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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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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

Despite being initially overshadowed by other high-profile Minor League players acquired by the Cardinals at the Trade Deadline in 2023, right-handed closer Matt Svanson has made such a favorable impression with his growth over the past two seasons that he earned a spot on the club’s 40-man roster on Tuesday.

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Here are the top performers from the fourth week of AFL action:

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Late in the 2024 season, Thomas Saggese had an illuminating conversation with Cardinals right-hander and 2021 AL All-Star Andrew Kittredge about the young infielder’s approach at the dish. “He was telling me he has good command, and sometimes to him, that means he can throw strikes when

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