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The Rays Are Bringing Small Ball Back—and It's Working

Tampa Bay is among the lightest-hitting teams in baseball, yet has the best record in the AL thanks to a philosophy from a bygone era.

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American League Offseason Grades: Orioles Lead, Yankees Lag

The junior circuit has more teams receiving tougher grades after less than impressive approaches to hot stove season.

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MLB Offseason Midterm Grades: American League

We are under 100 days until Opening Day—97, to be exact—and MLB’s offseason still has plenty of dominoes yet to fall. Over half of SI’s 50 best free agents rema

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Steven Matz Agrees to Two-Year Contract With Rays

Steven Matz is headed to Tampa.

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Cardinals Trade Veteran Reliever Steven Matz to Red Sox

The New York native has performed well in his first year as a full-time reliever.

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Cardinals get homers from Jordan Walker and Paul DeJong and extend win streak to six games

CHICAGO — The Cardinals continued their red-hot start coming out of the All-Star break behind a strong outing from left-hander Steven Matz, and closed the gap between them and their rivals the Chicago Cubs in the process.

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Cardinals unleash 17-hit barrage in 9-6 win vs. Nationals to split doubleheader

ST. LOUIS — A few hours after they were held to six hits in an extra-inning loss, the Cardinals offense responded with a season-high 17 hits including a pair of doubles, a triple and a pair of home runs in a series-evening win against the Washington Nationals.

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The Cardinals Made the Most Chaotically Beautiful Defensive Play

Poetry in motion.

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Eloy Jimenez walked away mid-at-bat when his timeout wasn’t granted and got struck out

MLB fans had so many jokes about this one.

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Cardinals trounced by Astros, 14-0, as Adam Wainwright gives up six runs

ST. LOUIS — Cardinals veteran right-hander Adam Wainwright made the 400th start of his career, but the Houston Astros forced him into an early exit as Wainwright has turned in back-to-back short outings with high run totals.

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Ben Frederickson: 13 thoughts on the Cardinals, who have 13 chances to dodge making bad first-half history

The Cardinals have 13 games left before the regular season pauses for MLB's All-Star break.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Benjamin Hochman: It’s never been this bad for a Cardinals team that’s supposed to be good

ST. LOUIS — At 11:45 a.m., before Wednesday’s Cardinals-Giants game, Busch Stadium public address announcer John Ulett made his trademark proclamation: “Welcome to baseball heaven!”

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Cardinals Steven Matz's quest for win continues after Reds bedevil lefty for 11 hits

CINCINNATI — At the stadium his teammate Adam Wainwright called “The Devil’s Lair” because of the horrors it's inflicted on his ERA in Cincinnati, Steven Matz continued a downward trend that began with a tumble right there at Great American Ball Park.

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Dodgers hold Cardinals to two hits in shutout victory

ST. LOUIS — Anything that didn’t threaten the supply of baseballs would have been an improvement. The Dodgers’ pitching staff cleared that low bar easily.

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Andrew McCutchen celebrates Jackie Robinson Day with game-deciding homer in Pirates victory

ST. LOUIS — Andrew McCutchen doesn't agree with the idea of distilling the celebration of Jackie Robinson down into one day. For McCutchen, it's something he tries to do every day he takes the field, by the way he plays the game and carries himself.

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Cardinals swept by Braves as Jordan Walker hits first major-league home run

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals wrapped up the first home stand of the season by losing their third straight game to an impressive Atlanta Braves ballclub, 5-2, in front of an announced crowd of 36,300 at Busch Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

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Cardinals drop series to Braves with 4-1 loss to Illinois native Dylan Dodd

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals first series loss of the season came at the hands of the Atlanta Braves on a night when they collected 10 hits, but only scratched out just one run against a rookie pitcher and Illinois native in Dylan Dodd.

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Derrick Goold: As costs soar, Cardinals must enter race for arms to fill wide-open 2024 rotation

With a major free agent signing that answers a few of the Cardinals’ looming questions this winter, the biggest of which was who their everyday catcher would be in 2023, the club must turn a prudent eye to the horizon and the rising unknown that’s about to be glaring.

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Jacob deGrom’s Deal Opens MLB’s Free Agency Spigot

The Rangers’ massive contract with the former Mets ace shows this game is about its stars perhaps more than ever before.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Benjamin Hochman: A look at who the Cardinals should use vs. Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper

The last time Bryce Harper faced the Cardinals in the playoffs, he couldn’t legally drink Champagne.

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Jeff Gordon: Retooled Cardinals pitching staff could deliver collective success

The Cardinals don’t feature a dominant starter like Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer or Sandy Alcantara in their rotation.

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Cardinals swing rare in-division deal, set to land lefty Jose Quintana from Pittsburgh

The Cardinals' urgent search for a starter and wish to add a lefty merged Monday evening for a deal they rarely make, even at the deadline.

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Steven Matz wins for first time with Cardinals since May 2 but is hurt again

CINCINNATI — Mincing few words before Saturday night’s game at Great American Ball Park, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said that the club needed Tyler O’Neill and Steven Matz to be good the rest of the way for the Cardinals to arrive at their destination of a championship.

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Ben Frederickson: Pujols can catch A-Rod, and other numbers for Cardinals' second half

Considering 58% of the season was in the bag by the time the Cardinals split ways for their All-Star break, it feels a little silly to refer to what starts Friday in Cincinnati as the beginning of the second half.

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Benjamin Hochman: Juan Soto is for the birds; starting pitching is for the Cardinals

Even for a win-now, splurge-“Mo”-splurge guy like myself, the idea of the Cardinals trading for Juan Soto is a tough one to back.

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