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The one thing we know for sure as we head into the newest era of the remade St. Louis Cardinals is just how much we really don't know. But isn't that what always makes baseball in the spring so fascinating, so hopeful, so essential to the baseball poets' romance with spring training?
Everyone has a chance to start over and believe.
Spring brings out the annual eternal optimism in all of us — with or without any evidence to support it, mind you — that whatever offseason changes were made will be the ones that will deliver a more compelling season than the last.
In some cities, the definition of compelling might be, please just keep it interesting until June. For others, it's the hope of a legitimate chase toward the playoffs. But as the defending World...
It just keeps getting worse for Albert Pujols in his new baseball life in Anaheim. In the latest episode of Albert Angst, he’s being blamed for the Angels’ firing of longtime batting coach Mickey Hatcher. After... more »
There were two guys older than 40, and one who was barely 20.There were a couple of guys who stand 6-foot-6, and one who is 5-foot-5.There were six guys who debuted in the big leagues this year, including one who... more »
Angels fans won't forget that sound: that thunderclap of maple on leather, the furious stampede of seemingly all 37,548 spectators jumping to their feet, and the eruption of cheers when It ... Finally ...Happened. With two... more »
C: Jesus Montero, Mariners If he doesn’t already occupy backstop eligibility in your league, Montero has eight games under his belt behind the plate this season, and will see more regular action at the position thanks to... more »
Of course it should not end like this. For Mariano Rivera, the most dignified, humblest star in sports, it should end with a championship celebration, swarmed by joyous Yankees teammates, basking again in glory. That is the... more »
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