't they? Not only did the Cards give Ryan Franklin the new contract the two sides had apparently been discussing for some time , they also resigned Trever Miller , LOOGY extraordinaire, to a brand new deal.

Cardinals fans are not witnessing a seismic shift in this organization's pitching philosophy.

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Kyle Lohse left Friday's game versus the San Diego Padres after appearing to sustain a groin injury while running out a single in the fifth inning.

Motte struggles again in eighth inning of loss Reliever gives up run that proves to be decisive for Cincinnati.

Cardinals closer Ryan Franklin wasn't sure if he was going to be the team's ninth-inning man coming into Spring Training.

If there was a bright spot for the Cardinals in Wednesday's 9-0 glum getaway loss at Citi Field, Blake Hawksworth would be it.

If there was a bright spot for the Cardinals in Wednesday's 9-0 glum getaway loss at Citi Field, Blake Hawksworth would be it.

Posted on July 1st, 2009 11:22 AM By Howard First of all, Section 220 is on a lighter blogging scheduled for the next week-and-a-half for an assortment of reasons .

Matt Guerrier suffered through a difficult stretch starting from the summer all the way to September.

Dennys Reyes has been a busy man this year, ranking in the top 10 in the National League in appearances.

The lesson the Twins are learning this year is that pitching coach Rick Anderson, while generally regarded as one of the top practitioners of his ilk in the game, is not a miracle worker.

The last time the Twins made the playoffs, in 2006, they had five quality setup men in Pat Neshek, Juan Rincon, Matt Guerrier, Dennys Reyes and Jesse Crain.

Kyle Gibson's injury didn't deter the Minnesota Twins. Projected as a possible top-10 pick in this year's draft, the Greenfield, Ind., pitcher developed a stress fracture in his forearm last month that caused a dip in his velocity while pitching for the University of Missouri.