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Watch Blue Jays' Nimmala face D-backs' Crisantes, Waldschmidt, Jones for FREE

@brendan_samson
1:29 PM CDT

All season long, baseball fans will be able to watch Minor League Baseball games across all of MLB's digital platforms. MLB.TV and MLB app subscribers can watch their favorite team's Minor League affiliates in the app at no additional cost, while all MiLB games are available on MiLB.TV, on the

Cardinals option Saggese, call up Barrero

@JohnDenton555
April 28, 2025

ST. LOUIS -- In an attempt to fortify their middle-infield depth while also continuing the development of one of their top prospects, the Cardinals promoted Jose Barrero and optioned Thomas Saggese to Triple-A Memphis on Monday. The Cardinals made a corresponding move to create a spot on their 40-player roster

Ixan Henderson highlights

April 28, 2025

This injured prospect getting guidance from Cards HOFer

@JohnDenton555
April 23, 2025

This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. ATLANTA -- Leave it to none other than Cardinals Hall of Fame closer and special advisor Jason Isringhausen -- a former star pitcher whose

Here's where Cardinals' top prospects will play to start 2025

@SamDykstraMiLB
April 3, 2025

With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where St. Louis’ Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

  1. JJ Wetherholt (MLB No. 22), SS -- Springfield (Double-A)
  2. Quinn Mathews (MLB No. 44), LHP -- Memphis (Triple-A)
  3. Tink Hence (MLB No. 75), RHP -- Injured (rib cage

Cards' young fireballer draws ... Kershaw comps?

@JohnDenton555
March 14, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- Dating back to the first time Cardinals roving instructor Ryan Ludwick saw left-hander Quinn Mathews flash his fiery competitiveness and overpowering stuff in a 2024 live batting practice session, one very favorable comparison kept coming to mind. Clayton Kershaw -- a career 212-game winner, two-time World Series

LIVE: Cardinals-Marlins Spring Breakout

@JohnDenton555
March 14, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- Following a successful debut in 2024, MLB’s Spring Breakout is back in Florida and Arizona to showcase some of the best up-and-coming talent the game has to offer. This time around, when Spring Breakout games are played March 13-16, 72 of the top 100 prospects in baseball

22-year-old Wetherholt has remarkable poise on field -- and at chess

@JohnDenton555
March 13, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. – An avid chess player, JJ Wetherholt recently showed off his noticeable confidence and comfort in an MLB clubhouse by taking on fellow infielder Brendan Donovan, universally known throughout the Cardinals’ clubhouse as an elite player because of his tactical and strategic approach to the game. Not only

Cardinals prospect highlights

March 7, 2025

Here are the Cardinals' 2025 Top 30 prospects

@SamDykstraMiLB
March 4, 2025

The Cardinals have discussed setting themselves up for a transitional year in 2025, and even if much of the roster remains in place for now, we know which names will try to bang down the door to St. Louis in the coming months. Thirteen of St. Louis’ Top 30 prospects

Cards prospect Mathews reassigned to Minors after 'phenomenal' showing

@JohnDenton555
March 2, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- As impressed as the Cardinals were with Quinn Mathews’ fiery competitiveness and his electric stuff on the mound over the past three weeks, they were equally awestruck with the way the analytical left-hander thought about the game and how he had already formulated a plan to improve

Wetherholt as precise as he is talented

@JohnDenton555
February 26, 2025

This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Prospect Quinn Mathews K's 3 -- including Vlad Jr. -- in spring debut

@JohnDenton555
February 25, 2025

DUNEDIN, Fla. – Whatever nerves Quinn Mathews expected to feel prior to his first start in an MLB Spring Training game got buried under a painfully early wakeup and a torturous commute across the state of Florida on Tuesday morning. As it turns out, those factors proved oddly calming for

Wetherholt's 1st Spring Training homer a noteworthy occasion

@JohnDenton555
February 23, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- Possessing an insatiable desire to try and learn from every situation -- good or bad -- Cardinals’ rookie shortstop JJ Wetherholt ends each night by crafting a hand-written journal so detailed that he even includes how many ounces of caffeine he ingested. For example, when Wetherholt had

Matt Koperniak highlights

February 21, 2025

Cards' 2024 1st-round pick impressing with bat ... and 'Wizard' presentation

@JohnDenton555
February 20, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- Stepping into the batter’s box with several hundred fans looking on and All-Star closer Ryan Helsley staring back at him from the mound, JJ Wetherholt found the lettering on his bat with his eyes to recenter his mind and calm his nerves before proceeding to lace a

Royelny Strop highlights

February 13, 2025

Nathan Church highlights

February 13, 2025

Here are the Top 10 LHP prospects for 2025

January 23, 2025

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position. MLB.com has produced top 10

Enigmatic Cards prospect Mathews poised to take next step

@JohnDenton555
January 19, 2025

ST. LOUIS -- Admittedly, standout Cardinals left-handed pitcher Quinn Mathews is a bit quirky and quite different from most of his baseball peers. To him, at least, that’s a good thing and something he fully embraces along his journey to Major League Baseball. While most of the prospects around him

Strop, son of former MLB reliever, atop Cards' int'l class

@JesseABorek
January 15, 2025

For seven seasons in the 2010s, the Cardinals hit just .194 off right-handed reliever Pedro Strop. A late-innings menace to opposing offenses primarily for the Cubs, Strop fashioned himself a role that led to a 13-year big league career. Now, Strop’s son Royelny has agreed to terms to headline St.

Here are 8 prospects standing out in winter ball

November 25, 2024

Now that the Arizona Fall League has crowned a new champion and MLB's awards season is winding down, the baseball world in the United States is preparing to turn its attention to the Hot Stove. But that doesn't mean baseball isn't being played. There are plenty of exciting and talented

Luis Gastelum highlights

November 25, 2024

Cardinals showing faith in this pitching prospect

@JohnDenton555
November 21, 2024

This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Here's the 2024 All-Arizona Fall League Team

November 19, 2024

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based